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Summary: Great book!!
Review: I feel this book open your eyes to spirituallity even if the book may happen to been fiction. I feel alot of people might laugh at this and think this a joke but I feel this book has a great purpose to those who may be weak in spirit. I feel religion is a restricted source of limitations and spiritually is the key to freedom not just freedom in general but freedom from the shackles of limitations of religion.
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Summary: Love this book!!!!
Review: Of course this book is fiction, however, this book brings spiritualism to a new level. Now those that dont understand the book at all...two words.."TRY WICCA"(or any form of the pagan path) as a religion, then, just then you might understand it a bit better. This book is a pure gem, and will change your life.
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Summary: No Flashing Lights Here
Review: The book is Fiction to clarify everyone's question.The story follows the narrator as he finds himself pulled into this mysterious world where on the one side people are searching for a manuscript that detail the essence of human existence and our future and on the other side the government and the Church try to suppress it. The highpoints of this novel is where "Dobson" recounts the history of Human Evolution. Also, for any student of the occult one can see that the author does have knowledge of certain "magical" practices such as breathing in the vital energy, the eucharist secret, etc. The lowpoint is mostly how the story develops, things happen too fast and the author dwells too much on absorbing energy and the relationship between the characters on the "good" side is unbelievable. Everyone is just so composed and happy. Happy, happy, happy. The people are sort of like some energy vamps in a Prozac club - sometimes while reading I had to stop because it got a bit weird. And is that the secret to the Mayan civilization's disappearance? Did they just dissappear? What about the Egyptians wasn't their culture advanced enough to just dissapear? The way the book ends also is a bit disturbing: if he's writing something to help people why does he leave off the story so dry? Why not put everything there? Instead he stops abruptly (quite an anti-climax) and you know there must be a sequel. Yes. And he even has a form at the back about getting audio tapes, joining a mailing list, etc. Can you say cult? It's like he's trying to estabish this new empire based on his book (T-shirts, mugs, lunch boxes, the works!). If you have eyes look at the other titles associated with this book - they're so neatly tied into this title. One final snigger: he mentions God all the time but never really gives the reader a clear idea of his concept of God. Was this manuscript his God? Please I would have liked to hear his views about God from the get go in this title. The one thing that I learned from this book is that the author has his own philosophy about life that he trys to bring accross in this novel. He appeals to the average middle american who lives a modest lifestyle and has an idea that there is a spiritual side to life. He is also keen to link his beliefs to Christinaity. Read the book and see - he knows exactly who his target market is. Are you apart of it? If you are truly interested in what life is all about read any occult book. Stuff like Steiner, Crowley, Bardon etc. If you are too scared to do that then read a book by a good psychologist: Jung. To the author: PLEASE TELL YOUR PROSPECTIVE READERS WHAT THE AIM AND INTENTION OF YOUR WORK IS!!! Ha Ha Ha - The Celestine Prophecy. Hhhm.
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Summary: Self-fulfilling Prophecy...
Review: I feel that there are many little things I wish people commented on that were not brought up in any reviews I have read on this book. Here are a couple things I found particularly troubling: 1. First of all the "physicist" in the book describes experiments in which scientists working on a subatomic level found that whatever they predict will happen in their experiments actually happens, proving a control we as humans have on matter and energy. These experiments obviously never took place. I believe the author may have been reading The Tao of Physics and stumbled upon Hiesenberg's Uncertainty Principle and totally misunderstood it and then threw a badly mangled explanation of it into his book. I enjoy the Tao of Physics very much. I think it comes teeteringly close to "out there" ideas and still comes away dignified, studied and rational. I can not say the same for this book. 2. Correct me if I'm wrong but it seemed as though the author described the main character driving up to the ruins of Machu Picchu. There is no way to drive to these ruins tucked away in the Andes and it makes me suspect further that the author did little to no research when writing this book. 3. The idea that we just start dealing out money to people who have had profound affects on us and that this will solve the problem of poverty in the world is the most ludicrous idea I have ever heard! I laughed out loud. Each time we meet someone who has information towards answers we need to find in life we should, according to the manuscripts, awkwardly dish out some cash to our new friend. And since everyone we meet coincidentally has answers for us, these exchanges will be happening so often that money will always flow to and from everyone, saving the world from greed and want! The greatest coincidence we should look into is how true this insight became for James Redfield and how much our money has flowed to him after he shared his "answers" with us. Thankfully I checked this book out from the public library. I should mention that I enjoyed small things about this book. I liked thinking about control dramas, about the four types of control dramas that were described and how they are created. This could be, and probably is, better illustrated somewhere and gone into in further depth. Honestly this is about all I got from the book. The book claims to be a bridge of the spiritual and scientific. It does no such thing. It marginalizes both by quickly and erroneously describing ideas presented by both worldviews in a fictitious book that tries to pass itself off as based in the real world. For the most obvious holes in this book, (I would almost go so far as to say it is one big hole), there is coincidentally an explanation in the manuscripts that can explain everything. For the rest of the holes there is just a dumbfounded reader thinking, how did a travesty like this ever become a best-seller???
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Summary: Amazing.........this book has absolutely no bottom
Review: Follow the vague instructions of this indigestable psychobabble and enjoy getting your lunch eaten by life.....try spreading the simplistic ideas of this book in the Middle East or anywhere in the world with real conflict. Once put up against any serious intellectual test, the ideas of this book vanish faster than its protagonists do at the end of the story. This book is for people with too much time on their hands who already lead a charmed life....try giving it to someone truly suffering from hunger, oppression or disease and its empty message and lack of true inspriational value is exposed in all of its irrelevance; read the Bible, Koran, or whatever your chosen holy book happens to be for truly timeless messages....skip this "once in a lifetime" book.
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Summary: Contemporary Philosopher
Review: James Redfield writes solely on the topic of human spiritual awareness. His books are not meant to be read for a fictional adventure. Rather the story is simply analogous to his philosophical teachings on our everyday lives. He is a contemporary philosopher, and when reading the Celestine prophesy you need to look beneath the surface of the plot in order to interpret the significance of what Redfield is saying.
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Summary: Truth within the reader
Review: Anyone in the wicca faith (or any faith) must read this book...this book has changed my life..it'll change yours as well.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: Great book for someone looking for something "different" in life. Wether you are into mysticism, spirituality, or just want a nice tale that will give you some insight, I recommend this book!
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Summary: Belongs in Everyone's Humor Collection
Review: As far as unintentinal hoots go, this is by far my favorite. The blurb writer above describes Jesse Conti's delivery perfectly: " He reads in hushed, anticipatory tones, almost whispering the secrets of the prophesies." What could be richer? He appears to naively believe that he is imparting some sort of actual wisdom, or is unravelling the mysteries of The Dead Sea Scrolls. All he is doing, in reality is sounding incredibly inept. There is no wisdom to be imparted here, soul fans! Not even the slightest intimation of an original concept. Regurgitated 60s mantra music, from the newly annointed guru of pop spiritualism. Redfield makes Richard Bach look positively profound, by comparison. If you want to find true spirituality between the bindings of a book, pick up the Bible, The Koran, The Bagghavad Ghita, The Upanishads, Siddhartha, Kalhil Gibran, C.S. Lewis, etc. If you want a good belly-laugh, order this tape. BEK
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Summary: Very bad
Review: Commercial, uninspiring and really bad. I don't understand why this book was such a success. I read many many books of self-development, this is the only one I won't recommend you. If you really want to read about New Age "stuff", look elsewhere. You can actually write a better book! By Thei Zervaki...
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