Jed Talks #2

Jed Talks #2 Away from the Things of Man Jed McKenna Print ISBN: 978-0-9978797-7-3 E-Book ISBN: 978-0-9978797-8-0 Copyright ©2018 Wisefool Press. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system without written permission of the author or publisher, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review. The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived. Petronius Contents The Power of Devotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Genuine Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Deception I: Opium Den . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Marichelle 4: Maps of Ideas . . . . . . . . . . . 32 A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Unlearn Everything . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Deception II: Loading Program . . . . . . . . . 58 Diamond Bullets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 The Old Pond Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Marichelle 5: The I-Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 The Tyranny of Delusion . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 The Allopathic Mechanic . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Deception III: Dream Factory . . . . . . . . . . 119 A Life of Constant Duplicity . . . . . . . . . . 132 Is Pubasyl Right for You? . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 In the Land of the Slow-Cooked Frog . . . . . . 145 Deception IV: The Help Wizard . . . . . . . . 155 Marichelle 6: Go Hack Yourself . . . . . . . . . 169 Take me to the volcano! . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 A Long Time on a Crooked Road . . . . . . . . 186 Deception V: Asshole, Kansas . . . . . . . . . . 193 Away from the Things of Man . . . . . . . . . 199 Wisefool Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 The Power of Devotion God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. H. L. Mencken I n a rather unsettling development, an Indian religious leader has now debuted on the world stage in such a (not quite unbridled) tour de force of spiritual empowerment that I must retract every word I’ve ever spoken or published and go find honest work. My operating assumption has always been “If truth be with us, who can be against us?”, and now I know. Sorry for wasting your time. In farewell, I refer you to a true spiritual master, ripped, torn, yanked from today’s headlines: Religious leader called Penis Baba pulls car 100ft using only his MANHOOD while stunned crowds watch* Huge crowds flocked to watch a religious leader appear to pull a car - with his penis. * Mirror.co.uk, 10 Apr 2018 1 Jed Talks #2 The ’monk’ - known only as Penis Baba - can be seen fiddling under his robes while he apparently attaches a rope to his private parts. After the white rope is tied to the car before he staggers backwards, pulling the heavy vehicle around 100ft. ’Baba’ said: “It is not art. It is the power of God - the power of devotion. “Any person can go to any extent by doing devotion.” Obviously, no one can claim to be an enlightened spiritual master if they can’t pull at least a stacked washer/dryer set with their tethered member. Now that a true spiritual master has appeared in the world, I will retire and not return until I can not only pull a car in so notable a manner, but squat, clean and jerk it as well. On second thought, I’m not really a big devotion guy so maybe I’ll just stick with the truth angle and leave the Indian rope tricks to the fakirs. Let’s start the book. 2 Genuine Learning All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher. Mortimer Adler A fter a talk I had recently given, a young woman approached and asked me to give another. She introduced herself as Miss Flo