Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Videos with Nicolás Grandi ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. In your hands this book xiii
6. Introduction. Integral Entanglements, Formal Experiments 1
7. One. The covid-19 Pandemic: A Tantric Invitation to Humanity 9
8. Two. The Nocturnes with Nicolás Grandi 14
9. Three. Speaking to the Sacred 18
10. Four. The Algorithm of Love 22
11. Five. De Sidere 7 with Nicolás Grandi 23
12. Six. Intimate Stranger 30
13. Seven. Tantra and the Body 31
14. Eight. To Bend into the Wind 34
15. Nine. Love Is Not a State of Exception 39
16. Ten. California Poppy 42
17. Eleven. “A Glorious Thing Made Up of Stardust”: What Pat Parker and Rohith Vemula Ask Us to Co 43
18. Twelve. Benediction 48
19. Thirteen. Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than You Think: Beyond the Rhetoric of Otherness 49
20. Fourteen. Words Fall into Empty Mind with Nicolás Grandi 54
21. Fifteen. Does the Mind Have a Heart? 55
22. Sixteen. Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones . . . but Words? On Social Justice Rhetoric 58
23. Seventeen. “What I Noticed Most Was That I Had Become a Poet”: Renewing the Language of Politics 63
24. Eighteen. Continual Evolution 68
25. Nineteen. Am I Doing Enough? Crisis, Activism, and the Search for Meaning 69
26. Twenty. The Tantra of Action 73
27. Twenty-one. “We Inter Are”: Identity Politics and #MeToo 77
28. Twenty-two. A Malleable Border Teeming with Life 84
29. Afterword 87
30. Out of the One Many 94
31. Dark Goddess 96
32. In Silence the Mind Breathes with Nicolás Grandi 97
33. References 99