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The Celestine Prophecy: A Concise Guide to the Nine Insights Featuring Original Essays & Lectures by the Author

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I found this book to be a remarkable piece of art, stumbled upon by accident. I have never quite read a book that left you thinking about it's context with such depth and wonder. I find myself living in parallel with the story as if it were not a work of fiction! It really allows you to see the beauty of nature, family and life. If you want adventure that places you within the depths of a story, then you found the right one.

The book is an excellent follow-up to the The Celestine Prophecy and helps the reader totally grasp the nine insights. I also recomend reading the Tenth, because living without it and only with the nine, your life is not complete. May your energy be high.

This book is heralded by some to be the new artifact that has the answers to life. Whatever! Though the content is worth the reading and contemplation, do not be mislead by the motives of the author. This is yet another piece of New-Age material that too many trees have been wasted on.

There is a real message in the book that I believe Redfield happened to stumble upon by accident, or perhaps he heard of true spiritual accounts and tried to immitate them in this book. Keep your wits about you, and be discerning. He should have left these lessons to be taught by those who have had these experiences, or to a real author, who would have put the information across much, much more effectively.

As I said before, find the truth in the book, because it is worth the few bucks, but do it only if you are able to ignore the money-making scheme of it.

this book changed my life. i use examples fom it in everyday life and i have opened my eyes to many other ideals as well. it is like a book that keeps you on your toes, and when ever i refer it to others, they go out and get it. its like a chain reaction. a must have! everything happens in life for a reason, there are no coincidences!!!!

The Celestine Prophesy, James Redfield. A manuscript (Redfield uses a capital 'm') written in Aramaic 900 years ago and newly-discovered at a Peruvian archaeological dig, is suppressed by the Catholic Church via its control of the government. The tablet's nine "insights" are slowly revealed to the reader. This fiction was and is promoted with the subtle implication that the psycho-mystical occurrences in the story can be fact in our lives. Its words claim a godliness of purpose. Yet its inference is clearly focused on the self and is very denigrating of Christianity in general, and the Catholic Church in particular. It presents to those who have abandoned the major religions, that a "New Way" has come to put meaning & insight back into life: Visualization of nice material things gets them for you, meditation on human one-ness with the universe brings peace, and acceptance of any non-violent practice of life nurtures both the soul (a physical energy field) and a slowly self-perfecting society. On the last page, Mr. Redfield offers to interpret one's sun & moon sign for thirty bucks and solicits subscription to a New Age newsletter for another thirty. Most other reviews of this novel are quite negative. The reader loses the adventure fantasy because the author intrudes into the story with forced, instructive dialog and pedantic narration. This book is a historically-significant example of New Age literature and everyone should identify it first-hand for what it is. Mr. Redfield, realizing that P.T. Barnum was correct, hopes you'll buy his "enlightening" sequel, entitled The Tenth Insight (hardcover or paperback available). All CP believers who feel I've mean-spiritedly characterized them as gullible & misguided should recall the ancient insight: If the shoe fits... And yet, in compassion, it must be recognized that the search for insight is like the search for water in a vast green forest: You know water is there somewhere but could die of thirst searching on the wrong paths. Almost two thousand years ago a man, Who stands now always at your side, offered a path to water which quenches eternally. Drink and live

This is Redfields' original, fresh, thought-provoking classic. I hope in the future he can write other new original stories.

this book changed my life. i use examples fom it in everyday life and i have opened my eyes to many other ideals as well. it is like a book that keeps you on your toes, and when ever i refer it to others, they go out and get it. its like a chain reaction. a must have! everything happens in life for a reason, there are no coincidences!!!!

This was a thoroughly absorbing novel(?).I appreciated how the author manage to relax the reader into the book through his writing style, and I have found myself pondering the issues and ideas it raises on many occasions since. However,and forgive my stupidity, but is this parable or in some way based on reality? It was written with such clarity of vision that I want to believe that the manuscript exists, if not the characters. I am willing to accept that this is merely an intriguing story - there is nothing wrong with that - but it would be disappointing to find that the story has no basis in truth. How did you find your insights, James?

These insights were things that I was trying to express for a very long time. It explained all of the people in my life and what they tried to do to me.

After reading this book, I was extremely inspired. Although Redfield is not in my opinion the most intelligent writer, his story is. He has served a much greater purpose; wheather the story is true or created, we still walk away with the same mass of raw trueth. We as humans have forgotten alot; this is simply an awakening of basic humanity.