Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.7
EAN: 9781591792734
Edition: 2
ISBN: 1591792738
Label: Sounds True, Incorporated
Languages: Array
Manufacturer: Sounds True, Incorporated
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2005-06-01
Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated
Release Date: 2005-05-01
Studio: Sounds True, Incorporated

Drawing on David Deida's own history of sexual spiritual practice, Finding God Through Sex presents a highly unconventional, liberating, demanding, blissful picture of what spiritual intimacy can be.

Customer Rating:
Summary: For people who will never be happy, no matter what they're given.
Comment: Like so many popular psychology authors before him, Deida has found a way to impress some select group of women even though he long ago started balding.

This is the perfect book for those women among us who will never be happy no matter what they get. Hey, we want women's lib. Uh-oh, whoops. Hey, we want every idealized experience handed to us by prescribed formula. That Mick Jagger line from "Some Girls," comes to mind: the one about women who want everything in the world you can possibly imagine. One imagines all-women book clubs in Marin County, California, getting together to swoon over this absurdity.

I focus on women, here, because this book is clearly written for women, although well-adjusted people of either sex would not read past page 100, would not pass it on to anyone else (for fear of karmic repercussions), and would find the most useful or entertaining form of incineration as soon as possible.

This book perpetuates stereotypical, absurd myths about men and women, and suggests that anyone who does not conform to those stereotypes has something wrong with them. Then it actually compounds the "super-woman" model double-fold, and gets the reader to expect that of men. Well, to be fair, it creates heavy-handed, overly generalized, and totally unrealistic expectations of both men and women. This book is, at best, an eccentric, grotesquely out-of-balance fantasy, and, at worst, a prescription for perpetual disillusionment and dissatisfaction.

I am holding this rubbish in my hand right now in amazement. I guess the reason pop-psych books aren't written for women/people with common sense is because those of us with common sense already know how to find value in human relationships that do not depend on the bizarre brand of perfectionism embodied in some balding man's poorly conceived and poorly developed formula for impressing some set of gullibly needy or neurotic women.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Goofy at best.
Comment: Sex is a spiritual experience; sex is not to be worshiped. This book doesn't know the difference. The authors show an incredible lack of understanding of true spirituality and wander aimlessly amid psycho-babble about keeping wounds open and sexual stereotypes with no regard to the sacredness of marriage. Move on to something else...anything will be better.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Best book ever on living love spiritually
Comment: If you are open and ready you will buy this book no matter what the review will say.. I can only tell you that this book made all the sense to me and directed me in the direction of open, honest, nonexpecting love that keeps growing and expanding.. get ready for amazing surprises..

Thank You David..

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Sensual....Alluring
Comment: Sensual and Alluring
I bought this book b/c of reviews of Mr Deida's poetic ability to write of the subject of sex. I was looking for an understanding of the mystical union between men and women. Mr. Deida's book wrote of this union; his diction..... warm, wonderful and sweet.
His writing allowed me to enter the mind of an `awakened', one who sees the union beyond the sensory perception of our flesh and mind. Finding God through Sex validated my experience of lovemaking as transcendent of the human condition, into the realm of spirit. I agree Mr Deida, through lovemaking, were are connected with God.
This book is an easy read. Mr Deida's prose reminds me of Sourwood honey; sweet, sticky and full of nourishment....YUM. Romantics of life and spirituality..........read this book!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: The most beautifully divine book!
Comment: This book is the most beautifully written book I have ever read! I loved every word on every page! It is about divine love and how to have a divine relationship! It was just incredible! I am reading it again and I have dyslexia and I never read books twice!!
Thank you!

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