Seth Weekly Wisdom: Trusting The Magical Approach
Seth Weekly Wisdom: Trusting The Magical Approach
- Fri, Dec 5 2025 at 12:30 PM
👋 Dear Mark M,
Welcome to this week’s Seth Weekly Wisdom. The Magical Approach is one of the last books published specifically for the public and, because of that, it is somewhat less well-known than earlier works like Seth Speaks and The Nature of Personal Reality. But for those of us who are deeply committed to learning how to live the Seth Material, it is a worthy read or reread.
Framework 2 is a delightful concept in the Seth Material: the invisible field of consciousness that precedes physical form, where the energy behind all events is arranged and harmonized before it arrives in our experience. But as elegant as this model is, it can be a difficult concept to trust in daily life. The quote today is a sweet reminder from The Magical Approach about our most natural state, and what happens when we remember how to live from it.
💬 Quote of the Week
“Framework 2 has been a rather fascinating but mainly hypothetical framework, in that neither of you have really been able to put it to any perceivable use in your terms…
All of this involves relating to reality in a more natural, and therefore magical, fashion. There is certainly a kind of natural physical time in your experience, and in the experience of any creature. It involves the rhythm of the seasons — the days and nights and tides and so forth… To this natural rhythm you have culturally added the idea of clocks, moments and hours and so forth, which you have transposed over nature’s rhythms.
Such a cultural time works well overall for the civilization that concentrates upon partialities, bits and pieces, assembly lines, promptness of appointments, and so forth…
The time that any artistic creator is involved with follows earth’s own time, however…
As Ruburt’s notes also mention, the ‘magical approach’ means that you actually change your methods of dealing with problems, achieving goals, and satisfying means. You change over to the methods of the natural person…
Trying to fit the great thrust of creativity into assembly-line time is in itself bound to lead to conflicts, dissatisfactions, and frustrations…
The natural person is anything but irrational. It gathers all of experience together and transforms it, so many of your problems have been caused by applying the wrong kind of orientation to your lives and activities…
Creativity itself has its own built-in discipline, the kind that, for example, in a dream can rummage through the days of the future to find precisely the data required to make a specific point…
The rational approach works quite well in certain situations, such as mass production of goods, or in certain kinds of scientific measurements — but all in all the rational method, as it is understood and used, does not work as an overall approach to life, or in the solving of problems that involve subjective rather than objective measurements or calculations…
The magical approach has far greater weight, if you use it and allow yourselves to operate in that fashion, for it has the weight of your basic natural orientation. The rational approach is the superimposed one.”
Commentary:
In our very rational society, built on bits, pieces, assembly lines, and appointments, the rational approach is so thoroughly embedded within us that it can be hard to imagine living otherwise. Not only is every hour of every day measured, but so is every minute and second. And for many of us, those hours and minutes are already spoken for and scheduled weeks in advance, filled with commitments that march us toward some hoped-for result.
Around the holidays, this becomes especially vivid. There’s a beautiful desire to create meaningful moments, to host and connect, to share something magical. But that desire often gets filtered through our rational machinery of plans, lists, logistics, and pressure. The magic of the holidays is something we manufacture through intense effort. And in a strange way, we often miss the very experience we’re trying to create.
None of this is wrong, of course. It’s very convenient and effective to agree upon a time to meet in three weeks so that all parties can orient their consciousness and arrive at once. But what we forget is that this is not the height of discipline or intelligence. There is an older, deeper, and more natural discipline that holds far more weight, and far more intelligence, than our rational, planning brain.
That deeper discipline belongs to the natural person. The self that orients through intuition, inner promptings, and felt timing. It’s the discipline of alignment rather than control. It listens, and responds, not a minute earlier, not a minute too late.
Seth is not asking us to reject rationality entirely. But he is inviting us to remember that rationality was meant to serve the inner self, not to override it. Because the moments of profound impact, the moments full of magic, rarely arrive by force or schedule. They emerge in the space we make for them. And often, they are missed when we’re too busy managing every detail of the day.
🔬 Experiment: Create Space for Magic
This week, practice trusting the deeper rhythms and making space for spontaneous, unstructured impulses to arise.
Step 1: Choose your time.
Block off at least 30 minutes this week. If you can, give yourself an afternoon or even a whole day. But it must be unclaimed time, no tasks, no goals, no expectations.
Step 2: Do not plan how you’ll use it.
This isn’t time for scheduled journaling, meditating, or “being productive.” Don’t decide in advance what this time is for. Let it remain completely open.
Step 3: When the time comes, wait and listen.
Allow your inner impulses to arise. Don’t try to force anything. You might feel the urge to nap, go for a walk, call a friend, or simply sit in silence. Whatever arises, follow that.
Step 4: Notice what unfolds.
What happened when you allowed yourself to act only from inner promptings? How did you feel afterward? Did something resolve, shift, or surprise you? Maybe nothing happened at all, which is ok too.
Step 5: Repeat.
Something significant may or may not have happened during your period of unstructured time. But it was a start. Creating more pockets of unstructured time will allow for the deeper impulses of your inner self to come forth.
The point is not what you do during this time, but what becomes possible when you trust the deeper timing of your being.
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