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

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Summary: Wow, I never knew a book on magick could be so inspiring.
Review: I just finnished this book and I am floored at the spiritual nature of it. In the introduction thier is a list of fifty things to apply for enchanted living. A list I am puttin gon my bathroom mirrior and reading every day. This book has two sections first is called the book of you, the second is called the path. The first is about connecting your self with your sences. It gives informative examples from Ms. Telesco's life and wonderful activities to help you. The second section have four path and a discription of each. The paths are healer, teacher, warrior, and visionary. The discriptions are given in a shaminatic, budist, islamic, and elemental sections. The cross culteral ties in really well. I haven't read a book like this one before, I only hope more become availible on the market. This is a book for any one searching for more than just spells and circles in thier magickal path.

Rating:
Summary: Wow, I never knew a book on magick could be so inspiring.
Review: I just finnished this book and I am floored at the spiritual nature of it. In the introduction thier is a list of fifty things to apply for enchanted living. A list I am puttin gon my bathroom mirrior and reading every day. This book has two sections first is called the book of you, the second is called the path. The first is about connecting your self with your sences. It gives informative examples from Ms. Telesco's life and wonderful activities to help you. The second section have four path and a discription of each. The paths are healer, teacher, warrior, and visionary. The discriptions are given in a shaminatic, budist, islamic, and elemental sections. The cross culteral ties in really well. I haven't read a book like this one before, I only hope more become availible on the market. This is a book for any one searching for more than just spells and circles in thier magickal path.

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Summary: A Wonderful Book!
Review: Patricia Telesco could not have picked a better name for this book. For if it is anything, it is enchanting.

Ms. Telesco is a master in her own right with more than fifty books to her credit. Her latest, An Enchanted Life will prove to be part of her success story.

An Enchanted Life is not a beginning "how to" spell or ritual book. This is for the step beyond. This is for soul searchers seeking to create a better spiritual life. Ms Telesco begins An Enchanted Life with a warm welcome, leading the reader into a list of fifty practices for enchanted living. Set at a smooth and easy pace, she then brings you, in-depth, through each step, building upon your self-confidence by using easy, step-by step methods that the reader can apply at their own pace.

Bringing forth experience, a mix of philosophies, spiritual enlightenment and magickal perspectives, An Enchanted Life is a wonderful tool for encouragement and self-growth for the reader. If we as a whole could put forth these fifty lessons and apply them individually, the world would be a better place. How refreshing to not only read but practice An Enchanted Life.

M.L. Benton, Publisher, Echoed Voices Magazine
Copyright © February 2002

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Summary: Beyond 101... finally
Review: Telesco has written one of the few books I've found that treats me like someone who has an understanding of the craft and is ready to move on. So many books waste space covering Wicca 101 that they're not worth buying. This one assumes I already know what I'm doing and am ready to move forward.

One of the main reasons I bought it was b/c it's a a looser guide and not a strict "how to" book. It builds on my basic knowledge and never talks down to me. Not as much fun as Telesco's "bad witch" book, but certainly a worth addition to any witch's library regardless of where you find yourself on the path.

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Summary: Exellent Thinking Guide
Review: This is a good book for those of us who like to think, and it's a book for the more advanced practitioners of magick. It makes you think about the different paths you might want to take, but at the end you mught choose none of them.

There is nothing more to be said about this book that other reviewers haven't said. Also I wouldn't recommend the book "A Charmed Life" by the same author.

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Summary: A Thinking Guide
Review: While the first book in this series, "A Charmed Life", was an inspirational book, Trish offers a book on the workings of "Being Magick". She offers a book on thinking about what you will do and then realizing the outcome.

In this book "50 Practices for Enchanted Living" is the outline for her work. She describes: "these concepts provide a sound foundation on which to build any spiritual practice".

There is a lot of "thinking" material in this book. I would liken this book to what you would be given if you were going past the basics of your chosen spiritual path with a good teacher to guide you. Knowing the basics is good, knowing what to do with them is even better. But to learn why is knowledge.

Part One of this book explores who you are, why did you come to where you are now and what you are going to do with what you have. It is a collection of activities planned to give you further insight into yourself.

Part Two is about the path you choose. Who are you going to be and how will you get there. Why do you want to choose a path. Again, more thinking, more activities geared at making you consider what you are doing and why.

She touches on the paths of Healer, Teacher, Warrior and Visionary. While it is not necessary to be one of these, some are called to these paths. All are separate paths on a spiritual journey, and all to be considered when we chose who we may want to be. Trish examines each of these paths and offers a guide to thinking on each of them and what they could mean in our life.

And all of these relate back to her 50 Practices for Enchanted Living".

I found this an interesting read, filled with good thinking material. It is not often that a book offers material to think on. The material is well chosen and worked masterfully.

If you are happy just being a practitioner of whatever path you have chosen, then this book will probably not interest you. If you are hearing that calling to be the most you can be, then this book might offer you a place to start looking within yourself to help understand that calling and where you might be going.