WOMEN, FIRE, AND DANGEROUS THINGS
A memoir by Nicole Daedone
From the creator of Orgasmic Meditation, the journey of a woman who turns poison into medicine. Bold enough to open where all of life tells us to close.
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THE LIFE AND STORY OF NICOLE DAEDONE
Nicole Daedone's memoir is an extraordinary document of our times. From the California suburbs to the Federal Courthouse where she was accused of running a forced labor conspiracy. Nicole Daedone takes her readers through the coming of age of a sexual woman to the development of a practice (Orgasmic Meditation) that has changed the lives of hundreds of thousands — and landed her in handcuffs. Nicole Daedone is the most dangerous woman in America, carving a path of liberation for women around the globe.
FROM VICTIM TO POWER
"I felt so choked by a conventional life as a gallery owner that I tore off the little black dress and pearls and traded it for an LSD guru. I have been the ultimate victim, lost in LSD, Zen, and destructive behavior.
And I will talk about it all"
She is a story teller, an artist and a woman. Nicole Daedone is the author of several national bestsellers, including The Eros Sutras and Erotic Justice.
DISCOVERING THE CURE
THE DAY IT CAME CRASHING DOWN WAS NOT THE WORST DAY OF MY LIFE. I'VE HAD MANY WORSE. WHEN I DISCOVERED THE CURE IN ORGASM, I CREATED A CURRICULUM AND A MOVEMENT OUT OF IT.
My quest was to no longer be the victim of my story. Transmute. The alchemical. Poison to medicine. Lead into gold.
My story is not unique; but the power I take from it is.
EMBRACING DESIRE
I HAVE DESIRE. I HAVE HUNGER. I REFUSE TO SCRUB IT OUT OF MY PERSONALITY, I REFUSE TO BE ASHAMED. Living a life without shame begins by making love, by bringing a sense of intimacy in which we embrace our lives and all around us.
We know by seeing and doing. I will tell you everything I've done.
I have been called what many women who own their power have been called; slut, criminal, whore, deviant, and more.
I AM THE WOMAN YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN TERRIFIED OF…
The life and story of Nicole Daedone never before told.
"I was being drawn toward the erotic, which was something perceived as equally subversive and dangerous in our Puritanical culture, although at that point I only knew that the pristine halls of Zen didn't fit the tenacious wildness inside of me."
OWNING MY TRUTH
Inside of my closet is the story of an inability to keep myself from the wilds and a desire for company in my journey. And yet, I am plagued with a cellular fear of exposure. As if my body were forged in the fires of witches burned. Keep concealed your visitations into the dark forest at all costs, the mandate would go, spoken with a survival level, grab-my-arm-as-you-step-into traffic level voice that yanks me back even when the innocent unregulated desire for expression would open its mouth in a desire to share.
Fear of judgement. Fear of what others would think. Fear that I would be cast out. Abandoned. Ostracized. Never, under any conditions, let them know what lies inside.
Beneath all of this, beyond anything I can silence, a wailing from a canyon that cannot be muffled-the first formed layer of what it means to be woman.
THE DAY MY PART IN IT CAME CRASHING DOWN WAS NOT THE WORST DAY OF MY LIFE. I'VE HAD MANY WORSE. This memoir opens where others close, revealing the raw truth of a woman's journey through trauma to transformation.
BEYOND THE FALL
Women, Fire and Dangerous Things is more than a memoir—it's a testament to resilience. It chronicles not just my fall, but my rise from the ashes. The story of how one woman refused to be defined by her trauma and instead used it as fuel for transformation.
I sit, now free of the arrows. It’s quiet. I look at the landscape of my history and think “I did that” and see it not from their perspective but from my own of high art and beauty. And as a woman, I can tell you, that is freedom.
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Daedone's National Bestsellers, The Eros Sutras