Table of Contents

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
 

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"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."
*Anthropology Book Forum*