Celestine Prophecy, The: Abridged

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Summary: The Celestine Prophecy
Review: THIS BOOK WAS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED AT THIS POINT IN MY LIFE. I ALWAYS KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING DIFFRENT ABOUT ME. AND THIS BOOK HELPED ME TO SEE WHAT IT WAS. YES SOME MIGHT SAY IT ISN'T THE BEST WRITTEN BOOK, BUT I BEG TO DIFFER. I THINK MR. REDFIELD DID A GOOD JOB IN MAKING SURE THAT EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THE HARD TO UNDERSTAND WAYS OF SPIRITUALITY. I DEFINATELY RECCOMEND THIS BOOK. WHO KNOWS, MAYBE THIS BOOK COULD DO FOR YOU WHAT IT DID FOR ME: CHANGE YOUR LIFE?

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Summary: The Celestine Prophecy - An Adventure
Review: The AOL rating system does not allow for zero, or negative, stars. This is the hugest piece of junk I've ever read in my life, save my returned teenage loveletters which also deserved burning. At least my loveletters contained style, if adolescent; form, if inconsistent; humor, if subjective; excitement, if also personal; and truth, if fleeting.

Mr James Redfield has made hundreds of thousands via a piece of trash. It's not right.

I turned the 246 pages (paperback, Warner Books) because I'd heard about it so frequently. I hoped the silly beginning would turn solid. I still hoped the impoverished middle would slip into persuasion. At the idiotic end, I was disgusted, full of wonder at the garbage one can profitably publish.

Do not purchase this book! Borrow it, or retrieve it from my dumpster.

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Summary: The Celestine Prophecy adn The Tenth Insight
Review: Good day to all, I am Seifer from [e-mail]

Since reading these two books I have take a new approach to life. With help from James Redfield's thoughts I have been able to awaken an inner self I have always known. I've enjoyed these two books immensly and look forward to reading further insights. I would really appreciate those who could suggest other books that they have read similar to those of Redfield's and I would be happy to return the favour if anyone would like to know any other recommendations then let me know at: [e-mail]

Thanks and good luck to all

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Summary: A COSMIC GUIDE FOR MORONS
Review: I guess even morons need a spiritual leader. It is just sad that there are so many morons out there. When I hear people say this book was written on a 1st grade level, I think how insulting that is to 1st graders. This book was written so badly, I suspect it may have been written by a trained ape(but again, that is a insult to apes everywhere, so I apologize). And I don't think it is a coincidence that moron's loved this book. I destroyed the copy I had, because I wouldn't be able to live with the guilt if someone accidently picked it up and read it. They should strap the author in a chair, tape his eyes open, and force him to read good writing. Perhaps most of the people who said they liked this book actually hated it when they were in the middle. But as their brain cells became more and more damaged as they read on, by the end of the book their brains were so far gone they felt they liked it. Thank goodness I had enough sense of my former self to immediately read good writing afterwords, which I think helped to recover 90% of my former brain potential. I am still in therapy, but doing better.

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Summary: A Commercial Message
Review: The several insights and the painstaking route to their revelation was a bit boring. For me, the book was a major poke at all organized religion. Like, who needs a religion if you are totally in touch with and love yourself? So much for a 246-page commercial. Now, back to Baldacci and other great story tellers.

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Summary: Creative and Interesting
Review: I found the Celestine Prophecy to be very interesting because although a fictional story, I believe there is truth in some of Redfields words. As a reader you see a middle-aged man take a spontaneous adventure to the Peruvian jungle and there he goes through miraculous spiritual growth. His quest is to discover the nine insights of a rumored artifact called the Manuscript. Through this journey you many contemplate your own life and take pieces of the insights for further examining. Overall, I found this fairly short story an creative and interesting way to approach the purpose and meaning of life.

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Summary: Interesting story about human possibilities
Review: I enjoyed reading the Celestine Prophecy. The book attempts to categorize and sequentially organize the historical process that mankind has gone through in discovering what it means to be human and Self Aware. Mr. Redfield develops a story about a search for a lost manuscript. The story reveals the coveted 9 key insights one by one. There is intrigue, dangerous encounters with the army of a third world nation, adversarial governmental leaders, and intolerant priests who support the dogma of the Catholic Church. On the other side is the mystery and beauty of nature.

The book held my attention. Not knowing what I would encounter around the next bend on a road in the middle of the jungle, or what new revelation about man's potential, kept me interested to the end. I like the idea that we can see energy between people and each other. I like the idea that we could use that energy to heal each other and to grow amazing plants.

The nine insights as they are revealed describe the evolution, or the potential evolution, of human kind into our natural state of godhood. In the end, we are left with "the carrot" that there is another key, waiting to be revealed.

I liked the book as a spiritual adventure as well as the ideas about our potential.

In a similar vain I would highly recommend "Working on Yourself Doesn't Work" by Ariel and Shya Kane. Their book describes transformation as a clear and real possibility without the fictionalized history of human evolution. The book reveals the keys to awareness, not as a grand historical revelation, but rather as an individual moment-by-moment encounter with one's life and how it shows up. The Kanes use their own personal experiences as examples. "Working on Yourself Doesn't Work" is a clear and practical approach to enlightenment. With the Kanes there is no "carrot", you get the whole meal!!

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Summary: Good Story- Bad Grammer
Review: The story and the 'insights' proved to be both fun and thought provoking. How it made it past the editors is still a question. The writing style leaves room for improvement.

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Summary: Interesting
Review: The Celestine Prophecy is not a book that will win the Pullitzer Prize, but it is a remarkable book nonetheless.

Alot has been written about the poor story line and why the writer would fictionalize something that is supposed to be so remarkable. Well quite frankly, I think it is a brilliant strategy. Too may "new age" books cloud the brain with circular logic and verbose language. This book presents a readable format for most people and you dont need an English degree to understand the concept. The writer clearly understands this and has tried to make the book as reader-friendly as possible.

The story line is very easy to follow and has a formula of sequences. Something "co-incidental" happens and the writer then receives the next insight. What makes this book wonderful is not the characters or the fictionalised events, but rather the concepts it introduces to the reader.

Most of the insights are inherent in all of us, if we would just open our eyes to it. It is all around us. It comes to the fore if you look at successful people the world round. Most successful people have one thing in common - they are positive thinkers which in turn produces positive results. The simple saying "the rich get richer and the poor stay poor" would summon up alot of what the Insights are trying to show us.

The rich having a "rich" "positive" state of mind will generally increase their wealth tenfold. Whilst the "poor" most often have the "poor-me" complex and will inevitably always remain negative about their circumstances.

The energies the book speaks about is something that I have always inherently felt. I think we all do. And it is true that if you take your eyes out of focus you can see the energy or more commonly the "aura" around things. Most people would put this down to an optical illusion or reflection. But what if it is not ?

This book will open your mind to another way of thinking. The what if's will increase. The Conversations with God books hilighted a very important concept, that if we wish to know the answers to something, we should pretend that the question was asked of us and try and give an answer. Well answer this question :- "If God is omnipotent and omnipresent - then surely God is within us ? Surely we can tap the energy that we are all made of ?"

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Summary: "OH I DON'T WANNA WORK,I JUS'WANNA BANG ON DE DRUM ALL DAY"
Review: ...to quote the Great Todd Rundgren. I don't know, who are the stupid ones and who the intelligent ones? Poor slobs who work hard at their jobs and try to find moments of joy and peace in between the absurdity of life and, at least try, to live a life of poverty-stricken integrity? Or the slobs happily sipping champagne on the tennis courts, chuckling over the muddle-minded who buy their New-Age gobbledygook? Almost makes you want to become one of these Prophets/Profits, doesn't it? Naw; to quote another Great Teacher, Jackson Brown, I guess I'll just stay a happy idiot struggling for the legal tender. Just please don't make the mistake of wasting your hard won legal tender on this bottom of the bird cage filler.