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Real Magic

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I've read a lot of books which speak of miracles, spiritual feelings, intuition, etc. This book is all about making it happen. The difference lies in that this book not only tells you the theory on why things like the author describes can and do happen, but almost half the book is devoted entirely to giving you guidelines on which you can also start to bring those things into your life. As a personal example I started to read this book just when I ended a 4-real relationship..I was really depressed. This book changed my life in less than a week! Even before I finished this book, I had already recovered brom that break-up, and people are still amazed at how fast I got over it. A week later miracles were already happening all around me. I begun to feel I was flowing with the Universe, I met new people who were there to help me in this journey, I had a real sharp sense of intuition, and my understanding of things jumped to a new level. I was able to help people, and many of then started to call me their "guardian angel", which I know I'm not, but I was still amazed at how I always had the right answer for a problem. I was able to manifest things I thought they were impossible before, things that go from "I want a parking space near the entrance" and I found the one which was right next to it, to healing myself from the flu in less than a day, or thinking about how much I needed a car, and two weeks later my dad bought a new one and gave me the one he was using before. In short, this is one of the best books I've ever read in my life. If you'd like to bring real magic & spirituality into your life, don't think twice and order this book.

This was the very first book I had read by Wayne Dyer. It was a book that was highly recomended by Author Larry Winget, as one of 3 books that changed his life. So I bought it.

The premise of the book is very very simple. Through a state of relaxation, you can get in touch with your inner spirit. That inner spirit when used properly, can propel you to incredible success, or Real Magic, in your life.

The ideas within this book are not esoteric, they are not mumbo jumbo. The books ideas are simply described and easy to understand. I have tried the process, and every time I fail to act on this inner spirit, I have come unstuck. Every time I have followed the guiding advice of this inner spirit, I have succeeded.

This book is very intresting, and should be read by everyone intrested in success. When you read other books on this subject, you will come to understand, that this book represents the foundation stone, to your greater awarenes.

HIGHLY RECOMENDED.

I wrote a rather negative review of this book earlier. I still stand by the "us" and "them" way Dr. Dyer used his example for "spiritual" vs the "non-spiritual", but once I start a book a find it impossible to set it aside. I sniffed around it for days then picked it back up, THANK GOD!!! This book is marvelous...so marvelous, in fact, that I bought nearly all his other books. I wanted to fully absorb his words so I started reading aloud. I got so excited reading that I found myself shouting, banging my chair, laughing and near tears. At the end of one section, I stood up and literally cheered until the look on my dog's face made me realize what I was doing. I had the most delicious laugh I've had in ages. If you want to break away from the conventions of daily life and turn your life into the miracle it was meant to be...buy this book!

I bought this book beacause I had read "Your Erroneous Zones" a year before and somewhat liked it. But this is WAY better. 20 years of self-development show the difference here.

If you're not still in the spiritual bandwagon, this book will most likely change your life. And if you are already there, it will expand and, especially, nurture your search.

As the author says, this book is about miracles, about a new dimension in life. Maybe the most important thing you will find here is a kind of special motivation that is omnipresent throughout the book; you don't know where exactly, but something starts clicking on you and it goes on and on.

If you feel either disappointed or eager to learn some secrets of life, you can't go wrong with this book. I have read it three times and I think it is one of the finest works of its kind, and the best book from Wayne Dyer.

This book is worth a read but I can't agree that it's a five star book. I find that the author's egocentrism detracts from his message. All the anecdotes are about HIM. The book is supposed to be about how your life can be changed by following Dyer's advice so it would reinforce the message of he were to relate stories of those who have been helped by that advice and the actions/techniques he advocates.

He basically rehashes the same message several times in the second half of the book, applying it to different aspects of life ( relationships, money, health ). I think he could have got the message across better by writing a shorter more focussed book.

He stresses the importance of meditation but doesn't go into it in sufficient detail. I also think he mixes up discussion of meditation techniques which bring one to a state of mental stillness, and the activities of reflecting on life and creative visualization which could be carried out having arrived at a state of mental calm. He doesn't give much detail here and doesn't provide information on sources where details can be obtained.

I think there are better authors of this kind of book out there.

This book is so profound that I actually find it difficult to sit down and write about it because I feel intimidated that I cannot give it the justice it deserves and won't be able to aptly express my appreciation of this little yet very profound spiritual gem.
I first read this book about 10 years ago. It was the 1st spiritual book I had ever read. Within a few days my life was completely transformed. Yes, I said a few days. Just from following Wayne's very simple advice. It is so simple, it can actually be deceptive. We tend to brush these very simple principles off for more "intensive" teachings. We want something that gets into things like past psychoanalysis or something more "complex" that involves a lot of either writing journals, goal setting or some very "deep" philosphy that is usually quite dry but we force ourselves to read these things due to how supposedly "deep" these thinkers were.
Then comes along a little book like "Real Magic" that is basically just teaching you that we can align ourselves with 'purpose'(realizing that we are spiritual beings having a human experience)and living every moment aligned with that and living our lives based on cultivating 'Knowings' instead of fear and doubt.
Of course that is just an abbreviation of the teachings, but those are the 2 main points that continuously come up throughout the whole book.
I don't know how Wayne managed to do it, but please trust me when I say this book is a very, very special book. I have read almost all of Wayne's book and they are all a variation of the same spiritual theme, but for some reason, I find this book to be just so effective, simple and magical. Even more than all his others to date.
Now, even though I said that it changed my life in a few days, that does not mean that I didn't have huge challenges from the time I discovered 'Real Magic', times where I gave up on these teachings and dismissed them due to being "overly simplistic". No matter how many times I feel that way, I always eventually come back to the foundation of these teachings and realize that these universal principles are so profound, life changing and spiritually enlightening.
What I've learned over the years are 2 main things about this book: not to read this book as just another pop "positive thinking" book. That is not what makes this book magical. What makes it magical, is that Wayne found a way to create an extremely accessable book that will bring you closer to Spirit and the power of 'knowing'. The second thing is that like anything else, it takes a certain discipline and persevearance to make this work for a lifetime. It doesn't just "click" for life. There are times when one needs to really use the muscle of intention to keep it together. That is sometimes overlooked because we think that it should just 'flow' always. It doesn't quite work that way. However, eventually, your connection to Source deepens more and more and your connection becomes effortless most of the time.
This is really a book about finding your true essence and manifesting miracles in the physical world. The outcome is joy and peace and a world where your deepest desires pop up and you manage the coincidences of your life...I'm not exaggerating when I say that!!
You are Light, Spirit and Magic, this book will very simply teach how to access that domain of Heaven on Earth.

I've always liked Dr. dyers writing and this particular book is one of his best notwithstanding his occasional self infatuation. Few humans have the ability to be so precise in their visualisation ability as to manifest exactly what they think they want. All of us have hidden agendas which tend to contaminate the purity of the outcome. That's why being attached to the outcome is a limiting factor. Far better to make your request as "this or something greater". For instance Florence Shin writes of a woman who desperately wanted a specific house to be hers. Her ability to manifest was so great that the owner of the house died and it came available for purchase. Now I'm not saying that she caused the owner to die but it seems to me that it's unreasonable to ask for that which belongs to someone else. The second reason to remain unattached to the outcome is that doing so may very well rob you of a far more wonderful manifestation. Another example would be insisting that a specific person should love you rather than asking for yourself to be loveable enough for the most amazing person to be attracted to you. I hope that clarifys things somewhat since Dr Dyer is apparently busy and HIS visualisation of the desired result has led me to try and answer your questions ;-)

Someone very dear recommended this book, and though I am not into self-help books, I tried it. Didn't get very far, though, until I found the audio. Which I have now listened to 3 times. First time through I thought: this guy is kinda goofy. But there was enough there, that I decided to listen again and really started getting the picture. The author carefully blends a focus on spirituality and thought provoking methods of handling the curves we find in our lives. I will go back to the book itself next, then look for other works by this author. And will be practicing the art of Real Magic!

This is probably one of my favorite books by Wayne Dyer with the other one being, You'll See It When You Believe It. I bought this when it was originally published in hardcover in 1992.

Has it already been fifteen years? Geesh...

This book really moved me deeply. I really feel that Dyer was at his writing "peak" at this time. I don't know if that is true or not but there was something very childlike...a spirit of enthusiasm...of joy... that seemed to leap off the pages. Maybe it was just me. Afterall, it was fifteen years ago. I was only 27 years young...not even in my thirties...I still had room in my belief system for miracles, magic, and a willingness to believe that I could change my world by changing my thoughts about it.

I still do.

He paraphrases a concept that was first "thrown out" to to the world by Teilihard de Chardin. A Jesuit priest, palentologist, and philosopher who not only believed in evolution, but believed we were in the midst of a spiritual evolution, as well. If you have been in metaphysics/spirituality for awhile now you have probably already heard this quote, "We are not human beings who have spiritual experiences, we are spiritual beings who have human experiences..."

Think about that one for the next fifty years, people. The implications of this seemingly innocuous statement are HUGE!!

We laugh now when we hear that there are still people "out there" living among us who still believe that the earth is flat, that we have never sent men to the moon (that it was all a ploy put on by our government), that the earth is the center of the universe. Of course, these things aren't true. We find them absurdely obvious. Well, why, then is it such a huge stretch to believe that we are primarily spiritual beings? If you have ever gone to an "open casket" ceremony, you would clearly see that there may be a body laying in that coffin, but that "person" is not there. We are visible because we are first invisible. We are spiritual beings now. All of these personalities, these behaviors, these habits that these bodies partake in have all been manufactured...created...formed by us! Our biggest challenge is that we have learned to identify with the small "s" self rather than with our larger "S" Self...the GodSELF...which is Love Itself...

It is through this Love that we are made in and out of that we can be, do, and have that which we desire. Dyer asserts this on almost every page. If it's not written, it is implied. Maybe this is why I "fell in Love" with this book, because it was written at a time when I really wanted to "fall in Love"...not with another human being, but with Life Itself...

I wanted to believe that it wasn't too late to experience miracles in my life...which, by the way are created by shifting to Love rather than fear...I wanted to believe that magic still existed. I didn't want to be content with what other people accepted as "real"...I wanted REALITY ITSELF...the stuff behind the appearance, the Spirit behind the creation...

I returned to this book recently for some new inspiration...for a deeper inquiry into the Power of Love and what it can do when we consciously and deliberately apply it in our lives. Like I said, I feel Wayne Dyer was at his "peak" during this time creating books that were not only magical but believable and practical at the same time. In my opinion, it is truly Dyer's best...

Peace & Blessings to all...

As Dr. Dyer says, "when the time is right the teacher will appear." I was so ready for this book, that when I finished it I flipped back to page 1 and started again. I've dog-eared pages that have specific meaning to me so I can go back and re-read them again and again. I realize this will be an on-going process for the rest of my life. "Satori" doesn't happen all the time, some things you just have to keep thinking about and trying to incorporate into your life. I love the message that "everything you need - you already have inside of you." I never realized that before. I always thought that some things you have and some things you just don't. Now I know that I can achieve anything. I just have to tap into it and work toward it.