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Spiritual Warfare
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’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.
Readers respond to
Book Three:
Spiritual Warfare
"Great book! Perfect way to wrap up
the trilogy."
Priscila Gagliardi
"An incredible follow-up to Damnedest
and Incorrect."
Mark Hall
"These three books are precious gifts
to Humanity."
Evert de Vries
"This is the most powerful book
of the three. These books have profoundly changed my life."
Curtis Jensen
"WOW! A masterpiece! Very disturbing.
Someone had to say it, and I'm glad it was Jed McKenna.
I know of no one who has written about enlightenment in
a more enlightened way."
Tijn Touber
Ode Magazine
"I found Spiritual Warfare a beautiful,
wonderful, breathtaking book. Apart from the truth it contains,
it is admirably well structured. What a beautiful story,
and how cleverly put together. What I also liked immensely
were the quotes from other books. How appropriate, how 'enlightening'!
What a joy to read!"
Maggy Wishaupt
"An Absolute Ego Holocaust!! This
is the best of the trilogy. It addresses where most of us
are — neck deep in delusion. I've been 'searching'
for 12 years after something unknown to me until reading
Spiritual Warfare. How sad that most of us will never get
real about waking up. Jed shows us our plight with humor
and unparalleled honesty. Thank you so much!"
Bjorn Nagle
"Spiritual Warfare is one of the
most dangerous books ever written. Take what is said in
these pages seriously, and you will find yourself examining
the only topic in this universe that truly matters. The
author's prose is stronger than ever, and the humor from
his earlier books remains in tact. However, do not underestimate
or brush aside the gravity of what is discussed and revealed
in this final installment of the Enlightenment Trilogy,
whether you agree with some, all, or even none what is said
within these pages.
Truth cannot be put into words. Yet the miracle
of this volume in particular is how closely Jed McKenna
has come to giving even 'the tourists' a bird's eye view
of living the virtually undiscussable quandary of Truth-Realization,
as well as the death/rebirth trauma and triumph that leads
to the integrated state he calls Human Adulthood. When it
comes to the direct revelation of what is Real, brace for
impact. The nuclear blast on the cover of Spiritual Warfare
is NOT an analogy. Proceed at your own risk."
David Scoma, Ph.D.
"Four years ago I was a joyful
granolahead, immersed in my holistic practice, seeing clients
for sessions on feng shui, meditation, being quoted in newspapers,
giving lectures and feeling very Spiritual. Then, out of
the ether, an invisible bomb went off in my life. When the
smoke cleared I'd lost mate, friends, home, and career.
I ended up on a mountain in Virginia, and finding no real
wisdom there, decided to go back to school and get a master's
degree in public health.
This, of course, is where the real filleting
took place. This is where, sandwiched between the rubble
of my former life and the fortress of science, I read Jed's
first book. And then the second.
Do you know this filleting? When all that
you believe is You is simply no longer You, yet no substitute
You shows up to take it's place, leaving this being that
used to be You flopping around like a dying fish in the
living that is this world? Where you alternate between the
most profound anguish you've ever known and a rage so intense
it's like you've swallowed a barbed fireball that is now
lodged in your chest? Where, having woken up to the pointlessness
of it all, you find that you can no longer meditate or workout
or do anything that even remotely resembled "a practice"?
Where you get that years and years and years of Spiritual
Growth were a lie, a farce, a fleecing? When you finally,
genuinely get that there will be no soulmate, no best friend,
no home, no stellar career.
I want to tell people: it will be really,
really bad. Very bad. Truly awful. You will be flayed alive,
and it will be you as both flayee and flayer, and once you
start, you will be powerless to stop. Everything that you
have worked so hard to build in your life will come crashing
down. You will enter into that land of madness you've fought
off for so long. You will have no one to turn to. There
will be no advice. And there will moments that the hilariousness
of it all hits, and you're laughing so hard tears roll down
your face. And on the other side lies tremendous freedom.
Because when everything is gone, it all becomes clear: what's
real, what's not. No, there will be no soulmate, no best
friend, no cash, no Becoming The Grand PooBah of anything
in this world. You get that at any moment, you could be
homeless, all of your money/assets/worldly goods go 'poof',
or fall down the stairs and break your fool head. And you're
okay with that.
Personally, I'm not fully awake yet. There
are still things here that have to burn. And I seriously
doubt that I've arrived at the Adulthood Jed writes about
in Spiritual Warfare. But if I have anyone in this world
who knows me, knows where I've been, where I'm going, it's
his books, because of course, there is no him, there is
no Jed. Which really, when you think about it, is terrifically
brilliant. It seems that the greatest trap these days is
the one of Spiritual Teacher. So many souls getting lost
along this way, stopping in at the ashram to order up a
little wisdom and then finding that you can never get full,
never really get fed, and so there you stay, and your life
is lost. With Jed, because there is no Jed, there is no
place to put the power, the juice, the fire except into
yourself. And so if you keep showing up, keep turning the
questions back inside of yourself, the enlightenment you
long for will start a blaze. And once you're on fire, even
holy water won't put you out.
Isn't that marvelous?
Katherine Turner
"How could I possibly offer feedback
on a book like this???!!! It is ALL IN THERE!! Congratulations
Jed and thank you. I am grateful to be able to buy an advanced
copy and really would have paid any price!!! THANK YOU!!"
Gabrielle Conn
"In this book lies the truth of
the world."
Richard Ritsudo Morrissey
Zen Buddhist Priest
"I LOVE the way you write. You
have such a good sense of humor! I laugh out loud reading
your books. The adventurous way you have with things is
very refreshing. What a fun person you are!"
Sandy Schwalm
"You are a sane voice in a crazy
world.... Please write another book, it doesn't even have
to be a Spiritual book. I love your sense of humour, you
had me laughing out loud many times."
Kim Van Rossum
"I can't thank you enough for
all three of Jed McKenna's books, but especially for his
latest, Spiritual Warfare.
Having pursued money and success for the first
37 years of my life, and spirituality for the last 16 years,
I found myself in a very strange place of being happy to
be alive and not interested in any pursuit. For years it
seemed as if I was living in hell, losing everything that
mattered to me: husband, money, job, friends, and finally,
last year, spiritual teacher and spiritual community.
Then, all of a sudden I found myself on the other side of
the shore. I felt no need to pursue anything, and everything
I wanted — the perfect job, the perfect home, etc —
showed up almost as soon as I thought about it. I found
myself truly happy for the first time. Life was a game,
and I could have everything I really wanted because I knew
the rules! All the melodrama was gone or quickly disappearing,
as friends who now seemed like insane children started leaving
my life.
I didn't know what I had become. During my spiritual search
I had read hundreds of books, but none described the stage
that I was at. I knew that I wasn't enlightened, as I still
thought of myself as separate. But I wasn't like most of
the people around me either, whiny children not taking responsibility
for their lives or their choices. I felt clear and awake.
I prayed for understanding, and Mr. McKenna's books were
the answer to my prayer. I found out that I was a Human
Adult! His description of this state and the bloodbath that
it takes to get here, is absolutely accurate. Human Adulthood
is not for the faint of heart, but it's worth it.
I also know that I am not done, and Mr. McKenna shows me
where I am heading. From his books I've gotten a clear picture
of what it is to be enlightened, and I know that is my final
destination — not because enlightenment sounds like
fun, but because anything that isn't true or real makes
me nauseous.
I am so grateful for the confirmation that these books are
offering, and for the roadmap that they are showing of the
only true path Home.
Thank you.
Despina Gurlides
"Heretical, provocative, disturbing,
and monumentally paradoxical. Highly recommended for the
fearless few."
Jerry Katz, Nonduality.com; Editor,
One: Essential Writings on Nonduality
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