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July 2008 
Why, Jed, Is That You?
Kate
What are the chances of this being a picture of the rising star in the spiritual publishing world, the hilarious non-teacher, and fabulously invisible, Jed McKenna?
For those of you who don't know, there are these hysterically funny, heart-breakingly ass-kicking, face smacking waking up trilogy of books written by a teacher that doesn't exist. He teaches no workshops, does no sessions. He gives no interviews, sells no bells or prayer mats or cosmic love goggles off of a super-hip, flashmedia site. There is no record of the guy. No pictures, no leaks in terms of bio, no people stepping forward to claim him or rat him out or mistakenly spill the garbanzos. Nada. (at least as far back as I've been googling.)
But because I have mentioned his name in posts several times, people show up here from search engines several times a day searching out info about him, and in backtracking on one of them, I came upon the pic above.
Hmmmmm.
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I came upon this picture whilst reading the first book and this is how Jed looks in my brain now.
Love your very apt descriptions!
so do you think it's him? it would be just like that wily weasel to submit an author's pic to them that wasn't him :)
How about a result for Maya? “jed mckenna” maya The domain and file name are right, but based on this I'd have to guess someone was having a little fun. lol
As for the McKenna pic, this guy certainly looks the part (e.g. laid back, cool, skydiver, etc.).
I'm working my way through the trilogy now, and so far I've really enjoyed the fact that nobody has stepped forward to claim to the limelight. To me, that makes it more enjoyable and more believable, but I've really been at a loss for placing the author.
Save the coolness factor of McKenna's character, he sounds oddly like a friend of mine from down under, or rather my friend sounds like him. That's created some interesting questions on my end, but so far I haven't tagged McKenna with a face. This seems as good as any, so I think I'll use it. Thanks for pointing it out. :)
… it probably is his dog, as it's the one they use in all of the ads and promotions for his books … but you never know :)
Hilarious! See what happens when you enjoy people and their wisdom for the right reasons?
That's what the world needs: “People uplifting one another for all the reasons that people should be – because people (jed) really are cool!”
Well, so are you (kate)!
B.