The Compleat Magical Path Magic Lessons eBook

The magic lessons and relevant essays from Magical Path have been grouped together in an ebook and released on Amazon.com at a nominal price of $0.99. This is the lowest price a book can be set at for distribution via Kindle. You can download the lessons here: The Compleat Magical Path Magic Lessons

Magical Path Updates - January 2011

I updated Magical Path today with three new articles and two sets of exercises (meditation and visualization). These provide background for the Magic Lessons offered on the website:

• Symbols and Symbolism
• Introduction to the Higher Self
• Introduction to Meditation
• Introduction to Visualization
• Some Basic Concepts of Magic

Free Lessons in Magic

For some months now, the Magical Path website has been offering a free magic course. Although I've stopped using blogger, since Magical Path now runs from blog software, I thought it would be worthwhile making a brief post here as this blog still gets traffic.


The key to this brief course, and the entire magical world view, is summed up in the ancient words: Know Thyself.

Course Outline

1. Introduction & Beliefs 1
2. The Magic Mirror
3. Imagination & Will
4. Inner Work
5. Higher Self
6. Synthesis
7. Magic
8. Morality
9. Beliefs 2
10. Review / Feedback

See the Magical Path website for more details: http://magicalpath.net/

Transference

All relevant postings from this site are now available directly on Magical Path in the Annexia section. Ephemeral postings, quotations, etc, have been deleted.

And the earth was without form, and void;

and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

The article "Are we living in a giant cosmic void?" by Amanda Gefter talks about a recent paper, by Timothy Clifton, that suggests that we are living within a giant void in space, and that such a theory could replace the need for the mysterious 'dark matter'.

According to Clifton, the problem may not lie with cosmologists' observations, but with their assumptions - namely, the Copernican Principle, which says we don't occupy a special place in the cosmos, and that the distribution of matter is homogeneous, so any given region of the universe is more or less the same as any other.

Dean Jeffery's Internet TV Station

Dean Jefferys, the filmmaker who made the Shamans of the Amazon DVD has just launched an internet tv station and is now showing a 13 minute video of National Whale day that he filmed at Byron Bay, Australia, on Saturday along with some other clips. You can access the internet tv station at: http://www.planetearthinternettv.com

Dean is heading to Chile and the International Whaling Commission (IWC) on thursday, then the Amazon, then Tonga in the Pacific ocean to swim with the whales. he will be doing daily reports of proceedings at the IWC through this internet TV station. He also plans to broadcast interviews from Iquitos in Peru from the 4th Shamanic Conference from the 19th of July so bookmark this site and stay tuned.

Dean Jefferys still has some spaces on his shamanic adventure into Peru and Machu Picchu starting July 3rd, then on the second one week journey after the conference in Iquitos, Peru, starting on the 27th July to the 2nd August. For more information see http://www.shamansoftheamazon.com

Dean has some new CDs and DVDs for sale at http://www.shamansoftheamazon.com including a 3 DVD Boxed set of 5 hours of all his shamanic material.

See Dean's other websites at

• http://www.planetearthinternettv.com
  
• http://www.flightofthehumpback.org
• http://www.myspace.com/whalingdontbuyit
• http://www.myspace.com/deanjefferys
• http://www.youtube.com/shaman1958
• http://www.youtube.com/flightofthehumpback
• http://www.shamansoftheamazon.com
• http://operator11.com/people/9343
• http://people.tribe.net/c5ad8e1e-af29-441b-9087-28fbaaacad09
• http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=590968500

The Secrets Behind The Secret

Back in 2005 I wrote a review of The Secret Movie. Today I found another interesting critique of the "phenomena" of modern marketing, in the guise of spiritual "truths". The essay is called The Secrets Behind "The Secret". Perhaps the most important comment made is the the so-called "secret" (the law of attraction) is hardly a secret...

The real secret is that if a product is marketed well, even if it is recycling old information, it can generate a lot of people in the know. These people do have "the secret" - but it is not the same secret they are selling. I once read a quote somewhere that went along the lines of "the only way to get rich through a self help book is to write one." While I only partially agree with that statement, the sentiment is correct in that many people only read these kind of books (or view these kind of videos) superficially and do not make major and radical changes to their lives. The real magic is in the internal changes that occur through working processes, not through simple "wish fulfillment" (or "the law of attraction").

Related Link:

• The Secrets Behind 'The Secret'
• Thoughts on the ‘Law of Attraction’