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Summary: Clap if you believe in Tinkerbell!
Review: When returning _Darwin's Dangerous Idea_ to the library yesterday, I happened to glance at a copy of _TCP_ and decided to give it a read, just for laughs. A couple of days ago I had seen the movie "Election," in which a high school kid is shown asleep in the library with a copy of Redfield's opus propped open by his head. Further, I'm an Alabama boy like Redfield, and like him (as I learned recently from a _Salon_ webzine article), I attended Auburn University as an undergraduate. Anyway, since these "coincidences" all came together (pretty meaningful, huh?), I decided to read the thing. It took a couple of hours. I've also just read a good many of the reader's reviews here at Amazon. So I'd like to offer 10 "insights" of my own: 1. Rationality, skepticism, and intellectual rigor are not "negative energy": they are the qualities that have taken mankind out of the caves and put him into a relatively safe, comfortable, culturally rich world. Mr.Redfield might not understand how to fix his car or computer, or understand evolution beyond a junior high level, but he and his lifestyle depend on those who do understand such things by thinking rationally. 2. The world Mr. Redfield describes exists in only in his head. Plants are not affected by whether or not we send positive vibes to them; people cannot levitate themselves through the "power of positive thinking"; coincidences are just that; the cosmos was not designed as a stage for the "drama" of man's little story, etc. 3. Mr. Redfield is mortal. So are we all. Sadly, no ammount of wishful thinking will change that. I wish that it were otherwise. But wishing does not make a thing so. 4. From all the descriptions of meals in the book, I suspect Mr. Redfield has some "issues" with his weight. 5. I have to go teach a class, so the rest of my 10 "insights" will have to wait for the sequel.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I have really enjoyed this book. I would like to know if it is possible to get any of the Celestine Prophecy books by James Redfield in Greek. Please help. Thanks
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Summary: a waste of mental effort
Review: To be honest, I would've of paid double the price I paid for the book if I was warned that reading it will be a complete waste of time and a useless deflection of an otherwise intellectually curious mind. The book has 2 dimensions to it: a) story - some of the worst writing I've ever seen to get published. Daniel Steele would seem William Shakespare in comparison. My 13-yr old brother's high school essays have 10-fold the depth, intrigue and complexity. b) message - very simplistic, trivial and agonizingly dumb. Any children's classic would have a message which is more profound and educational. Allegorically speakig, the author is basically hugging some underdeveloped half-dead tree while a 200-yr old virgin forest is all around waiting to be noticed for its strength, beauty and vitality. Unless a cheap $3 romance novel better captures your idea of true love than "Romeo & Juliet", you shouldn't even look at this book twice for any spiritual inspiration or the like. I find it sad that this book is being hailed a classic and has actually sold 6 million copies. It saddens me almost as much as the fact that a lot of people in this country don't know who their Secretary of State is or the fact that most people in this country are confused about whether Spain is in Europe or South America. I hope that as the education system here reforms itself, it will do a better job at teaching what good literature and good philisophy are all about. Maybe then, the bookshelves will no longer suffer the high levels of pollution, of which this book is a clear symptom.
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Summary: Insightful and Stimulating
Review: As a Hospice Spiritual Counselor, I found this book insighful and stimulating. I couldn't put it down. It contained valuable revelations that opens our soul to spirit. Thank You, James Refield, for a wonderful manuscript into the heart and soul of human existence. -- Samuel Oliver, author of, WHAT THE DYING TEACH US: LESSONS ON LIVING.
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Summary: good principles but bad writing
Review: This book did contain some valuable insights, but the writing was very poor. I tried hard to keep going, but it could not hold my attention at all...Worth reading for the insights which are interesting, but good luck trudging through this one.
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Summary: Poor
Review: This book is as preposterous as it is clumsily written. Reading this book through to the end was wearying. I want to keep this review short, since a longer review may serve to give the book more advertising, which it does not deserve.
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Summary: an awesome, mind-expanding piece of literary genius!
Review: Through the plot's fictional adventure story a life-altering spiritual message is put forth. As the characters search for the sacred manuscripts, insights are revealed that will change the way you see the world, and your life.
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Summary: Make that minus 1 star...!
Review: Such drivel...what next, James? A book titled "How to Cash in on the World's Needy and Desperate Who are Looking for Inner Peace?" Or how about a compendium of psuedo-intellectual pop psychology coupled with eastern philosophy and some Scientology thrown in for good measure. Sounds like the makings of a mind-numbing, brain-dumbing cult if you ask me! Read Deepok Chpra, Dalai Lama or Herman Hesse if you want to be 'enlightened'. Pick up a Bible, Koran, Torah, the Bagdavadh Gita, some Taoist literature, and throw in some Freud, some Jung, (and let's not forget, some common sense!) and you will have a much better melting pot of spirituality and philosphy than Redfield can ever provide. And if you want some adventure, why not pop in a video--Raiders of the Lost Ark is a pretty obvious pick--kick back, relax and forget all about Redfield's doltish effort.
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Summary: How to improve the way you relate to people and events!
Review: James Redfield has managed to write about some extremely powerful insights in the form of an easy to read fable. You can learn to appreciate the meaning of coincidence and to identify drama's some (maybe you) people use to feel in control. This book can change your life.
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Summary: Deep and Meaningful
Review: A book that made me change my way of thinking, though it is fictional, It really does focus on the fact that there is no such thing as coincidence, now think about that and everything that has happened to you, Everything in life truely does happen for a reason, sometimes we don't know what it is right away, but eventually we will see the reason behind it.....I loved it
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