From http://deidaexposedexposed.com
An Open Letter on the Current Slandering of David Deida
By One Very Disturbed Former Fan
Dear Friend,
These are the best of times for David Deida and his work.
But with good fortune comes those who resent it, and will do almost
anything, including slander of the worst kind, to mar it.
As the producer of Deida Weekend Intensives in LA, SF and Seattle, and
as someone working closely with David on his new online offerings, I
was going to be introducing myself to the entire Deida Community in a
few weeks.
It was going to be in the mode of absolute celebration. Celebration of
David's new work. And of the new ways people will have of experiencing
it at home.
In the middle of all this momentum, though, there is one very
disgruntled former attendee of David Deida's workshops from New York
who is writing some vile and scurrilous things about David and now
about me. All, disturbingly, while using David's name to promote his
own business.
This unhappy person is sending out emails of the worst kind to everyone
who he thinks will listen and he's posting it all over the web, and it
needs to be addressed head on.
WHO IS THIS PERSON AND WHAT DRIVES HIM?
This
former fan and attendee of some Deida workshops several years ago, was,
for reasons of character, ethics, and broken agreements, found unfit to
continue associating with David Deida or his work, although he has
continued to imply his association with Deida's work through misleading
websites.
By his peers and his trainers, after
giving him a chance to demonstrate his capacity in several workshops,
this person was found to be unqualified to be affiliated with David's
work in any way.
Because of this, he has been on a manic campaign to seek revenge on
David Deida for years now, in an oedipal frenzy, including threatening
phone calls in the night to David at home and physical intimidation in
public places.
David has mostly ignored him, because people who encounter this man
realize he's an obsessive, failed man on a mission, and David has more
important tasks to attend to.
However, this person has now raised the temperature of his efforts - and so I find it important to respond.
He is sending out emails about David working with "pick-up artists" and
implying that this somehow colors the integrity and power of David's
work.
David works with all kinds of people and at many different venues. He
offers workshops at Buddhist centers, Christian churches, and major
workshop centers worldwide. He works with rabbis, lamas, yoga
practitioners, married couples, singles, and last year he also started
working with young 'pick-up artists' who wanted to understand how to
mature to their next level.
David is known for bringing light to places where others fear to tread,
and I have watched him bring his work to young men trying to figure out
their deeper gifts as men in the world, as beginning lovers, and as
trustable partners. I'm glad he's doing it.
As David makes clear over an over again, his work is NOT meant to be
healing or therapeutic work for traumatized or deeply psychologically
wounded people.
Those people, as he often repeats, should be in therapy where they can
heal and grow properly over time in a safe environment. Deida's
workshops are challenging explorations at the edge of love and fear,
jumping right into some of the most vulnerable issues in a person's
life. If you are looking for a place catering mostly to healing and
safety, then David's work is not for you. His work is designed for
intrepid explorers who are right now ready and willing to take risks
and express their needs clearly as they go with other practitioners
playing at their edge.
Now --
ABOUT MYSELF
I
am working with David to produce live workshops and ways online of
allowing audiences greater access to David's work.
The lonely, unhappy man out there is trying to frame me as some kind of
dangerous lothario as a way to damage David's name, even though,
through mutual acquaintances, he knows perfectly well, that this is a
misrepresentation of me and my life.
I am, in fact, the father of two sons in a long-term, beautiful,
monogamous relationship with a live-in partner. I am no pick up artist
and I have written strongly and often against the idea of pick-up as an
alternative to authentic man-woman communication. The only things I
pick up are my socks, out of respect to my partner.
I am a writer with years of experience in marketing in Hollywood, Madison Avenue and online.
I am a former Stanford Humanities Center Graduate Research Fellow among
many other academic honors in several countries. As a writer and a
producer in television for many years, mostly on movies exploring
social issues, I have recently garnered an Emmy nomination for my film
about an outstanding teacher in Harlem.
I have also written books for men and women about dating, love and
attraction. Those works have matured over the years as my own
understandings have matured. Some lines I have written have been
extracted from my marketing of these books by this disgruntled fan of
David's in the effort to frame me as something I am not. In truth, I
wish I hadn't written them, or allowed my staff to write them. But we
make our mistakes and learn from them.
And we raise the level of our work to higher levels.
My series,
www.TheFearlesslover.com explores the foundations of enduring love by interviewing spiritual leaders and thinkers and most represents my recent work.
It deeply pains me to think that after all of David's great work over
the years, this lost soul with a chip on his shoulder could use my name
and some of the edgier and perhaps careless marketing lines I or my
staff have used in the past to try to tarnish David Deida.
It is a hack job, pure and simple, and a very nasty one in that.
Feel free to contact me directly if you'd like more information. You can reach me at:
deidaevents@gmail.com
I apologize if you have received an email from this mad, disqualified
attendee of David's workshops. He is someone who could not gain respect
through his own work, and so will do anything to pull down those who do.
Meanwhile, the real work continues
Signed,
Adam Gilad
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Corey W. deVos (dj rekluse)
Brand Manager, Integral Naked
Audio Manager, Integral Institute
Managing Editor, KenWilber.com
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