In January of 2020, I formally left mainstream academia and corporate American “higher” education due to systemic corruption and hypocrisy.

Lü Dongbin’s Yellow Millet Dream.

Rather than be complicit or implicated, I chose to become an independent scholar-educator and translator.

Everybody knows the fight was fixed.

As a researcher and intellectual, rather than a politician and technocrat (or worse), I now work as an outsider-scholar, contemplative subversive, and thought-libérateur.

This is the core where I broadcast my pirate signal.

The-they have also identified me as a thought-criminal.

2+2≠5

Graffiti Found in the Hillcrest District of San Diego, California

Graffiti Found in the Hillcrest District of San Diego, California

I am currently working on two book projects. The first is an interpretive study and annotated translation of the Daode jing (Scripture on the Dao and Inner Power), which is forthcoming (mid-2023) from Square Inch Press. The second is a study of Daoist immortality, which is currently under review at Brill.

I continue to serve as founding Co-director and senior teacher of the Daoist Foundation. We have initiated a new remote lecture series in order to share our understanding of Daoist practice-realization with a larger community of interested individuals.

I also am in the process of establishing and developing a new educational project and performance piece called The Underground University (TUU). This is a grassroots, egalitarian collective rooted in radical free and open inquiry.