Spiritual Warfare The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 3 edition by Jed McKenna Religion Spirituality eBooks
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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 you.
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’s 1984. 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.
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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.
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Spiritual Warfare The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 3 edition by Jed McKenna Religion Spirituality eBooks
McKenna is a very gifted and creative writer who is not afraid to ask tough questions and peel back the mask society wears. In essence, McKenna is willing to blow up the place to get to the truth about this crazy human existence. With humor and introspection he communicates to an audience skeptical and tired of the world’s spiritual and religious charades.However, in spite of his vast literary and spiritual knowledge, McKenna's conclusions about human existence only leave us in a cold, dark and lonely place. McKenna might have found some truth and liberation studying up on various spiritual traditions and reading the American transcendental writers, but with his cherry-picked ideas he’s only placed himself in a very depressing and miserable position called 'the dreaded void'.
McKenna attempts to describe the end of the spiritual path as a lifeless, dead planet. He uses what he calls "spiritual-autolysis" to help arrive at the logic of this truth. The idea is to use journal writing as a means to keep digging and throwing out your demons until you find the key—the essence or truth of everything. This practice is helpful when trying to get through your own personal baggage, but due to our own biases, opinion and beliefs, not so helpful to gaining an impersonal understanding of how life works. It’s important to investigate matters, but don’t think you can arrive at the truth by yourself. Ignorance is hard-wired and the intellect is incapable of seeing what it’s blind to. Without the proper teaching, a practice like self-autolysis only leads to dead-ends, a rehashing of what’s already known, or worse, more beliefs about who—not what—you are. When the seeker finally hits the wall of ignorance, they will just begin to recycle their already known insights or erroneous notions.
McKenna also suggests enlightenment is an experience that requires you to have a total nervous breakdown and turn your life upside down (although, both are possible as a result). However, enlightenment isn’t about trying to make your head explode and it’s not anything you can acquire. It's simply realizing and actualizing the right knowledge (no enlightenment experience needed). Waiting for the right “spiritual" experience to set you free is like waiting to win the lottery.
So enjoy the fictional character of Jed McKenna, the non-guru, for his creative expression and keen observations, but take it all with a grain of salt. And if you find you're unsatisfied and still seeking after reading Jed, don’t worry. Jed isn’t the last stop on your journey, just a little spiritual entertainment along the way.
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Spiritual Warfare The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 3 edition by Jed McKenna Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
Reviewing such a book seems pointless. You either get it or you don't . Reading this based on a review is silly at best. For me, this book spoke to me more than the last two. It came into my hands in the strangest way....so if you are a seeker, then see if this fits. There were many points in the book where I could not continue until I had some time to digest what I had taken in. This book kicked me in the shins... hard and I appreciate the pain it brought up for me to process.
I don't tell people about these books unless it's clear that I should.
What a funny game we are playing...
I’m unsure about Jed McKenna. Spiritual Warfare has to be his most accessible book about enlightenment, focusing on conflict between our perceptions and a reality of nothingness.
I like that McKenna is down to earth and the book is fairly rhetoric free. It’s sort of an every man’s mysticism type of book, without the frills of guros. At the very least, it’s thought provoking.
However, i still don’t understand the hype of McKenna, perhaps because I haven’t take the leap into “enlightenment.” Sure, he lays out the ideas simply enough, and I guess that’s his main selling point.
Outside of the book there’s a questions on if McKenna is actually the man of his pseudonymous writings, or if this lifestyle and mode of being are simply works of fiction. A short search on google can pull up articles about “the real Jed McKenna” - recommended if you want a candid picture of this character and/or author or some drama.
If you don’t know who he is, you can probably pass this up. But if you can’t escape the McKenna name, this book is a primer.
I've now read 5 of Jed's 6 books (all except "Play"). I am very, very grateful to have found them. This is to say the least.
The most effective component of this material, specifically as it is directed towards dispelling wrong-knowing, is that it in no way appeases, edifies, supports, buttresses, or feeds (etc.) that part of us that is the core of our delusion. In other words, it is in no way afraid of telling us what we don't want to hear. Simple. Despite all its various qualities from a literary standpoint, the main feature of these works is that they shoot absolutely straight, aiming at the very heart of our falseness with intent to kill.
In my experience, this is very uncommon among the many books I have encountered of this genre, so to speak. A general (albeit sometimes rather vague) framework of what "enlightenment" or "awakening" is can be found in many places, but what has been very difficult for me to find is a direct, clear, specific, simple-but-undeniable unveiling of the implications of infinite/eternal consciousness/mind and "no-self". The "Void" as it is sometimes called. To put it another way, most other works I have encountered focus almost exclusively on the "positive" aspects of this transformation, while very seldom clearly explaining what is perceived as "negative" from the segregated standpoint.
Without encountering an honest assessment of just what it means to awaken to the infinite, or in other words without encountering a clear picture of what it is I'm NOT wanting to see about it, I was not able to take that first/final step into the next paradigm. The "pros" of awakening enticed me like probably they do many others, but without directly facing the "cons", I couldn't progress. It was like, after years of attacking the literature on the subject, I still missed the profoundly simple Truth that was always right in front of me but just under my nose because I was always too busy looking off at the mirage ahead. I had to really see what I'd lose (which is that which I never truly had anyway) before clarity could occur. Jed's books have helped me tremendously to this end.
So indeed, a lot of clarity here. We get the good, the bad, and ugly, I might say. The full picture. Specifically in Spiritual Warfare, we see an uncompromising call to see Truth as It Is, not as we otherwise think we want it to be. We see what it takes, what we are up against, and most importantly, that we can escape delusion if that is truly what we commit ourselves to. In the final analysis, we may not actually have any choice in this matter, as the author makes clear, but in the meantime we can steadily clarify our vision and adjust to the light of a higher mode of functioning and awareness. We can become adults. It's not easy, it's not free, but it is simple and attainable. We just have to open our eyes. These books have greatly helped me to do so, and from my perspective, I'm sure they could help others to do the same. Highly recommended.
McKenna is a very gifted and creative writer who is not afraid to ask tough questions and peel back the mask society wears. In essence, McKenna is willing to blow up the place to get to the truth about this crazy human existence. With humor and introspection he communicates to an audience skeptical and tired of the world’s spiritual and religious charades.
However, in spite of his vast literary and spiritual knowledge, McKenna's conclusions about human existence only leave us in a cold, dark and lonely place. McKenna might have found some truth and liberation studying up on various spiritual traditions and reading the American transcendental writers, but with his cherry-picked ideas he’s only placed himself in a very depressing and miserable position called 'the dreaded void'.
McKenna attempts to describe the end of the spiritual path as a lifeless, dead planet. He uses what he calls "spiritual-autolysis" to help arrive at the logic of this truth. The idea is to use journal writing as a means to keep digging and throwing out your demons until you find the key—the essence or truth of everything. This practice is helpful when trying to get through your own personal baggage, but due to our own biases, opinion and beliefs, not so helpful to gaining an impersonal understanding of how life works. It’s important to investigate matters, but don’t think you can arrive at the truth by yourself. Ignorance is hard-wired and the intellect is incapable of seeing what it’s blind to. Without the proper teaching, a practice like self-autolysis only leads to dead-ends, a rehashing of what’s already known, or worse, more beliefs about who—not what—you are. When the seeker finally hits the wall of ignorance, they will just begin to recycle their already known insights or erroneous notions.
McKenna also suggests enlightenment is an experience that requires you to have a total nervous breakdown and turn your life upside down (although, both are possible as a result). However, enlightenment isn’t about trying to make your head explode and it’s not anything you can acquire. It's simply realizing and actualizing the right knowledge (no enlightenment experience needed). Waiting for the right “spiritual" experience to set you free is like waiting to win the lottery.
So enjoy the fictional character of Jed McKenna, the non-guru, for his creative expression and keen observations, but take it all with a grain of salt. And if you find you're unsatisfied and still seeking after reading Jed, don’t worry. Jed isn’t the last stop on your journey, just a little spiritual entertainment along the way.
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