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The Book
Inexplicable Magic: Meditation for Mystics is an exploration of seven actions mystics engage in to invite the mind of awakening into our homes, relationships, jobs, finances, and creativity. Everything from the way we keep house to how we express love is grounds for realization.
When meditation is approached as a spiritual practice–rather than a self-improvement plan–its esoteric fruits ripen.
What You’ll Discover
We Engage in Ritual.
Meditation is not an item on the to-do list. It is a way to engage with wisdom.
The Personal is Not an Obstacle. It is the Way.
Your ego is not the problem. Thinking your ego is the problem is. Meditation helps leads to deep self-knowledge, beginning with your brilliance and your craziness. Both are indispensible.
We Recognize Heartbreak.
Spiritual practice leads to vulnerability, not implacability. This is compassion’s secret gate.
We are Boundaried.
Meditation is not about being open to everyone, all the time. The deepening vulnerability requires protection.
We Clean Up After Ourselves.
Our practice is not about withdrawing from the world to find ease, but teaches how to extend beyond self to care for our world genuinely.
We Dream on Behalf of Others.
What we cannot envision, we cannot build. Meditation teaches the inner agency that protects our minds so we do not become too exhausted to dream. To hope. To create.
We Live as Mystics, Hiding in Plain Sight.
What we most long for does not come from us. It comes to us. Living with awareness of ordinary but unseen energies enables us to make profound choices about what to accept and what to reject.
A Different Kind of Spiritual Book
If you are looking for a system to “optimize yourself,” this is not that book.
Inexplicable Magic points toward something more liberating: that wisdom does not come from you. It comes to you. This book is about the mystery of how that happens.
It’s about heartbreak.
Tenderness.
Intelligence you do not control.
Awakening to your deeper knowing.
About Susan
Susan Piver is a Buddhist teacher and the New York Times bestselling author of many books, including The Four Noble Truths of Love and The Buddhist Enneagram. She has been a student of Buddhism since 1993 and is founder of The Open Heart Project, a virtual meditation community with 20,000 members all over the world.
Reviews
"If you’re looking for a book that will make you calmer, more efficient, and slightly better at meetings…keep walking. Inexplicable Magic is about what meditation actually does: it messes with your plans, softens your defenses, and introduces you to a kind of intelligence you don’t control. Susan Piver isn’t selling mindfulness as a lifestyle accessory. She’s pointing to the real thing—lineage, mystery, heartbreak, and the strange fact that what you’re looking for doesn’t come from you… it comes to you."
"In a world that sells meditation as a productivity hack, Susan Piver has written something far more radical: an invitation to stop optimizing your inner life and start living it. Inexplicable Magic a reminder that the real work of waking up isn't about becoming a more productive worker or a busier parent, it's about becoming more fully, courageously, mysteriously alive. Piver writes with warmth, wit, and depth that cuts straight through the noise. This is not a self-help book, it's something better: a love letter to the part of you that already knows the answers aren't on a productivity app."
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