Contents

Introducing Us… And Our Book

Dossie, on Janet

Janet, on Dossie

Both of us, on the book

What we’re not going to do

Authors and authority

Radical What?

Words fail us

Get ready for a lot of “I don’t know”

About bliss

What’s all this stuff about tantra?

Z o oming through Nirvana

The walls come tumbling down

Why ecstasy?

How We Believe

Letting go of either/or

Letting go of knowing

Letting go of causality

Letting go of control

What it all adds up to

Morality Play

Stolen pleasures

About ethics

Making space for difference

What Does It Feel Like?

What is this bliss?

Not always what you expect

Catharsis and purgation

Connection, clarity, creativity

How We Get There

Beginning the journey

Letting go

The breath

Connection

Skin

Sounds and senses

The chakras

Ritual containers, ritual paths

Magic-making

What about orgasm?

Touching Worlds

What is love?

Self awareness

The unscratched itch

The masks of love

Learning how

Putting it all together

Inside and Outside the Shell

When the shell doesn’t match the spirit

Willing but weak

Something Told Us To Write This Chapter

What if it’s not so straightforward?

How to find your intuition

Mind Journeys

Who knows what evil lurks…?

Roles and games

What role does the role play?

So many choices…

Submission and dominance

“Less than” human

Resistance and takedown

Age play

Humiliation

Old wounds

24/7

Shapeshifting

SM ritual

Open Heart, Open Skin, Open Everything

The joys and the sorrows

And let’s not forget about sex

In and out of conclusion