Satyam Nadeen

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 and
From Seekers to Finders

Lama Surya Das

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

Alan Cohen

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

Meditation Society
of America

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

Jim Dreaver

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

Valerie Vener

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

Brad Blanton

John Bradshaw said once that if you took a group of co-dependent people down a hallway and showed them two doors, one labeled 'Heaven' and the other labeled 'Conversation about Heaven' they would all go through the 'Conversation' door. Jed McKenna went on through the door marked 'Heaven' instead of just wanting to talk about it. Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing, is evocative of a present tense state of being, like a still life painting or a good poem, but like nothing so much as prose poetry. This is what is in this book. It comes from Jed McKenna's stories and simple honesty, which he has attained in spite of having a critical mind. This is no small accomplishment.

He is enlightened. He evokes enlightenment. He doesn't just talk about it. This of course, makes him a Radical of the worst kind, who steps on everyone's feet.

Go ahead and read this and see what it does to you.

Brad Blanton, Ph.D., author
Radical Honesty
Practicing Radical Honesty

Chuck Hillig

Jed McKenna's irreverent brand of home-grown enlightenment points to the bottom-line Truth for those who have the inner courage to look.

This book is a humorous, readable and down-to-earth invitation to step off the spiritual treadmill and to simply BE who you already are. I thoroughly enjoyed reading every page. Highly recommended.

Chuck Hillig, author,
Enlightenment for Beginners
The Way IT Is

Kitabu Turner

Jed is not your garden variety spiritual teacher, but his ability to dispense Dharma while playing a Lara Croft video game, and his colloquial approach to teaching may be just what American readers need to inspire them to take the greatest journey of all, the path to No-Self.

This book will jar you, and that is good. ...read the rest.

V. Kitabu Turner/Roshi, author
Soul Sword: The Way and Mind of a Zen Warrior
American Vishwa Dharma Zen Mission

Noumenon Journal

A radical departure from the mythology of enlightenment.

In my view, the authenticity of McKenna's enlightenment is in the fact that he is able to talk about himself and his responses to others in much the same way as caterpillars do, but all the while subtly showing that it is a fiction engaging with other fictions. In this there is no sense of superiority, of spiritual one-upmanship, just plain Truth if you're willing to see. ...read the rest.

Kriben Pillay, D.Phil
Editor, The Noumenon Journal

Nonduality Salon

This is a powerful book. What makes it powerful is how Jed comes to life. He introduces the reader to the elements of his day-to-day life. His home, the rooms, how he feels about people, how people react to him. There's a quality of straight-forwardness that allows the reader to see Jed as both a well-defined person and as a person standing alone, separate from those attached to the ego.

As Jed comes to life in the book, and as he describes relationships with students, the reader enters a relationship with him. If you read this book on a park bench, you might find Jed has already been sitting there for a long, long time.

If you allow him, a thread will be pulled. An unraveling will begin. ...read the rest.

Jerry Katz, founder
Nonduality Salon

Shri Acharyaji

This splendid book focuses on the crucial distinction between seeking and finding—what is referred in tantra as grabbing the coiled snake of Kundalini by its tail. It is irreverent—as it should be. Why would anyone revere religious structures that became strictures? And it is full of humor—as it should be—because it is the only way to deal with our ridiculous attachment to seeking instead of finding what is in front of our own nose.

Absolutely marvelous, splendid, perfect book! May it destroy the ignorance of seeking and plunge the world into real finding, which is NOW!

Acharyaji Anatole, founder
Abhidhyan Yoga Institute

Acharya

In a straightforward style reminiscent of the spiritual rebel's anti-guru, U.G. Krishnamurti, Jed McKenna sharply pokes holes in the pious renderings that pass themselves off these days as "enlightenment."

As McKenna has boiled it down, the quest, pursued by so many in unfortunate breathlessness and flakiness, is not to become noble and righteous, but to get real. The blunt message will be helpful to all those who do not want to waste their time guru-hopping, sweeping ashram floors for 40 years, or contemplating the sound of one hand clapping. ...read the rest.

Acharya, author
The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold
Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled

Joan Tollifson

I loved Jed's book. I stayed up past midnight reading it. I recommend it because it goes to the root. It demands everything, it relentlessly urges you further, and best of all, if you fall into distracting yourself by trying to make something out of Jed, there's truly nobody there! You are left with the simple question: what is true?

For those who are ready to give up everything and find nothing, this unique and unconventional book is a multi-layered journey behind the veils, pointing you straight into the void.

Joan Tollifson, author
Bare-Bones Meditation:
Waking Up from the Story of My Life

Isaac Shapiro

A profound, witty, irreverant, insightful invitation to know for yourself the timeless wisdom.

Isaac Shapiro, author
It Happens By Itself
Outbreak of Peace

Roger Wells

I had a very complex reaction to Jed's book. In fact, my reaction was itself a fascinating and rewarding journey, for which I have him to thank. It is rare that a book has this kind of reward.

For me, what was important was not in the form of the book, but in its ongoing effect. Put simply, Jed is a wonderful mischief-maker. He doesn't overtly lead, or teach, so much as create wonderfully resonant questions – essential questions that cause insight to occur. And that in itself is the gift of a great teacher.

Roger Wells, author
Happy to Burn
Love & Imagination

John Kremer

I loved it. I will read it again and again just for the fun of it. Insightful, bullying, delightful, and just fun. A magic book without the sleight of hand.

John Kremer, author
Celebrate Today