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Summary: The secrets of Zen Buddhists and Chi Kung masters
Review: I was happy to find out ideas in this book perfectly complements Zen Buddhism and Chi Kung. On top of that, it added a new twist on "people draining on eachothers' energy" which I find to be very true. This is a perfect complement to Glenn Morris's "Path Notes" book which actually describes how to reach enlightment using basic energy exercises. (Chi Kung). Skills like seeing energy fields have been around for almost thousand years and is very real. Great book. Storyline could be fiction but foundation is not. I will apply it in my daily life.
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Summary: Alice in New Age Land
Review: OVERVIEW OF THE SERIES:To paraphrase Tweedledee's story of the Walrus and the Carpenter in Alice in Wonderland: "It is time to talk of New Age Things," said the author,/ "Of soul groups and force fields and astral projection / Of time travel and things / And why our energy levels are not boiling hot / And whether dakinis have wings." Like Alice, I think the author James Redfield has been drinking too many magic potions and smoking too much hookah with the caterpillar and his New Age friends. In his trilogy, the author weaves fictional stories around New Age doctrines and beliefs. Each book starts out "above ground" in the realm of reality but soon, like Alice, we find ourselves falling down into the rabbit hole of the New Age mind. Here in New Age Land that we learn the "TRUTH" that everything above ground is not as it appears to be. One key truth to unlock the door and enter the magic of New Age Land is to be very careful of what one eats. The food of choice is to eat only live greens, preferably uncooked, which will increase your energy levels so that you can disappear and reappear like Cheshire cats on demand. Poor Alice, if only she hadn't eaten the cake! Once your energy levels are high enough, and with a little practice, you too will be able to escape reality and enter New Age Land, any time, anywhere and any place. Here you will learn how to perform all sorts of reality-escaping magic, including astral projection and time travel. You can even visit your past and future lives or just sit around and vibrate at high energy levels. Just as in Wonderland, New Age Land is also full of mystical and magical creatures that appear and disappear to help you on your journey. However, these creatures are not seen by everyone, you have to increase your energy levels high enough and look out of the corners of your eyes or cause your eyes to go out of focus to see them. Soon, with a little practice, you will be able to see them too. Some of these "colorful" beings include angels like creatures called dakini (apparently similar to angels) and soul groups that are part of your previous and future lives to help you along your journey. What is the ultimate purpose of all this? Well, after you learn the ten truths taught in the first two books you must begin to make them an integral part of your life and teach others these truths. Soon many people will embrace these truths to the point where we collectively reach critical mass and then POOF, we all evolve consciously into a spiritual society where there is no need for clothing and no one goes hungry because we all can just create it in our minds in the land called Shambhala! I hope none of this makes much sense to you, because if it does, you're beginning to worry me. Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland for a young girl named Alice. Young children, as every parent knows, have a vivid imagination and in their early years they have a hard time distinguishing between reality and fantasy. Fortunately, most children eventually grow up and learn the difference; unfortunately, the author of these books was not one of them. REVIEW OF THE CELESTINE PROPHECY: This is the first book in the series. Here the main character and his friends are on a quest to find nine hidden spiritual insights that are lost somewhere deep in the Peruvian rainforest. Of course it wouldn't be much of a story if there weren't any evil opposition; how about the evil Catholic Church working with the Peruvian government to stop these seekers from uncovering the "truths". YAWN. In the first half of the book our hero struggles with how to interpret events that are occurring and reoccurring in his life. Certainly we can all relate to that. Unfortunately, about midway through the book the story takes a left turn from reality, bypasses the signpost up ahead that says, "Warning, Twilight Zone Ahead", goes beyond the "Outer Limits" and enters a realm where characters begin glowing like light bulbs and appearing and disappearing like Cheshire cats. My advice is to read Alice in Wonderland instead.
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Summary: Insightful and Exciting
Review: This book was the beginning of my new awareness. My mentor let me borrow this book about a year ago, and I've been on a quest to better my life and those around me ever since. This book is fun and easy to read like a story, yet it excites and inspires you to take action like a self-help book. Really worth the time and money.
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Summary: Spiritual Awakening
Review: If you are at the beginning of your spiritual journey, this book is for you. The content of the Celestine Prophecy opened my eyes...and opened them wide... to new ideas, different concepts and a spirituality awareness I'd never had before. The book changed me in a way; it made me think, it led me onto other paths and much more importantly, it made me aware. The book has nine insights which explain certain 'secrets' and show new ways of looking at the world; it is about the dawn of a new age. It is not very well written, from a literary point of view but it catches the imagination and once you 'get into it', you can manage to ignore the writing style. It is well worth a read.
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Summary: NOT CELESTIAL
Review: This book reads like a movie. A few people recommended this book and perhaps my expectations were high. I was completely disappointed and bored. I don't understand how it was a best seller. Maybe I missed something, because I certainly can't understand how people were somehow spiritually enlightened by this book.
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Summary: Inspirational, exciting learning experience
Review: This book with it's parable theme is remarkable. It teaches valuable lessons in a format that keeps the interest. I found it very difficult to put this book down & couldn't wait to experiment on my own with the lessons learned! I very much enjoyed the exciting, story telling theme of the book. I have read several of his other works & also enjoyed them but not to the degree that I enjoyed this one. This one is definitly a five star.
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Summary: Commonplace ideas, laughably bad writing
Review: Mr Redfield wraps up some nice but unoriginal ideas in writing so bad I am amazed it ever got past any editor anywhere.
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Summary: Only In Dreams
Review: i have yet to finish the entire book, however, it has given me so much to take within my self. it takes you further, and lets you breathe the air as if your lungs were screaming for life. One of the best that i have ever seen.
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Summary: Reactions are Strong - and varied - to this book
Review: I read this ages ago, probably when it first came out. Since then I have heard much about it - and read some reviews on it in Amazon.com. I find that people either condemn it, and the people who get something out of it; or love it, and think it is the answer. From my own experience, this book somehow manages to interest and sooth, when a person is in need. That is the only way I can explain its popularity. Objectively, no, its not a riveting plot, nor are the ideas world-changing, and I can understand people who are not in a vulnerable state scorning it as "new-age mumbo-jumbo"; but I think they should realise - and respect - that others may find it useful.
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Summary: All about intuition!
Review: This is an excellent book for those who wish to expand spiritually. It is NOT for the tunnel-visioned scientist who needs to prove everything on a physical level. This book helps to develop your intuition by making you aware of significant occurances in everyday life that we may not have noticed in the past. The point of this book is not so much to set "rules" for us to follow. But it helps the reader to further develop his/her own idea of what life means. I am a Psychologist and I also work with the Emergency Medical Service in Chicago.
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