How to Manage Your Dick: Redirect Sexual Energy and Discover Your More Spiritually Enlightened, Evolved Self

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 336 pages
• Published by: Auriga Pub. Group September 2001
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1580083501
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1580083508
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 1 pounds

Product Review
"It is bold, it's brazen, it's provocative. And that is just the title." -- Publishers' Weekly

"Sexuality is the home plate of the human soul." -- Howard Bloom, author of the Lucifer Principle

Product Description
How to manage your what? That’s right, your DICK. HOW TO MANAGE YOUR DESTRUCTIVE IMPULSES WITH CYBER KINETICS is one of the most unusual books you will ever read. It is also one of the most important. Author Sean Joseph O’Reilly presents ideas about energy, moral development, and sexual management that will revolutionize your life. Our society emphasizes concepts like time and resource management, but for the most part ignores one very important kind of management: DICK Management. An ecology of personal-energy use that studies destructive, testosterone-driven impulses from the perspective of metaphysics and science, DICK Management is a new discipline that will teach you how to redirect sexual energy and discover your more spiritually enlightened, mentally evolved self. It’s about finding your own personal life ethic—not just about saying “no” or strictly controlling your desires but rather about saying “yes” to something greater than the tunnel vision of the Cyclops in your pants.

Reader Reviews
Disclaimer: I'm Sean's brother, and read this book in manuscript. Sean is truly a remarkable individual, who combines ideas from philosophy, psychology, science and pseudo-science, like a mad chef, then serves them up as food for thought. His book is provocative and often funny, but underneath all the hyperbole, its message is a simple one. Here's my summation: * With the advent of psychiatry and twentieth century psychology, people threw out thousands of years of previous psychological insight and practice. The insights of various eastern disciplines, such as yoga, zen buddhism, and sufism, have come back into fashion via the New Age psychology movement, but the insights of two thousand five hundred years of Western philosophy have largely been ignored. * Many problems that seem intractable to modern psychology can be addressed by principles articulated clearly by Aristotle. He pointed out that virtue, which he defined as the control of the appetites by the reason, is a kind of habit. Learning what is good for you, and then developing good habits to practice it -- much as athletes practice for their sport -- and ultimately learning to like what is good for you, is the key to success and happiness. * As Freud and others pointed out, one of the most difficult appetites to control is the sexual appetite. Sean's work, which he calls "dick management" -- crude, but to the point -- focuses on how the principles of habit formation can be applied to the sexual appetites. * As a kind of cover story for what most people would consider a boring subject, Sean argues that the principles laid out by Aristotle have been supported by modern science. An understanding of the insights of multi-dimensional physics gives a way of understanding the role of the soul in our lives. We don't need this scientific framework to practice the art of dick management, but it gives us a way to talk about it that will make pop psychologists green with envy. P.S. When I read Steven Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, I was extraordinarily disappointed by Covey's failure to adequately define and describe the true role of habit formation in success. It is a fundamental idea that has gotten very little attention in the 20th century (at least outside of music and athletics), and we need to rediscover it. The principles in Sean's book can be applied to many different fields of endeavor. So even if you don't struggle with your sexual appetites, there's a lot to learn here.