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Summary: Silliness, but not inspired silliness...
Review: A goofy tour through some ill-explored new age beliefs. Redfield uses the device of a novel to lead the reader through a series of "insights" and posts fictional scientists all along the way to provide entirely fictional support to the ideas he's heard about and happens to like. My favorite part: A character announces he's headed up to the north of Peru ("up near Guatemala.") Guatemala, as anyone with access to a map should know, is seven countries to the north of Peru -- kind of like saying you're going up to the north of Panama, "up by Canada." Where was the editor on this one?
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Summary: good for those who arent heavy on spirituallity
Review: This is an excellent book for those individuals who havent had much experience with many viewpoints in the spiritual sense. Almost every newage or spiritual book out there trys to relay very similar messages in different forms. By Redfield using a storyline and characters he makes it easier for people to progress throught the book. if you read and enjoy this book id reccomend Dan Millman's "Way of the Peaceful Warrior". It is an easy story to follow and very well written.
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Summary: Blasphemy
Review: James Redfield attempts an untangible merger of Christianity and Buddhism in his novel, The Celestine Prohpecy. In promoting a linear path of understanging, an eastern philosophical strategy in itself, he advocates the Buddhist ethic of attaining spiritual enlightenment while on earth. Unfortunately, Redfield confuses and intermingles this with what he mistakenly understands as the true meaning of Christianity. Don't be fooled by his false interpretation.
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Summary: Anxiously waiting for Insight No. 137
Review: I've read the book and also a few dozen reviews of it on Amazon. A few observations: (1) Not everyone will like every book that is written. (2) Bestseller status does not imply that a book is GOOD. It implies that the book sells well, that's all. (3) James Redfield's book HAS helped several people who are not accustomed to reading "heavy" books on spirituality. I hoped Redfield's goal was for us to not take his insights literally, but to use them to begin a process of self realization. But his sequels did not convince me that I was right. (4) Fiction does have its power in making people ponder many issues. Take for example, "Anita's Legacy" available on Amazon, which blends many issues in science and spirituality not addressed by the serial spiritual trio of Redfield, Chopra and Walsch. (5) Like many scientists, I wait anxiously for Insight No. 137, which will explain to us the mystical number in the Standard Model of particle physics.
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Summary: Not a spiritual classic.
Review: When I read this book, I felt that the author has a very narrow view of the human spirituality as well as the latest developments in science. I did not found any new ideas in this book, as some would say. I would recommend this book only as the very basic introduction to some possibilities, of the human spiritual development.
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Summary: Why is this a best seller?
Review: After finally getting a chance to read this "best seller", I must say I was very disappointed. There were no insights for me. I can't believe people are buying this. It really doesn't compare to the last new age novel I read. "The Destiny of Miro" is an intriging story as well as enlightening. I recommend that instead or any of Richard Bach's books.
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Summary: don't bother
Review: I found this a very pretentious book that could quite easily have been written by a seconday school student, an extremely easy read and not very clever. he finally lost me at the eighth insight when he sugests that u should not fall in love, this sounds of a man who has never been in love, or finds love in the pain of not having it. all in all, crap. your better of reading - Paulo Coelho, Alain De Botton or even richard bach.
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Summary: unbelievably corny writing
Review: I picked up the book IMMEDIATELY after a strong recommendation whereby I thought that the book is based off of a REAL, ancient lost manuscript. Little did I know that it was cheesy fiction. The first insights are interesting and make sense. The more you read the book however, the more you feel someone is trying to guile you and make you think you are finding all the answers while you keep pushing yourself to think the book may get better-NOT.
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Summary: A genuine M-BOOK, cherish for what it is
Review: M-BOOKs are "BOOKS FOR MORONS." This one fits right in with "Conversations with God" and the collected works of Rod McKuen AND the collected works of Richard Brautigan. People just lap 'em up, and sing their praises to the sky, and then ten years later nobody has ever heard of them because they were so darned stupid.
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Summary: Good Insights; But Don't Make A Bible Out of It
Review: I read this book for the first time in 1994, and just now finished a quick reread after a friend mentioned it in passing. The writing seems at least a little better than the Left Behind adventures now so popular. And I must say I am more inclined to the vision of spirituality as an unfolding reality found here than to the Christian fundamentalist apocalyptic scenario detailed in Left Behind. But I wouldn't get too hung up on developing your vibration level or looking for hidden messages or conicidences in life experience. Just find a good cenetering technique, usually associated with the mystical traditions of established religions, and stick with it over time.
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