Celestine Prophecy, The: Abridged

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Summary: Insightful and Exciting
Review: This book was the beginning of my new awareness. My mentor let me borrow this book about a year ago, and I've been on a quest to better my life and those around me ever since. This book is fun and easy to read like a story, yet it excites and inspires you to take action like a self-help book. Really worth the time and money.

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Summary: Spiritual Awakening
Review: If you are at the beginning of your spiritual journey, this book is for you. The content of the Celestine Prophecy opened my eyes...and opened them wide... to new ideas, different concepts and a spirituality awareness I'd never had before. The book changed me in a way; it made me think, it led me onto other paths and much more importantly, it made me aware. The book has nine insights which explain certain 'secrets' and show new ways of looking at the world; it is about the dawn of a new age. It is not very well written, from a literary point of view but it catches the imagination and once you 'get into it', you can manage to ignore the writing style. It is well worth a read.

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Summary: NOT CELESTIAL
Review: This book reads like a movie. A few people recommended this book and perhaps my expectations were high. I was completely disappointed and bored. I don't understand how it was a best seller. Maybe I missed something, because I certainly can't understand how people were somehow spiritually enlightened by this book.

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Summary: Inspirational, exciting learning experience
Review: This book with it's parable theme is remarkable. It teaches valuable lessons in a format that keeps the interest. I found it very difficult to put this book down & couldn't wait to experiment on my own with the lessons learned! I very much enjoyed the exciting, story telling theme of the book. I have read several of his other works & also enjoyed them but not to the degree that I enjoyed this one. This one is definitly a five star.

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Summary: Commonplace ideas, laughably bad writing
Review: Mr Redfield wraps up some nice but unoriginal ideas in writing so bad I am amazed it ever got past any editor anywhere.

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Summary: Only In Dreams
Review: i have yet to finish the entire book, however, it has given me so much to take within my self. it takes you further, and lets you breathe the air as if your lungs were screaming for life. One of the best that i have ever seen.

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Summary: Reactions are Strong - and varied - to this book
Review: I read this ages ago, probably when it first came out. Since then I have heard much about it - and read some reviews on it in Amazon.com. I find that people either condemn it, and the people who get something out of it; or love it, and think it is the answer. From my own experience, this book somehow manages to interest and sooth, when a person is in need. That is the only way I can explain its popularity. Objectively, no, its not a riveting plot, nor are the ideas world-changing, and I can understand people who are not in a vulnerable state scorning it as "new-age mumbo-jumbo"; but I think they should realise - and respect - that others may find it useful.

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Summary: All about intuition!
Review: This is an excellent book for those who wish to expand spiritually. It is NOT for the tunnel-visioned scientist who needs to prove everything on a physical level. This book helps to develop your intuition by making you aware of significant occurances in everyday life that we may not have noticed in the past. The point of this book is not so much to set "rules" for us to follow. But it helps the reader to further develop his/her own idea of what life means. I am a Psychologist and I also work with the Emergency Medical Service in Chicago.

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Summary: Fiction or Fact
Review: I must say I have read the book and that it was , a book I have read. Not a 5 star but a fictional 4 star that kept me intrigued for the course of a rainy day. It has been said that this book is either loved or loathed. Loved by those reading the book and loathed by those looking for answers.

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Summary: An incredible learning experience
Review: The Celestine Prophecy was, for me, a life-changing book. The amount of things that can be learned in this book have not been outmatched in any other book that I have read to date. James Redfield does a beautiful job of putting these 9 insights into the form of a story so that it can be enjoyed and understood by everyone. It is an incredible piece of work, and I would recommend this book to any person with an open mind who is looking to awaken themselves spiritually. This is a book that can help a lot of people live a much more meaningful life. For myself and all others whose lives this book has changed for the better, I send my immesurable gratefulness and thanks to James Redfield.