If you could only read only one book about Spiritual Enlightenment, I'd recommend Jed McKenna's Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnest Thing. Jed expresses the nature of enlightenment with stark truth and gentle humor, while cutting through the b.s. His second book Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment takes us further into his world bringing fresh insights into perspective about long held beliefs. Interwoven into Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment, Jed dissects a classic novel and uncovers the truth of it's spiritual lesson in a most spell-binding way.

These books were hard to put down! ~Harusami

Spiritual Enlightenment:
The Damnedest Thing

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.

Spiritual Enlightenment follows Jed through several days and nights in his "accidental ashram" as he answers in simple yet illuminating language the questions and concerns of his spiritually diverse students. Vampires and zombies; airborne adventure; Maya, Goddess of Delusion; and Lara Croft all find their way seamlessly into these pages. The book also contains carefully selected quotations and poems from the world's great masters, as well as original poems by the author.

Says Jed:

The truth is that enlightenment is neither remote nor unattainable. It is closer than your skin and more immediate than your next breath. If we wonder why so few seem able to find that which can never be lost, we might recall the child who was looking in the light for a coin he dropped in the dark because "the light is better over here." Mankind has spent ages looking in the light for a coin that awaits us not in light and not in dark, but beyond all opposites.

That is the message of this book: Spiritual enlightenment, pure and simple.

Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment

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.

What People Are Saying... Jed McKenna's description of life after enlightenment is so good that 99.9% of his readers might not understand how truly profound it really is. The problem is that book readers are seekers, which means that they are caterpillars and can't relate to the vocabulary of a butterfly. However they will enjoy the simplicity of his descriptions and delight in his analogies. This is the least mystical book about enlightenment imaginable and that is its greatest feat. Satyam Nadeen, author From Onions to Pearls From Seekers to Finders Jed McKenna is an American original, and his delightful Spiritual Enlightenment is just what is needed to wake us up from slumber. This book demystifies the subject of enlightenment, and brings it home to us—back to earth, back to who and what we are. This teacher touches my heart and tickles my funnybone, a delectable combination. I recommend it highly. Lama Surya Das, author Awakening the Buddha Within Spiritual Enlightenment is starkly provocative and uniquely insightful. This book cuts like a knife through many detours along the spiritual journey. Unorthodox, brash, stimulating, and sure to make you think about where truth lives. My Dinner with Andre meets Caddyshack. Alan Cohen, author I Had It All the Time and Why Your Life Sucks and What You Can Do About It Absolutely honest and fearless, Jed demystifies the most mystical experience possible – Enlightenment – in a humble, humorous, and yet deeply profound, way. Using references to video games and movies as easily and effectively as citing Plato and Buddha, he brings the heaviest topics lightly down to earth. ...read the rest. Bob Rose, President Meditation Society of America The Sufis say that the mark of a true teacher is that he delivers the goods. Jed McKenna delivers. This book crackles with wit, wisdom, and deep insight into the true nature of reality. For those already awake, or well on the way, it is a fun read, a blast in fact. For those who are still seeking, it will shatter some of the precious illusions they hold about spirituality and enlightenment, and bring them at least one step closer to freedom. Jim Dreaver, author The Way of Harmony I can't believe it, but I loved this book! Prior to my awakening, I read relatively little spiritual literature, and now, I read much less than that. Usually, I find it boring, bliss-to-be-found-in-the-future bullshit. This book is refreshingly different. With an awesome sense of humor, Jed gives a rare, honest account of Real Awakening, and the life of an enlightened spiritual teacher. Valerie Vener The Awakening West

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