Stepping into the Magic: A New Approach to Everyday Life

by Gill Edwards

A magical yet practical guide to creating the life of one's dreams, by blending the "real" world with the world of the mystical. Presenting a new approach to everyday life that questions old assumptions and introduces a new vision of reality, this book shares the author's dramatic experience of training with a kahuna in Hawaii, passing on the knowledge she acquired, offering readers the choice to grow through joy rather than struggle. The secrets revealed will explain how to have a foot in both worlds, walking with the right foot in the practical reality of everyday life, while using the left to tread the world of the shaman, mystic, visionary, mapmaker, and co-creator. Through this method, everyone can learn to create success in their lives, develop their psychic skills, fulfill their true potential, and harmonize their three inner selves. By blending the two worlds into one, practitioners begin to heal the age-old divisions between spirit and matter, earth and heaven, masculine and feminine, individuality and oneness.

Genres: Spirituality, Inspirational, Nonfiction

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Gill was a chartered clinical psychologist by background, and worked full-time in the National Health Service throughout the 1980s. She grew up in a haunted house, began yoga and meditation in her teens, and was on a spiritual path for 30+ years. In 1989, a mystical experience changed her life – and she resigned from the NHS to write her first book, ‘Living Magically’ (Piatkus, 1991).
She trained in metaphysics and shamanism in the USA, Britain and Hawaii, and ran Living Magically workshops in the UK and abroad from 1990. Since 2001, she trained intensively in energy psychology and energy medicine. With a Diploma in Flower & Vibrational Essences, she produced her own range of Lakeland Essences. She was also a certified practitioner of Meridian & Energy Therapies, and trained in EFT (level 2), Matrix Reimprinting, TAT, Psych-K (Advanced) and Emo-Trance. She was registered as a practitioner with the AMT and AAMET. She also studied many other shamanic and energetic healing approaches – including Matrix Energetics, Reconnective Healing, the Sedona Method, the LifeLine Technique, and Donna Eden’s energy medicine. She was passionate about energy psychology and new-paradigm medicine, and believed it would transform the face of healthcare in the coming years.
Gill wrote the best-selling books ‘Living Magically’, ‘Stepping Into the Magic’, ‘Pure Bliss’ and ‘Wild Love’, (Piatkus), plus a range of self-help CD’s. Her book, ‘Life Is A Gift’ was published by Piatkus in 2007. It offers a practical guide to making your dreams come true – by aligning with the flow of the cosmos. Her latest book on Conscious Medicine (2010) – was a topic of huge passion for her. She believed that all dis-ease is created by our energy-consciousness – and so can be un-created using conscious medicine.
Gill lived in the heart of the English Lake District – a landscape that she loved – in a fairytale house which nestles amidst lake, woods and waterfalls, where she felt truly blessed.
Her life-long focus was on expanding our consciousness: walking with a ‘foot in both worlds’, so that we release our natural state of boundless love, joy, freedom and creativity. She saw consciousness as the source of everything. Since everything Is One, she believed that as we develop more of our own potential-and move from fear to love, from struggle to joy-we also help to change the world.
On November 19th 2011 Gill’s mission was complete – she made her transition into the spirit realm, where I am sure she is still joyously supporting us with modern day living.

Reviews

[Jo Stapylton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love it! 💗 One of the absolute best and most helpful books I’ve ever read! Still go back to it for referencing.

[Georgios Papamichail · Rating 1 out of 5]

If one beleives in such things the book is OK. If not, one star is all I got to give it.

[Ypatios Varelas · Rating 2 out of 5]

Author (late) Gill Edwards writes about aspects of life and how to live a more spiritual and satisfying life. There too many new age ideas in this book such as reincarnation, our souls choosing to live on this planet, that we are all one, that nothing happens by chance and there is no such thing as luck, chance coincidence or fate and no accidents, that we create our own (physical) reality, that the outer world mirrors our inner world, that we choose our parents, that we can create anything we want, that we can change our DNA if we want to (!), that there are angels sent from God, ghosts, channeling etc. Also shamanic ideas such as power animals, etc.

There are exercises in this book which use special forms of breathing, visualizations, positive affirmations, prayers, rituals mental games etc. There is even a process to “changing your DNA” by visualizations and asking “your guide on the inner planes”!

The author writes about our right “masculine” side and our left “feminine” side (“the world of unseen realities”) and how the first one leads us to struggle, fear, stress and separateness from "one" while the second one can help us find true happiness through spirituality, understanding that we are “one with God/dess” etc. I see behind the words and ideas a person deeply hurt, probably by one or more male figures, in subconscious agony, trying to escape from its traumatic past by creating a delusional world and gain love and self-acceptance through ideas and rituals.

Want a small sample of ideas deadly wrong in this book? Here are only a few of them:
- “Despite its “scientific” overlay, psychotherapy as a profession emerged from the priesthood and shamanism and –in a sadly de-spiritualised form— shares many of their values.”
- “Guilt is often resentment in disguise.”
- “We have co-created AIDS as a global issue.”
- Her dangerous view that the problem with psychotics she had worked with was that “they had a tenuous hold on our shared physical reality, our right side”, etc.

If you have a good life or believe in logic and science, skip this book. If you are in desperate need of love, caring, trust, respect, soul wound healing, hope that death is not the end and that there is a purpose in psychological pain then this book might mean something to you and give you some comfort. I gave this book two stars because there ARE a few good ideas such as how repression of emotions affects health etc. However I wouldn’t want this author to treat me as a psychotherapist, I would consider it very prescriptive and mentally dangerous.

[Hayley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Best spiritual book I've read for some time. This book comes from a shamanic perspective, and has lots of very good exercises like journeys and meditations you can do which are really practical and helpful for spiritual development. I really enjoyed this book.

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good.

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

Telepathy, spirits, you just name your imaginary friends. They are all in this book.