Book Three of Jed McKenna's Enlightenment Trilogy: Guns and bombs are children's toys. A true war wages, and you're invited. IT'S AN INVITATION you may not be able to accept if you want to, or decline if you don't. It's an invitation to fight in a war like no other; a war where loss is counted as gain, surrender as victory, and where the enemy you must face, an enemy of unimaginable superiority, is yourself. Spiritual Warfare issues a damning and irrefutable indictment of its own audience and genre, putting spirituality and religion themselves on trial. Spiritual Warfare is a sharp-edged book for those who want to experience a direct and authentic spirituality.
AUTHOR, TEACHER AND SPIRITUAL MASTER Jed McKenna presents a unique perspective on Spiritual Enlightenment, reducing this highest of attainments to the simplest of terms. Effectively demystifying the mystical, Jed astonishes the reader by taking the spirituality out of spiritual enlightenment. This topic is treated in an engaging and accessible manner. A masterpiece of illuminative writing, Spiritual Enlightenment is essential reading for anyone following a spiritual path. Part exposé and part how-to manual, this book explains why failure seems to be the rule in the search for enlightenment — and how the rule can be broken.
From a spiritual master unlike any, a spiritual masterpiece like no other. AUTHOR, TEACHER AND SPIRITUAL MASTER Jed McKenna tells it like it's never been told before. A true American original, Jed succeeds where countless others have failed by reducing this highest of attainments — Spiritual Enlightenment — to the simplest of terms. Effectively demystifying the mystical, Jed astonishes the reader not by adding to the world's collected spiritual wisdom, but by taking the spirituality out of spiritual enlightenment. Never before has this elusive topic been treated in so engaging and accessible a manner. A masterpiece of illuminative writing, Spiritual Enlightenment is mandatory reading for anyone following a spiritual path. Part exposé and part how-to manual, this is the first book to explain why failure seems to be the rule in the search for enlightenment — and how the rule can be broken.
Book Two of Jed McKenna's Enlightenment Trilogy Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment Isn't One Kind of Enlightenment -- It's the Only Kind THE MARK OF A TRUE MASTER is that he can express a subject of the utmost complexity with uncanny simplicity. Jed McKenna is such a master, and spiritual enlightenment is his subject. His first book, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing , was an instant classic and established him as a spiritual teacher of startling depth and clarity. Now, his second book, Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment , takes us on a fascinating tour of the enlightened state -- what it is and what it's not, who's there and who's not, how to get there and how to get somewhere better. Delightful surprises abound, including the dramatic unveiling of perhaps the greatest spiritual masterpiece of all time -- long hidden in plain view and well known to all. Whitman, Melville, Thoreau, Mark Twain and U.G. Krishnamurti all appear, and a student from the first book returns to share her Spiritual Autolysis journals. Also surprising are the author's gentle efforts to guide the reader away from enlightenment toward a more desirable and accessible state. Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged, Missing me one place, search another, I stop somewhere, waiting for you. -Walt Whitman Jed McKenna's books aren't for everyone. They're for people who are tired of the spiritual merry-go-round and ready to confront the unadorned reality of the awakening process. If you like your teachers with all the spiritual trimmings and trappings, Jed may not be right for you, but when you're ready to jump off the merry-go-round and begin your journey, Jed McKenna is the guy you want to see standing there -- waiting for you.
Jed McKenna's Notebook contains all bonus content from The Enlightenment Trilogy. Table of Section 1: Bonus Material from Spiritual The Damnedest Thing Recipe for FailureInterview with Jed McKennaThe Deficiency of Recorded AccountsDr. Pillay InterviewImpersonating Jed McKennaBlues for BuddhaSection 2 Bonus Material from Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment Jed McKenna InterviewZen and the Art of Self-Mutilation Mannahatta- The Journey to the Shaman- Kill the Swiss- Improbability- My Uncle the Vampire- Bookstore Guru- City Lights- Death & DiscriminationSection 3 Bonus Material from Spiritual Warfare I, WitnessThe New WorldThe Golden DoorVisionary GoofballsNothing A Post-Apocalyptic Lightmare _________________________________ Comments about Jed McKenna's Enlightenment Trilogy. “Jed McKenna is an American original.” -Lama Surya Das “Absolutely marvelous, splendid, perfect books!” -Shri Acharya “These books have profoundly changed my life.” -C. Jensen “These three books are precious gifts to humanity.” -E. De Vries “Thank you for the books. I’ve been waiting all my life for them.” -C. Vankeith “I can think of no other author I’d recommend more highly.” -M.R. Fleming "I say an eternal thank you for the Trilogy. The books continue to challenge my mind and life. I ordered my 4th complete set. Nothing compares to this writing." -J.H. "If you are ready, step into Jed's world. It is intelligent and powerful." -J. Katz Visit Wisefool Press to learn more about Jed McKenna's Enlightenment Trilogy and Dreamstate Trilogy. _________________________________
Spirituell unkorrekte Erleuchtung ist kein Sachbuch wie jedes andere. Der Autor erweist sich als brillanter Erzähler, scharfsinniger Beobachter und als Meister der Desillusionierung. Er wird schockieren, wachrütteln oder gar erleuchten, doch garantiert niemanden kalt lassen! Das Ausbrechen in die Freiheit nondualen Bewusstseins ist für Jed McKenna ein “spirituell unkorrekter” Vorgang: Spiritualität nährt das Ego, Erleuchtung löscht die falsche Identifikation mit dem Ich für immer aus. In seinen schonungslosen Demaskierungen zeigt der Autor, wie die Ego-Verhaftetheit uns in einem Käfig beschränkender Vorstellungen gefangen hält und unser Sein auf Kindergartenniveau reduziert. Ums Erwachsenwerden geht es McKenna und ums Erwachen zu unserem grenzenlosen Potential. Wer darin aufgehen will, dem empfiehlt er “Spirituelle Autolyse” – ein schmerzhafter Selbsthäutungsprozeß. Praktisch vorgeführt wird er am Beispiel der New-Age-Journalistin Julie. Literarisch dokumentiert findet McKenna ihn auch in dem mysteriösen Walfänger-Epos Moby Dick, das er als westliche Version des indischen Mahabharata entschlüsselt. Der Prozeß endet in jenem unbeschreiblichen Land jenseits aller Illusionen, von dem der Autor sagt: “Komm und sieh selbst.”
Erleuchtung - kein anderer Begriff zieht spirituell Suchende so sehr in seinen Bann wie dieser. Wenn Jed McKenna davon spricht, so tut er es aus eigener Erfahrung. In seinem Landhaus tief in der amerikanischen Provinz lebt er als Schmetterling unter Raupen. Gibt es einen Weg, der aus dem Schlafen ins Erwachen, aus der Verwirrung in die Klarheit führt? Jeds Dialoge mit Schülern kreisen um diese Frage, und dabei wird bald einmal klar: Es ist ganz anders. Erhellende, kompromisslose, befreiende Gespräche um das Leben in Wahrheit. Ein Buch wie ein Paukenschlag, und darüber hinaus ein geistreiches, köstliches Lesevergnügen.
