The MAGI Process: A Nondual Method for Personal Awakening and the Resolution of Conflict - Softcover

Shulman, Jason

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0997220104 ISBN 13: 9780997220100

Publisher: Foundation for Nonduality, The, 2016

Synopsis

The MAGI Process--a thirty-eight step, dynamic spiritual methodology for the resolution of conflict and awakening--is a way of participating in the creative machinery of the world. Since, from a nondual perspective, we are part of the world, made by the world and simultaneously making the world, to do the Process is to engage fully with reality. It is to drop into the programming language that made and makes the world as we know it. 
The thirty- eight Steps of the MAGI Process are the actual answers about what is really here and who we are. They describe the essence of what you will find at every step of the journey when personal desires and questions come into contact with the great, impersonal vastness of Reality.The world is filled with seeds. Dust motes from the skeletons of stars float in the universe, condense and form suns, planets, and new life. The pine cone makes a forest of pines. The apple pip makes an orchard and fruit and a future apple-picking time. Each seed sets in motion a myriad of events, some predictable and some unknowable. But each seed is a lever that can move a mountain, start a family, make a new path, bring new hope, and change a world.The MAGI Process is a seed and we, when we use it, are the fruit, the life that springs from it. Some of why it works remains mysterious, but we can say this: by using the Process, we become a potent kernel and the world is where we are planted. 
When you finish doing a MAGI session, there is a kind of quietness that comes over you, but it is the quietness of strenuous activity, of having spent yourself in good effort. You might feel as if you have been tumbled and smoothed like a small river rock; you might just feel emptied of conceptions, pre-conceptions, and thoughts of all types. You might feel ready to listen and to hear--maybe for the first time--the heart cry of others. You may feel fearless, ready to stand your ground and now have the words to explain why your actions are what they are. But after all is said and done, you feel like a potent being, ready to blossom, filled with non-reactive grace, which is to say, open-heartedness for its own sake.

About this title

From the Author:

THE MAGIPROCESS, A NOTE FROM JASON SHULMAN
 
     I'd like to welcome you to the Magi Process, a new way of working withconflict and its resolution. This Process, created in 2003, is a nondual way ofworking with conflict. While it does not take sides, it understands that anyconflict involves sides; while it understands the difference between inner andouter conflict, and knows how inner conflict leads to outer conflict, it doesnot make a distinction between the two. Instead, it works directly, in a vividmanner, with the fabric of the world itself, a world that contains both innerand outer.
     Using the Magi Process is to take an interactive journey behind theappearance of the world into its inner mechanism. This journey however, is nota psychological one, but into and through a place that makes both the observerand the observed; the world and the one who participates in it. It worksbecause on all levels, you and the world are actually one.
     Yet, the Magi Process does not bury differences in oneness. Neither is ita disinterested process. It understands the difference between right and wrong,even as it helps us admit that we don't always know the difference, andsometimes can never know the difference. Its aim is to heal and it does this byunifying the world, seeing how disparate pieces, and even pieces in conflict,can remain separate and yet part of the whole simultaneously.
     Doing the Magi Process will change you. Although it is not apsychological process it will bring up psychological material in you, allowingyou to look at preconceptions and limitations within your own psyche. It willalso change the world.
     This Process can be used for working with your own, internal conflicts aswell and as such is a powerful path to problem-solving from the nondualperspective. Your problems are not different from the world's conflicts ofcourse. They arise together and are indivisible.
     By using the Magi Process you are joining a growing community of peoplewho are interested in turning self-change into world-change, but who want to dothis with eyes open, seeing the world as it is in its deepest heart: a unifiedand unifying place for all beings.
 
Withblessings, Jason Jinen Shulman

From the Inside Flap:

THE FOUNDATION FOR NON DUALITY LIBRARY.   In 2014, The Foundation for Nonduality, a not-for-profit entity, was created to become the home of the Jason Shulman Library.   The Foundation for Nonduality is dedicated to making the principles of nondual thinking and practice as articulated by Jason Shulman available to the greater public for the purpose of transforming the consciousness of individuals in order to help alleviate suffering in the world.    Our hope is to educate individuals, professionals, families, groups, organizations, businesses, and those working in the area of conflict resolution. These principles and their practical application focus on the unitive connection between personal and transcendent consciousness as the foundational basis for change and healing..THE JASON JINEN SHULMAN LIBRARY    Over the past forty years of teaching, Jason Shulman has worked to reconcile the deistic or relative paths of liberation with the consciousness of Buddhism and other non-theistic paths to create a truly nondual path of healing, one that does not exclude any aspect of reality. His work emphasizes the healing of the personal ego and its rightful place in any path that seeks liberation from ignorance and the awakening of compassion. It also seeks to bring the truly human world, with its imperfections, into alignment with the realization of transcendent awareness. In this way we develop a conscious awakening to the sacredness of every sentient being and every time-bound moment.    One of the central missions of The Foundation for Nonduality is to make these principles of nonduality available to a larger audience.    This new perspective on nonduality is being used not only by seekers of awakening, but as new approaches that enliven a variety of other disciplines, from teaching to parenting, from law to business, to medicine and other health-oriented modalities and concerns.     To deeply embody the nature of the inseparable connection between the personal and universal perspectives has powerful implications for personal as well as organizational healing.  Nondual consciousness sees the world and the individuals that comprise it, with both their vast imperfections and their beauty, as a workable basis for healing and change based on reality-as-is, rather than a prescribed set of doctrines and ideas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Foundation for Nonduality, The
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0997220104
• ISBN 13: 9780997220100
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152