HeyJaredBarbara Carrellas
Founder/author of Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the 21st Century and author of Ecstasy is Necessary. PleasureIsPower. StrongerTogether
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My Search for Ecstatic Rest (opens the original)
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I wanted to talk with author Katherine May on her podcast “The Clearing” but I didn’t know how to approach her about it. I’ve known Katherine for years, long before she wrote her exquisite bestsellers: Enchantment, Wintering, and The Electricity of Every Living Thing. I’ve long admired how Katherine can find ecstasy and transformation in rest and retreat. Rest and retreat are not my strong suits. A friend gave me a t-shirt that says, “Go Go Go, Do Do Do, Be Be Be, Collapse.” Whenever I wear it e
The Book of Ecstasy (opens the original)
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In 2012 I wrote a book called Ecstasy is Necessary. The title was a phrase I took from my previous book, Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century. My intention with Ecstasy is Necessary was to expand upon the emotional possibilities of the peak experiences I wrote about in Urban Tantra and give erotic/ecstatic explorers some road maps to follow. It was a good book—I was able to deconstruct many paths to ecstasy that my friends and colleagues and I had experienced and turn them into
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