Celestine Prophecy
by Donald E. Hester
on Sunday, 04 January 2009
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Jeff a friend of mine, had the book and lent it to me. It is a short, it is an overview of the author's 9 truths.
The first insight is that there are coincidences in life. I buy that, in fact, there is an old Jewish saying that is "coincidence is not a kosher word". Meaning everything happens for a reason. According to him coincidences means there is meaning to life and a spiritual realm or domain. (I guess that depends on whether you are a UNIX or Windows guy). This is nothing new every other religion will affirm this.
James Redfield believes that materialism has lead us to rely on science and that we as a people have seen these coincidences and are starting to realize there is more to life than what science can measure. Now that we realize this, we can start to tap into the divine energy. All of the other steps deal with how we deal with this energy and others energy.
James believes, we as a society will all start to realize and we will eventually live both in the physical and spiritual. If you remember Wesley Crusher form Star Trek the Next Generation or Daniel Jackson from Star Gate they both ascended to this higher state. Ha ha, who got the idea first?
I too believe that one day we will be people of life and perhaps exist in more than 3 dimensions. In fact, I think we do now, we are just not generally aware of it.
The quest James is on seems to be an attempt to fill the God sized vacuum that is in every man. I believe C. S. Lewis talked about that. This reminds me that God does leave clues to His existence, so that no one is without excuse. If James can figure out that, there is more to life that what we can see, it is another proof that God does leave us proof in nature.
I think this book will help bring people around to what will be discovered in the near future. I believe in the near future people will discover that there is a spiritual realm or domain, perhaps it is hyper-space or yet a higher dimension. Who knows? Astrophysics and quantum theory are pointing in this direction currently. The one thing the Celestine Prophecy will deliver is an explanation of this without having to use God. Instead, it is the divine energy that we all have or are a part of.
The book sounds spiritual and nice and does play upon truths that are self-evident. The subtle but sinister problem is it is the same old lie from the Garden of Eden. We are like gods and we don't need God.
PS the book is built on what James Redfield thinks and his logic.
Website http://www.celestinevision.com/