The Magical Approach

愛、生活、人生系列

The Seth books are world-renowned for comprising one of the most profound bodies of work ever written on the true nature of reality. In this book, Jane Roberts represents Seth to look at the world through another lens--a magical one. Seth reveals the true, magical nature of our deepest levels of being, and explains how we have allowed it to become inhibited by our own beliefs and conventional thinking.
The Magical Approach teaches us how to live our lives spontaneously, creatively, and according to our own natural rhythms. It helps us to discover our natural and instinctive behavior. By applying the principles, we learn to trust our impulses and discover the highest expression of our creativity. We are indeed dealing with two entirely different approaches to reality and to solving problems--the rational method and the magical one. The rational approach works quite well in certain situations, such as mass production of goods, or in certain kinds of scientific measurements. The magical approach has a far greater weight. It allows us to operate our basic natural orientation. True creativity comes from enjoying the moments of life. This creative process is, indeed, the art of relaxation and the letting go. It is not that we overuse the intellect as a culture, but that we rely upon it to the exclusion of all other faculties in our approach to life. The magic approach comes from our inner hearts. Desire is action. In the inner world, our desires bring about their own fulfillment effortlessly. That inner world, and the exterior one, intersect and interweave. In the physical world, time may have to elapse, or whatever. Conditions may have to change, or whatever, but the desires will bring about the proper results. The feeling of effortlessness is important. In other words, the magical approach and the rational one are combined in a certain fashion for best results.
Children always claim their feelings and their thoughts as their own. They identify naturally with both, finding each valid and vital. By the time we are adults, however, we have been taught to disconnect our identities from our feelings as much as possible, and to think of our personhood in terms of our intellectual orientation. Our experiences then follow our concentration, beliefs and expectations. Most people think that magic is weird, unreal and for fairytales. It is not. Magic is within our reach. In fact, it’s very real and very common. Is flying without a plane or any instrument magic? For birds, it’s not. And for humans? Who knows. We may get there. Is rainbow magic? A drop of water? Life itself? The closer we look, the more magic reality becomes, even if it is as it is.
Magic is the realization that so much more is possible, so much untried, unseen, not believed possible too. Magic is the reality as it is, a little twisted so we experience the rabbit hole to Wonderland and may even go there. But we can help magic to unfold in our lives, just by opening up to experiences outside our current boundaries. Miracles happen when we create space within ourselves and in the world. Improving our own life, the magical approach might let us be less hard work, and more fun than we ever imagined.
If we wonder as much as we can, we might get the alternatives that are obviously known for us. When we ask the questions that lurk in the shadows, and nobody around us dares to ask, that might be so magical. Further, we have to connect deeply with our feelings and our higher purpose of life. We might get overwhelmed by gratitude. Gratitude actually can be a whole part of our life. We need to connect deeply with nature, too. Go there. Listen to the wind. Watch leaves move on a plant. We are part of nature. Our disconnectedness often hurts in ways we are not aware of.
Moreover, we are free in everything we can play with. It may hurt, but awareness and acceptance are the first two steps towards freedom. Flow is our optimal state of being in action. We’ve conquered space, with no struggle, no fighting, no freezing up because we’ve played with the situations in our life.
It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed. The dominance of the rational outlook of science on the world has taken away much mystery. Sadly, it also makes us careful not to sound crazy when we do meet something out of the ordinary. Many people have similar stories that are out of the ordinary. These stories are very diverse and often strange. But, if we try to become our own terms and definitions in a crazy way, we might open the doors we couldn’t imagine before. Moreover, when we make wishes, the whole universe will conspire to help us make them happen. We really create our own reality.
Finally, when we feel free to play with boundaries, we start to investigate untried possibilities. Many great ideas sound absurd when they first uttered. But once followed, they change the face of this world. We become magic to others when we listen to more hidden signals than most people perceive. The path of allowing magic to happen is all about preparing the fields and sowing the seeds that make it possible to happen. While at the same time, we would not be not expecting anything in return. And if there is one big lesson that pervades all others, it is love. When we fall in love, we see somebody’s biggest possibilities. When we allow love to stream through our body, the world adds in color and richness. When we give with love, the gift gains in quality. Food made with love has this undefinable extra that one can taste. Being present with love is sensing that all of life is magical as it is. The whole adventure of bringing more magic to our life is opening up possibilities and showing love.
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