Celestine Prophecy
Many theories abound about how to reach a higher state of consciousness. In this book, adventure leads to learning one way that a human being can tune in this cosmic energy.
Described as an adventure novel, “Celestine Prophecy” came out in 1983. Even though this book was a buzzword around consciousness raising groups, I didn’t read it then. Buzzwords are often the result of a good ad campaign, rather than an indication of a quality. Written by James Redfield, this book was a light read with some interesting intrinsic thoughts about higher consciousness.
The setting of the book takes place in the mountains of Peru. Mystical energies are the topic. Meditation is the suggested method of attaining higher consciousness. But snatching a few stolen moments of quiet usually only happened in stolen moments.
Rather like the Carlos Castaneda story of an Indian guide who takes his mentor through several phases of cosmic experiences, the “Celestine Prophecy” presents the spiritual guide as a catholic priest. Throughout the lines of Redfield’s book, he reveals that achieving higher consciousness involves communing with nature.
Predicting a new world order of cosmic consciousness, this book’s idealism is sweet.
Meditating on the aura of trees and growing things elevates the consciousness. After an exchange of energy between human and plant life, one’s state of existence changes to a feeling of lightness and buoyancy. Almost super human energy goes with the elevated consciousness.
In the later stages of the book, the human beings exchange energy with one another through sharing the like, meditative frame of mind. Every human helps out his neighbor on planet earth by exchanging energy with others.
A book with a nice thought
Interestingly, the means for sharing higher consciousness is – you guessed it – the Internet. Or maybe you didn’t guess, but in 1983 the development of Internet immediately spurred wildly imaginative speculation about its possibilities.
Within this book, James Redfield proposes that sharing what you know becomes the medium of exchange as opposed to monetary compensation.
The “Celistine Prophecy” is a book that gets off to a rather slow start. The main action describes how the Catholic Church reacted to nine spiritual manuscripts that inexplicably turn up around the priesthood. Priests, scholars and scientists make for an interesting blend of main characters.
A slightly bothersome credibility issue crops up in the later pages of the book, however. The reader can use imagination to fill in this tiny little gap, though. Otherwise, “Celestine Prophesy” is an easy read – approximately 250 pages. As a backdrop for the intrigue in this book, the rainforests of Peru are a beautiful place to visit.
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