I have read 3 of Jed Mckenna's books: Damnedest, Incorrect Enlightenment, and Theory of Everything.  The last book to read of his is Spiritual Warfare.  My impression of what I read from McKenna so far is that he misunderstands the importance of meditation.   He gives an analogy or an example to highlight how mundane meditation is.  He says something along the lines of "each day you fail to arrive at the truth, you will cut off an ounce of your body.  If you take this exercise seriously, you would drop meditation."  Those aren't his exact words, but I think they capture his idea in that Spiritual Autolysis, taking the First Step, and finding out truth by negating all that is false is all that matters. I, however, disagree.  In my experience, meditation has not revealed truth to me, but it has helped me gain more control over my mind and emotions.  In other words, meditation has allowed me to think more clearly and not be so sensitive and reactive to life.  Meditation is the ultimate tool for equanimity and being calm in the storm of adversity.  Spiritual Autolysis (SA) is basically contemplation with a journal.  But doing SA alone may get one to truth, but it won't necessarily liberate one from the forces of their mind.  Meditation is mental freedom to me.  When we can sit down and shut up and be with ourselves in stillness no matter what is going on, we have developed ourselves.  I guess Jed McKenna kind of contradicts himself.  He says that meditation is useless, but yet he tell Jolene at the end of Incorrect Enlightenment  for her to observe her feelings.  He says it is easy to observe ourselves when sky's are clear, but it is more difficult to observe our feelings when "clouds are black."  In addition, I interpreted Jed Mckenna's saying of "Sit down, shut up, and ask yourself what is true" as meditation.  In meditation, we sit down and shut up and then we inquire in our meditation after a period of stillness and then sit back into stillness for answers.  So I think Jed McKenna is advocating for meditation without even knowing it while also criticizing meditation.  I think he might just be criticizing meditative traditions and not the quality of mindfulness itself.   Ultimately my main takeaways from Jed's work is to think for yourself, be your own teacher, learn from others' blunders, and that Enlightenment is not about peace or freedom, but it is about Truth by cutting through Maya's Bullshit Palace of Delusion.  Freedom and peace are not the goals of Enlightenment because Enlightenment is the death of ego, which is something that the ego does not want to do.  The process of SA or the process of waking up is a literal Hell for the ego based off of my understandings of the readings.  But it is important now for me to take action and do the work of meditation and SA.  Just reading book after book and not taking action is being asleep in the dreamstate.   This is my analysis from what I read from Jed Mckenna's work.  I have not read Book 3: Warfare yet so my analysis is limited as always. Please let me know your thoughts, especially if you read Jed's books.