The Way of the Superior Man
A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
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The Ultimate Spiritual Guide for Men 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. ''t 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 ...
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Goddammit, I despise this book, myself for having bought it, and all the new-age esoteric stupid misogyny bullshit that it represents. I hope I learned NOTHING from this book, and I'm glad I read it while single before eventually finding the person I would marry.
If you're convinced by this dichotomous perception of reality and people, and somehow need a black-and-white representation of the ridiculously complex network of interpersonal behaviors that compose a relationship between 2 adults, you might a) not be an adult, or b) need a lot of therapy.
Regardless of your above situation, don't buy this book.
This felt like a collection of blog posts in some way, not as coherent throughout as I would have liked. It's also a bit light on practices you can engage in to transform yourself. It does have some interesting philosophical ideas about the roles of masculinity and femininity in life which I enjoyed thinking about. A couple of things that really stuck out and I will have to think about them over time:
- Women will challenge you, cause chaos and disrupt because it is their nature. They are testing their partner to determine if they are not fit for the world. If a feminine partner can disrupt the masculine partners tranquility, the world will easily do the same and they are not fit.
- Part of the challenging will come in the form of complaints. While these complaints are signals that the f partner detects a weakness and is testing that weakness, the actual content of the complaint is meaningless. That is, if a f partner complains that you always leave your clothes laying around the room, actually examining the facts to determine if this is true is pointless. Only the signal that they detect weakness and are probing it is meaningful.
There were some other things too, I find the book overall a light on spiritual enlightenment but I do think that there are differences between masculine and feminine people in how they see the world and relate to others that does need to be examined and talked about. So I liked it for that.
