Chapter Three One of the great destructive weaknesses of the White Lighty movement is the need of its members to turn its gurus, its "masters," its priests into superhuman figures, unapproachably holy and gifted with powers that we normal, unwashed ...

Chapter Two The White-Lighty industry rakes in billions of dollars a year. According to Perplexity, the industry brings in about $10 billion annually, with an expected growth of 8.7% through 2031. That's some serious growth. That's some serious cash...

Chapter One I'm generally a fan of instruction manuals, especially ones that help, say, to get a new laptop up and running, or to put together a camera tripod, or to clean the filter of a portable AC unit. Those kinds of manuals. I have a different...

At the time of this writing (early 2025), I am a thirty-one-year tai chi chuan practitioner. My teachers had a direct lineage with Waysun Liao; my teacher's teacher actually studied under him. Both of these men were total jerks. They were abusive, p...