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The Search Is Over

Stake Life Upon Truth

IN THE TWENTY-FIVE YEARS that we've been publishing Jed’s books, they have achieved the status of underground classics. They have sold millions of copies in more than eighty countries, and been translated by publishers in Europe, South America and Asia. And, as a look at some of the feedback on this site will show, they have found a very special place in readers’ hearts.

Yes, Jed’s books are a joy to read. They’re full of charm and humor, memorable characters and delightful dialogues. But they’re also full of something seldom found in “spiritual” books; a stark and unyielding challenge to the reader. In the end, these books are about one thing, moving beyond the ego, and that’s a territory many wish to leave unexplored.

Jed’s books are not all sweetness and light, and they’re not for everyone.

The tagline of Wisefool Press is “The Search Is Over”. We have good reason for saying that. Some readers have called these the last spiritual books anyone will ever need, and there’s good reason for saying that too. Jed McKenna’s books are required reading for anyone who is not afraid to go where honest inquiry leads, and no one who is serious about their spirituality can afford not to read them.

The bottom line is that spirituality has a bottom line, and Jed shows us right where it is.

-Wisefool Press

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Jed's Trilogy of Trilogies

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Praise for Jed McKenna

"Jed shows us our plight with humor and unparalleled honesty. Thank you so much!"
B. Nagle
"Heretical, provocative, disturbing, and monumentally paradoxical. Highly recommended for the fearless few."
J. KatzNonduality.com
"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."
T. Touber, Ode Magazine
"Author Jed McKenna may be one of the few truly enlightened individuals on this planet."
S. RoeAllbook Reviews
"In spite of his laid-back, nice-guy demeanor, McKenna is uncompromising."
D.L. Trunk
"It takes a true master to take a topic that has been studied since humans could communicate and describe it in simplicity."
H. Froeschl BookReview.com
"I have given many copies of Damnedest to friends.
This book changed my life."
N. Prescott
"I have no more questions, I am done.
Please extend my gratitude to Mr. McKenna."
A.M., Ontario
"I say an eternal thank you for The Trilogy. The books continue to challenge my mind and life. I ordered my 4th complete set. Nothing compares to this writing."
JH, MN
“Jed McKenna is an American original.”
Lama Surya Das
“Absolutely marvelous, splendid, perfect book!”
Shri Acharya
“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.”
Satyam NadeenFrom Onions To Pearls
“Thank you for the books, I’ve been waiting all my life for them.”
C. Vankeith
“Jed McKenna’s books are so compelling I can hardly put them down!”
Ray NapolitanoInner Directions Foundation
“These books have profoundly changed my life.”
C. Jensen
“Jed’s books have turned my entire understanding of life, enlightenment, spirituality and everything upside down. I want more!”
M. Bhagat
“Clearly a modern masterpiece that may be the only spiritual book you will ever need.”
D. Shamanik
“In this book lies the truth of the world.”
Richard Ritsudo MorrisseyZen Buddhist Priest
“These books are precious gifts to humanity.”
E. De Vries
“I can think of no other author I’d recommend more highly.”
M.R. Fleming

The Enlightenment Trilogy

Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing

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 accessible a manner.

A masterpiece of illuminative writing, Spiritual Enlightenment is mandatory reading for anyone following a spiritual path. Part exposé and part how-to manual, this is the first book to explain why failure seems to be the rule in the search for enlightenment — and how the rule can be broken.

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Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment

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.

  Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged,
  Missing me one place, search another,
  I stop somewhere, waiting for you.
    -Walt Whitman

Jed McKenna’s books aren’t for everyone. They’re for people who are tired of the spiritual merry-go-round and ready to confront the unadorned reality of the awakening process. If you like your teachers with all the spiritual trimmings and trappings, Jed may not be right for you, but when you’re ready to jump off the merry-go-round and begin your journey, Jed McKenna is the guy you want to see standing there — waiting for you.

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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.

  Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

    -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.

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The Dreamstate Trilogy

Jed McKenna’s Theory of Everything

The Enlightened Perspective

We are programmed from birth to believe that our existence is an unsolvable riddle, but if we make an honest effort, 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 were all 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

Those interested in striking through the mask will welcome a theory of everything that makes sense, doesn’t rely on religious or scientific chicanery, and can be easily understood. And those familiar with Jed McKenna and the Enlightenment Trilogy will know that it’s not just a theory.

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Dreamstate: A Conspiracy Theory

If life is but a dream, to what do we awake?

The central premise of Dreamstate: A Conspiracy Theory, 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.

That’s gotta be weird, but the truth is that you’re asleep in a barren wasteland dreaming that you’re not, so that’s where waking up gets you.

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Play: A Play by Jed McKenna

It is what it is, they say, but is it?

Jed McKenna has always been more about destroying questions than answering them, so it’s no surprise that Play is more Q than A.

In fact, it might be viewed as a progression through the stages of self-inquiry, each of the seven vignettes taking us a bit further along on the inward journey, the early vignettes asking the questions, and the latter ones looking at those who do ask; showing us, promising us, warning us, where honest and relentless inquiry really lead.

But who, Jed has asked, really wants to go where this road really leads? On this journey, who you are changes with every step, and it’s all about taking the next step. In the end, Play is what it is. Or is it? Maybe it’s the journey of the examined life, or maybe it’s just a playful little play. Ultimately, of course, Play, like life, like anything, is whatever it is to you.

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The Jed Talks Trilogy

Jed Talks #1: Essays, Teachings, Rants & Frivolous Frivolity

Includes Starship Gita: The Song of the Borg, a play in 6 acts.

Contents: 

  1. Toe Jam
  2. Satsang with Jed
  3. Gita I: The Bridge
  4. Insane Little Monkeys
  5. The Liberating Angel
  6. Gita II: Ten Forward
  7. What Is Enlightenment?
  8. The Champions of Delusion
  9. Gita III: The Holodeck
  10. Yolanda Periwinkle
  11. The Spiritual Anarchist
  12. Gita IV: The Borg
  13. The Second Coming
  14. Goldilocks Universe
  15. Gita V: The Song of the Borg
  16. The Magic Part
  17. The Cross of the Moment
  18. Gita VI: Enlightenment
  19. The Caneless Cane

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Jed Talks #2: Away from the Things of Man

Includes Deception: Your Mind is the Scene of the Crime, a play in 5 acts.

Contents: 

1. The Power of Devotion
2. Genuine Learning
3. Deception I: Opium Den
4. Marichelle 4: Maps of Ideas
5. A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
6. Unlearn Everything
7. Deception II: Loading Program
8. Diamond Bullets
9. The Old Pond Road
10. Marichelle 5: The I-Part
11. The Tyranny of Delusion
12. The Allopathic Mechanic
13. Deception III: Dream Factory
14. A Life of Constant Duplicity
15. Is Pubasyl Right for You?
16. In the Land of the Slow-Cooked Frog
17. Deception IV: The Help Wizard
18. Marichelle 6: Go Hack Yourself
19. Take me to the volcano!
20. A Long Time on a Crooked Road
21. Deception V: Asshole, Kansas
22. Away from the Things of Man

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Jed Talks #3: The Tao of the Large-Breasted Goddess with the Shapely Behind

Includes The Tao of the Large-Breasted Goddess with the Shapely Behind, a play in 6 acts.

Contents: 

1. I Am an Apple Tree
2. Over the Moon
3. Goddess I: The Tao That Can Be Told
4. I Call It Consciousness
5. Marichelle 7: A Pretty Big Problem
6. Goddess II: Darkness Within Darkness
7. Spiritual DNA
8. Adult Utopia
9. Goddess III: Soft & Yielding
10. Marichelle 8: Trouble Is Fine
11. The Folly of Human Conceits
12. The Tao of Self-Annihilation
13. Goddess IV: Yield and Overcome
14. Total Perspective Vortex
15. Medifuckintation
16. Goddess V: The Eternal Tao
17. Marichelle 9: Broken Compass
18. Belated Rebirth Matrices
19. Goddess VI: The Mother of All Things
20. The Tao of Pain
21. Mystery Prize

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