Jed Mckenna - Spiritual Enlightenment the Damndest Thing

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this book really inspired me. i think everyone 'on the path' should

read it because it offers some very very mindblowing insights about

spirituality and enlightenment in general. whoever is interested in

it, shoot me an email. i will send you the ebook.

 

some quotes:

 

" Here's a simple test. If it's soothing or comforting, if it makes you

feel warm and fuzzy; if it's about getting into pleasant emotional or

mental states; if it's about peace, love, tranquility, silence or

bliss; if it's about a brighter future or a better tomorrow; if it

makes you feel good about yourself or boosts your self-esteem, tells

you you're okay, tells you everything's just fine the way it is; if it

offers to improve, benefit or elevate you, or if it suggests that

someone else is better or above you; if it's about belief or faith or

worship; if it raises or alters consciousness; if it combats stress or

deepens relaxation, or if it's therapeutic or healing, or if it

promises happiness or relief from unhappiness, if it's about any of

these or similar things, then it's not about waking up. Then it's

about living in the dreamstate, not smashing out of it.

On the other hand, if it feels like you're being skinned alive, if it

feels like a prolonged evisceration, if you feel your identity

unraveling, if it twists you up physically and drains your health and

derails your life, if you feel love dying inside you, if it seems like

death would be better, then it's probably the process of awakening.

That, or a helluva case of gas. "

 

" I never thought of waking up as a spiritual pursuit, I just wanted to

get to the truth. Looking back, I can see where I might have used the

word " infinity " in a koan-like manner; kind of a Western version of

mu. Infinity is beautiful; it destroys everything it touches. It

annihilates all concepts, all beliefs, all sense of self. No teacher,

teaching, book or practice could ever be as effective as simply

allowing the thought of infinity to slowly devour you.

 

If you wish to make this transition in your own life—to awaken within

the dream, to shuffle off the egoic coil—my suggestion would be that

you combine Spiritual Autolysis with fervent prayer, using each to

advance the other. Use the writing to locate and illuminate your

falseness and thereby develop a healthy self-contempt. The strength of

that emotion will then empower your prayer, which should be for the

courage and ability to locate and illuminate your falseness, and so

on. "