The Magical Approach: Seth Speaks About the Art of Creative Living (Jane Roberts) [Paperback]

Seth (Author), Jane Roberts (Author), Robert F. Butts (Commentary)

Book Description

Series: Jane Roberts | Publication Date: January 17, 1995

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 brand new volume of original material, Seth invites us 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 and tune into our natural, instinctive behavior. By applying the principles in this book, readers will learn to trust their impulses and discover the highest expression of their creativity.

“We are indeed dealing with two entirely different approaches to reality and to solving problems –– methods we will here call 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 –– but all in all the rational method, as it is understood and used, does not work as an overall approach to life, or in the solving of problems that involve subjective rather than objective measurements or calculations. The magical approach has far greater weight, if you use it and allow yourselves to operate in that fashion, for it has the weight of your basic natural orientation.”

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Amber-Allen Publ., New World Library (January 17, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1878424092
• ISBN-13: 978-1878424099
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,060 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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152 of 155 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is very powerful due to its simplicity, November 17, 2000

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Rusty (Lake Mary, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Magical Approach: Seth Speaks About the Art of Creative Living (Jane Roberts) (Paperback)

I have read all of the previous Seth books and found a sharp contrast with this one. Previous books talk alot about the mechanics involved in idea construction, which is very interesting but aren't things we need to think about on a daily basis. This book really brings out the most important aspects of the Seth Material. The idea that we don't have to worry about all these underlying mechanisms and cause and effect. It is simply being open to the magic in the world and having the attitude to expect the best. It really takes all the previous books and says, "Here is how everything I've told you actually applies to daily life!" Great book! It's funny... I read this book about once a month and everytime I read it I ALWAYS find that particular passages jump out at me differently than the time before.

79 of 82 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A "How To" book on being the magician of your own life, November 27, 1999

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Carl Anderson ([e-mail]) (Boston, Ma) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Magical Approach: Seth Speaks About the Art of Creative Living (Jane Roberts) (Paperback)

As Jane states in an opening poem "What magicians we all are, turning darkness into light, transforming invisible atoms into the dazzling theater of the world...." A book of wonder, short but sweet and to the point. A critical work on creativity and how our industrial world attempts to enslave in the clock of 9 to 5. This book will help all overcome the dissonance between our overly rational work-a-day and dreaming selves. By opening to The Magical Approach you can grab the wheel of life and head out to the open road of creative living.

50 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Direct and very real, December 17, 1996

By A Customer

This review is from: The Magical Approach: Seth Speaks About the Art of Creative Living (Jane Roberts) (Paperback)

There is an understated power in this book. It is not a Seth book in the usual sense (It is composed of sessions given between projects). Those accustomed to Seth's brilliant complexity may find the trance material too simple. Change focus:The theme here is how Seth's teachings came alive within the authors' lives. Like it or not (at first I didn't) this book will grow on you. The passage about their encounter with probable selves in a bar has the force of pure reality, and Seth's explanation is worth the whole book. To those of us who have wondered at the often extremely technical nature of the Seth Material this will be very welcome reading. At the end you may not become all that wise on the multidimensional views of the universe but you will have gained a lot of depth about the living context of the material