The "Reality Explained" Trilogy is the culmination of a thirty-year direct investigation into the fundamental nature of Reality. The study of Reality is a response to one's deep-seated need to understand the mysterious, yet ordered world that we find ourselves inextricably woven into. An exhaustive examination of Reality is not limited to the study of the outward world, but it is also the study of the very space or capacity that the entire world exists in. The study of Reality exists to resolve the paradoxical relationship between 'Mind and matter' or 'God and individuality', or more generally speaking, the 'Absolute and the relative.' Book Three: "Triunistic Model of Reality," is a thorough and exhaustive examination of the actual architecture or design of Reality. This book represents the fruit of my search for Truth. It is also a full extrapolation of the specific Vision that provided the insight that was necessary for my experience of Enlightenment. This last book of the Trilogy is the least personal book as it instead relies on my intuitive life. It is the life that no one sees, yet it encompasses almost all of my experience. Collectively, this Trilogy tells the entire story of our existence, as far as I have been shown. However, this is not by any stretch of the imagination, the end of Mystery. Instead, it is merely the beginning. The beginning of what? That's the question that your life is the answer to.
Is it possible to map the directions to a Void? Is it conceivable that one can point to the abyss? Just maybe, it can be done, and here is how I propose to do it.It starts with the recounting of my personal quest for 'Spiritual Enlightenment, ' which can also serve as a roadmap for any human being who takes the spiritual journey seriously. This story centers on the peak period of my spiritual journey just after returning home from a weeklong meditation retreat at the world renowned 'Monroe Institute.' I had been home less than a week after attending one of their advanced programs when, without warning, I began to have profound Visions while living out my day-to-day life. I could be taking a walk with my wife and daughter or going about my daily routine at work when I would find myself spontaneously thrust into a vastly more expansive perspective that placed my entire world in a wholly new context. These Visions were progressive in nature as they clearly and pointedly demonstrated to me the Grand Design of Reality.Some of these Visions were existentially devastating and some were downright terrifying, as they exposed the true nature of the 'self'. Others were so blissful that they could only be tolerated for brief moments. Ultimately, they coalesced to reveal a model of Reality that is as elegant in its simplicity as it is mind-numbing in its implications. In this book, I outline a play-by-play account of how four of these Visions shaped a new understanding regarding the true architecture of Reality and how this understanding resolves some of our greatest philosophical paradoxes, such as the relationship between mind and matter or God and the world. Given the universal nature of these experiences, there are opportunities throughout the book for you to verify each truth for yourself.I wrote this book to demystify the subject of Enlightenment. There are already many excellent books on the subject of Enlightenment otherwise known as 'Nondual Wisdom.' However, what is missing is a book that chronicles the day-to-day, month-to-month, and year-to-year unfolding of the Self in detail. This book is a very personal account of an incredibly impersonal process, broken down step by step and presented almost in slow motion. The reader is invited on a journey that chronicles each step along the path to Enlightenment. The details of the climactic experience itself and the final understanding that results from undergoing such a radical and permanent shift in perspective is where I intend to lead you.It is also my hope that this book will demonstrate how the experience of Enlightenment is not something mythical - a fable belonging to some other time or place - but an actual shift in perspective that is available right here and now to anyone who is curious enough to explore the true nature of 'being'. I speak to you from the point of view that we all share the human experience and when we explore the depths of our minds we find that the same treasure awaits us all. The fact that I am a husband and father with a full-time career stands as proof that you don't have to choose between a worldly life and Enlightenment.Throughout the book, you are offered a number of opportunities to verify for yourself some of the subject matter as its being discussed. To be true to my story, I rely mostly on my personal journals, which are individually dated and appear in italics, while my current narration appear in normal type. And so it begins ...
This book is a collection of correspondences between Jed McKenna and myself prior to Jed's life as the Invisible Guru. Jed wrote that he considered me a son and I too considered him as a father figure and a mentor as he helped me create what would become the "Reality Explained" Trilogy. What makes this book unique is that these are the first writings of Jed's that the public will see where Jed speaks, not as a spiritual teacher but as a friend and cohort working together on a book about Enlightenment. Discover a different aspect of Jed as he shares his human side as well as his formlessness.
The 'Reality Explained' Trilogy is the culmination of a thirty-year direct investigation into the fundamental nature of Reality. The study of Reality is a response to one's deep-seated need to understand the mysterious, yet ordered world that we find ourselves inextricably woven into. The study of Reality is not limited to the study of the outward world, but it is also the study of the very space or capacity that the entire world exists in. The study of Reality exists to resolve the paradoxical relationship between Mind and matter, God and individuality, Heaven and earth, or generally speaking, the Absolute and the relative. Book Two: "Being, While Knowing You Are Not," is focused on the day-to-day details of what it is like to live in the world while knowing that you are not of it. This book also serves as a cautionary tale for all of the pain, emotional trauma, and otherwise dark feelings that may surface after surrendering yourself to Mystery. Whereas the first book is focused on my pursuit of the truth of our existence, the second book is focused on how this pursuit affected my daily life and my worldly affairs. Collectively, this Trilogy tells the entire story of our existence, as far as I have been shown. However, this is not by any stretch of the imagination, the end of Mystery. Instead, it is merely the beginning. The beginning of what? That's the question that your life is the answer to.
Awakening to our nondual nature is possible without traversing an immense path and without exiting our everyday life. Since having a nondual realization in 2004, the author has studied and practiced many contemplative traditions including Zen, Dzogchen, Mahamudra, Christian Mysticism, Taoism, and Advaita Vedanta. The crucial lesson that was learned is that when we seek nondual awareness through sheer force, that becomes the obstruction to its realization. What this book offers is a way to transform the energy of seeking into direct recognition itself. We'll discover that the ultimate state of being that we've been searching for is always self-existent and present as our own awareness.The key step is for us to be able to immediately and directly wake up to this pure presence, and that is what's revealed in this book.
Have you ever done non-dual inquiry and said to yourself, “I understand it intellectually, but I don’t feel it. It’s not my experience!” If so, The Direct Path, inspired by Sri Atmananda (Krishna Menon), could be for you. This book is the “missing manual” to the Direct Path. For the first time in print, Direct-Path inquiry is presented from beginning to end and beyond, in a user-friendly way. The core of the book is a set of forty experiments designed to help dissolve the most common non-dual sticking points, from simple to subtle. The experiments cover the world, the body, the mind, abstract objects, and witnessing awareness. You are taken step-by-step from the simple perception of a physical object all the way to the collapse of the witness into pure consciousness. Your takeaway is that there’s no experiential doubt that you and all things are awareness, openness, and love. Also included are three tables of contents, illustrations, an index, a section on teaching, and the notion of a “post-nondual realization.” This book can be utilized on its own or as a companion volume to the author’s Standing as Awareness.
Includes Deception: Your Mind is the Scene of the Crime, a play in 5 acts. ContentsThe Power of DevotionGenuine LearningDeception I: Opium DenMarichelle 4: Maps of IdeasA Filmmaker’s ApocalypseUnlearn EverythingDeception II: Loading ProgramDiamond BulletsThe Old Pond RoadMarichelle 5: The I-PartThe Tyranny of DelusionThe Allopathic MechanicDeception III: Dream FactoryA Life of Constant DuplicityIs Pubasyl Right for You?In the Land of the Slow-Cooked FrogDeception IV: The Help WizardMarichelle 6: Go Hack YourselfTake me to the volcano!A Long Time on a Crooked RoadDeception V: Asshole, KansasAway from the Things of Man
In The Path of Spiritual Breakthrough, meditation and awakening teacher Jeff Carreira takes you on a journey through some of the farthest reaches of mystical revelation. For many years Jeff was a devoted spiritual seeker pursuing rigorous extremes of practice. What he experienced was a succession of extraordinary events that gradually left him free of existential doubt and perpetually open to new and higher dimensions of reality. In these pages you will explore the sacred path created by your own profound breakthroughs. You will learn how to illuminate your way forward guided only by the light of your deepest inner revelation. There comes a time on the path when you can no longer follow any preconceived notions or ideas. At this point you must autonomously step out beyond any doctrine or teaching and follow the light of your own heart's longing. In this book, you will find a source of wisdom and insight that gives you the confidence and courage to trust the truth inside yourself and uncover the path of your unique spiritual fulfillment.
A MASTERPIECE of illuminative writing, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing 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. :: Book One of Jed McKenna's Enlightenment Trilogy. Contains Bonus Material.
I Am an Apple TreeOver the MoonGoddess I: The Tao That Can Be ToldI Call It ConsciousnessMarichelle 7: A Pretty Big ProblemGoddess II: Darkness within DarknessSpiritual DNAAdult UtopiaGoddess III: Soft & YieldingMarichelle 8: Trouble Is FineThe Folly of Human ConceitsThe Tao of Self-AnnihilationGoddess IV: Yield and OvercomeTotal Perspective VortexMedifuckintationGoddess V: The Eternal TaoMarichelle 9: Broken CompassBelated Rebirth MatricesGoddess VI: The Mother of All ThingsThe Tao of PainThe Mystery Prize
