The Magician’s Way is a work of fiction based on what others might see as the Laws of Assumption but with some notable differences. In this book, the practice is called the Rules of Magic. The author, William Whitecloud, is a coaching guru and spiritualist hailing from Africa and Australia, now living in the United States. He specializes in harnessing the super consciousness and evoking the inner genius.

The novel follows Mark Vale, a married man and financial brainiac, during a time of personal crisis. After having uprooted from the city into the countryside of Australia to what he assumed would be an idyllic life of marital bliss, he finds himself amid financial struggles and a crumbling marriage. One day, while determined to carve out a little slice of serenity for himself, he is set up with a golf lesson through his friend Kaye. How much peace and serenity can one person have playing the world’s most infuriating sport?

Already anticipating nothing but vexation, he meets Steve – a sort of Bagger Vance-type character. In no time, Mark goes from exasperation and bad shots to having the time of his life making the most incredible shots he has ever made in his life, all thanks for Steve. His golf lesson happens to be an initiation into the world of magic and Mark learns that the first few rules can be applied to much more than just golf. Mark is amazed at how this one lesson completely adjusts his frame of mind. After the lesson, Kaye introduces him to Trevor, a man well-known in the financial industry and a major bigwig. But when Trevor takes Mark to lunch, it isn’t to trade market secrets. His lessons continue, and Mark learns more about the rules of magic.

“Love is the power of magic. Without it you are nothing. You have to let yourself dream. You have to dare to admit what is there in your heart.”

Just when Mark thinks he has everything figured out, he hits a major stumbling point and a surge of doubt, and cracks begin to appear in the veneer. That’s when Kaye, the friend who began the initiation, offers a helping hand through the thick of it with the final rules of magic. But Kaye can’t lead him all the way through. He needs to take a leap of faith and carve his own path.

I found a number of hidden gems and wisdom embedded in the pages of this fictional story and my copy is fully highlighted, dog-eared, scribbled upon, and heavily underlined. There are plenty of passages that my conscious mind superimposed upon my own life while reading, an instant evocation of my own path with wisdom that I’ve already learned or needed to hear again along with new knowledge.

“Will is what the alchemists referred to as the philosopher’s stone. That’s what turns the lead into gold. Lead represents the lower vibration, and gold the higher. Will is the mechanism by which you assign the power in your consciousness. You use your will to take your attention off the lower vibration and hold it on the higher vibration. Will holds the new structure in place.”

Though I enjoyed the book, I struggled to support the main character. I found Mark to be disingenuous, disloyal, and uncommitted to his wife. I also found his second mentor to be a ghastly human. Mark is a cheater but deludes himself and attempts to delude the reader into believing that he is in love with his wife and is a faithful husband. He is neither of these things. While he may not have engaged in a full sexual affair, the many actions he took, including lying by omission, were still dishonest and disloyal. I was not a fan of this protagonist at all. Therefore, the reading was difficult for me.

But for fiction lovers who also study matters of spirituality and meaning, The Magician’s Way should certainly be added to your library.