The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Celestine Prophecy
Book Review: A fun adventure
Summary: 5 Stars
I take issue with reviews indicating this author does not know how to write. On the contrary, I thought this tale was VERY well told. It was informative, mysterious, colorful, intriguing, and highly believable.
That said, no one has to take the prophecy as Gospel but as for the adventure of the story, there's no doubt that reading this book is time well spent. It made me love life.
Book Review: A good guide to your destiny
Summary: 5 Stars
First off, I don't know -- and am truly amazed -- why this book has got such lousy reviews! It's not a Pulitzer-winning kind of writing but what's written here is really marvellous. It's not very original stuff. But for those of us who are just entering the portals of spiritual experiences or just about really starting to discover our true selves, this is a great kick-off point. It's put together a lot of theories from the ancient and contemporary spiritual thinkers and has done so in a pretty convincing manner. Life's coincidences no longer seem to be coincidences. And there is a method in the madness of what we call life. These are some of the main tips that this book provides you. It takes you into yourself -- what you find out there is, after all, upto you. And if it's part of your life plan, you should get enough food for thought from this book and its sequels (the fourth, the Experiential Guide to The Fourth Insight is the best). Lastly, I believe that this book has the ability to heal yourself and as The Tenth Insight almost pleads, you have the ability to play a role in healing the world. Really. But I'm not going to try and convince you more. If you HAVE to read this book, you WILL, good reviews or bad reviews notwithstanding.Book Review: A great source that opens ones mind to the next level.
Summary: 5 Stars
A simply fantastic book that is full of wonder and adventure and at the same time allows the average person to take another look at life and to hopefully understand that there is another way of doing things. Society has imposed our present "World View" and I believe that it is because of this that we are where we are. We need to believe in ourselves and our ability to control our own fate. Only by doing this can we ever be happy. This book helps pave the way. I would suggest reading some texts on Toaism by Benjamin Hoff as a preliminary way of openning the mind. I also highly recommend the Tenth Insight for those who liked the Celestine Prophecy and see the inner meaning of it.Book Review: A journey of the soul
Summary: 4 Stars
James Redfield uses this story to unveil the possibility of universal hope for all of humanity, through an ever increasing awareness of our self, others around us, and our natural world. He writes of special places where the energy which binds us all together is ever present, in sites such as mountains and old-growth forests. Have you ever felt a certain fondness for special places such as these?
James also helps us understand the movement afoot in all corners of the globe, to raise our energy levels by being aware of what is truly happening to us all. He writes of the quantum leap which is necessary to create a unitive society of souls, dedicated to the proposition of establishing basic subsistence levels for all of humankind. It is through us our future depends.
Book Review: A jumbled mess of low caliber
Summary: 1 Stars
This book was recommended by a friend whose opinion I value highly, so I had high hopes for it. This book can be taken in a number of different ways. Unfortunately, most of them fail.If you take it as a fiction adventure, it is third rate, at best, with lame prose that appears to be cranked out by a sixth grader for a creative writing assignment, and a plot that is so full of cliches that it is laughable. The characters are monotonous and underdeveloped. They are, in fact, interchangeable.
If you take it as science fiction, it falls short of the type of well-developed, rich world that we've come to expect from the genre.
If you take it as a literal description of the world -- an interpretation it tries to encourage by throwing in little bits of nearly correct science -- well, it's just plain kooky, with too much new age mumbo jumbo to be taken seriously. The book spends significant time trying to convince us of the importance of coincidences, without pondering the real question of how many similar events go unnoticed because they don't fit our notion of what a coincidence should be. And all the talk of visible energy is too silly to tolerate.
If you take the book as a metaphor for personal interactions, it seems to have a little bit of merit, but if that is the point of the book, why wrap all the other garbage around it? If you want a practical book on personal interaction with similar themes, and without all the new age silliness, read "How To Make Love All The Time" by Barbara De Angelis. And if you need an excuse to appreciate the beauty of life more,just go out and do it, and put the juvenile fiction away.
Overall, there doesn't seem to be a point to reading this book.