Wild Nights: Conversations with Mykonos about Passionate Love, Extraordinary Sex, and How to Open to God - Softcover

Deida, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591792339 ISBN 13: 9781591792338

Publisher: St. Martin's Essentials / Sounds True, 2005

Synopsis

"Wild Nights cuts through the illusions of modern spirituality into the depth of life before God. Impure, soaked with all bodily liquids, pierced by clear recognition of death, wide opened with the power of love―living as love―in any moment of daily life. If you do not choose to be a hermit, if you want to practice awakening within relationships, in the realm where sex and death are such powerful momentums―you'd better read this book, and not only once."―Rabbi Ohad Ezrahi, author of Paths of Empowerment

Meet Mykonos, both scurrilous madman and the voice of truth. Wild Nights presents David Deida's remarkable account of his days with the unconventional teacher who revealed to him the deeper wisdom of the erotic path to the divine.
From our very first encounter to the "burden of bliss" that is his parting gift, Mykonos challenges our understanding of what makes a spiritual life. Brutally candid, he offers his teaching to anyone ready to listen, with an uncanny ability to see into the hearts and minds of his students better than they can their own.
Charged with provocative scenes of unbridled passion and play, Wild Nights explodes with spiritual insights into our choice to "open as love, or close and suffer"; yogic sexual techniques including circular breathing and expanding feeling beyond the self and into the heart of a lover; and why, for some, full sexual expression is a requirement of spiritual maturation.
For its honest depiction of the spiritual teacher and student relationship―and the questions it demands we ask about our own sexuality―Wild Nights proclaims David Deida a guiding light in the often cloudy realm of sex and spirit.

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About the Author

DAVID DEIDA
 
Globally acknowledged as one of the most insightful and provocative teachers of our time, bestselling author <b>David Deida </b>continues to revolutionize the way that men and women grow spiritually and sexually. His eleven books have been published in over thirty-five languages. His teachings on a radically practical spirituality have been hailed as among the most original and authentic contributions to the field of self-development currently available.<br> <br>Deida has been named to <i>Watkins' </i>Spiritual 100 List&mdash;recognizing the world's most spiritually influential figures&mdash;for more than fifteen years. A founding member of Integral Institute, he has taught and conducted research at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine; University of California, Santa Cruz; San Jose State University; Lexington Institute in Boston; and Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.<br> <br>In addition to the internationally bestselling classic for men, <i>The Way of the Superior Man,</i> his books include <i>Dear Lover </i>for women, <i>The Enlightened Sex Manual</i> for couples, and most recently, <i>The Man of Zero</i>.
 

Books by David Deida

The Man of Zero
The Way of the Superior Man
Dear Lover
Blue Truth
The Enlightened Sex Manual
Intimate Communion
Finding God Through Sex
Wild Nights
Waiting to Love
It's a Guy Thing
Instant Enlightenment

Edition details

• Publisher: St. Martin's Essentials / Sounds True
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1591792339
• ISBN 13: 9781591792338
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216