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If life is but a dream, to what do we awake? The central premise of this book is the admittedly ridiculous but incontrovertibly true assertion that the universe does not exist. This is something you can understand conceptually, like watching a documentary about Antarctica, or experientially, like moving to Antarctica. There's also a related phenomenon where you fall asleep watching the documentary and wake up in the frozen wasteland.

Volume 7 Contents 1. Puzzle Master 2. Riptide 3. Reality Check 4. Phantom Numbers 5. Deus Deceptor 6. A Nobler Race of Men 7. The Curse of the Brainy Class 8. Defeat Is Victory 9. Cancer Inc 10. Lucidity and the Tao 11. Nonduality (does not equal) Spirituality 12. Sagan’s Folly 13. Graduate Redux 14. Practical Mindfulness 15. There Can Be Only One 16. Dharma Dueling with A.I. 17. Seahaven 18. Black Comedy 19. Animated Mannequins 20. Intelligent Awareness 21. Eat When Tired 22. Head on Fire 23. Zen Is Dead 24. Wrong-Ass Mountain 25. Figure the Odds 26. Burning Discontent 27. Nonduality Is ...

Jedvaita subscriber content is now available in ebooks containing 33 Jed McKenna essays each. 1. The Way That Is in You 2. Radical Nonduality 3. The Scream 4. Nondual Ramblings 5. The Matrix Revelations 6. The Play Is the Thing 7. Spiritual Autolysis 8. Your Happy Place 9. Nothing Exists 10. The Spiritual Fairytale 11. The Joy of Not Dying 12. The Madness of Crowds 13. Negative Buoyancy 14. A Pathless Land 15. The Hook-Up Imperative 16. A Simple Life 17. The Parable of the Matrix 18. Warpath (part one) 19. The Joy of Death 20. The Great Equalizer 21. A Happy Sadness 22. The Human Zoo 23. ...

Jedvaita subscriber content is now available in ebooks containing 33 Jed McKenna essays each. 1. Your Creative Output 2. Hellivator 3. Unringing the Bell 4. Game of Veils 5. On Adulthood 6. A Closer of Doors 7. Guilty Until Proven Innocent 8. To Seek and Find 9. The Truth of You 10. On Writing II 11. Dustbunny Overkill 12. The Fable of the Search 13. Hopeless Optimism 14. The Lesser Evil 15. Spiritual Bypassing 16. Practical Wishcraft 17. Zerothink 18. The Hole Problem 19. The Power of Focus 20. Truth vs Reality 21. The Whole Truth 22. The Ignoble Eightfold Path 23. Dark Asylum 24. In ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 you. 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 ...

We are programmed from birth to believe that our existence is an unsolvable riddle, but if we make an honest effort, then we discover that mystery itself is the riddle. Not just what is the big mystery, but why is there any mystery at all? And what if there isn't? What if the Mysterium Tremendum is just an internal belief without any external counterpart? What if the answers to life's biggest questions are simple and obvious, and hidden in plain sight? "If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall?" -Herman Melville If ...

1. The Nondual Practice Myth 2. A Cult of One 3. The Power of Language 4. Warpath: Achilles’ Heel 5. Negative Progress 6. The Illusion of Disorder 7. Who cares about truth? 8. Love & Happiness 9. The First Veil 10. Zen and the Art of Self-Mutilation 11. Dropping Baggage 12. The Spiritual Trilemma 13. The Artifice Guy 14. People I Trust to Lie 15. The Open Road 16. The Razor’s Edge 17. A Major Bummer 18. The Rightness of Wrongness 19. Nonduality 101 20. Zombie Apocalypse 21. Game of Lies 22. The Prime Noodlebaker 23. What I Understand 24. The Parable of the Strata 25. The Greatest Wonder...

Jedvaita subscriber content is now available in ebooks containing 33 Jed McKenna essays each. 1. The Power to Change 2. The Good News Grift 3. Pattern Follows Function 4. The Fates’ Lieutenant 5. The Enemy Within 6. Spiritual Diplomacy 7. The Prism of Self 8. The Road Ahead 9. The Bomb 10. The Way That You Unfold 11. A Very Persistent Illusion 12. On The Dreamstate 13. The Nondual Trinity 14. The Initial Nondual Insight 15. The Power of Not-Ego 16. A Thing Apart 17. On Miracles 18. The Matrix Revisited 19. Reasonable Doubt 20. Mindless Beliefism 21. The Name of the Game 22. The New ...

3 Essays on Nondual Spirituality by Jed McKenna What if enlightenment isn’t comforting, healing, or socially acceptable? What if it’s simply true? In 3 Essays on Nondual Spirituality, Jed McKenna distills the core insights of nondual realization into three sharp, uncompromising explorations of truth, self, and awakening. Stripped of dogma, ritual, and spiritual fantasy, these essays confront the reader with a single relentless question: What is real—and what isn’t? Written in McKenna’s signature voice—clear, provocative, and often unsettling—this collection challenges ...

Jed McKenna is the author of the Enlightenment, Dreamstate and Jed Talks trilogies by WisefoolPress.com, and hundreds of Nonduality articles on Jedvaita.com.

1. The Mayan Trinity 2. Unaccountable 3. Dark Forest 4. The Sisyphean Struggle 5. An Uphill Battle 6. Thinking About Thinking 7. Distrust the Science 8. Burning Down the House 9. Process of Elimination 10. Team Brahman 11. The Crucible 12. Plato’s Condom 13. The Nonduality Trap 14. Where We All Live 15. Warpath (part two) 16. Rational Absurdity 17. Reasonable Doubt Redux 18. Door Number Two 19. Flow & Obstruction 20. Benevolent Demon 21. Friend or Foe 22. Nonduality Is Super Stupid 23. Bouncy Castle 24. The Gum in Our Eyes 25. Not-Two vs All-Is-One Redux 26. Is Everything a Hoax? 27. ...

1. Game Changer 2. A&E Revisited 3. What If Maya Quit? 4. An Awakening Machine 5. People I Know 6. Of Agni Born 7. Not-Two vs All-Is-One III 8. Next-Gen Zen 9. Divine Discontent 10. Song of Myself 11. Mayan Yoga 12. Embrace Your Inner Vulcan 13. Cinéma Vérité 14. Advaitin, Heal Thyself 15. Me On Me 16. Such Is Life 17. Warden Maya’s Escape Club 18. Above the Smokeline 19. Waterline 1: I Marks the Spot 20. Waterline 2: The Hot Zone 21. Lone Wolf 22. The Nonduality Show 23. A Victimless Crime 24. F.U.B.A.R. 25. The Light Side of Dark Emotion 26. Amor Fati 27. Hyper-Silliness 28. Baggage ...

CONTENTS - I Am an Apple Tree - Over the Moon - Goddess I: The Tao That Can Be Told - I Call It Consciousness - Marichelle 7: A Pretty Big Problem - Goddess II: Darkness Within Darkness - Spiritual DNA - Adult Utopia - Goddess III: Soft & Yielding - Marichelle 8: Trouble Is Fine - The Folly of Human Conceits - The Tao of Self-Annihilation - Goddess IV: Yield and Overcome - Total Perspective Vortex - Medifuckintation - Goddess V: The Eternal Tao - Marichelle 9: Broken Compass - Belated Rebirth Matrices - Goddess VI: The Mother of All Things - The Tao of Pain - Mystery Prize

1. Controlled Demolition 2. Song of the Open Road 3. Residual Self-Image 4. Barnyard Dreams 5. Hysterically Insane 6. The Human Cocktail 7. Workaday Spirituality 8. Paying Lipservice 9. Matter Is Consciousness 10. The Ultimate Truth 11. Thinking Makes It So 12. Spiritual Honeytraps 13. Shiny Baubles 14. Teachings vs Thinking 15. The Opposite of Bonkers 16. Point of No Return 17. True Age 18. Letter to Melissa 19. Today You Are You 20. 10 Spiritual Myths 21. A Clean, Well-Lighted Attic 22. Birth of A Heretic 23. Living In Oblivion 24. Paranormal 25. Universal Deceit 26. As Broad As the Sky ...

1. To See or Not to See 1 2. To See or Not to See 2 3. To See or Not to See 3 4. Eternally Yours 5. False Knowledge 6. War Party 7. Vanilla Sky 8. Mayan Palace Motel 9. Razor Redux 10. Working Class Gita 11. Senseless Awareness 12. 13th Floor Redux 13. Trust Factor 14. Purple Rose 15. Killing Buddha 16. A Tricky Ascent 17. B.Y.O.G. 18. Unio Mystica 19. On Wisdom 20. Heaven & Reincarnation 21. Twenty-One Words 22. An Eyelid’s Thickness 23. Now, Voyager 24. Not-Two vs All-Is-One 25. Simulation Games 26. Krishna the Terrible 27. This Is Not a Simulation 28. Setting Free the Angel 29. ...

Jedvaita subscriber content is now available in ebooks containing 33 Jed McKenna essays each. 1. A Walking Shadow 2. Going Nowhere Fast 3. Invisible Walls 4. Palpable Absurdity 5. The Real Big Brother 6. The Ganzfeld Analog 7. Game of Nonduality 8. Angelica Demonica 9. Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit 10. Death of a Dustbunny 11. Am I Happier Than You? 12. Cocreative Dreamstate 13. Speaking of Karma 14. Speaking of Nihilism 15. Speaking of Agnosticism 16. Off the Beaten Path 17. Temple Tantrum 18. Dreamstate Tapestry 19. Awakening Nightmare 20. Think Better 21. Turtles All the Way Up 22. Terminal ...

1. Autotoxemia: A Rant 2. Surrender vs Abdication II 3. Go Hack Yourself 4. Transpersonal Sanity 5. After Life 6. Death By Dying 7. Self-Anointed Gurus 8. Seeing Is Not Believing 9. Morality vs Right-Action 10. Escape from Paradise 11. Stranger in a Strange Land 12. Surrender vs Abdication 13. Universal Falsifier 14. On Jedvaita 15. How’s the View? 16. Under the Influence 17. Shit Don’t Happen 18. Crime & Punishment 19. Groupthink 20. Drama & Stuff 21. City of Gloom 22. Big Red Button 23. Only One Question 24. The Bamboozle 25. Ministry of Education 26. The Herd in a Nutshell 27. I ...

Jedvaita subscriber content is now available in ebooks containing 33 Jed McKenna essays each. 1. No Blue Pill 2. Endless Blizzard 3. Otherborn 4. Self Scrutiny 5. Maya’s Cineplex 6. Advaita Hosiery 7. Truth Will Out 8. On Morality 9. On Function 10. Gloriously Meaningless 11. Write & Pray 12. Moksha-Realization 13. Herd Theology 14. Nothing Is Impossible 15. Easter Egg Hunt 16. Your Diamond Core 17. Herd Programming 18. Global Function 19. Perinatal Territory 20. Quantum 8-Ball 21. What Nonduality Means 22. Food for Thought 23. Children of Men 24. Attachment Theory 25. Caterpillar Dreams ...