The Celestine Prophecy was first published in 1993 and is the work of James Redfield. It has sold over 10 million copies worldwide. Image File history File links Public domain File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Public domain File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... James Redfield (born on March 19, 1950) is a novelist. ...
The book discusses various ideas, which some regard as New Age or having Christian anarchist characteristics. It tells the story of one man's search for truth and the meaning of life. He undertakes a journey to understand a series of nine key spiritual insights which were discovered on an ancient manuscript in Peru. New Age describes a broad movement characterized by alternative approaches to traditional Western culture. ... Christian anarchism is the belief that there is only one source of authority to which Christians are ultimately answerable, the authority of God as embodied in the teachings of Jesus. ...
Interpretation
The nine insights he experiences are:
Becoming aware of the "coincidences" in one's life.
Experiencing a heightened understanding of world history and human evolution.
Becoming aware that all living things have energy fields.
Becoming aware that people try to steal other people's energy, creating conflict.
Realising that it's not about you.
Becoming aware that you have a dream and a destiny to fulfil.
Becoming aware that many of your thoughts and actions are guided.
Realising that other people sometimes provide the answers that you seek.
Understanding that humankind are on a journey towards living in perfect harmony with each other and nature, as our world evolves over the next 1,000 years into an Eden-like paradise.
We have in The CelestineProphecy not a novel, but simply an artless tract conveying the author's guiding message for foundering humanity; it is on the merits of these ideas alone that one must judge this book and its popularity.
The essence of Redfield's message is that the universe is made up of energy which is evolving into ever higher and higher forms or states of vibration: pure energy to hydrogen atoms to multivalent atoms to molecules to organic matter to life to humanity and eventually to some state of intelligent transcorporeal being.
I find The CelestineProphecy bothersome because it lacks any depth at all; it is a philosophical wading pool, full of children's laughter and sparkling sunshine and bright pictures of pretty fish and piss-warmed water.
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