Deida - Finding God through sex: awakening the one of spirit through the two of flesh

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.

David Deidas writings give both men and women rare insight into the profound and transformative realms of spiritual sexuality.

The openness, the love! What lively new language David Deida finds for the unsayable!

In the area of sacred intimacy, David Deida is holding a lightening bolt. He sheds an astonishing light.

David Deidas 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. Davids 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 Davids work is openness, compassion, and love.

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!

He pulls no punches and brooks no weaknesses ... his insights about male/female interaction cant help but stimulate a more active understanding of this complicated dynamic than a galaxy of Mars/Venus clones.

David Deida must have the biggest balls in contemporary spirituality. Being able to teach and live integrated sex, relationship, 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. Deida gracefully illuminates and integrates the rawness of sex, the polarity of the masculine/feminine relationship, and the hearts 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 loves true poet, helping us to get real, get wild, open up, and be truly liberated.

I have been exploring the subject of sacred sexuality for more than ten years and find David Deidas perspective radical, profound, and extremely effective. In Davids 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.

Finding God through sex? And why not? The only thing that is astonishing in that equation is that it ever should have seemed odd to begin with. For many of the worlds great wisdom traditions, particularly in their mature phases, sexuality was deeply viewed as an exquisite expression of spiritualityand a path to further spiritual realization. After all, in the ecstatic embrace of sexual love, we are taken far beyond ourselves, released from the cramp of the separate self, delivered at least temporarily into timeless, spaceless, blissful union with the wondrous beloved: and what better definition of spiritual release is there than that? 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 Spirits innermost secrets.

David Deida is a such a wise one, who has worked with countless men and women to help them use the sexual encounter to further their own deep spiritual realization. In the following pages, he speaks directly to both the masculine and feminine principles in each of us, using precise examples and practices that move us through our gendered existence and into the vast expanse of radiant Spirit, which is itself neither male nor female but simply Free and Full.

If you are affiliated with a particular religion, that is fine; if not, thats fine, too. I have it on good authority that Spirit does not belong to any particular church, but resides in the deepest part of your very own heart every time you love. This is a book about releasing that love into such painful bliss that you will be undone in the very embrace of the Divine itself, insanely radiant to infinity, even here and now.

Davids language is a model of evocative spirituality; it teases us out of our contracted ways and into the infinite expanse of pure awareness, beyond the minor joys and major terrors that define the loveless self. Let the language seep into your being, let the richness of your heart unfold in the gentle invitations, follow that current of spiritual bliss that will lead you to your own original face, swoon into that radiant light that is your own true nature. The secrets to all of this are given in the following pages, so let the passionate adventure in sexual spirituality begin...

You can read and practice the following with a partner, or you can experiment on your own, following Woody Allens advice: Dont knock masturbation; its sex with somebody I love. But in any event the discoveries awaiting you are the most miraculous in existence. The very current of sexuality is plugged straight into God, and once you find that current, you will never be the same. And you will have David Deida to thank.

Our deepest nature, our true spirit, is full of love and boundless freedom. When we lose touch with our fullness, we begin to yearn for that which seems missing. The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends. The masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges.