Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment

Book Two of The Enlightenment Trilogy

By Jed McKenna

Do not think the Buddhas are other than you.

Dogen

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 and who’s not, how to get there and how to get somewhere better.

Delightful surprises abound, including the dramatic unveiling of perhaps the greatest spiritual masterpiece of all time — long hidden in plain view and well known to all. Whitman, Melville, Thoreau, Mark Twain and U.G. Krishnamurti all appear, and a student from the first book returns to share her Spiritual Autolysis journals. Also surprising are the author’s gentle efforts to guide the reader away from enlightenment toward a more desirable and accessible state.

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.

Dedicated to

Herman Melville

Contents

Letter to Jed

Loomings
California Dreaming
Dicking Around
Fish Story
Spiritual Autolysis
No Oasis Situated Yonder
Shadow Dwellers
The Damnedest Thing
Radical Sanity
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
Marquis de Sade
The American Way
Curtis on the Rocks
There Is No Other
The Break-Out Archetype
Irreconcilable Differences
Gita Life
Why Arjuna Fell
I Will Dismember My Dismemberer
Why Arjuna Got Back Up
The First Step
Destroy the Enclosing Thing
Let What Will Befall
Entertaining Negativity
The Little Bastard
Jolly Punches
The Mind of Absolute Trust
Working-Class Heroes
The Bird’s Nest
Distrust All Honest Fellows
Man, Deprogram Thyself
To Live Deliberately
The Symphony
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Montreal
Epilogue

Bonus

Jed McKenna Interview
Zen and the Art of Self-Mutilation
Mannahatta