The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
by David Deida
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Book Reviews of The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
Book Review: Not what it pretends to be
Summary: 3 Stars
If you are looking for help about your relationship with your wife or sexual partner, this is a good book. You'll find plenty of useful, insightful and potentially helpful advises about how to deal with the often complicated issues that we all face in those relationships.
What I have trouble with is the pretension of this book to be "the ultimate spiritual guide for men". I dare to say that Mr. Deida is quite confused regarding spiritual matters. His "spiritual" advises are rehearsed material that could have been given by anybody well read in the matter, and often seem to come out of a confused mind. He uses almost interchangeably the words love, sex and spiritual awakening. Mr. Deida is part of a sorry lineage of men throughout the ages who thought that the fact of having mastered their sexual energy gave them some kind of spiritual authority. It certainly gave them some power over their own life and the life of other people, (and also some great sex!) and probably led them to more heightened awareness experiences than the average person usually comes across. But the self-knowledge and lack of self importance that true spiritual accomplishment provides is thoroughly lacking in this book. If you are looking for sound and sane spiritual advises, look somewhere else, because you'll get confused here (maybe even without realizing it!).
Book Review: Superior!
Summary: 5 Stars
Underneath the belly of this text lays the workings of the most profound Spiritual Truths.
Will you finally commit to to This Truth when lured by the Mastery of Women, Work and Sexual Desire?! Or will you remain consumed with the desire and ambition that glides on the surface of our world... wanting an illusory power, fame and relationship.
Our relationship with women, work and sex are nothing by mundane trappings to an old warn out paradigm... unless infused with our own Inner Realizable Truth and Actualized with our commitment to That Truth.
This is not a cookbook. It is a description of what can be realized with long and dedicated spiritual practice and development. It is a call to Self Realization and Commitment.
Your Root Is you Woman. Your Crown is your Man. Within you. Will you Raise Up your Woman (Chapter..."Ejaculate Up the Spine")? Will you Embody your Manhood (Chapter..."Breath down the Front")?
This book is not about your mundane gratification, but is a challenge to integrity, honor, courage and commitment.
Step Forward Men of Wisdom.
Causeless Joy... Elegance... and Unlimited Possibilities in Presence!
Book Review: Who are you?
Summary: 5 Stars
TWO BIG THUMBS UP!! I'd give this book more stars if they let me. Ok, I'll to try to try and control my unbelievable enthusiasm for this book, and write an intelligible review. T
This book is completely bananas. "Bananas, that's not intelligible." Ok, I know, but hear me out. Bananas is a word I use, on a not too frequent basis, to describe something completely and utterly different from anything else. I have read lots of so-called self-help books, and I usually get a stomach ache from all the sugar it feeds me, and for the most part they're retroproductive. This book does not candy coat anything, nor is it any way rude or condscending about problems that everyone has. When I say everyone, I mean everyone. The book is titled "Way of the Superior Man," but it debunks problems that every man or woman has. He explains why he made the title the way he did in the intro.
I think the thing that separates this from other self-help books, is that it doesn't teach you how to cope with problems, it teaches you how to squash them. The suggestions he has about life and happiness are not geared toward making things easy, they're geared toward making yourself great. It's a book everyone should read, especially every man.
Book Review: Life takes a whole new meaning!
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't think I have ever read anything that would have such an instantaneous effect on me. This book is absolutely amazing. I won't tell you what it is about -- there are other reviews here you can read. I will only say that you will never be the same after you read it (if you are open to its message). Life will take on a very different meaning.
In one week, I went from "She does not appreciate how great I am and what I've done for her!" to being able to be fully present in the relationship. I went from "I can't deal with her constant change of opinions and tastes" to starting to be able to connect to more of who she is inside. I went from "Everything is SO difficult with her!" to being able to be open, stand straight, and not be swayed and hurt by changing tides.
I am sure I am far from being a superior man still. But it's a great, and amazing, start.
Also, in my opinion, you may have trouble reading this book if you think you are the only normal person around, and the whole world is out to screw up your life. If you are of this opinion, try therapy first. To really get the message in this book, you need some degree of introspection. You need to be able to see your crap for what it's worth.
Book Review: Changed my life
Summary: 5 Stars
I recieved this book from my Dad on my 22nd birthday and haven't looked back. I've read this book once already and am immediately beginning to read it again. The information is so concise that I feel like I'll need a few more readings to truly grasp and retain the wonderfully laid out gems of knowledge which converge together on a beautiful and useful central theme that will change the way you think about the world. While other books need long chapters to convey the message, Deida truly masters the art of masculine communication, straight and to the point with nothing more or less than the reader needs.
If you have a woman in your life, this book will dramatically improve your understanding and acceptance of her modus operandi. Just the chapters on a man's direction, purpose and consciousness alone are worth getting and reading the book, but it's Deida's expertise on the feminine that hit home for me.
And while most "self-help" books focus on selfish growth, Deida's book is the opposite. The ultimate goal is filling the world with love. To live life to its fullest so others may also fully live. To put your entire energy into your woman only to get even more in return. Get this book and be prepared to grow.