THE CELESTINE PROPHECY – Romance by James Redfield

When Redfield self-published his first novel, the immediate interest from booksellers and readers made The Celestine Prophecy one of the most successful self-published books of all time. As a young man, he studied Eastern philosophies, including Taoism and Zen, while majoring in sociology at Auburn University. James Redfield was 43 when he published The Celestine Prophecy. Born in 1950, he grew up in a rural area of Alabama where, from an early age, he was motivated by a need for clarity about spiritual matters. Using an adventure parable approach that has been called “part Indiana Jones, part Scott Peck,” The Celestine Prophecy created a model for spiritual perception and actualization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQfoSKFqhjc

You have never read a book like this before — a book that comes along once in a lifetime to change lives forever. The story opens with the male narrator becoming reacquainted with an old female friend, who tells him about the Insights contained in a manuscript dating to 600 BC, which has been only recently translated. Within its pages are 9 key insights into life itself, insights each human being is predicted to grasp sequentially. The Celestine Prophecy is a novel that discusses various psychological and spiritual ideas rooted in multiple ancient Eastern traditions and New Age spirituality. The main character undertakes a journey to find and understand a series of nine spiritual insights in an ancient manuscript in Peru. In the novel, the Maya civilization left ruins in Peru where the manuscript was found, whereupon the Incas took up residence in the abandoned Maya cities after the Maya had reached an “energy vibration level” which made them cross a barrier into a completely spiritual reality. https://www.amazon.com/Celestine-Prophecy-Adventure-James-Redfield/dp/0446671002