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This is from an email to David DeAngelo
Dear David:
As someone who has purchased and enjoyed your "Man Transformation" program
on DVD, I'd like to alert you to a new book that just came out called "Integral Relationships: A Manual for Men."
This is a serious study that applies Ken Wilber's Integral framework to male-female relationships.
It is NOT for women, but for men who seek to get along well with women. David, based on the kind of seminal reading you like, I bet you'd really appreciate this book, as would many of your more advanced customers who
are trying to figure out what's going on with women with whom they're trying
to have a relationship.
Some relationships fall apart not because of some fault of the man or of
the woman, but simply because the two are at different stages of development in their individual lives at the time they cross paths. Not seeing this can cause a tremendous amount of unnecessary grief. Understanding it makes it
so
much easier to avoid that grief altogether, and/or to let her go with love and best wishes.
The book includes in Appendix I an extremely helpful survey of relevant relationship books, and how each reviewed book succeeds or fails to take into account various "quadrants" of Wilber's Integral model.
I like to think of this book as providing clear road signs where before there was only guesswork at best.
David, this book is not simple, but you certainly can handle it, and I suspect even you will find it illuminating because of how it ties together so many perspectives with which you're already familiar.
Highly recommended.
Best regards,
Lee Liebner, PhD
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Seriously insightful:
This is a serious study that applies Ken Wilber's Integral framework to male-female relationships.
It is NOT for women, but for men who seek to get along well with women.
If you're a man who is trying to figure out what makes women tick, and who has already done a fair amount of reading about male-female relationships, you'll really appreciate this book. What you had previously thought was incomprehensible about their behavior might begin to make perfect sense.
Some relationships fall apart not because of some fault of the man or of the woman, but simply because the two are at different stages of development in their individual lives at the time they cross paths. Not seeing this can cause a tremendous amount of unnecessary grief. Understanding it makes it so much easier to avoid that grief altogether, and/or to let her go with love and best wishes.
Appendix I contains an extremely helpful survey of relevant relationship books, and discusses how each reviewed book succeeds or fails to take into account various "quadrants" of Wilber's Integral model. Whether you want to apply Wilber's model or not, this section alone will probably put the whole subject of understanding women in a much broader framework than you ever imagined.
I like to think of this book as providing clear road signs where before there was only guesswork at best. It's so easy to take a wrong turn in dealing with a woman if you don't know where you are--and especially if you don't know where she is along life's path. Think of "Integral Relationships" as Mapquest on steroids with plenty of roadmarkers helping you get to your destination--or at the very least help you stop wasting time riding down the wrong road.
The more you have read about relationships, the more you'll like this book because it's such a concise compendium of human knowledge about the female mind and heart, presented in a way that inquiring male minds will understand. "Integral Relationships" is not simple (because the topic is not), but it makes an exciting read because it is so illuminating in how it ties together so many perspectives with which you may already be familiar. Want to save yourself years of stumbling in the dark? Read this book now.
If dealing with women sometimes leaves you feeling like you're in a dense jungle, this may very well be your machete to daylight.
(From Amazon.com)
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