The Anti-Wisdom Manual: A Practical Guide To Spiritual Bankruptcy

Is your spiritual path a road to hell paved with good? Most spiritual books offer advice. The Anti-Wisdom Manual takes a different approach by describing what behaviors block the spiritual path. With wry compassion, this is a spiritual handbook in reverse, alerting readers to the common traps many sincere seekers fall in to. Whatever their chosen way, Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, or Jewish, The Anti Wisdom Manual highlights how sincere seekers * nip awareness in the bud! * use emotions to stay stuck * use the mind to stay entertained * antagonize friends and family with spiritual savvy * become deaf through well-rehearsed spiritual rhetoric * undermine relationships with spiritual mentors * make enormous mountains out of insignificant molehills The humor never overshadows the message, but like a true magnifying glass, clarifies confusion, false beliefs and pseudo-spiritual certainties; and deals a severe blow to spiritual righteousness and ideology.

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I commend the author for sharing his "Anti-Wisdom" and experience in this powerful book. This book can operate on your psyche on many levels. It is a dazzling engine, a mirror, an infuriator of spiritual pride, it accuses, provokes, yanks on the Heart -the deepest recesses of the Heart. If you read it carefully and let it get in to your psyche, it will begin to churn, in the same way a mantra can. It will stir up layers upon layers of egoic silt,inflaming your inner dragons into a combustable roar(or whimper) of screeching protest. This book is essentially a Sufi manual that a sincere practioner can use in the spirit of the Malamat, or Path of Blame. "Blame is the result of "true love". [The master] told me: blame will arise if you get involved with love. I do swear to God; we have not seen love without blame. A blamer Sufi is "faithful", suffers the blame of others and "happy" and paradoxically does not suffer at all! -Hafiz If you wish to avoid involvement with Love and an awakend heart, proceed with extreme paranoid egoic caution. This book is in essence a prayer for your awakening. It is a hammer sounding out false idols of spiritual materialism and an invocation of "Remorse of Conscience". I am so grateful to own a copy. * Note: If you live in a spiritual community this book is a must. An 'Complete Idiots Guide to Living in an Ashram'!