Publisher's Synopsis
This box you are holding in your hands is the result of an inspiration guided by something greater that has accompanied human beings since ancient times. The cards and the accompanying book are created both for people who do not know Gestalt and for those who do and would like to have a simple and practical guide at hand. You will find philosophical and spiritual principles with the idea that they will guide you to improve your life in all aspects. The magic of Gestalt tries to be a beacon in the darkness in your difficult moments. Gestalt proposes to alchemize the earthly and the spiritual, helping to transform suffering into beauty: this is the magic of Gestalt. This book is a living guide that proposes that you visualize the image of each card and read its text, letting yourself be guided by your intuition, so that each time you use them it will be different. There are 33 beautifully illustrated cards and a detailed explanation of each one in a simple and clear way. What does this have to do with Gestalt psychotherapy? The beautiful and the good are values intrinsic to one's own experience. They are neither within us nor outside, in the world. They occur, spontaneously, in the doing of experience. This, in Gestalt psychotherapy, happens at the border of contact, we can say in the encounter. When we meet and manage to be present, magic happens: nothing supernatural, rather the most natural thing in the world happens. We feel alive, amazed by what emerges without us knowing or planning it beforehand. It happens just when we need it to happen, in a new and unpredictable way. The magic doesn't come from this book or its cards, then. Nor does it come from you, reader. The magic only comes in your encounter with this book and its cards, as you gently open the door to what comes, without discarding anything. That's why you can encounter it countless times and it will always be different and new. Because you, like life, are always new.
