Reviews for An Enchanted Life: An Adept's Guide to Masterful Magick

The average rating for An Enchanted Life: An Adept's Guide to Masterful Magick based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-09-03 00:00:00 Peter Flores If you are expecting this book to be about typical Wicca, you'll be disappointed - at least, you will be if you are looking for a "cookbook" type experience a la the spellbook of the week. Instead, this book looks deeper and encourages the reader to explore for himself the meanings of the elements of his spiritual practice. This book explicitly guides the reader on a journey of self-exploration and creativity. If you want to do the exercises as recommended, be prepared to do A LOT of journalling and meditation exercises. You'll be rewarded by a far deeper understanding of your own spiritual path, whatever it may be. Telesco does not intend for this book to be a skim it and go on experience, she explicitly tells you that each exercise should be focused on for weeks if not months. This book is written by a Wiccan author, and it applies well to Wiccan practitioners, but it is also very valuable to anyone on any sort of mystical path. In fact, it encourages people to not define themselves by the dictates of what has been written about magical symbolism, instead, they should develop a system based on their own lives and experiences. The only criticism I have of this book is that Telesco sometimes seems to quit writing before she fully fleshes out her ideas. For instance, she gives this interesting life path summary of 4 elemental types, which was highly informative - until she gets to earth, which only has about 1/3 of the information the other elements were given. I think this book would be a very interesting group study activity. Most of the exercises could easily be done and discussed with a group, and it would be informative to see which person came up with for each activity. Mining the group's mind would become an enormous source of creative ritual and shared symbolism which could be used in the future. It would be easy for some to dismiss this book as too simple, or too easy, but I challenge them to actually work their way through it. Much like the exercises in "The Spiral Dance" are "simple", the exercises in this book are basic, but deceptively so. They bring the practitioner back to the roots of magick.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-10-10 00:00:00 robert moser This sounds too much like hard work for my taste.