We are all betwixt and between, at all times and in a number of ways. Extract from The Tantra Chronicles.
Read moreThe Poet and the Social Scientist
Bishnu Mohapatra on working at the cusp of poetry and social science.
Read moreDharma Unedited!
Podcast of entire dharma segment of The Tantra of Embodiment; extended discussion of social justice activism, miasma, isness tantra!
Read moreAnd We Are Grateful Once More For the Impermanence of Things
Reflections on the zig zags of healing…
Read more“The World is not the way I thought it Was”
An extract from "Mind Embodied," Ruth Frankenberg, Living Spirit, Living Practice: Poetics, Politics, Epistemologies.
Read moreThe Atomic Implosion of Longing
After a brief hiatus, a fragment from The Longing Heart.
Read moreWhat Lives
Mani Rao explains how she translates Line 1, Verse 1 of Iśāvāsya Upaniṣad.
Read moreHumans and Other Beings
Although many persist in conceiving of humans as superior to other species, it turns out that humans have to consciously learn what other beings already know.
Read moreAzan
It came upon us suddenly. Like the roar of silence that dissolves sound and suspends time. Everything paused. Half-syllables of commerce on the cusp of a transaction.
Read moreAuto-Biography
Lata Mani reads Auto-Biography, the opening chapter of Interleaves (5.50 minutes).
Read moreKarma Reconsidered
The Sanskrit word karma has migrated into the English language and commonly used to denote good or bad luck deemed to be the effect of fate or consequence. While this use is not entirely erroneous, karma remains an oversimplified and much misunderstood concept.
Read moreFor Our Wor(l)ds to Touch
Illness has been a great teacher in my life though I do not claim ontological priority for suffering. This piece, circa January 1997, draws from an audio journal I kept during the mid-1990s in the depths of living with a brain injury.
Read moreWhat it is/What it isn’t
Is it possible to bring a moment of pause to a virtual world reverberating with the prodigious noise of human effort? Or does this fact - our cultural precondition - invite us to do just that?
Read more"Each We Call Fate"
The Earth on its Axis, We in Our Skin: The Tantra of Embodiment wasn’t as much planned, as it was fated. And here’s the story of how it unfolded.
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