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The White Yogi, the brown activist and the evil billionaire.

I'm going to talk about how a recent article posted and enthusiastically liked, shared, and commented upon

in sincere solidarity by yoga folks contributed to the Conspiratoriality zeitgeist. This, despite the article being

written by a respected brown scholar and activist and posted by an earnest white

Yogi and being about a billionaire

with some questionable history.

Nothing exists in a cultural vacuum.

The emergence of yoga practice as a hugely popular and lucrative phenomenon in the West is no exception.

We can trace a counterculture curiosity about the East

back into 60s psychedelia

and a yearning for an experiential consciousness expanding

spirituality that breathed life into the hollowed out stiff moralism and repression of a 50s era square Caucasian American Christianity

...