Spiritual Enlightenment, the Damnedest Thing

Self-Help

Jed McKenna

Spiritual

Wisefool Press

The first book in the Jed Talks series by Jed McKenna, author of the Enlightenment Trilogy and the Dreamstate Trilogy. 2nd Edition contains Starship Gita: The Song of the Borg, a play in six acts. Jed McKenna is the author of The Enlightenment Trilogy (Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing, Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment, and Spiritual Warfare) and The Dreamstate Trilogy (Jed McKenna's Theory of Everything: The Enlightened Perspective, Play: A Play by Jed McKenna, and Dreamstate: A Conspiracy Theory). The Jed Talks series continues to provide the same combination of humor, charm, and unparalleled mastery that has made Jed McKenna the clearest and most unique voice in modern spirituality. Visit Wisefool Press to learn more. Jed Tals #1 chapters include: - Toe Jam - Satsang with Jed - Starship Gita Act 1: The Bridge - Insane Little Monkeys - The Liberating Angel - Starship Gita Act 2: Ten Forward - What Is Enlightenment? - The Champions of Delusion - Starship Gita Act 3: The Holodeck - Yolanda Periwinkle - The Spiritual Anarchist - Starship Gita Act 4: The Borg - The Second Coming - Goldilocks Universe - Starship Gita Act 5: The Song of the Borg - The Magic Part - The Cross of the Moment - Starship Gita Act 6: Enlightenment - The Caneless Cane Jed Talks 2: Away from the Things of Man was released in September, 2018.

Jed Talks #1: Essays, Teachings, Rants & Frivolous Frivolity (2nd ed.)

McKenna, Jed

Religion & Spirituality

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. _________________________________ 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. _________________________________

Spiritual Enlightenment, the Damnedest Thing: Book One of The Enlightenment Trilogy

New Age & Spirituality

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. _________________________________ 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. _________________________________

Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment: Book Two of The 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. In Spiritual Warfare, the metaphor of warfare rarely appears. Instead, we are presented with the living reality of a very normal woman — a wife and mother with a demanding career and high-stress lifestyle — and we see what happens when she receives an invitation that, try as she might, she can’t refuse. And we meet another woman, a woman who accepted the invitation and fought and won. In the closing chapters of this book, we attend her memorial service as Jed delivers her eulogy. Spiritual Warfare issues a damning and irrefutable indictment of its own audience and genre, putting spirituality and religion themselves on trial. A terrible crime is being committed against humanity, a crime of oppression and subjugation far beyond Orwell’s1984. We are the victims of this crime, but we are also its perpetrators. Our motive is fear, our sin is ignorance, and the chain in which we enslave ourselves is belief. “Belief means not wanting to know what is true.” -Friedrich Nietzsche Spiritual Warfare is a book for those who do want to know; people who want to escape from their dark asylum and experience a direct and authentic spirituality; people for whom it’s time to look, to think, to know, and, at long last, to put away childish things. _________________________________ 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. _________________________________

Spiritual Warfare: Book Three of The Enlightenment Trilogy

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Jed McKenna's Notebook contains all bonus content from The Enlightenment Trilogy. Table of Contents: Section 1: Bonus Material from Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing Recipe for Failure Interview with Jed McKenna The Deficiency of Recorded Accounts Dr. Pillay Interview Impersonating Jed McKenna Blues for Buddha 
 Section 2 Bonus Material from Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment Jed McKenna Interview Zen 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 &amp; Discrimination Section 3 Bonus Material from Spiritual Warfare 
 I, Witness The New World The Golden Door Visionary Goofballs Nothing Forever: 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. _________________________________

Jed McKenna's Notebook: All Bonus Content from The Enlightenment Trilogy

Table of Contents: Jed McKenna's Notebook: All Bonus Content from The Enlightenment Trilogy Section 1: Bonus Material from Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing Recipe for Failure Interview with Jed McKenna The Deficiency of Recorded Accounts Dr. Pillay Interview Impersonating Jed McKenna Blues for Buddha Section 2 Bonus Material from Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment Jed McKenna Interview Zen 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 & Discrimination Section 3 Bonus Material from Spiritual Warfare I, Witness The New World The Golden Door Visionary Goofballs Nothing Forever: A Post-Apocalyptic Lightmare

Jed McKenna's Notebook: All Bonus Content from The Enlightenment Trilogy (The Enlightenment Trilogy)

We are programmed from birth to believe that our existence is an unsolvable riddle, but if we make an honest effort, we discover that mystery itself is the riddle. Not just what is the big mystery, but why is there any mystery at all? And what if there isn’t? What if the Mysterium Tremendum is just an internal belief without any external counterpart? What if the answers to life’s biggest questions were all hidden in plain sight? “If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall?” -Herman Melville Those interested in striking through the mask will welcome a theory of everything that makes sense, doesn’t rely on religious or scientific chicanery, and can be easily understood. And those familiar with Jed McKenna and the Enlightenment Trilogy will know that it’s not just a theory. _________________________________ 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. _________________________________

Jed McKenna's Theory of Everything: The Enlightened Perspective (Dreamstate Trilogy)

If life is but a dream, to what do we awake? The central premise of this book is the admittedly ridiculous but incontrovertibly true assertion that the universe does not exist. This is something you can understand conceptually, like watching a documentary about Antarctica, or experientially, like moving to Antarctica. There’s also a related phenomenon where you fall asleep watching the documentary and wake up in the frozen wasteland. That’s gotta be weird, but the truth is that you’re asleep in the wasteland dreaming that you’re not, so that’s where waking up gets you. 
_________________________________ 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. _________________________________

Dreamstate: A Conspiracy Theory (The Dreamstate Trilogy)

It is what it is, they say, but is it? Jed McKenna has always been more about destroying questions than answering them, so it's no surprise that Play is more Q than A. In fact, it might be viewed as a progression through the stages of self-inquiry, each of the seven vignettes taking us a bit further along on the inward journey, the early vignettes asking the questions, and the latter ones looking at those who do ask; showing us, promising us, warning us, where honest and relentless inquiry really lead. But who, Jed has asked, really wants to go where this road really leads? On this journey, who you are changes with every step, and it's all about taking the next step. In the end, Play is what it is. Or is it? Maybe it's the journey of the examined life, or maybe it's just a playful little play. Ultimately, of course, Play, like life, like anything, is whatever it is to you.

Play: A Play by Jed McKenna (Dreamstate Trilogy)

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