Spiritual Warfare: Book Three of The Enlightenment Trilogy Author: Jed McKenna | Language: English | ISBN:
098018486X | Format: PDF
Spiritual Warfare: Book Three of The Enlightenment Trilogy Description
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. Spiritual Warfare issues a damning and irrefutable indictment of its own audience and genre, putting spirituality and religion themselves on trial. Spiritual Warfare is a sharp-edged book for those who want to experience a direct and authentic spirituality.
- Paperback: 440 pages
- Publisher: Wisefool Press (October 2, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 098018486X
- ISBN-13: 978-0980184860
- Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I don't usually write reviews unless I feel very moved that a book clearly illustrates some point - a point the author generally doesn't intend to make. I think this book, as all of the trilogy, does that in a very five star way. It isn't the faux-storytelling, I understand why the author is doing that. It frames a narrative used as example. It isn't even the underlying points of truth the author is trying to illustrate. The five star quality is something I refer to as "sucking your own exhaust"...being so immersed in your views that you don't see what really is, even though you think it's all quite clear because you've walled yourself off thinking that you're done done. Point one: there is no such thing as "done done".
There is a point in the book where the author (I will just use "the author" because we don't really know who he/she is) says "all that is, is good". He's talking about perfect intelligence and the fact that whatever happens is the best possible thing that could happen. To anyone who knows and is paying attention, these thoughts are anathema. The author just did what he's railing against in a lot of this installment: the non-serious syrupy New Age crapola where everything is light, beauty, and peace. He just coated the truth with it to make you feel better about it. Because the truth is much more simple: everything that is, is. Full stop. Nothing more. End of discussion. There is no good, there is no best outcome, there is nothing but what is. Your human failure to grasp what that means is the issue, not what is. Your very human quality of wanting to believe something is for the best is over-riding the truth that the universe is unconcerned with your interpretation of good and bad. It's beyond that. And so is anyone who truly understands.
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