David Deida

生年: March 18, 1958 – Cleveland, Ohio, United States

David Deida is an American author and teacher whose work explores relationships, sexuality, intimacy, and spiritual growth, often through discussions of masculine and feminine dynamics. He is best known for The Way of the Superior Man, as well as Dear Lover and Intimate Communion, which have shaped popular relationship and self-development discourse.

経歴と著者の歩み

David Deida, born David Greenberg in Cleveland in 1958, came to authorship through an unusual combination of literary promise, scientific study, and spiritual practice. After receiving a National Writing Award as a teenager, he entered the University of Florida early through its Florida Scholars Program, founded the Plexus Interdisciplinary Center, and pursued work linking medicine and consciousness while also training in hatha yoga, tai chi chuan, and meditation. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in theoretical psychobiology in 1982, held a fellowship at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, continued graduate research at UC Santa Cruz, and taught subjects including psychobiology and evolutionary psychology. A decisive turning point came after retreat practice in France, when he moved away from an academic track before completing his doctoral thesis and redirected his work toward books and teaching for a general audience. ((https://deida.info/about-david/))

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名言

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They know when you are just dicking around. They want to receive you for real
-The Way of the Superior Man
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Practice is absolutely necessary, although you are only practicing what you are
-Blue Truth
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Most deeply, you are love
-Dear Lover
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The basic impulse of our life is to relax into happiness
-Intimate Communion
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Sex is an art form, a prayer, a way of contemplating and communing with infinite love, naked, unafraid, raw, and totally open
-Finding God Through Sex

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"David Deida's vision of interdependence between the sexes is spiritually profound and psychologically astute"

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"David Deida is an extraordinary teacher of great wisdom and wit"

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"The openness, the love! What lively new language David Deida finds for the unsayable!"

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"David Deida brings spirituality down from the clouds and back into our bodies where it belongs"

Mariana Caplan

"David Deida is the one Western teacher of Tantra whose books I read and to whom I send students to learn from"

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