In Brida, a book of mine that will be published in various countries (from March onwards), I describe magic as a bridge between the visible and the invisible. This leap can manifest itself in very simple ways. One of the examples that I give in the book is when the main character is asked to draw or write meaningless words while talking on the phone. Have you ever had experiences of “leaps into the invisible world” while doing something completely common?
Magic in real life
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Hello, I am from Azerbaijan, I believe, that magic is everywhere. One day I feel so bad, I wanted to change my life. Then suddenly I had idea to write a letter to God, I wrote my dreams in the present and gratitude for this. Next day I got possibilities to my dreams. I was so happy! Then I gave advice to my friends to do this, and it help some of them)
I don’t know… is smth, what happenns in my life, magic or just my imagination, but i’m sure it is an uncommon thing… I see the numbers – 222 everywhere: cars, clocks, bills and so on… don’t know what does it mean, have red a lot about such cases, there are many explanations, but don’t know which one to chose))) Seems like someone wants to tell me smth. So, when i see 222 again and again – i really feel kinda magic)
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la magia ocurriò luego que abri mi facebook hace algun tiempo yo pude encontrar un amigo de 28 años atràs fue como la magia en la vida real asì como tu lo planteas y saber de èl me hizo muy feliz
Sim a magia é real!
Já vivi momentos mágicos
que me levaram a descobrir
qual era a minha Lenda pessoal!
Apartir daí msm com dificuldades
esses momentos tornaram se meu refugio.
Quando as coisas ficam ruins ou seja
com baixa energia é pra la que eu vou…
No meu mundo mágico…ah mas vc q esta lendo pode
achar locura…é de fato é locura msm…pessoas normais
abominam isso tudo e perdem o melhor da vida!Saudações!Gratidão e paz…Abraços fraternos
i find himself (vimal) as a magic in my life.when ever i have doubts i always get answers through him. three months ago i felt something magic when he phoned me exactly when i was crying and asked whether i am alright. i broke down with tears and thanking god who brought him to me.Even though he is not in contact am able to communicate with him.
i just read your book THE ALCHEMIST.. its magical.. i used to believe in my intuition.. n now my believe is increasing more and more.. i just had an breakup.. this is not first time when i had an breakup.. but this time i m out of my mind.. i read in that book that if u want something in your life with your true heart the whole universe help you to have it.. but sometimes my intuition say that i will hv him and somtimes it opposes me.. not able to find what is right..
I just had such an experience. My best friend messaged me that she was feeling very sad. She is almost like my soul sister, and we connect on a deeper level. I wanted to help her but we were away from each other. So I lighted up my candle and prayed for her peace of mind. I felt bliss and pure love fill my heart and overflow. I could feel the peace and gratitude for having her in my life. After that I messaged her to know how she feels, and she told she felt a warmth from nowhere! It was a wonderful experience. I have experienced the power of unconditional love.
I’m a little confused? Would this ‘magic’ be a reference to the energy we feel around us? or which connects us?
If I feel connected to some-one I don’t think of it as ‘magic’
to me it is energy
It’s a way of living.
Magic does not exist.
Blind and deaf people exist.
Our mistakes are others voices.
Pay attention to them.
i had one…unexplainable…!
hard to find the words to label it!
So glad to have clicked this link. Thankyou Paulo for the topic!! Magic in real life.
This happened a few times in two days…
(now again, tonight twice, only waiting to see where all goes, with number 9. Number 9 is appearing many places.)
First, since visit to Spain, hoped to find a new friend named Yolanda. Then, she is in your Blog today. And could not find her because the name is spelt with ‘J’, not ‘Y’. Just beautiful, like magic. And then, read her comment about butterflies.
My daughter loves butterflies and sent photos of her lizard tonight!
Then, this morning, awoke with a song that reminded of The Alchemist. Within 4 hours, found the book trailer for the graphic novel edition.
Yesterday, was wanting to understand something better. Was outdoors thinking about some friends and how they were feeling, also needing to understand something better.
The light was extraordinary. Took a picture with the cellphone. Later shared the picture.
Found a song that helped a little, noticed the colors in the video of the song, were also in the photo I took earlier. Later, you shared a news broadcast with those same colors, and the initials that appeared in the photo. And it helped me to understand better.
So many surprises (that’s not even all of them!).
Thankyou god, thankyou angel.
Love,
Jane xo
Any time I did draw things, while I was doing something, for example while I am in boring meetings, they are a combination of various arrows.
What could that mean ?
Dear,Paulo
One`s day I get up and understend that I can do some more…
When I read Brida , i understend good student neednot the teacher. Now i find real harmonee.
thank You and your Angel
some of your books looks like a real story like portobello witch or brida.ilove the fact that greek orthodox church had never coplein about the magic.i guess they just enjoy the good writing so much as idid
yes .it has been experinced that some time magic of universe do palce itself active only when hearts are pure and singl intended acting for THE OTHER.
There is something I call the Magic of the Heart. I am trying to teach my kids this magic. This is the religion of the good heart, of the imagination, joy that you bring to the world. That is a healing positive energy. My husband never undestood this magic, he wanted to teach them to be “racional” (which we all are since we are into this word). We even practiced a bit of real magic by the three of us connecting and focusing our minds on someones problem (usually health) and it did work. Pure Energy!
it’s true when I am on the phone I am doing doodles :) I draw flowers and house, whatever make circles and fill them up – it takes you to a different world – c’est l’art de la magie en action. le fait d’utiliser un telephone est de la magie en lui-meme.On peut imaginer les personnes en ecoutant la voix. C’est l’idee de la decouverte de ce qui se cache derriere… et qui nous laisse la liberte d’imaginer en plus, quel bonus.!
To feel a spirit on other people, that is magic (hopefully it s the Holy Spirit).
Ten years ago I felt something magic when a stranger and foreigner (he just came from the other side of the world with my girl-friend)touchted me and took my hand…and I felt an energie between us. This happened on a crowded place and I stood with my back to him. It was really a crazy situation.
Sometimes I am at a beautiful place like a wonderful beach, or it can also be watching a part of the nature like a tree or a butterfly… open for this “perfect” nature. These are magic moments – not beeing part of the world – more like beeing a part of heaven, and I could dwell there forever.
I haven’t had the time to read the other comments on this blog, but this is what happened to me several years ago (in 1988, – the time when I had had a few genuinely Spiritual Expereinces:)
I had been up-all-night – through little fault of my own, but felt quite ‘naked’ in a good way, as I think one occasionally can when one has had little/no sleep: I just felt more free, -and a lot more mobile, and less emcumbered by the ‘normal -slightly neurotic stuff of the mind…
The hours before this experience, I had been reading a book on ‘why we mediatate’ by Lawrence Leshan (a good book, I think), among which I had read how there are 2 worlds – the conventional world, of ‘me, you, them… names and seperate objects existing in our agreed, conventional world’; and then there is Another World, known by the mystics and other people, where Everything is inter-Connected, to the extent that we are all One Being maifesting Together, Infinitely…. (I like the fact that he included BOTH these viewpoints, and valued them both – unlike some ‘top-heavy spiritualities’ which emphasise the latter and say that the former is mere illusion. Indeed, he argued that the mystic or sage inhabits both worlds, whereas the rest of us are 99% centred around just the one
Well, anyway, as I said, I was feeling very alive and free, in this unslept-state at the bus-stop, and I briefly asked someone something (something very ‘normal’, e.g. about what time could we expect the bus to come), but before I did, i said to myself: ‘apparently, we are all one as well. I am going to face this person as-if this fact iIS true…’
And I did this, upon which I was ‘catipulted’ into this Profound, Mystical expreince -where I felt this bliss, and was aware of being this Huge but Subtle Being – most of which is (rightly) Unconsious, but is Who-we-are. It was like Pure-Beingness…
This was a private expereince, but some others, strangers, noticed me (i don’t know how I would have looked:- although I was experiencing this radical, Different incredible Joy, it was ‘inside’ me, but maybe I was giving-off/out ‘something’.
I don’t know how I could write about this truly Magical and authentic expereince better than i have done, but words are very clumsy indicators!…
hi there Julian, I’ve just read about you’re ‘magic’ experience at the bus stop. You described it very well. I have had a few very strange things come over me also. one such occasion was sitting with a good friend in a dingy wooden prefab about to have a few beers. i had watched a tv programme about elephants about an hour before and was amazed at how spiritual and intelligent they seemed. i was telling my mate about this and i don’t know how to explain it – a sudden calm or stillness came over me, very powerfully. its like the world , or my world got really super slow. my friend was still chatting away to me philosophically and he looked insane to me,haha. it looked as if he were speaking a million miles an hour about nothing, like he was actually nuts! i remember i stood up and walked over to look out into the night, and feeling so centered and calm and light, amazing feeling. this had happened to me before when watching a couple of spiders make a web and in a snooker hall when a ball fell off the table, i had bent down to pick it up and when i stood up everyone looked like they were frantic and nuts,ha. those times the feeling only lasted a few moments but this time in the prefab the feeling lingered which actually started to worry me because i felt sooooo different to normal people. i think, and i could be wrong, that this is what enlightenment feels like. the budist monks know it exists. but why did it happen to me in such a dingy place! very cool tho!sorry for my rant you are just the first person I’ve come across to , i think, share this experience! sorry for the dodgy grammar and everything.
Magic is what fills the world with endless wonder
It is a spice God has given us
to nourish our soul
to encourage our mind
to empower our bodies
all with a tiny spark of imagination..
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