The Magician's Way: What It Really Takes to Find Your Treasure [Paperback]

William Whitecloud (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2009

Mark Vale is besieged by financial and marital turmoil when he meets a group of contemporary alchemists. They take him on an astonishing journey and teach him to transform difficult situations into golden opportunities.

Mark learns from wonderfully unlikely characters, from a billionaire to a beautiful topless waitress, and manifests an enormous financial windfall. But can his material success hold his family together? Mark embarks on the ultimate quest to understand how our values influence events.

Author William Whitecloud brings a dazzling range of knowledge and experience — from a childhood in Swaziland immersed in supernatural worldviews to hermetic philosophy and esoteric speculation on the financial markets — to bear on this practical and magical look at what we really want, and how to get it.

Editorial Reviews

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“An absolutely extraordinary book...I think of it as Jonathan Livingston Seagull on steroids.”
— Paul Dunn, chairman, B1G1

“I love this book! The riveting tale will open your heart while engaging your mind. It contains real magic!”
— Dr. Joe Vitale, author of The Attractor Factor

“I would rather chew my own arm off than read most self-help books. Thankfully, The Magician’s Way is not really a self-help book. It is a ripping good yarn full of usable wisdom and insightful anecdotes. I plan to read it again...and again.”
— Michael Murray, documentary film producer

“A wonderful blueprint on how to manifest what’s in your heart.”
— Randy Spelling, life coach and host of Healing Journey

“A rare gem that is entertaining, fun, enlightening, inspiring, and beautifully written, too...I recommend it highly.”
— Robert Scheinfeld, New York Times bestselling author of Busting Loose from the Money Game

“Absolutely mind-blowing...Aside from being a great read, The Magician’s Way delivers lots of practical and insightful ways into how we can approach life differently. Highly recommended.”
— The Art of Healing magazine

About the Author

William Whitecloud founded and teaches the Living from Greatness program, through which he coaches clients to realize their dreams by connecting with their authentic, creative spirit. He lives in Byron Bay, Australia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: New World Library; Original edition (October 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1577316878
• ISBN-13: 978-1577316879
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #177,831 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

My association with Magic goes way back. I was born in a small African country called Swaziland, where my parents were carving a 35,000 acre sugar and citrus estate out of virgin bushland. Growing up in such a wild and remote part of the world was to influence my character and personality in many ways, but the most enduring effect that time had on me came from being immersed in the supernatural worldview of the tribes people around me. I seemed to live in an enchanted world where a host of entities and elemental forces wrestled each other for control over the fate of every living thing.
Life for me was an endless romp in the Garden of Eden, until I was eight years old, when I was packed off to a succession of Christian orientated boarding schools in the colonial education system. It was forcefully impressed on me that my free spirited nature and heathen superstitions were of no value to the socio-economic machine I was being conditioned to fit into. Ten years later I left school, cured of my innocence and wonder, and thoroughly convinced I had no choice but to find my place within the rational order of Western civilization. But my heart was never in it. I was a conscript, not a volunteer.
My first real job was working for a South African commodity trading company, where my indoctrination into the perception of capital as the prime mover behind life was sealed. In 1983 I immigrated to Australia and switched from trading physical commodities to speculating on global financial money markets. Ironically, my trading mentor in Australia was a highly successful analyst and trader given to using profoundly esoteric methods for predicting market movements. Having my eyes opened to the supernatural phenomena that held sway over these giant markets re-ignited my childhood fascination of hidden forces at play in the world.
Yet this window into the mystical nature of the universe did nothing to free me from my disillusionment with an existence that seemed designed solely to fulfil societal expectations. In quick succession I developed substance abuse problems, lost all my money, my marriage broke down, and I was diagnosed with a supposedly incurable life threatening illness. With my life at rock bottom, my attention turned from merely observing phenomenon at work outside of myself to seeking ways in which I could practically apply magic to create what I truly wanted: a life rich in health, wealth, love and creative expression.
This search brought me into contact with the alchemical principles of Hermetic Philosophy and the ideas of Robert Fritz, founder of Technologies For Creating. Both modalities pointed to the premise that we subconsciously create our own reality and that there is a way in which we can direct the subconscious mind to create the reality we choose. As I delved into these superbly effective principles for reconnecting with and manifesting what is truly important to the human spirit, I made the most startling discovery: that the sad story I just told you about myself was just that - a story. It all really did happen, but it was simply the unfolding of a script I myself had written. Thankfully, this was not the sum total of my revelation. I also discovered that I could make up a new story, one that reflected my true potential. Watching every area of my life rapidly healing and prospering, as I applied my new understanding, confirmed to me what I had believed as a child. Life is magic.
In 1996, inspired by the momentum of my own self-transformation, I founded a program called Living From Greatness, a personalized course dedicated to empowering participants in discovering and living their authentic nature and potential. While continuing to be involved in the LFG program, I have also worked one on one with thousands of people, coaching them in bringing their dreams into reality. My near twenty-year search to discern the essence of what it takes for people to connect with and live from their creative spirit forms the basis of my first book, The Magician's Way.
I now live in Byron Bay, Australia, where I devote my time to coaching, writing, enjoying my family, and letting life unfold by magic.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, October 20, 2009

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K. Hoffman (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Magician's Way: What It Really Takes to Find Your Treasure (Paperback)

I really enjoyed The Magician's Way. I considered giving it four stars instead of five due to its brevity, but realized that would be unfair to the author as parsimony may well have been his aim.

The book revolves around Seven Secrets of Magic. As someone who had studied the Golden Dawn and related traditions of magic(k), I must say this book does not stem from such traditions. Instead, this book is more about attaining an inner alchemical transformation that will bring about radical external changes and, thus, it rests squarely in the New Thought tradition. This is not to its discredit, however. Of all the New Thought-related books I've ever read, this one stands out as perhaps the very best. The "seven secrets" listed within its pages are wonderful and should be contemplated at length. Fortunately, all seven secrets are listed separately in the back with succinct descriptions for easy review.

This is one of those books that will probably deliver as much as you are willing to put into it, but I don't know of any books that aren't within that category. If you want to start making some changes in your life and have that nagging feeling that you might have to do some inner work before you can manifest those changes, this book will prepare you to go one further and manifest a life that is better than what you are capable of dreaming for yourself.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hard to know what to think, November 10, 2008

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I was all enthused about this book due to a recommendation. Indeed it started out well, seeming to offer great advice. Perhaps some of it is great, but then it took a turn for the worse. The author suddenly presents himself/his character as a bit naive, not to mention not the nicest person in the world considering how he behaved despite being a married man.

I assumed that this turn for the worse would resolve by the end of the book, but it didn't. The finale just leaves the reader wondering how such an incredibly improbable outcome could occur, because there's no explanation. How come his wife and the uber-stripper he was slightly unfaithful with are hanging out happily together in the nuddy with his kids, plus the investor big wig and his golf coach? How do they even know each other? Is it supposed to communicate that the whole huge ride was some kind of brilliantly, impossibly coordinated 'intervention' by friends and strangers?

So I'm glad I read it, but by the end I started to doubt the validity of the entire tome of advice. I feel a bit left in the air by it all, rather than clear about how to move forward.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Adrenalin Rush, November 27, 2009

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Debbie Dey-Henton (Kawerau, Bay Of Plenty New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Magician's Way: What It Really Takes to Find Your Treasure (Paperback)

Many books provide moments of adrenalin rush here and there but this is the first book I have read that I physically felt my adrenalin constantly increase as I read. It is one of those books that you pick up and don't put down unless you have to.
Yes it is a modern day Celestine Prophecy but less esoteric and therefore more practical and readable. Even my 10 and 12 year old children were able to enjoy pieces I read to them. So much that they requested I purchase potatoes and straws in my next shop so they could try the trick themselves. We are trying it right now. Oh my God I so just did it!!! I held the potato in my right hand the straw in my left and visualised the potato with a straw through it. I kept my eyes closed and remembered everything is part of God so if I became one with the potato I can breathe in the straw like it's supposed to be there and when I opened my eyes I had put the straw through the potato! Honestly I just did this! We even got it on video!
This book definitely makes you believe you are capable of anything you put your mind to.