This Blog is intended to be a place where discussion can take place about the ideas contained in the “Jed McKenna” books, and how those ideas correlate to traditional ideas about spirituality. Hopefully, we may all learn something from each other in the process. It also turns out that it is often a pleasure to connect with people who share a similar worldview and experiences. This Blog is not authored by Jed nor does it have any connection to said one.
To begin, please open one of the pages which interests you from the Navigation Bar above, and feel free to make a COMMENT under that entry. To date, there are Pages(Posts) under these 8 subject titles:
- Misplaced Ultimacy ~ And the Paradox of Backward Progress
- Jedism – the Teachings of one “Jed Mckenna”
- The Realization of Jed Mckenna
- Non-Dualist Fundamentalism
- Jed McKenna versus Free Will
- Post-Spirituality, the New Limbo Where Souls Go When God Dies
- Benighted, Illumined, Awake or Enlightened
- The Enlightenment Survey – After 2 Years, Have You Awoken Yet?
Yes, we all understand that “Jed Mckenna” is a fictional character or alter-ego, perhaps in the same way that “Don Juan” of the Carlos Castaneda books may have been, but that doesn’t diminish the impact that his ideas, criticisms, images and intuitions have had on many people.
You may make public Comments on any on the individual subject pages. If you would like to make general comments or suggestions about this Blog you may do so by emailing me at
Disclaimer: It seems at this time that it may be necessary to restate my role in maintaining this Blog about JM. It is not my objective to “speak the Truth”, I will leave that impossible task to the ‘Greats’ in the field. I will be speaking ‘about’ the Truth.
I am quite certain that no one actually can speak the Truth, but thankfully a few have succeeded in helping others with their words, in spite of that fact. I comment on JM not because I am smarter than him but because any attempt, from Lao Tzu to Ramana Maharshi to Jed, is bound by the limitations of logic and language to overemphasize some truth and ignore others in order to ‘make their case’ to an audience. My rather modest role is simply point out those limitations. So please don’t write me with Comments or emails telling me that I am a Philistine or a Pretender or whatever other New Age or Spiritual or Transcendental sin you may believe I have committed. I am not interested and will not respond.
Thanks,
Brian
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P.S. Comment or entries by me, Brian, unfortunately will come in under the name “jedmckenna”. WordPress requires the weblog administrator to log-in and comment using the blogs title, which is, of course: “jedmckenna”.
Newest reader “Comments’ now appear at the very end of a page, rather than at the top.
The Jed McKenna Books from Wisefool Press: http://wisefoolpress.com/
1- Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing
2- Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment
3- Spiritual Warfare
4- Jed McKenna’s Notebook