ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the intersubjective and ethical role in more depth with reference to Esoteric philosophy and the work of contemporary feminist philosopher Kelly Oliver. It becoming more subtle and sensible is the cultivation of a subtle body through greater sense immersion in the physical body. The chapter explains the cultivation of this nonessentialist self, of the physical, spiritual is through entertaining, enjoying and cultivating desire which simultaneously cultivates emptiness. It shows that the self-cultivation required to practice this aesthetic, ethical vision need not be divorced from the emotional or pleasurable aspects of physical existence. The Chapter explains the achievement of the realisation of emptiness while immersed in the sensual delights of bodily experience is not presented within Tantric literature as a task for the faint hearted. Specific schools and practices within the Tantric tradition are considered as exceptionally difficult undertakings because of the assumed impurity and risk considered as implicit to sources and activities they use.
