On David’s Work
“The Way of the Superior Man lays out a challenge before all men to fulfill their true purpose and to be authentically masculine. It will guide you on your journey to a successful and spiritually complete way of life. Step up to the plate with this book in your hand.”
“David Deida must have the biggest balls in contemporary spirituality.”
“David Deida explains the heart and soul of a woman to men. As a woman, I’ve never felt so understood and validated. David’s work is a key to helping men and women take their relationships one step further. Finally, a clear and brilliant guide to unraveling the mystery of relationships.”
“The openness, the love! What lively new language David Deida finds for the unsayable!”
“Every once in a while, someone comes along whose work is clearly a next step. Their ideas seem to answer some collective question hanging out in the culture. Their books and seminars become an underground buzz and, within a period of time, their ideas become part of our cultural vernacular. David Deida is such a person. In a time not too far off from now, his ideas will have spread like wildfire.”
“The Way of the Superior Man is quite wonderful. Finally, a guide for the non-castrated male. This book will offend and infuriate some, inspire and test others, but challenge virtually everybody. Few are the books that discuss strong sexuality within strong spirituality. Love it or loathe it, it is a shout from the heart of one perspective of the eternal masculine.”
“There are few categories I know of for an original like David Deida; for his teachings there is no pigeonhole. He is a bridge-builder between East and West, between ancient and modern wisdom traditions. David is in the dynamic living oral tradition of maverick spiritual teachers who, like free-jazz musicians, can riff directly on Reality, outside of established forms. Mark my words: in a future that I hope is not too far off, David Deida’s original western Dharma will be widely known as one of the most sublime and accessible expressions of the essence of spiritual practice that is freely offered today.”
“David Deida brings spirituality down from the clouds and back into our bodies where it belongs. His no-nonsense approach to refining our spiritual sensibilities comes as a welcome intervention to both New Age and conservative trends in contemporary spirituality. Deida helps us to get REAL in a world where reality is an increasingly rare commodity.”
“I feel that Deida has reached a new level of poetic genius in his writing, and his understanding of feminine psychology astounds me.”
“The Way of the Superior Man is a bold and challenging and very perceptive book. The cutting-edge masculinity of these pages is sexually strong and spiritually clear . . . Deida challenges and instructs men to live on their edge, to go forth uncompromisingly in search of their own deepest truths and greatest purpose. He pulls no punches and brooks no weakness.”
“With uncommon honesty and unparalleled insight into the deepest desires of the masculine heart, Deida explores the most challenging and important issues in men’s lives. Covering everything from work and career, to dealing with sex, women, and love, to finding purpose in an increasingly superficial and mechanical world, The Way of the Superior Man reveals how a man can live a life of fulfillment without compromise by relaxing into the truth of his very being, discovering his deepest vision, and giving his gifts without holding anything back. What emerges is a wholly revolutionary look at what it means to be a man in today’s world as well as an astonishingly practical guidebook to living a masculine life of integrity, authenticity, and freedom.”
“David Deida’s writings give both men and women rare insight into the profound and transformative realms of spiritual sexuality.”
“An amazing and truly great work—Art. Waiting to Love is stark, free, graceful, uncompromising and therefore new and unfamiliar. I resisted it, except when I was letting it blow my hair back, letting it insult, quicken, and enlarge me. And then it was exhilarating, opening me to the space of love, and the vista from here. It’s breathtaking. Deida slices not just through the surface skin, but down into the fibers, and then through multiple levels of muscle, mind and convention—and then deeper dimensions too—in the never-ending exploration of awareness and growth and presence. I’ve never seen anything vaguely like it. Deida is so far ahead of the pack, there’s hardly anyone around to keep up with him. Waiting to Love recalibrates a new level of dialog about how to live an authentic, embodied spiritual life. This book breaks so much new ground, it’s a tsunami for those who’ll let it wash them all the way to the new water’s edge it defines.”
“David Deida’s work exposes us to the Truth of Tantra. Deida takes us far deeper than the genital location, to the fearless state of vulnerability where we are penetrated by God in every moment. We are led beyond the illusion of doing self-improvement and Tantric techniques, to the surrendered, unlimited, direct state of being the Ultimate Truth in every moment.”
“David Deida’s work reveals a depth of loving the human condition and understanding its immanent spirituality I’ve seldom seen, even in a glimmer. It’s hard for me to find words with which to express my appreciation and admiration for this unique gift.”
“The results of true practice, in any tradition, are unmistakable; David Deida demonstrates them.”
“David Deida’s teachings on this central human concern, sexuality, emanate from a deeply trustworthy source. He has undergone his own rigorous training and practice, which manifests in precise, gentle, and thorough teachings. Many spiritual traditions, including Zen, have excluded or marginalized the sexual experience. David’s work fills this gap, and gives us a mature approach for bringing the energetic, emotional, and physical experience of sex into our life and practice. And like Zen, the fruition of David’s work is openness, compassion, and love.”
Deida gracefully illuminates and integrates the rawness of sex, the polarity of the masculine/feminine relationship, and the heart’s true desire to transcend it all. Through the communion of duality in its most obvious play, the realization of Love/Oneness that lies at the very heart of us is recognized. Deida is this love’s true poet, helping us to get real, get wild, open up, and be truly liberated.”
“I find David Deida’s perspective radical, profound, and extremely effective. In David’s teaching, sex becomes an adventure in opening to love, as love. His deep insights on the differences between masculine and feminine spirituality are unique and unparalleled in my experience. His wisdom has touched me profoundly and I recommend his work to anyone who wants to transform their sexuality and their life.”
“David Deida’s vision of interdependence between the sexes is spiritually profound and psychologically astute. His message, delivered in provocative and compelling prose, has the power to transform intimate relationships in to a sublime adventure, a journey to the farthest reaches of human experience.”
“Finding God Through Sex is an enlightened, uninhibited sexual guide for anyone seeking to improve mind, body, and intimate relationship. David Deida practically and skillfully brings the ancient knowledge of integrating sex and spirit to the modern couple. Enjoy!”
“Listen with me to the wizard of romance. He speaks to us of a long lost promise.”
“In his delightfully crazy wisdom way, David lays bare the essential Buddha Nature and challenges and provokes us to ever deeper responses . . . far from just another spiritual ‘how to’ book, Blue Truth is a gem that serves our spiritual unfolding in ways yet unseen . . . I will be rereading this for years to come.”
“David Deida points directly to the present moment in which ‘you’ and ‘God’ are simply two names for the same openness in which the entire universe arises, an openness you can feel right now, if you know where to look. And Instant Enlightenment is the place to start. Dive straight into this book.”
“In my opinion, David’s work will be considered internationally as a new gateway to exploring relationships.”
“David Deida explains the heart and soul of a woman to men. As a woman, I’ve never felt so understood and validated. David’s work is a key to helping men and women take their relationships one step further. Finally, a clear and brilliant guide to unraveling the mystery of relationships.”
“Seeing David’s new evolution, I was blown away! He is direct, touching, precise, unapologetic and so grounded in ‘it’ that it blew my mind.”
“Finding God Through Sex is the deepest, most alive, insightful book I have ever read on the wonders and subtleties of sexuality as a spiritual path. It inspires us to the knowing of total openness to who we are as the lover and the beloved . . . until we disappear into love.”
“What a treasure! Singing with the joy and poetry of love, The Enlightened Sex Manual is just what its title promises: a very practical guide to the sexual expression of spirit that is the birthright of every man and woman. David Deida presents an inspiring vision made possible through this remarkable book. I want to give it to everyone I know!”
“Being able to teach and live integrated sex, relationships, and transcendence is no easy task. It requires immense courage, wisdom, and, above all, fearless loving. In Deida, all this gets included in one radical teaching. You’ll learn how to open your heart and integrate the need to sleep with every attractive woman you see, deal appropriately with a woman’s emotional chaos, give your gift to the world and lover, and finally transcend the whole lot by including it all.”
“I know a book is powerful when it opens my heart, brings me to my knees, and wakes me to the fullness of the moment. Profound, challenging, and poetically beautiful, Blue Truth is page after page of deep, naked truths—an unexpected teaching of enormous value and passion. I have read many books from many different spiritual traditions, and when I read Blue Truth it was obvious: This is the clearest, most original and useful guide to authentic spiritual practice that I have ever seen. No one interested in real spiritual growth can afford to be unaware of David Deida’s work.”
“Blue Truth is a brilliant book, absolutely gorgeous. Ancient wisdom on sacred sexuality, freed of historical and cultural trappings, glows from these pages in exhilarating, luminous prose. I am just knocked out by this book.”
“Wild Nights is a radically effective work that can arouse a shift of consciousness in a way that knocks on the doors of Liberation.”
“Blue Truth is a fresh and original contribution to an unorthodox lineage tradition of unsullied new revelations.”
“David Deida’s work is on the forefront of 21st-century conscious sexual love. I recommend The Enlightened Sex Manual with confidence.”
“We all taste God, taste Goddess, taste pure Spirit in those moments of sexual rapture, and wise men and women have always used that rapture to reveal Spirit’s innermost secrets. David Deida is such a wise one.”
“Blue Truth distills David Deida’s practice and teachings of becoming fully alive to whatever is passing in the present moment. In warm and encouraging prose, he crystallizes the very essence of opening fully to What Is.”
“David Deida is an extraordinary teacher of great wisdom and wit. He speaks and writes with eloquent clarity. Intimate Communion is a major contribution to the exploration of male and female spirituality.”
“In the area of sacred intimacy, David Deida is holding a lightening bolt. He sheds an astonishing light.”
“David Deida is the one Western teacher of Tantra whose books I read and to whom I send students to learn from.”
“Deida brilliantly lays bare the hidden psychology of feminine and masculine and offers clear instructions for tapping into our deepest core and achieving true harmony through sexual intimacy.”
“Blue Truth transcends the talk of spiritual philosophy, and confronts the essential spiritual truths and challenges of our daily existence in the human condition. This book profoundly probes the underlying life choices that make us alive, loving, real, original, and free, or clenched, lifeless copies holding fearfully to the illusion of security.”
“In piercingly beautiful, yet fully human examples, Finding God Through Sex shows how enlightenment can blossom through passion and connection with the beloved.”
“Quite simply, The Enlightened Sex Manual is the best sex manual in print, for the enlightened, the unenlightened, and everybody in between.”