Customer Reviews
Absolutely Fantastic! - By: Deniz Ates, 02 May 2008 
I couldn't put the book down when I read the first page. I thought it was hilarious & enlightening. Brilliant read!
This book will ravish a generation. Destined to be a classic. - By: Ploughstar*, 22 Mar 2007 As shocking & transformational as the Marquis de Sade's "Philosophy of the Boudoir" & Plato's "Dialogues" rolled into one. A truly profound book which will resonate with you long after reading it, wolfed down in one sitting most likely. This feels like Kerouac's California 50 years on: the ardent yab yum enlightenment of today's dharma seekers. Refreshingly honest, open & inclusive, "Wild Nights" will chime with anybody who has wanted to pursue the ineffable truths we often encounter using sex or drugs, but rarely find words to express. This book will ravish a generation. Destined to be a classic.
This is just Adi Da for unaware... - By: Jon, 13 Jul 2006 
For a good long while David Deida was a devotee of Adi Da--aka Franklin Jones--the thoroughly discredited, cult-leading & outrightly abusive guru both listed at the most noted anti-cult websites on the internet, & in critical volumes beyond it.
Strangely then (as one would have assumed Deida to have learned his lesson when leaving Da's organisation), his work is actuallly a continuance of the principles he took from Adi Da & in part just an outright copy of them. For example, his teaching on men, women & desire is ripped wholesale from Da's relationship & sexual considerations of the 70's into the 80's, just as his teaching on the emotional character of women (which good old Da advocated his male followers to slap & hit as they required `the theatre') is lifted from the same thin & reductively misogynistic separation of the sexes. Plus, Deida has also taken his stage model built upon three ascending levels from Adi Da, & fitted Da's 7 stage model into that sneakily compacted framework, along with using the booze, sex & drugs element of Da as part of his teaching, especiallly in Waiting To Love. All in alll, this is just a rerun of Da & it is little wonder that Deida changed his name to fit the process--i.e., DEIty & DA pressed together to follow right after David, while his actual surname is Greenberg.
Simply, if you don't believe me then just check it out for yourself! The literature is there, across the net, & is widely available. Ken Wilber has been depending on the same stuff for years, & also as an Adi Da supporter (and great friend of Deida) is equallly suspect for the same reason. Besides, you only have to read Da & then consider Deida's allleged guru 'Mykonos' offered in Wild Nights. Eerily close in character & theme, aren't they? Actuallly a bit like the authoritarian & abusive redux of Da that Wilber has discovered over the last few years in Andrew Cohen.
Thus it is a simple matter of just following A to B to C to perhaps avoid the rehashed offerings from a sickening cult. You have been warned, my friends, you have been warned...
