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Summary: a masterpiece-of comedy
Review: I've come across some funny stuff in my day and this book is right up there with the funniest."A book that comes along once in a lifetime"?!You got that right!I think Redfield is a hard core cynic and in this book uses a litany of new age claptrap in a most splendid display of perverse,subversive humor against the idiots who are reading the book in all seriousness.I rather think Redfield is not the only writer of the new age school who is making money hand over fist at the expense of gullible and spiritually vapid airheads who can take such an obvious farce of a book seriously in the first place.A comedy masterpiece.Read it for the belly laughs as Redfield UNVEILS mysterious secrets(yea right).This book should've been titled "The Philistine Prophecy".But seriously folks,I laughed till i cried.If you can find this book for under 5 bucks go ahead and get it-and laugh you head off.
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Summary: The Spiritual Synopsis
Review: The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield has been one of the best books I've read in a long time. It was captivating and breath-taking from start to finish. Redfield has done an outstanding job creating a spiritual novel incorporating his knowledge of Zen and Taoism. This was not your ordinary fiction novel however. It was an adventure that brought you to the outer limits of enlightening your mind and spirit! The main philosophy of a spiritual culture changing Earth forever made for an enticing story line leaving you on the edge of your spiritual conscience. This book is not meant for the poor in spiritual imagination, but recommended for anyone who seeks adventure. Go to your nearest bookstore or library, open this book as well as your mind to explore The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure.
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Summary: Mind opening
Review: Like many reviewers (who gave this book five stars), I was so overwhelmed with the experience of the insights when I first read the book about six years ago. It was like the book answered questions I'd had all my life ... like it put words to spiritual mysteries.
I didn't care much about the lousy writing, because of the spirit filled message, and meaning.However, I think the opposite of what was supposed to happen with the insights is what happened to me. Through a series of coincidences, the Celestine Prophecy lead me to Christ and Christianity. I'm sure this isn't what the author had in mind, but that is what happened. I think the original reading opened a part of my mind I had been keeping closed. That, in turn made me think I knew everything.. I had the nine insights, I had all the answers. With that concept in mind I eventually brought spirit filled people into my life, and found myself on my knees, thanking God for bringing me to Him. (Even though the path I travelled to get there was new agey.. I still got there). The reason I give the book two stars is because when I read it originally I would have given it five stars, and called it brilliant and rewarding. Now, I would give it 1 star, only because it opened my mind enough to let the real truth in.
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Summary: The Great Celestine Hype
Review: I had heard so much about this book and what it meant to so many people. I started reading it and I began to wonder why all of the near religious fervor surrounding it. I never found out. I've lived in Peru and was hoping to read something to take me back to an incredible place still full of mystery and I was taken to someplace and that someplace wasn't Peru. The author knows not a thing about Peru and just as all of the New-Agers that I have read, has completely missed the boat on what Peru is all about. I really tried to read with an open mind, but I just couldn't finish this one. Those who enjoyed this one may also enjoy ... like "Pachamama's Children", by Carol Cumes.
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Summary: Horrible Book
Review: Let me be clear about one thing - I love Amazon.com and encourage you to buy a book before you leave the site. But not this one. It is not important that the plot is lame. If the message or lessons had any validity whatsoever, the plot would not matter. The problem is that the so called nine insights have no value. None. It is not that they are "wrong" so much as they are trite. There is nothing contained in this book that isn't said better in every other book you have ever read. So rather than waste your money on this garbage, continue shopping until you find a better book, and one-click it so Amazon can send you something worthwhile.
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Summary: An eye opener
Review: THis is the first book that I read from this Genre, Spiritual, inspirational fiction. I loved it. It clawed my mind open. It was actually a painful process. But in the end I was made better. It was a good pain. THis book is a must for any spiritual seeker. It has some incredible truths and it is presented in an interesting and somewhat adventurous story. It is presented in a very simple format, but is very effective in it's style that doesn't try to do too much. This is why I give it 4 stars though I'd prefer to give it 4 and a half. The writing could be better. But like I said it is highly effective as is. ANd the Author's heart is definitely felt through the pages. I am glad that this book fell into my hands. It was the type of book that I had been searching for my whole life some 6 years ago. It is the book that I have mentioned the most to poeple to check out. I am surprised at how it's popularity has dropped some because I find it still much more compelling than most if not all of the other spiritual fiction that is out today. If you like this book you will love The Tenth Insight which starts slow but has some incredible truths in it's pages as well. THis book is a Seeker's must.
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Summary: A must read for those searching for enlightenment
Review: This book changed the way i view the world, and my role in it. This book gave me the tools and confidence to look at the world in a more POSITIVE way. You will not be dissapointed. whoever recomended this book to you must really love you.
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Summary: Same old new-age spiritual stuff
Review: When I first read this book several years ago I thought the 'insights' in it were very true. Realizing that I wouldn't find the ultimate meaning to my life in spiritual philosophies that are perhaps internally consistant but have no practical meaning in the real world wasn't easy, but I've been happier and more confident since I came to terms with it. This book does have some good messages. Become a complete person instead of waiting for a lover to come along and make you complete. Come to terms with the positive and negative influences your parents had on you. Don't have kids if you can't or won't devote the time and energy it takes to raise them. Take time to appreciate beauty in nature. This book also has some parts that aren't correct. For example, it gives a totally non-scientific explanation of the goals of evolution. Evolution is not guided towards any lofty goals, and humans aren't on any pinacle. For a much more realistic view of how humans paradoxically just another animal yet also something significantly different, I recommend The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond. The Celestine Prophecy also totally ignores gays when it attempts to explain relationships. Gays are a minority that's often completely and utterly ignored like that, but I'd expect better of someone who claimed to have attained or be teaching about enlightenment. Read this book if you want to, but keep in mind that no book or teacher has all the answers and not all the answers any book or teacher will give you are correct.
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Summary: Clarification
Review: I find it amazing that by scrolling down this page I see reviews with numbers of 1 or 5. (...) This book isn't some adventure. These "intelligent" people are babbling about how it's not a "Prophecy" and then talk about Steven Hawking? What ARE you talking about? Get it stright (...) - this book is Eastern Thought in a way Westerners (obviously not ALL Westerners...) can understand easily. How many of you guys could read the Tao Te Ching without ripping out your hair because of the "lack of plotline"? Or go and look at the T'ai Chi Bibles (I reccomend Waysun Lao's translation by Shambhala Production). In fact, go read anything by Shambhala and then come back and read this book. You will get a lot more out of it than "Boo hoo, there's no real Celestine Prophecy." The story itself is OK. The thought-provocation is what is really insightful (no pun intended). I wrote down the insights, and noticed that ALL of them match up to Taoist concepts. So, to all these people whining about how this book was just some novel and they want more substance, go check out the I Ching, it'll knock you on your (backside). But, for God's sake, stop saying this has no merit. Full of grammatical errors, are you serious? I'd love to see a raise of hands of the average people who care about that. THEY DON'T! The point was the story and the concepts, not the actual literary exceptionality (I don't think that's a word, but that proves my point!). Seriously, for everyone complaining about how it wasn't a good book for whatever reason, go check out Tao Te Ching or I Ching. I'll bet you won't get that either. Fact is you're not upset because the book (is bad), you're mad because you can't get past the fact that the book (is bad).
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Summary: Just Read SB 1 or God
Review: I saw the other review here about SB 1 or God. But first, with all the bad reviews Celestine Prophecy does have a right to be here. That is soley because it is in fact an honest effort by a man, Redfield who is in reality an average every day guy who has a desire to better. With that desire he, from these pages has a desire to help. He offered this book as a contribution to us. Now, why is this book so popular? For that total reason, there are alot of people out there who need this type of help. More than half the people in the USA have never taken a sociology class and have never had council. But these would rather read a book to help them. So, for the higher educated AND stable who are at peace, this is not the book. Now as for the Book SB 1 or God, another person here stated it is just a prophecy book, not at all, It is also a book of Great insight and help.
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