Contemporary society is undergoing an epistemic rupture: a systemic collapse in shared trust, institutional credibility, and consensus reality. This report introduces the framework of interconnected realities to examine the psychological, cultural, and digital infrastructures that enable the convergence of conspiracy theories, pseudoscientific belief systems, and cultic ideologies. These realities are understood as overlapping meaning-making structures sustained by cognitive biases, emotional contagion, and charismatic authority. Core traits contributing to their formation include schizotypy; defined as a latent personality dimension associated with unusual beliefs and perceptual experiences (Brugger & Mohr, 2008; Brandenstein, 2022); as well as magical thinking (Vyse, 2018), and pseudoscientific mimicry (Blancke et al., 2015; Fasce & Picó, 2019).

Drawing on over sixty academic and community sources, including detailed ethnographic case studies from Australia’s Central Coast, the report maps how pseudoscience operates as a form of sacred infrastructure within settler conspirituality: a fusion of New Age spiritualism and anti-government conspiracy (Ward & Voas, 2011; Halafoff et al., 2022). Within this context, settler colonial dynamics of possession (Moreton-Robinson, 2015) and cultural fraud: such as Pretendianism, the appropriation of Indigenous identity by non-Indigenous individuals (Leroux, 2021; Carlson & Day, 2023)—are sustained through practices of charismatic fraud, identity mimicry, and the amplification of affect within digital environments (Renner et al., 2023; Bruns et al., 2020).

Rather than framing these phenomena solely as fringe irrationalities, this report offers an interdisciplinary structural analysis that situates them within broader crises of knowledge, belonging, and cultural authority. It proposes multiple pathways for epistemic repair: fostering public trust, strengthening cognitive and emotional resilience, and re-establishing relational accountability through Indigenous knowledges, critical pedagogy, trauma-informed recovery, and collective truth-honoring practices (Langone et al., 2021; Piejka, 2020; Schmid & Betsch, 2022). Ultimately, Interconnected Realities argues for a reclamation of truth grounded in justice, psychological renewal, and sovereign knowledge systems.