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The Celestine Prophecy
by James Redfield

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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13103.The_Celestine_Prophecy?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Celestine Prophecy" border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JX1264YYL._SL160_.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13103.The_Celestine_Prophecy?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Celestine Prophecy</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8203.James_Redfield">James Redfield</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9841213?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 2 of 5 stars This book encourages a spiritual-but-not-religious awakening. The flimsy, implausible storyline and the not-so-well-crafted dialogue is only a device to present the pillars of this New Age philosophy. There is no plot and no tension. It is apparent from the beginning that the Nine Insights will be revealed, one by one, in order, at a predictable pace, and will not be rigorously defined or defended. In one sense, they cannot be defined, because they represent non-propositional knowledge—-that is, things you have to discover, learn, and experience yourself, rather than things you can learn from a book. At least the author is on target in his recommendation that vegetables are better when you grow them yourself.
 
 The Insights, paraphrased:
 
 First Insight: Figure out what you are searching for. Notice coincidences.
 
 Second Insight: Connect energy so coincidences happen more often. Think about time from the perspective of a millennium.
 
 Third Insight: Be aware of beauty, eat home-grown vegetables, and see auras around all living things.
 Fourth Insight: Understand that humans compete for energy in “control dramas” we learn from our parents.
 
 Fifth Insight: Have a sensual “mystical awareness.” Appreciate beauty to receive energy, and feel love to give energy. Controlling others disconnects you from your own source of energy. This insight will end human conflict.
 
 Sixth Insight: Examine your family “control dramas” on a spectrum that ranks individuals from aggressive to passive. See that there is an ambiguity in who is right and wrong. Transcend your drama and become aware of your own spiritual mission.
 
 Seventh Insight: Love causes high energy, stress causes low energy. Push away frequent feelings of fear—but, after they are mostly gone, when you occasionally feel negativity, take it seriously. 
 
 Eighth Insight: Treat others well insofar as we help each other evolve. Talk to the right people to get the answers you want. Avoid being “addicted” to other people, especially to their opposite-sex energy. You can receive opposite-sex energy naturally and directly from the universe. Addiction to getting energy from other people will stop your growth. Tell children the truth, and don’t create control dramas for them. 
 
 Ninth Insight: We will choose to have less people and more old-growth forests, so everyone can live in a forest. We will do less labor and more philosophy. Evolved groups will become invisible to lesser-evolved groups and these invisible people will walk into heaven.
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status: Read in November, 2007

This book encourages a spiritual-but-not-religious awakening. The flimsy, implausible storyline and the not-so-well-crafted dialogue is only a device to present the pillars of this New Age philosophy. There is no plot and no tension. It is apparent from the beginning that the Nine Insights will be revealed, one by one, in order, at a predictable pace, and will not be rigorously defined or defended. In one sense, they cannot be defined, because they represent non-propositional knowledge—-that is, things you have to discover, learn, and experience yourself, rather than things you can learn from a book. At least the author is on target in his recommendation that vegetables are better when you grow them yourself.

The Insights, paraphrased:

First Insight: Figure out what you are searching for. Notice coincidences.

Second Insight: Connect energy so coincidences happen more often. Think about time from the perspective of a millennium.

Third Insight: Be aware of beauty,...more This book encourages a spiritual-but-not-religious awakening. The flimsy, implausible storyline and the not-so-well-crafted dialogue is only a device to present the pillars of this New Age philosophy. There is no plot and no tension. It is apparent from the beginning that the Nine Insights will be revealed, one by one, in order, at a predictable pace, and will not be rigorously defined or defended. In one sense, they cannot be defined, because they represent non-propositional knowledge—-that is, things you have to discover, learn, and experience yourself, rather than things you can learn from a book. At least the author is on target in his recommendation that vegetables are better when you grow them yourself.

The Insights, paraphrased:

First Insight: Figure out what you are searching for. Notice coincidences.

Second Insight: Connect energy so coincidences happen more often. Think about time from the perspective of a millennium.

Third Insight: Be aware of beauty, eat home-grown vegetables, and see auras around all living things.
Fourth Insight: Understand that humans compete for energy in “control dramas” we learn from our parents.

Fifth Insight: Have a sensual “mystical awareness.” Appreciate beauty to receive energy, and feel love to give energy. Controlling others disconnects you from your own source of energy. This insight will end human conflict.

Sixth Insight: Examine your family “control dramas” on a spectrum that ranks individuals from aggressive to passive. See that there is an ambiguity in who is right and wrong. Transcend your drama and become aware of your own spiritual mission.

Seventh Insight: Love causes high energy, stress causes low energy. Push away frequent feelings of fear—but, after they are mostly gone, when you occasionally feel negativity, take it seriously.

Eighth Insight: Treat others well insofar as we help each other evolve. Talk to the right people to get the answers you want. Avoid being “addicted” to other people, especially to their opposite-sex energy. You can receive opposite-sex energy naturally and directly from the universe. Addiction to getting energy from other people will stop your growth. Tell children the truth, and don’t create control dramas for them.

Ninth Insight: We will choose to have less people and more old-growth forests, so everyone can live in a forest. We will do less labor and more philosophy. Evolved groups will become invisible to lesser-evolved groups and these invisible people will walk into heaven....less

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