David Deida has 7 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 467 ratings. The most-rated is The Way of the Superior Man.
The Way of the Superior Man
Summary
In the decades since the initial publication of The Way of the Superior Man, society has changed significantly. Issues of gender and sexuality long confined to secrecy have become part of everyday conversation, and rigid ideas about our societal roles have begun to dissolve. And yet, perhaps now more than at any time, men of all ages still “tussle with the challenges of women, work, and sexual desire.” In this unabridged audiobook of the classic guide to masculine spirituality, David Deida encourages men and women to lean into the conversation and offer their most valuable assets to the world - their authentic heart and depth of presence. More relevant than ever, The Way of the Superior Man offers a view of a more conscious and embodied masculinity. “It is time to evolve beyond the macho jerk ideal, all spine and no heart”, writes Deida. “It is also time to evolve beyond the sensitive and caring wimp ideal, all heart and no spine.” Including a new preface written in celebration of the book’s 20th anniversary, The Way of the Superior Man presents the next generation of with the opportunity to grapple with fear, cultivate trust in the moment, and put forth the best versions of themselves in an ever-changing world. Read by Cecil Archbold.
©2017 David Deida (P)2018 Sounds True
The Way of the Superior Man
Summary
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 best-selling 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.
©2005 David Deida (P)2005 Sounds True
Aligning with Love
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These days, women rarely come across men who can meet them fully in intimacy, suggests maverick teacher and author David Deida. Why? Because women have culturally evolved beyond men. What does sexiness mean in today's changing world? How do men and women re-learn to trust each other in spiritual depth and emotional intimacy? Beyond old sexual roles, is there any hope for enduring and ecstatic intimacy? Many women feel that men have become all but obsolete as dependable breadwinners, trustworthy guides, and committed husbands. In this time of focused women and drifting men, how do you - and why would you - find, choose, and deepen with a lover? When we transcend all past roles, what do people find sexually and emotionally attractive? What do men and women of today really want in their hearts and beds? With irreverent humor and shocking insight, David Deida speaks to cutting-edge women and men who are ready for a new way to dance in love together. Recorded live during actual workshops, these talks are Deida's spontaneous responses to real-life questions posed by an international gathering of successful professionals, accomplished artists, and spiritual practitioners, all of whom are exploring intimacy's next step. Each program is a unique collection of Deida's teachings on how to live and love in today's evolving world, beyond all gender roles, yet fully sexually alive. Highlights: Spiritual realization requires no time Relaxing as your natural state of love How unresolved sexuality closes us down Learning our patterns from our parents Therapy is not yoga is not spiritual awakening Sexual yoga and the love-bliss of conscious light Masculine and feminine displays of sexiness Turn-ons: dress, humor, and presence The feminine loves to be worshipped as light How to get a man to do something From power struggles, to respect, to adoration Feminine and masculine tilts of spiritual practice Love and the true root of sexual passion False spirituality and your real way Peeling away your emotional shells Shining love through your heart's wounds The financial value of third-stage practice
©2012 David Deida (P)2012 Sounds True
Third-Stage Love
Summary
These days, women rarely come across men who can meet them fully in intimacy, suggests maverick teacher and author David Deida. Why? Because women have culturally evolved beyond men. What does sexiness mean in today's changing world? How do men and women re-learn to trust each other in spiritual depth and emotional intimacy? Beyond old sexual roles, is there any hope for enduring and ecstatic intimacy? Many women feel that men have become all but obsolete as dependable breadwinners, trustworthy guides, and committed husbands. In this time of focused women and drifting men, how do you - and why would you - find, choose, and deepen with a lover? When we transcend all past roles, what do people find sexually and emotionally attractive? What do men and women of today really want in their hearts and beds? With irreverent humor and shocking insight, David Deida speaks to cutting-edge women and men who are ready for a new way to dance in love together. Recorded live during actual workshops, these talks are Deida's spontaneous responses to real-life questions posed by an international gathering of successful professionals, accomplished artists, and spiritual practitioners, all of whom are exploring intimacy's next step. Each program is a unique collection of Deida's teachings on how to live as love in today's evolving world, beyond all gender roles, yet fully sexually alive. Highlights: Expressing love through a tattered heart How to grow through long-term intimacy Sexual transmission of love through breath The depth of your giving determines the depth of your death The body is either a cage or an artistic vehicle for love Practice means noticing you've forgotten love Closing to emotions means not loving your emotions Life force is feminine sexiness, man or woman Women are now more culturally advanced than men in the Western world Women are choosing boy toys since there are too few conscious men Consciousness doesn’t move The feminine evokes motion from the masculine Sexuality is the play of conscious light Therapy is not yoga is not spiritual realization; each mode of growth is very different We resonate others with our states and stages of being, attracting or repelling Neediness, independence, and devotion The three stages of hurt Masculine grows through challenge; Feminine grows through praise Every lover is a servant of love The feminine flows like a river, the masculine provides the riverbanks
©2012 David Deida (P)2012 Sounds True
Enlightenment, Marriage, and the Dark Side
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These days, women rarely come across men who can meet them fully in intimacy, suggests maverick teacher and author David Deida. Why? Because women have culturally evolved beyond men. What does sexiness mean in today's changing world? How do men and women re-learn to trust each other in spiritual depth and emotional intimacy? Beyond old sexual roles, is there any hope for enduring and ecstatic intimacy? Many women feel that men have become all but obsolete as dependable breadwinners, trustworthy guides, and committed husbands. In this time of focused women and drifting men, how do you - and why would you - find, choose, and deepen with a lover? When we transcend all past roles, what do people find sexually and emotionally attractive? What do men and women of today really want in their hearts and beds? With irreverent humor and shocking insight, David Deida speaks to cutting-edge women and men who are ready for a new way to dance in love together. Recorded live during actual workshops, these talks are Deida's spontaneous responses to real-life questions posed by an international gathering of successful professionals, accomplished artists, and spiritual practitioners, all of whom are exploring intimacy's next step. Each program is a unique collection of Deida's teachings on how to live as love in today's evolving world, beyond all gender roles, yet fully sexually alive. Highlights: Giving dark energy to magnify passion Understanding why the masculine seeks freedom and the feminine seeks love Differentiating true dark love from heartlessness Orienting away from rape and war toward ravishment and martial arts Attracting partners as evolved as you Creating full-spectrum sexual polarity Expressing darkness to unkink love's knots Liberating the lower body Artfully offering subtle and gross dark sexual energy Why men crave a partner with specific energetic flavors Understanding how superior women become masculinized and the resultant affairs of their partners What qualities do men find worth marrying? Marrying to increase, not decrease, freedom Evolving men's motivation to get married Cultivating sexual irresistibility for the sake of liberation Choosing a partner to grow with through the stages of marriage Increasing capacity for sexual inspiration, saturation, and obliteration Seeking feminine energy through porn and nature if not women Differentiating first-stage manipulation from third-stage expression Offering spontaneous feedback briefly and subtly Achieving clarity of desire to attract a well-matched partner Longing for long-term love, desiring short-term delight Understanding why deep love can render a man impotent Sexually gifting the unity of consciousness and light in love
©2012 David Deida (P)2012 Sounds True
Intimate Communion
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David Deida, internationally known for his work in personal growth and intimate relationships, shares the deep understandings and effective techniques that he has refined through his 20 years of consultation, research, and spiritual practice. Learn how to keep your relationships growing - beyond the sexually neutralized roles so typical of today - and create a relationship that is spiritually erotic, sexually deep, and passionately committed to love.
©1995 David Deida (P)2020 Tantor
Dear Lover
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Are you ready to open to love’s deepest bliss? Every woman knows the fairy tale: find the right man, give him what he wants and needs, and he’ll love you forever. But when the myth you’ve been asked to believe fails to deliver - when you sense you’ve been settling for far less than you know in your heart is possible - how do you attract and keep a man capable of meeting what you most passionately yearn for? In Dear Lover: A Woman’s Guide to Men, Sex, and Love’s Deepest Bliss, David Deida explores every aspect of the feminine practice of spiritual intimacy, from sexuality and lovemaking to family and career to emotions, trust, and commitment. Presented as a collection of letters from a man to his “dear lover”, here is this internationally acclaimed writer’s invitation to practice love as a living art as you discover: Why your man is always your choice - and how to choose a man of deep integrity who will satisfy the needs of your body, heart, and spirit “Sexual essence” and the three stages of loving: how to understand your fluctuating capacity to experience divine connection with another Knowing when to end a relationship and how to deal with the “him-shaped void” your absent man leaves behind Daily exercises to help you and your partner move from separation to openness in two-bodied devotional trust Ultimately, what every woman wants is to give and receive love fully. Whether you’re partnered or alone, Dear Lover reveals that “your love is the same love that yearns to open at everybody’s heart. You will attract and inspire a man as willing and able to open as you are. Constant yearning is the call to open and give yourself to all as love’s offering”.
©2002, 2005 David Deida (P)2021 Sounds True