Spiritual Warfare [Paperback]

Jed McKenna (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0971435227 | ISBN-13: 978-0971435223 | Publication Date: July 1, 2007

Book Three of Jed McKenna's 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. Spiritual Warfare issues a damning and irrefutable indictment of its own audience and genre, putting spirituality and religion themselves on trial. Spiritual Warfare is a sharp-edged book for those who want to experience a direct and authentic spirituality.

Product Details

• Paperback: 328 pages
• Publisher: Wisefool Press (July 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971435227
• ISBN-13: 978-0971435223
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,011,829 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars end game, September 23, 2009

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Having read all three books and having initial difficulty with the TONE, I have come to feel that as a body of work with progressive evidence of detachment from ego and identity, they are extraordinarily useful. The MP3 books were a better experience than the print versions.
They are hilariously useful as he elucidates what enlightenment is not. Soggy, moony, dreamy, kind, blissful...tantric, Hindi, Buddhist, Zen...nicely read and fashionably accessorized.
And what it is, an increasing distance from believing you are a mind or body, while being viscerally intimate with all of it. Being human, without the usual stagecraft.
A life in which the question "why the hell not?" is increasingly unanswerable.
Like Adyashanti, this guy is a closer. If you are near the end of teachers and teaching, a friend indeed.
E. Dunn

18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's a great book, but I have my reservations., January 24, 2008

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Michael Ashe (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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I read this book several months ago when it first came out. I had previously read the first two books in the trilogy. I enjoyed the first book but the second one was disappointing for me. I would say this one is the best written. It's dramatic, funny, and even touching at times. What a great writer! I would have given it 5 stars but the first chapter was irritating and drawn out to point of becoming boring. It's basically a chase scene that goes into minute detail about every move made. I knew the details of the chase were irrelevant so I just skimmed through it.

There is a lot of great stuff in this book. I love the way he skewers much of the new agey spiritual scene. There is page after page of fresh musings on life and the spiritual path. BUT, this book left a weird taste in my mouth. He definitely sets himself up (or the main character in the book) as an authority on how to become grown-up or self actualized or an adult. I can't remember the main term he uses. But do I really want to listen to the teaching of someone who needs an assistant to travel with because he can't deal with routine interactions with the public? Or how about the fact that he wants nothing more than to live alone with his dog and not have any close relationships with other human beings? If this was a book on geometry, then his personal life wouldn't matter, but he's talking about becoming a mature adult and "experience a direct and authentic spirituality". If he can't really deal with everyday normal stuff, how seriously can I take his mature adulthood?

17 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Am I missing something?, January 17, 2008

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Angela Harding (Salt Lake City, Utah United States) - See all my reviews
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I really liked Jed's first book. While this book has some interesting things to say, I couldn't help but feel, especially toward the end, that the author is writing not from his experience but rather from what he has gleaned from whatever spiritual books he has read. It lacked a certain authencity for me.