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Summary: Extremely Interesting
Review: I just read this book and contrary to what many people think I found it to be very enlightening. I am a teenager and have been reading books on spirituality for the past year or so. For me this has been a very good start for me. It provided a new way for me to look a things, put the world in a different perspective. Although this book might not be particularly interesting for some people it is a good book for anyone who is beginning their spiritual journey. If you unsure where to start this book is very informative and isn't a boring read at all.
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Summary: This book follows in the steps of Carl G Jung
Review: This book is an adventure parable, and draws heavily on the works of Carl Gustav Jung's ideas of synchronicity (meaningful coincidinces).The "energy" discussed in this book is real and has been studied for millenia. This Universal Lifeforce Energy has been called by dozens of names by various cultures. Here is a short list of names (Akasha, Ch'i (Qi), Ki, Mana, Manitou, Nuwati, Orenda, Orgone, Prana, Ruach, etc.). This book is perfectly fine until the sixth or seventh insight; where people are supposed to combine the truth of both parents My truth looks absolutely nothing like the truth lived by either of my parents. Their truth was "christianity" based in fear. I am a devout pagan that believes that Great Spirit (Creator or God if you prefer) gave us gifts we are supposed to develop to the best of our ability in order to improve the world around us. After the insight (combining the truth of our parents) this book veres way off and keeps going to socialist thought. Especialy the 9th insight. In the 9th insight the author postulates that people will allow more and more of the earth surface to revert to old growth forests and people will gather into cities. I believe we should live in harmony with the Earth because we are also a part of nature. Please E-mail me if you have questions or comments. Two Bears. Wah doh Ogedoda (We give thanks Great Spirit)
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Summary: Good for your coffee table, bad for your mind.
Review: Goodness gracious, what a poorly written book. I read this book as a pretty naive young kid, and I still didn't find it particularly engrossing. However, if you're willing to look past the shoddy prose, you may still like it. Take this brief 5-question test: 1. Do I believe that crystals have healing powers? 2. Am I a vegetarian? 3. Do I think that by staring at my hand, I may eventually see its magical aura? 4. Do New Age spiritual leaders know what they're talking about? 5. Can a hippie make a difference? If you answered yes to at least two questions, there's a good chance you'll like this book. If not, go read some Shakespeare or something. You'll be much happier.
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Summary: Reader pass by.
Review: Those in hope of any sort of "enlightenment" best look elsewhere. This book consists of watered-down concepts far better expressed in other works by other authors cobbled together by an inane "adventure." The only reason I gave it one star was the purchase price. I bought it in a second-hand bookstore.
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Summary: What is all the fuss about?
Review: I really don't understand the popularity of this book and the whole line of books and products it has inspired. It is a poorly written novel and the spiritual ideas are elementary. Everything is sooo easy in this book. Hey, maybe that is why it sells so well. If you are interested in a real novel about a real spiritual quest with real spiritual ideas, check out "The Destiny of Miro" by Julie Rae Rickard. Not only is it a much better book, it doesn't tell you what to think. It presents ideas and you are left to find/make your own answers/conclusions.
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Summary: Can't say enough good stuff
Review: The Celestine Prophecy is a fantastic book. It presents another perspective, another way of looking at life. It makes you truely think about the phrase "everything happens for a reason". It was hard to put down and challenges you to think about life without becoming impossible exercise in philosophy.
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Summary: Absolute Garbage
Review: The Celestine Prophecy parades itself as a book of spiritual enlightenment when it is nothing more than maudlin pomp that should make even the new age audience it's aimed at turn up their noses. Not only is the subject matter light weight and transparent, the book is written in so poorly with language and sentence structure that would be heavily critiqued coming from a second grader. It's a wonder this book was such a bestseller: it has nothing to say; it's pure hype.
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Summary: There Are No Coincidences
Review: I am so partial to this book, because it began my spiritual journey. A spiritual journey only begins - it never ends. I often encounter people that say, "Well, I don't know how to start." This is the book! It is so simple and opens your eyes to everything that has been happening around you, but you never noticed. You become aware of energy, auras, "coincidences", nature and all it's bright colors. You will know what "signs" to look for when at the crossroads of life. Please, if you are lost and looking for a place to begin - buy this book! Your life will take shape and will never be the same.
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Summary: An enjoyable read, like a sweet desert after a real meal
Review: I truly enjoyed this book, partly becase I never was sucked into the idea of any of its miraculous and pardigm shifting spiritual ideas being all that revolutionary. I CHOSE, like the way you choose to enjoy your average Hollywood action movie today, to enjoy it. Somehow the bad writing, as if it were written by your gifted high-school student/friend or child, made it that much more endearing, and added a level of natural authenticity to the feelings (if not all the experiences) meant to be consumed as facts. Particularly well thought out and explicated were his delineating of the nine levels of psycho-spiritual human maturation, as it connects with the energies of the universe, and eventually- as we all will in time- we become them, as the culture of humanity combines all of its present day philosophies, religions and scientific perspectives into one. We will then ascend to the highest point of our evolution and become the energy that is the universe, each according to their level of enlightenment, as the ancient Mayan culture is supposed to have done en masse, according to him. (One of my favorite old Star-Trek episodes, with Kirk and Spock, had them and the Klingons come against a society who had evolutionarily ascended to that same point! They stopped the Klingon/Human war. In other words, the ideas have been out there for quite some time, enough to even be used by highly creative science fiction writers for more than forty years, and are always at the very least refreshing and fascinating by nature.) My dearest hope is that people take a "Celestinian prophetic" approach to the riches of life that we already enjoy after reading this, and take another look at the classics of art, culture (Western and Eastern) and philosophy (Western and Eastern) with new eyes- not to mention (dare I say it) the Bible. Today's New-Agers are so quick to claim the latest re-invention of the wheel backed by a strong publishing house as the Newest Testament, bringing us out of the ignorance of six millenia of what we call civilization, that they miss one simple fact: EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN. This can even be missed (and is usually it seems) among the followers of Redfield themselves. I invite all who enjoyed this book as much as I have- even if it was not in the way I did- to look again at the writings of Spinoza, the inventions and discoveries (and for God sakes the ancient influences) of Newton, the music of Bach, the archetypes and anima/animus theories of Jung, THE BOOK OF JOHN- and maybe, oh I dunno, try picking up a book or two by some radical Egyptologists like Martin Bernal or Dr. Ben-Jochannan or Alan Alford (PYRAMID SOLUTION, BLACK ATHENA, how about Godfrey Higgins, ANACALPYSIS) and see where the Mayan culture connects with cultures even more ancient. And, where these profound, "revolutionary" thoughts of the nine insights have been around for several thousand years- and successfully ignored by much of today's world (that is, until now). Don't put but so much expectation in your life being "changed" by this, and you will get something out of it- maybe even a challenge.
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Summary: The worst book ever!
Review: I read this book in the 11th grade, and it was the dumbest book that I have ever picked up! I hated all of the characters. Every single one of them got on my nerves with all of their theories. They all sounded like scholars! The ending was no surprise either. Who would have thought that their would be another ancient aritifact out there?? Who gives a rip. This author must have been on crack. He was probably having a bad acid trip when he wrote this stupid, piece of filth, unreadable-cause-its-so-stupid book! Don't waste your time or your money on this so called "spiritual" book. There isn't anything remotely spiritual about it. This book deserves to be burned. Every copy of this "bestseller" should be destroyed. I feel sorry for the people who actually enjoyed this book. We are all praying for them. They will be cured someday. Lets just pray that this author never writes anything this stupid ever again. The only journey he needs to be taking is a journey to the insane asylum!
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