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Summary: almost as good as Serge Lang's Allgebra book
Review: This book is real good because it teach me how to see my energy chakras. It was so neat because I could see the energy betwen my fingers, just like he said in the book. This book is near as insiring as Serge's Lang's Allgebra book - that was _real_ good and talked about a lot of the same things. So this book is real good but if you want to get a real real good book, you should check out Allgebra instead because it's kind of better.
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Summary: Reader from Virginia
Review: I just finished listening to the tape of this book and agree with many of the reviews here that the writing is not the best, but the message is what is important. I think that anything we read that can draw our attention to the better side of this world is worth reading, and James Redfield's philosophies do that. It is not the writing ability that counts, as one reviewer put it, if so, we would have discarded many bestsellers over the years! In the late '80s I experienced an energy field that was unforgettable to me. I was not participating in any kind of "eastern religious studies" or attempting to tap into any external resources. It just happened. Redfield's insights describe just such a field, that I already knew existed. I would like to read more of his works, because I think he is on to something.
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Summary: Andrew Brödl, Buenos Aires, Argentina. april 16
Review: What is it, a novell or a real story? Anyway, I think its the best book I've ever read in my life there's a lot of reality in its lines and I think all those things happen every single day. Excelent.
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Summary: great book i have to read the rest of his work!
Review: i love this book it makes life more understandable, and gives hope for the future.
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Summary: Bah!
Review: What a mess. The beginning was interesting, but then it went way, way out. Save your bucks and borrow it from the library (or a friend who got duped into buying it).
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Summary: There's hope for our future!
Review: This book has been out for a long time, and I just now read it. I feel like I could have helped write it. The idea that humanity has much more potential than people scraping and clawing their way to the material top is not new, but it sure felt good to read another person's hope for our future. I found so much in this book that confirmed and put words to my beliefs. While I still feel that sharing these ideas openly with most people is futile and probably career limiting, I now know that the snowball is rolling and it feels good to know that I'm not alone.This is not a great literary novel, and it wasn't meant to be. Redfield uses the adventure story to help convey what many people would think are some fairly strange ideas. The simplicity of the story underlines the true simplicity of our existence. Humanity makes existence artificially complicated. Thank you Mr. Redfield for reminding us to love and support one and other; to listen; to be silent and observant of the natural world that seems to be increasingly paved over.
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Summary: Was this a novel, or the central theme of a new religion?
Review: I wasn't actually that disappointed with this book because if mankind really used such a large amount of spirituallity as Mr. Redfield ficticiously implies-this truly would be a perfect world. I constantly felt as I read, however, that the author believed in his mind that this was true doctrine.
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Summary: Think about he underlying meaning folks!!
Review: I do not read fictional books, but i found myself loving tis one. Redfield has a colorful imagination and his book reads like poetry. The build-up of this book to the end is incredible and has made a huge impact on how I see the world. It really made me believe in optimism agian. I suggest this book to anyone who wants true knowledge. I also suggest this book to anyone who has read any of Deepak Chopra's works. Beautifully written and wonderful purpose!!
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Summary: Enjoyable but somewhat predictable
Review: The author has an great story, but at times too predictable. For example, almost everyone on the journey had heard of the manuscript which left little to the imagination. If a few other characters were not aware of the manuscript and then introduced to it through the journey it would have built more excitement (similar to the beginning of the book when Charlene inroduced the manuscript at the restaurant). Otherwise, I loved the story and would suggest (and have) this book to people who are running on the "treadmill of life" fighting for material superiority, and to those who treasure nature and spiritual balance. David S. Nassar Author, How to get Started in Electronic Daytrading.
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Summary: nothing new
Review: I find it funny that so many people herald the celestine prophecy as something new and earth shattering. All it is is a nice little rehash of new age concepts and eastern spiritualism dumbed down for the everyday reader, shrouded in an implausible and unexciting story. Anyone who has even scratched the surface of spirituality knows what all of the insights are- and the book seems to be an exercise in tedium. I guess that the book only has value if the reader goes on to study spirituality deeper, and reads good authors and challenging texts. The book is best used to awaken something in the reader, in the hope that they will go further with it. However, it should not be viewed as a panacea for the spiritual ills of mankind- it falls miserably short because it does not even begin to plumb the depths of what it is asking the reader to do. It gives him the desire, but not the tools- the reader is left holding the bag- because his interest is piqued but the advice and techniques given by Redfield are useless in a real world context. I'm sure he knows it's incomplete because he came out with a workbook for realizing the insights. By the way, the manuscript is not real, it is an invention of Redfield's- and he's not some mega spiritual guru who realized all this and felt the need to tell the world. He drew upon and co-opted ideas that are as old as the questions he is trying to answer. That is not exactly wrong, because he presents his own take on them, but he really doesn't present anything that spiritual people don't know already. A final note to anyone reading the celestine prophecy- in strictly literary terms, the writing is atrocious. that's why two stars instead of three.
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