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The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire [Paperback]

David Deida (Author)
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March 1, 2006
What is your true purpose in life? What do women really want? What makes a good lover? If you're a man reading this, you've undoubtedly asked yourself these questions-but you may not have had much luck answering them. Until now. In The Way of the Superior Man, David Deida explores the most important issues in men's lives-from career and family to women and intimacy to love and spirituality-to offer a practical guidebook for living a masculine life of integrity, authenticity, and freedom. Join this bestselling author and internationally renowned expert on sexual spirituality for straightforward advice, empowering skills, body practices, and more to help you realize a life of fulfillment, immediately and without compromise. "It is time to evolve beyond the macho jerk ideal, all spine and no heart," writes David Deida. "It is also time to evolve beyond the sensitive and caring wimp ideal, all heart and no spine." The Way of the Superior Man presents the ultimate challenge-and reward-for today's man: to discover the "unity of heart and spine" through the full expression of consciousness and love in the infinite openness of the present moment. Book jacket.

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Editorial Reviews

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"Any woman who gives this book to the man in her life will soon thank herself for it." -- Yogi Times magazine, March 2006

An astonishingly practical guidebook to living a masculine life of integrity, authenticity, and freedom. -- The Midwest Book Review - Reviewer's Choice

Just reading The Way of the Superior Man may make you a better man, perhaps even a superior one. -- Watkins Review

[David Deida's] insights about male/female interaction can't help but stimulate a more active understanding of this complicated dynamic. -- NAPRA ReView

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.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 207 pages
  • Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated (March 1, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1591792576
  • ISBN-13: 978-1591792574
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (242 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,380 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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.

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134 of 152 people found the following review helpful
By A doer
Format:Hardcover
I've noticed that the positive reviews of this book all are by people who say they've taken the advice, while the pans all have come from people who put forth a lot of excuses for why the book would never apply to them or contains advice unpalatable to them. I've received this same reaction from people to whom I've suggested the book or to whom I've read passages. Those who refuse to even try the advice in "Way of the Superior Man" truly seem unable to comprehend what richness of life they are missing.

Many reviews here have misconstrued the advice to say that the woman should not help with family income or other relationship- or lifestyle- work. Nothing in the book claims any such thing; but the book does offer a fundamental paradigm shift in identity for anyone in a relationship who will simply try the advice for even a single day.

This book rocked my world to its very foundation and changed my view of life at the most profound possible level. I was moved to tears (manly ones, though, of course) by the last three chapters.

I was amazed at how the book just kept getting better and better and better. Most self-help books run out of steam by the end, or leave a reader feeling: "Yeah, yeah, I get it already, I don't need to see every possible permutation of the patterns you've been describing for page after numbing page," but this book just keeps building and building in intensity until it reaches a mighty crescendo. At the same time, the language simultaneously becomes more earthy and more direct. The building urgency and impact of the message, couched in ever-more human, no-bull, language, turns every sentence into divine poetry.

Lines like: "There is nothing to wait for and no one to blame," spoke to me at the very deepest levels. And I was knocked almost out of my chair by the line: "You were born as a sacrifice." It is amazing how those six short words sum up the entire meaning of life.

The message for the reader, male or female, seems to be: Get off your ass and start making something special of your life and your relationships. This book identifies the deep truths about the healthiest viewpoints for the two genders to hold about their individual identities, and if thought of on a societal scope, it also points to the reason this nation is saddled with a leviathan government run amok in the Sysyphean task of taking care of all the self-proclaimed victims and professional excuse-makers who leach off this great land of ours.

I urge this book upon anyone with even a glimmer of surviving self-respect. If you apply it to your life, you'll never look back.

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74 of 84 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Hardcover
This book has made a great difference in our relationship! At the point of almost giving up after 29 years, my husband and I found this book. We read it together in bed at night. For my husband, it has meant a deeper understanding of who he is in the Masculine essence, being fully present. For me, it has meant a greater understanding of that Masculine essence as well as a deeper understanding of how my Feminine essence is more about radiance - my being is different than that of my husband - and the difference is beautiful! At first, the book hit me with some unusual insight, and I would say: "Wow!" Then the point shifts to the feminine and I would say: "What?" (because I am not sure I like what Deida is saying - sounds like it could be sexist, but it is NOT!), and then he pulls it all together in a way that is deeply moving, empathic and compassionate of BOTH men and women! David Deida cares about people and has a unique manner of stating the needs (AND desires) of both sexes, while honoring them at all times! He definately understands women! WoW! I love this book! I am excited for his future and mine!
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Reality Check Needed October 6, 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I read this book with my boyfriend as we are in the beginnings of a monogamous and committed relationship and wish to have a healthy bond on all levels. We read slowly night to night, digesting each paragraph, wanting to understand, and even like, this work. Conclusion: We did not find much rhythm in here to want to live our relationship by. Deida's findings on what a feminine woman is like is "dysfunctional" at best; I would advise a man to get away from this woman Deida describes, or set boundaries until "she" seeks counsel to get her metabolism and heart in order to accept a truly "superior masculine man". The mood swings do not rationalize what a man (or anyone) should tolerate, and I consider myself a "female" woman. What is described therein resembles a flailing woman in her immaturity who does not have her direction in place and resonates as being "spoiled". I don't find these characteristics "female" at all. Female is poised in her grace, dignity, confidence, strength and humility. She looks up to her man and knows how to listen, as well as speak. When she chooses and cares to speak, she does so with love, respect and care for how she is heard. There simply is nothing attractive to me, nor my boyfriend, about the female Deida has laid out in this book. There are about 10 chapters of the 51 that we liked. There were the helpful and succint paragraphs thrown in here and there that were spot on. For the most part, this book is filled with the author's opinions and his convictions. As a woman having done alot of work on herself, I found this book to be out right silly and possibly harmful for couples to follow.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
enlighteneing
This book is a must read for men of ALL ages if you want to improve on your life and gain insight to ourselves as men. Read more
Published 2 days ago by Dave O
The Way of the Inferior Man
I was so hoping to learn how to be a better man in these pages, but by page 54 I threw this book down in disgust. Read more
Published 1 month ago by J. Ferrara
A Feel Good Guide for the Small Man
Basically a manual for the desperately insecure man-child who will inevitably partner with his needy unformed female equivalent and mould her to suit. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Ms Happy
Must read!
This is one of the best books I've read on relationships in a long while. Though geared for men, I think it's a must for women and couples too. Read more
Published 2 months ago by G. Hall
Cliche ridden, pep talk Heavy, content free
I didn't really care for this book. Its advice can be summed up as: be a real man, get yourself a woman who is all emotion and no intelligence, who will never be able to explain... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Alex F Stop
Impact on life and Relationships
I lost a relationship just recently because of the lack of self awareness. The lady I was dating suggested this early on and I didn't follow Davids advice and kind of ignored it. Read more
Published 2 months ago by creativeSedona
Metro-sexual how to guide to emasculating ones self.
Save your money and your time, steer well clear of this book. Annoying, new age, sensitive new age guy, left wing, metro-sexual, wanna-be intellectual gibberish. Read more
Published 3 months ago by nulli
great read
A good read. This book was recommended to me by bj shea of the morning show on kisw in Seattle. The book gives great advice on being a masculine man. Read more
Published 3 months ago by joshbunn
Truer than what most of us grew up with
Deida is one of my favorite authors. This book helped me on my path of life-restructuring, and gave me a lot of scaffolding for relationary schema I have found immensely powerful. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Allan Sherwood
One of a Kind
I don't usually like books or articles that are focused on 'men, this, women, that' and I nearly always find men that talk that way insufferable ("Well, I'm a man, and a man..."). Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mobius Strip
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