Communion with the deity. According to Burgo Partridge (A History of Orgies, 1958), the Greeks used (among other sexual practices) some SM-type activities in order to achieve the ecstatic state of theolepsy during the festival known as the Dionysia (rites dedicated to the god Dionysus).
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom, authors of the new The Mandarin Tree.
As modern Asian American mystics, we love to work with the heavenly creatures, or what you may know as mystical beings in...