Wild Nights: Conversations with Mykonos about Passionate Love, Extraordinary Sex, and How to Open to God

David Deida has poetically written this spiritual novel with his heart wide open. Not only is it a beautiful story of a group of friends exploring sex as a way to open to god, but a way to open your mind in new ways. I love this book.

The nights are especially wild because you cannot put this book down, despite a luscious lover next to you! But no worries, they'll get theirs and more after you've finally finished it all. You will want to start the adventure of discovery that Deida conveys ... immediately.

I LOVED this book and read it in a sitting. As soon as I was done I passed the book along to a friend, but now I want to read it again. And again. 'Tis not for the faint of heart, or those who are easily offended by the F-Bomb being used repeatedly and often times in the same sentence as God. This book has seriously shaken my perspective on love, spirituality, and sex. I have more Deida on the way to me now!

In Wild Nights, David Deida makes brilliant use of our society's focus on sexuality as a medium to inspire us, "to be smithereened in bliss, opened beyond all limits, loved absolutely, to give ourselves completely to infinity." David plays joyfully, powerfully, and masterfully with his teacher's message, at a level of spiritual clarity that is awesome. ...As with the Medieval Kabbalahists and the Sufi poetry of Kabir and Hafiz, where sex is a metaphor for opening to the Divine dance, this book exposes us to the experience of Kashmir Shavism, or the Truth of Tantra. We are taken far deeper than the genital location, to the fearless state of vunerability where we are penetrated by God in every movement. ...Wild Nights is a radically effective work that can arouse a shift of consciousness in a way that knocks on the doors of Liberation....For those who are ready, this book propels us into the final leap of faith. --- quotes from book's foreword on book's back cover

this book is one of the best i`ve ever read, and i read my share. but then i deeply respect and admire david deida, and have experienced time after time that even reading his works can open ones heart up and give taste of the deeper realm. this book has scenes that is quite interesting, to say the least - and it is a great test to "stay open, as love" or suffer from the hearts contraction, fear and aversion. one of my late inner fascinations is the truth that we will have to accept lifes ambiguities. rarely can one find masters and teachers like ramana maharshi, for instance, which are nothing but saintly purity. krishnamurti is an example of a wise man, strongly illuminated and full of wisdom. then, another time, he is clearly full of prejudgement and aversion. so most people would say "oh, he is so wise and beautiful" (which is true), and other would say "he is an angry and judgemental old man" (which is also true). this books exposes clearly that one will have to accept the complexities, and trust ones inner, deepest truth. and of course, my short review can`t make justice to the richness and variety of insights. mostly it is about the heart, about love and openness. i will soon read it again, and if you believe you can get anything out of it (without retracting into judgemental attitudes or easy generalisations) i urge you not to hesitate to find a copy. i read it in a day, still digesting! bon apetite!