Jane Roberts - Seth - Magical Approach

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THE
MAGICAL
APPROACH
BOOKS BY JANE ROBERTS
The Rebellers (1963)
The Coming of Seth (How to Develop Your ESP Power) (1966)
The Seth Material (1970)
Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul (1972)*
The Education of Oversoul Seven (1973)**
The Nature of Personal Reality,. A Seth Booh (1974) *
Adventures in Consciousness (1975)
Dialogues of The Soul and Mortal Self in Time (1975)
Psychic Politics: An Aspect Psychology Book (1976)
The World View of Paul Cezanne: A Psychic Interpretation (1977)
The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher: The World View of William
James (1978)
The "Unknown"Reality. A Seth Book. Volume 1 (1977)**
The "Unknown"Reality. A Seth Book. Volume 2 {1979)**
The Further Education of Oversoul Seven (1979)**
Emir's Education in the Proper Use of Magical Powers (1979)
The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression. A Seth Book. (1979) **
The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events. A Seth Book. (1981) **
The God ofJ ane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981)
If We Live Again: Or, Public Magic and Private Love (1982)
Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time (1984)**
Dreams, "Evolution, & Value Fulfillment. A Seth Book. Vol. I (1986)**
99
Dreams, "Evolution, & Value Fulfillment. A Seth Book. Vol 2 (1986)**
99
Seth, Dreams, and Projection of Consciousness (1986)
The Magical Approach. A Seth Book. (1995)
The Way Toward Health. A Seth Book. (1997)
* New editions co-published by Amber-Allen/New World Library, 1994 and 1995.
** New editions published by Amber-Allen Publishing, 1995,1996, and 1997.
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THE MAGICAL
APPROACH
SETH SPEAKS A B O UT T HE
ART OF CREATIVE LIVING
NOTES BY ROBERT F. BUTTS
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NEW WORLD LIBRARY
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© 1995 Robert F. Butts
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Library of Congress Catalogmg-m-Publication Data
Seth, (Spirit), 1929-1984
The magical approach : Seth speaks about the art of creative living /
[channeled by] Jane Roberts ; notes by Robert F. Butts,
p. cm. - (A Seth book)
"An Amber-Allen book."
ISBN 1-878424-09-2 (alk. paper)
1. Spirit writings. 2. Self-actualization (Psychology)-Miscellanea.
I. Roberts, Jane, 1929-1984 II. Butts, Robert F. III. Title.
IV. Series: Seth (Spirit), 1929-1984. Seth book.
BF1301.S377 1994
133.93-dc20 94-22091
,
CIP
ISBN 1-878424-09-2
Printed in the U.SA on acid-free paper
Distributed by Publishers Group West
20 19 18 17 16 15 14
This book is dedicated
to
Jane Roberts Butts
May 8,1929 - September 5,1984
CONTENTS
Magic Show: A Poem by Jane Roberts ix
Foreword by RobertF. Butts xi
Introduction by Jane Roberts
A Day in which Magic Comes to Life and Seth
Describes What "The Magical Approach " to Life Is xvi
SESSION 1: AUGUST 6,1980
Assembly-Line Time Versus Natural, Creative Time.
The Rational Mind Versus the Artistic Mind 1
SESSION 2: AUGUST 11,1980
The Rational Approach. Scientific Hardbed Reality.
The Intellect and the Magical Approach 12
SESSION 3: AUGUST 13,1980
Man and Other Species. Mistakes as Corrective Action.
Definition of the Magical Approach 25
SESSION 4: AUGUST 18,1980
Science and Science's Picture. Desire as Action 40
SESSION 5: AUGUST 20,1980
Styles of Thought. Combining the Magical Approach
and the So-called Rational Approach. 51
SESSION 6: AUGUST 25,1980
Animals and Reasoning.
Things Beyond One's Control 59
SESSION 7: AUGUST 28,1980
The Intellect as a Cultural Artifact.
Creating One's Own Experience 68
• vii •
THE MAGICAL APPROACH
SESSION 8: SEPTEMBER 3,1980
Nature as Man's Caretaker. Natural Magical
Reasoning and Trust. 75
SESSION 9: SEPTEMBER 8,1980
The Body's Reasoning as Logic. Belief Systems 81
SESSION 10: SEPTEMBER 10,1980
Education and Culture. The Natural Person 86
SESSION 11: SEPTEMBER 15,1980
Multidimensional Spiritual Dramas. ............................... 9 2
SESSION 12: SEPTEMBER 22,1980
Inserting New Ideas into the World 98
SESSION 13: SEPTEMBER 24,1980
Rob Using the Magical Approach. Precognition 106
SESSION 14: SEPTEMBER 29,1980
The Self. Relaxation and Effortlessness 115
SESSION 15: OCTOBER 1,1980
The Natural Person and the Natural Use of Time
...120
SESSION 16: October 6,1980
Jane's Positive Results. 127
SESSION 17: OCTOBER 15,1980
Jane's Skill as Ancient as Man Is.
The Species' Multitudinous Abilities 128
Appendix A: Three ofJ ane's Adventures in Prediction. Seth Comments.
Jane's Contents of the Mind 135
Appendix B: Magical Orientations and the Motions of Probabilities.
Jane's Mental Conversation .143
Appendix C: Jane and Rob Meet a Skeptical Psychologist and His Magic.
Jane's Poem: *Magic is public as the air. ... * 149
Appendix D: Jane's Challenges with Her Scope of Identity vs. the Scien-
tific Community. ....... 153
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MAGIC SHOW
What magicians we all are,
turning darkness into light,
transforming invisible atoms
into the dazzling theater
of the world,
pulling objects,
(people as well
as rabbits)
out of secret
microscopic closets,
turning winter into summer,
making a palmful of moments
disappear through time's trap door.
We learned the methods
so long ago
that they're unconscious,
and we've hypnotized ourselves
into believing
that we're the audience,
so I wonder where we served
our apprenticeship.
Under what master magicians did we learn
to form reality
so smoothly that we forgot to tell ourselves
the secret?
Jane Roberts, 1979
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