Book Review: Instant Enlightenment: Fast, Deep, and Sexy

This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Enlightenment. The Official SelfGrowth.com Guide to Enlightenment is Suzanna Kennedy. Enlightenment relates to the act of acquiring new wisdom or understanding which enables clarity of perception, either spiritually or secularly.nnInstant Enlightenment: Fast, Deep, and Sexy is a valuable resource for people interested in Enlightenment, and it is available through Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.nnGraham Christian - Library JournalnExercises that help readers open to the troubled world; from a prolific author of Buddhist spirituality (The Way of the Superior Man; The Enlightened Sex Manual) who has taught everywhere--even the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.nnBook DescriptionnDoes 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. nnAbout the AuthornDavid 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).