Product Description

Does enlightenment have a dark side? It does, explains David Deida, "but instead of closing to what seems unloving, we can learn to open as what we would rather avoid." In Instant Enlightenment, this maverick author and teacher offers a "rude awakening" through a collection of daring exercises and practices intended to provoke, challenge, and immediately reveal the ever-present "love that lives all things." What's the filthiest thing you can say that still feels like, "I love you"? Can you "wear" the mood and shape of everyone and everything around you without fear or reservation? Which imagined action--sleeping, sexing, or dying to save another--most feels like liberation and unbound love? These are just some of the unconventional questions raised in Instant Enlightenment. Each pithy chapter encourages readers to blast the light of consciousness on the taboos we hide in shadow, from our ideas about sex and money to emotions and spirituality. "The secret to gifting your life's deepest purpose is to open through what you most resist, so your love's mission can bless the world," writes David Deida. Instant Enlightenment will surprise and possibly offend you--but it will lead you "fast and suddenly" to the realization of the sacred entirety of your experience.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49539 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 239 pages

About the Author
David Deida offers trainings around the world on spiritual growth and sacred intimacy. He has taught at the University of California--San Diego School of Medicine, the University of California--Santa Cruz, Lexington Institiute in Boston, and Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France. His many books are published in more than 20 languages, and include The Way of the Superior Man (Sounds True, 2004) Blue Truth (Sounds True, 2004), and Finding God Through Sex (Sounds True, 2005).

Customer Reviews

The Soul Goddess Approves!
A wonderful, quick, pick-me-up book on the go for those too busy to sit through entire chapters of David Deida's books to learn lessons on Sacred Love and Sensuality. Wonderful insight by a man geared mostly for men.

Farrah Nayka Ashline

Great stuff!
The mind/ego loves self and sex. This book provides some great tricks for enrolling the mind into exploring deeper states of consciousness and presence by exploring sensuality and sexuality. The mind is then tricked into stepping aside and you have access to the really good stuff. And it can happen in a heart beat!

Quick Reference
Wow! This book is made up of short chapters that can be read and implemented in a moment. Fun and challenging. For me it's the best Deida book.