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.

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