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

"Wild Nights cuts through the illusions of modern spirituality into the depth of life before God.Impure, soaked with all bodily liquids, pierced by clear recognition of death, wide opened with the power of love-living as love-in any moment of daily life.If you do not choose to be a hermit, if you want to practice awakening within relationships, in the realm where sex and death are such powerful momentums-you'd better read this book, and not only once."-Rabbi Ohad Ezrahi, author of Paths of EmpowermentMeet Mykonos, both scurrilous madman and the voice of truth.Wild Nights presents David Deida's remarkable account of his days with the unconventional teacher who revealed to him the deeper wisdom of the erotic path to the divine. From our very first encounter to the "burden of bliss" that is his parting gift, Mykonos challenges our understanding of what makes a spiritual life.Brutally candid, he offers his teaching to anyone ready to listen, with an uncanny ability to see into the hearts a