Extra notes about Chapter 27: Spiritual Implications
in the book, The Art of Receiving and Giving: The Wheel of Consent.
Other notes are found here.

Mentioned in the Chapter

Meditation and altered states:

Sam Harris: Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

And really interesting take on “spiritual states”: My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey, by Jill Bolte Taylor. And shorter, her TED talk.

Tantra:

Here’s an example of tantra as an esoteric practice with a loooong history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantra

Here is an example of tantra as a sexual practice: The Art of Sexual Ecstacy: The Path of Sacred Sexuality for Western Lovers, by Margo Anand. Arguably the first major entrance of this approach in the West.

Here is my favorite – grounded, practical, and modern. Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the 21st Century, by Barbara Carrellas

Another classic, the story of a western person’s experience with a tantric master, which is not what he was expecting. Tantric Quest: an Encounter with Absolute Love, by Daniel Odier.