THADDEUS GOLAS – “THE LAZY MAN’S GUIDE TO
ENLIGHTENMENT”
The Young Person’s Guide Edition.
91 pages (PAPERBACK)
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From the Foreword:
“There is an odd
chance that this is what someone needs to read in order to feel better about
himself. If you are a kind person and want to know what to expect when
enlightenment strikes and why it comes, then this is for you.”
From Chapter One:
We are equal
beings and the universe is our relations with each other. The universe is
made of one kind of entity: each one is alive, each determines the course
of its own existence.”
For four decades,
“The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment has touched the lives of its
readers. In this revised edition of his 1970s classic manual on human
consciousness, author Thaddeus Golas takes us on a revealing journey
through the often cryptic and sometimes confusing world of Spiritual
Transformation. Described over the years as “the last book you’ll ever need
to read on spirituality,” this metaphysical gem written in plain language
shows what we can hope to find on the road to understanding. But this is
also, quite simply, a magical text. See for yourself as you read… In
addition to the few changes Thaddeus Golas brought to the work, this
edition contains three new chapters he penned for his readers of a newer,
younger generation.
THADDEUS GOLAS – “THE LAZY MAN’S GUIDE TO
ENLIGHTENMENT”
2-disc Audio CD with 22-page Booklet
EVEN LAZIER Publishing (2008)
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Author Thaddeus Golas reads his own 1971 Metaphysical Classic.
The double CD is packaged with a 22 page booklet containing three
new chapters (Reminders, Post-Script to Reminders, and The Way Out,) written by Thaddeus Golas in the early '90s as revisions of some of his concepts.
These chapters pave the way for the ideas explored in his new opus: Love and Pain.
The recording of Thaddeus Golas' reading was made in June of 1986, in Sarasota Florida, on an analog tape deck, and an earlier form of this reading was available briefly on cassette in the late '80s. The recording has been re-mastered digitally. Some "analog tape" limitations persist, but this is by far the best audio version, to date, of The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment.
The text itself is not abridged, per se, but rather "modified" somewhat by Thaddeus Golas himself; it is very close to the written Guide, and contains a few differences as well. Several paragraphs were corrected or replaced, certain words were dropped, including the few direct references to LSD which permeated the original text. Some clarifications were added.
New music was composed in 2007 for this CD by his friends Blair Teagarden and Lumin Egress, in San Francisco, and by British guitarist Roy Sudan.
Each of the 2 CDs runs approximately 45 minutes (roughly 90 minutes total).
THADDEUS GOLAS – "LOVE AND PAIN - A Map of
Consciousness"
176 pages (Paperback)
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From the Foreword:
"Why is our spiritual understanding
of so little help to us as human beings?
Why do we vainly pursue magical powers?
Where do evil and pain come from?
Are we doing something wrong?
Is there a way to do it right?
Is there something we need to learn to
get away from here?
We have tried many answers to such
questions, all rooted in the puzzle of what the spirit is and what it does.
Some of the answers seem to work for a time. Some provide pleasant
feelings. Some require impossible or impractical demands on human behavior.
Many are pure folly, and some just whistling in the dark."
From Chapter One:
"When an
entity's actions agree with neighbors, the sensation is one of unimpeded
momentum, of pleasure. When there is a difference in actions, the sensation
is one of stopped or slowed motion, of pain. The absolutes of space or
mass, continuous consciousness or unconsciousness, are always richly
pleasurable in feeling.
Energy relations,
however, can easily be painful, because rapid vibrating introduces another
sort of behavioral difference: being out of synchronization. One vibrating
entity may be expanded whenever its neighbor is contracted, and vice versa,
repeatedly. Each is always aware of an unconscious neighbor who is painful
to be near, and who does not move away. Let us dwell on this situation,
because it is the key to all the undesired feelings in the universe,
including those in our human lives.
Energy is the
devil, the tease, the thrill, the delinquent, the messenger who delivers
only half the message, the marker of time.
Energy promises dominion
over the world. It accumulates endless details of information. It creates
forms and systems and destroys them. It has beginnings and endings,
monotonously repeating changes, and therefore time belongs to energy
relations. It is the outside agitator. It has unforeseen side-effects.
It is explosive
and excessive, and there is never enough of it."
Thaddeus Golas on
Love & Pain:
"Love &
Pain is practical – I wanted information for myself I could rely on. I am
not a carefree reader; I am a corrosive critic of current stuff. I did a
lot of theorizing before writing The Guide, actually writing it in a
spaced-out condition. Then I realized it wasn’t enough, I had to figure out
the local reality we are in, 'that which happens regardless of what anyone thinks
about it.”
THADDEUS GOLAS – "THE COSMIC AIRDROME –
Collected Essays and Aphorisms"
140 pages (Paperback)
Featuring “Pocket Physics” anda layman’s guide to “The Lazyman’s Guide to Enlightenment”
Compiled and Edited by Sylvain Despretz.
EVEN LAZIER Publishing (2008)
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From The Cosmic
Airdrome:
Once when I took
some trash to a country dump, there was an old but well-manicured Chevy
pickup truck in front of me, moving very slowly. I had my car completely
turned around before the driver, an old man, had backed up to unload. As I
was going back to my car after tossing a bag of trash, I saw a little girl
about five years old on the passenger side of the truck. The look on her
face!
She was shy and
proud and pleased and amazed, astonished at the earth-moving machines and
how tiny she was in the scale of the excavation, delighted that she had
been allowed to go along on such an important trip, full of innocent,
lovable pleasure—all this was in her face at once.
If only I could
always be so innocently grateful to God.
…
Why is it that the
passage of time in a given circumstance, like a job or residence, can be
borne for years, but when you know for certain it will end or change, every
moment of delay is difficult to bear?
So often under
repressive regimes the worst disorder comes when improvements are made,
and hope rekindle.
At the time of the
French Revolution, the King was a most agreeable man, trying to institute
reforms.
Perhaps that is why
spiritual revivals often lead to violence — people have no patience when
deliverance is said to be at hand.
Be careful of what
you promise, even if you can deliver.
THADDEUS GOLAS – "THE LAZY MAN’S LIFE – The Life
and Times of Thaddeus Golas"
540 pages (Paperback)
From the Great Depression to the rise and fall of the Hippie
Revolution.
Includes a 16 page colour leaflet of historic photography.
Compiled and Edited by Sylvain Despretz.
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From The Lazy
Man’s Life:
All through my
childhood I had heard of the utter insanity of World War I, but this news convinced
me that the human race was doomed, and I no longer wanted to be part of it.
I decided that human life was absurd, that the only universal imperative
was to use energy, to be active with no reference to rationality. If I had
known more history, I would have been less depressed. I would have known
the human race is a swarm that can lose millions to famine, plague, or
lunatic wars and then go on as if nothing had happened. In my simple way I
anticipated the existentialists: the appropriate response to the evidence.
At the time I was alone with this mood, though I expressed some of my
dismay in letters to Paulette Morin in Rennes. She replied that it was
obvious I was not the "berserker" sort. Just as I clung to my
fantasy of Lois, I cherished Paulette as a refuge from war. It is a mystery
why our tiny company came to someone's attention several weeks after Ninth
Army HQ was moved north to Maastricht, in Holland.
VIII Corps
remained in the Ardennes, assigned the task of seasoning new divisions and
resting battered ones in what was considered a quiet area.
Ninth Army was
given a few divisions to start, interposed between Montgomery's British
forces and the US First Army. Because of this elaborate change, we moved to
a billet east of Maastricht shortly before the German onslaught in the
Ardennes. By such decisions do we live and die.
