6Giving Yourself Permission
68The Doorway of Jealousy
7What Opens
69Sex and Love After the Learning
8Integration and Shadow
70The Truth as Aphrodisiac
9We Are Wired for Union
71Sacred Sexuality Across Cultures
10Coming Home
72The Shakti Temples of South India
11This Book
73No Split, No Make-Wrong
12Part 2: Mantra
74Beginning a Practice
13Plaid Blanket Man
75The Mouth and Genitals: A Map of Connection
14Finding a Brother
76A Blessing for the Full Inhabitation of Your Beautiful Body
15Ecstatic Surrender
77Part 4: Ayahuasca (Psychedelics in General)
16Sonic Spirituality
78Sacraments
17What is Mantra?
79Finding Entheogens
18(Inset) Seed Mantras
80The First Journey: From Zero to Infinity
19Kirtan: The Yoga of the Heart
81The Earth
20Western Kirtan
82The Second Journey: The Undercurrent of Human Suffering
21The Call and the Response
83The Synergia Ranch Conference
22The Response Vocal
84Your Brain on Propaganda
23Collective Effervescence
85The Culture of Plant Medicine
24(Inset) Bhakti Fest
86Earth Journeying: Psychedelics and Ecological Metanoia
25Established in 2009 in Joshua Tree, California, Bhakti Fest has been a cornerstone in popularizing kirtan and bhakti yoga in the United States. Founded by Sridhar Silberfein, Bhakti Fest was envisioned as a space to celebrate the devotional paths of yoga, kirtan, and meditation. Over the years, it has grown into a significant event, attracting thousands of participants and featuring renowned artists and teachers.
87Revelatory Mechanisms: How Psychedelics Work
26Receiving His Blessing: The Harmonium and the Invitation to Sing
88Ritual Ingestion: Perception-Altering Sacraments Through History
27The Neuroscience of Kirtan
89Turn That Love on Yourself
28The Ancient Metaphysics of Sound and Light
90Math Is the Precise Language of All Material Reality
29Śravaṇa: Listening as the First Movement
91Angels and Hallelujah
30The Quantum Perspective on Sound and Vibration
92Harvesting the Vine: Easter Sunday
31The Sound-Light Continuum
93When we planted our land at Sundari, we included a garden with ayahuasca vine. It takes seven years for that vine to mature.
32Sound as a Field of Influence
94Ayahuasca in the Santo Daime Tradition
33Consciousness and Intention: The Alchemy of Sound
95When the Medicine Sent Me Away
34Mantra and Absorption in the Yoga Sūtras
96Integration: The Real Work
35Hollow Reeds, Empty Bones: The Vibrational Seed Predicts the Outcome
97People. Practices. Plants.
36Ibiza
98The Bias Toward the Heavy
37Sound Is the Gateway to Mahā Kuṇḍalinī
99(Inset) How I Sort Psychedelics
38The Art of Gathering and Shaping Energy
100Mama Cacao: A Ceremony
39Be Free: Opening Your Voice
101Beyond Polarities and Tribe
40Changing Your Own Vibration
102The Invitation
41The Gateway to Infinite Possibility
103Part 5: Living by Breath Alone
42Part 3: Tantra
104The Simplest Gateway
43The Priestess Who Had to Wait
105The Joy of Breathing
44Finding the Path: The Invisible Hand
106Contemporary Breathwork: Turning Toward Wholeness
45Rod Stryker: "It Will Click"
107The Ancient Technology: Pranayama
46Mark Whitwell: "Nice Gymnastics"
108The Body in Motion
47Hareesh: The Heart of Recognition
109The Common Thread
48What Tantra Actually Is
110Part 6: How We Are Related
49The Core Principles
111The Nesting
50The Wholly Holy Body
112The Ensouled World
51The Prosperity Body
113Language That Centers Relationship
52The Economy of Effort
114Beyond Linear Time
53The Frequency of a Prosperous Body
115The New Earth Rising
54The Frequency of Pleasure
116When We Gather
55The Paradox of Desire
117Beyond Polarities
56The Erotic as Gateway
118Coming Home
57Tantric Sex as a Red Herring for Presence
119Closing: Coherence, Agency, and the Courage to Stay
58Anything that's consenting adults being curious and fascinated—what happens if I touch you here? What happens if I introduce this element?—then your body's a pretty good playground. When you merge it with your intellect and all the scenarios that sit in our deep evolutionary patterning, you really don't need much to stay amused.
120Recommended Reading
59The Parallel Track: Neo-Tantra and Learning to Feel
121Resources
60Harbin: Steve and Lokita Carter
122Acknowledgments
61The Intimacy Bubble
123About the Author: Other Books by Christine Marie Mason
62The Cruelty of Self-Judgment
