Again this is a very basic understanding of the complex interaction between the West and the East.

While this was a philosophically compelling argument, it enabled the appropriation (by mostly white men) of eastern and indigenous practices, without the need for serious engagement with the cultural frameworks within which those practices originated. Arguably, such universalist assertions could only really be made from a colonial subject position. …

The rise of the Cosmic Right: how did we end up with the QAnon Shaman?

Raff Poole

Jules Evans

Feb 7, 2021

Again this is a very basic understanding of the complex interaction between the West and the East. Yoga came to the West as much by Eastern teachers eagerly teaching in the West as by white men 'appropriating' their teachings. And modern yoga itself was deeply influenced by western ideas and practices - read Mark Singleton on this.