awash in ritually blessed alcohol.

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Allison Dey also volunteered at Diamond Mountain and, like Johnson, had spent more than ten years working with Roach and McNally. She studied tantra with Roach but tended to prefer imagining a spiritual angel as her partner rather than interacting with a real person during meditation. It was a valid method; in fact, it was the one that orthodox Tibetans teach in lieu of partner practice. But it wasn’t the sort of meditation Roach emphasized. “I was a lucky one where I didn’t have to get called into a weird situation before I really knew anything about tantra,” she remembers. “I knew that it was possible that there would be deep practices where your teacher might get you into the room alone. What ends up being a sexual-looking practice is designed to move your inner winds.” Even so, she says she would have been open to the possibility if it took her further down the spiritual path.
Carney, Scott.