Learn how to keep your relationships growing--beyond the sexually neutralized roles so typical of today--and create a relationship that is spiritually erotic, sexually deep and passionately committed to love.

David Detda ts an extraordinary teacher of great wisdom and wit. He speaks and writes with eloquent clarity. His book fs a mafor contribution to the exploration of male and female spiritual. Craig Schindler, JD Ph.D. author of The Great Turning and president of Project Victory

“In my opinion. David's work will be constdered Internationally as a new gateway to exploring relationshups.” —Kay Snow Davis author of Point of Power: A Relationship with Your Soul

Why do many men resist marriage even when they are totally ín love?

Why is feminine energy extremely attractive yet mistrusted by both men and women? Why does a man driving a car often have such a strong reaction when a woman gives him directions?

Why is “Surrender’“so offensive tö some people and so erotic to others?

Why is a man's “mission” usually more important to him than an intimate relationship? What must you risk in order to experience deep sexual union and emotional communion?

What are the spiritual prerequisites for experiencing the ultimate sexual embrace?

This enlightening book reveals the next step in intimate relationships — beyond the old-style sex roles of yesterday, and also beyond the sexually neutralized partnerships so typical of today. Intimate Communion will show you how to continue growing and create a relationship that ís spiritually erotic, sexually deep. and passionately committed to love.

Daw Derpa is known internationally for his transformative work in personal growth and intimate relationships. He completed advanced graduate work in psychobiology. sexual evolution and theoretical neuroscience, and has mare than 20 years of training in hatha yoga, tai chi, meditation and tantra. He , has taught and conducted research at the University of California Medical School, San Diego: University of California, Santa Cruz; San Jose State University; Lexington Institute, Boston; and Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France.

He has appeared on radio and television, and his work has been published inscientific and popular journals, books, audiotapes and v ideotapes.

What Is Intimate Communion?

Nipples, lips, warmth and caress: it starts with two bodies entwined as one, moving like a sensitive snake of tongue and fire, shivering up the spine and down the belly. Then, mind gives way to flesh, and flesh gives way to love. The very surfaces of touch open out into the light of love. Mouth opens, body opens, mind opens, so wide and bright that you are gone in love, your partner ís gone in love, and love ís all that remains. Asa woman, you have become the all of his desire. As a man, you have become the spine of her surrender. Grateful for your demise in light, the Divine is alive in every lovers smile, This book is for men and women who are turned on by sex, love and true spiritual ecstasy. It is for people who enjoy tangled bodies, open hearts and enlightened minds. If you are not delighted by a style af intimacy involving deep passion, deep devotion and deep understanding —-all three—then thís book ís not for you. When a man and woman embrace one another without guarding themselves, without protecting themselves or holding back, then they naturally transmit to one another an ecstatic force of sexual energy. love and oneness. At the beginning of many intimacíies, thís transmission is often body-blissing. heart-rending and mind-blowing. But after several years, many intimacies become, at best, loving friendships between two people who, ín truth, desire something much deeper — deeper sexual union, deeper devotion, deeper understanding. Many of us have experienced “old-style” intimacíies based on roles of male control and female giving, and have found such relationships to result in unhealthy dependence and pain. Many have then grown into “modern-style" intimacíies based on independence and fairness. W hat has been the result ? Have our well-intentioned efforts toward internal balance and selfresponsibility inadvertently eroded the attractive power in our intimate relationships? Is there actually another step to take, beyond even personal independence and healthy self-esteem, by which we can finally let down our guard in intimate love and relax deeply into our natural sexual core? How do we take thís next step toward heartfelt passion and spiritual vitality in modern intimacybeyond male domination, beyond idealistic feminíism, and beyond safe but lukewarm “so5o partnerships"without losing the ground we have gained ? After years of counseling and conducting relationship workshops across the United States, it seerns obvious to me that it ís time for men and women to take the next step in their style of intimate relationship. This new style of intimacy would extend beyond old sex roles for men and women. It would also extend beyond the guarded sense of independence that often holds passionate sexual surrender at arms length