List of Videos ix
Acknowledgments xi
In your hands this book xiii
Introduction. Integral Entanglements, Formal Experiments
1
1. The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Tantric Invitation to Humanity
9
2. The Nocturnes with Nicolás Grandi 14
3. Speaking to the Sacred 18
4. The Algorithm of Love 22
5. De Sidere 7 with Nicolás Grandi 23
6. Intimate Stranger 30
7. Tantra and the Body 31
8. To Bend into the Wind 34
9. Love Is Not a State of Exception 39
10. California Poppy 42
11. “A Glorious Thing Made Up of Stardust”: What Pat Parker and
Rohith Vemula Ask Us to Consider 43
12. Benediction 48
13. Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than You Think: Beyond the
Rhetoric of Otherness 49
14. Words Fall into Empty Mind with Nicolás Grandi 54
15. Does the Mind Have a Heart? 55
16. Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones . . . but Words? On Social
Justice Rhetoric 58
17. “What I Noticed Most Was That I Had Become a Poet”: Renewing
the Language of Politics 63
18. Continual Evolution 68
19. Am I Doing Enough? Crisis, Activism, and the Search for
Meaning 69
20. The Tantra of Action 73
21. “We Inter Are”: Identity Politics and #MeToo 77
22. A Malleable Border Teeming with Life 84
Afterword 87
Dark Goddess 96
Out of the One Many 94
In Silence the Mind Breathes with Nicolás Grandi 97
References 99
Index
Lata Mani is an independent scholar and filmmaker and author of The Integral Nature of Things: Critical Reflections on the Present and SacredSecular: Contemplative Cultural Critique.
"Myriad Intimacies is a book of contrasts. It is a layered work
that grapples with macro ideas, and at the same time, takes an
intimate look at a microscopic aspect of a large idea."
*India Currents*
"Myriad Intimacies undoes staid hierarchies and binaries that
structure scholarly and activist thought—between the
spiritual/intellectual, mind/matter, observation/theory,
art/science—and instead celebrates the radical interconnectedness
with all persons and things as a precondition of creativity. In so
doing, Mani reminds us that intellectual and activist work express,
at their heart, aspects of our creativity."
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