There’s Nothing to Do, but Always Action to Take | The Fourth Secret of Magic

And there are a lot of paradoxes.

Well, there used to be.

I think it's like, well, for me anyway.

They've all been resolved or mostly resolved.

But it's one of the reasons I wrote The Magician's Way was was because when I came to this work in the 90s, which is, you know, it was a very sort of new age woo-woo time.

When you were young and hip and all of that.

Yeah, super young and hip.

And no, but I mean, it was a very magical time, but also it...

there was a lot of sort of fantastical thinking and woo-woo stuff around, you know, and it permeated everything and it corrupted everything and really, you know, corrupted the creative process and my creative power, people's creative power.

And as I say, as you say, as we say, there are a lot of paradoxes.

Like, for instance, people used to say...

When it comes to creating, there's nothing to do.

You just visualize what you want and you hold that vision.

And if you're a good magician and your consciousness is clear and whatever, it's going to happen.

You don't have to do anything.

And I remember one time when I just started getting going and I just started running workshops and I had an assistant, a personal assistant who used to help me prepare the workshops and get them together and all that.

And they used to help me book a venue, organize chairs, put out flyers and all the things we used to do in those days, phone people up, invite them.

We used to do stuff towards getting people there, and I'll never forget it.

She came to me one day and said, you know, this is wrong.

I said, what do you mean it's wrong? She said, well, you know, we're teaching people to manifest, right? And we're teaching them manifesting principles, and...

We're teaching them that your focus creates your reality, and if you want something, you focus on it, and that's what you do.

You visualize it, you hold that vision, and then it happens.

And yet here we are.

not practicing at all what we preach.

So we do a whole lot.

And there are a lot of paradoxes.

Well, there used to be.

I think it's like, well, for me anyway.

They've all been resolved or mostly resolved.

But it's one of the reasons I wrote The Magician's Way was was because when I came to this work in the 90s, which is, you know, it was a very sort of new age woo-woo time.

When you were young and hip and all of that.

Yeah, super young and hip.

And no, but I mean, it was a very magical time, but also it...

there was a lot of sort of fantastical thinking and woo-woo stuff around, you know, and it permeated everything and it corrupted everything and really, you know, corrupted the creative process and my creative power, people's creative power.

And as I say, as you say, as we say, there are a lot of paradoxes.

Like, for instance, people used to say...

When it comes to creating, there's nothing to do.

You just visualize what you want and you hold that vision.

And if you're a good magician and your consciousness is clear and whatever, it's going to happen.

You don't have to do anything.

And I remember one time when I just started getting going and I just started running workshops and I had an assistant, a personal assistant who used to help me prepare the workshops and get them together and all that.

And they used to help me book a venue, organize chairs, put out flyers and all the things we used to do in those days, phone people up, invite them.

We used to do stuff towards getting people there, and I'll never forget it.

She came to me one day and said, you know, this is wrong.

I said, what do you mean it's wrong? She said, well, you know, we're teaching people to manifest, right? And we're teaching them manifesting principles, and...

We're teaching them that your focus creates your reality, and if you want something, you focus on it, and that's what you do.

You visualize it, you hold that vision, and then it happens.

And yet here we are.

not practicing at all what we preach.

So we do a whole lot.