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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.In Spiritual Warfare, the metaphor of warfare rarely appears. Instead, we are presented with the living reality of a very normal woman — a wife and mother with a demanding career and high-stress lifestyle — and we see what happens when she receives an invitation that, try as she might, she can’t refuse. And we meet another woman, a woman who accepted the invitation and fought and won. In the closing chapters of this book, we attend her memorial service as Jed delivers her eulogy.Spiritual Warfare issues a damning and irrefutable indictment of its own audience and genre, putting spirituality and religion themselves on trial. A terrible crime is being committed against humanity, a crime of oppression and subjugation far beyond Orwell’s 1984. We are the victims of this crime, but we are also its perpetrators. Our motive is fear, our sin is ignorance, and the chain in which we enslave ourselves is belief.“Belief means not wanting to know what is true.”–Friedrich 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.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 the Enlightenment Trilogy 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.