Hi everyone,
I'm someone who has read a few Taoist texts and spoken to a few "Western" Taoists, and I'm curious about the "philosophical" vs. "religious" split in Taoism: Often you find "philosophical" Taoists (particularly "Western" ones) speaking about "religious" Taoism as if it were some sort of corruption, but clearly there must be some social or historical reason why certain religious practices gravitated into the Taoist "orbit", and I'm curious about various schools of Taoism, their history, why they are different to each other, and what they're like in practice today.
