Dear Lover: A Woman's Guide to Enjoying Love's Deepest Bliss [Paperback]

David Deida (Author), Marianne Williamson (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 202 pages
• Publisher: Plexus (June 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1889762180
• ISBN-13: 978-1889762180
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #328,517 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Known internationally for his unique workshops on spiritual growth and sacred intimacy, Deida has designed and developed a remarkably effective program of transformative practices that fully addresses spiritual awakening in mind, body, and heart. He is a founding associate of Integral Institute and has taught and conducted research at the University of California Medical School in San Diego; University of California, Santa Cruz; San Jose State University; Lexington Institute, Boston; and Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France.

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What a Guide!!!!, May 20, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Dear Lover: A Woman's Guide to Enjoying Love's Deepest Bliss (Paperback)

I have longed for this book for years. When would someone write a book specifically for women on how to be, open, shine and dance through life, relationships, and work blissfully, relaxed and open-hearted?

David Deida's 'Dear Lover' is such a book and I continue to dip in to it over and over and over again....

His words inspire me, energize me, and press deeply into me. This book connected me to my deepest yearnings and guided me to share my gifts of light and love to the world.

It is humorous and Real, and doesn't shy away from the ENTIRE range and fury of emotions that women feel...

At last....

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oh My!, May 22, 2002

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L Cotter (Sunrise Beach, Qld Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dear Lover: A Woman's Guide to Enjoying Love's Deepest Bliss (Paperback)

An intimate book written by David - as if he was writing to me personally. He touched my heart and showed me - what my heart already knew.

It's a bedside favourite for me - and I often just choose a chapter - I feel like I fall into it - it feeds me so.

Thank You David, so much.

I know my heart needed to hear these words just as much as the next beautiful womans' heart.

3 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A travesty, March 23, 2007

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Composer in Maine (Maine) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dear Lover: A Woman's Guide to Enjoying Love's Deepest Bliss (Paperback)

It's difficult to write what I feel about this book. I read as much of it as I could stomach and then threw it into the trash in the hope no one would ever find it. This man, the author, is either terminally misled or has an ego the size of the universe. He knows how women feel? Excuse me? When was he a woman? I pity the poor woman who reads this and accepts it hook, line, and sinker. He is so off base as to be laughable, if I didn't worry that some women would actually take him seriously.

Truly ecstatic lovemaking is a matter of giving and being given to in total love. It has nothing whatsoever to do with "succumbing", "surrendering", "giving up" -- on either part.

I am especially deeply disappointed in Marianne Williamson for promoting this delusional writing.

There was no way to get this posted but to choose at least one star for this rating. If I'd had a choice, I would have chosen the negative (-) sign for "Don't bother, it's just another male ego trip." Unbelievable.