Where does reality stop and fiction begin? The physical and the metaphysical are interwoven in the fabric of mankind. Often yesterday's fiction is today's reality. Nature is replete with hidden mysteries we cannot explain. In James Redfield's the fiction novel The Celestine Prophecy he presents the theory of coincidence in a magical way as he takes us on a journey of insight to the spirit. While I read this book it did not seem like fiction and the story seemed like a real possibility.
Redfield's work is an example of Eastern philosophy brought to the surface. During his college years he studied Taoism and Zen and sociology at Auburn University. After receiving a master's degree in counseling he worked with abused adolescents for 15 years. He was drawn into the human potential movement and turned to it for theories about how to use psychic phenomena that could help his clients.
In 1989 Redfield quit his job and began writing full time about:
• Interactive psychology
• Eastern and Western philosophies
• Science
• Futurism
• Ecology
• History
• Mysticism
Redfield combined his knowledge of the above into The Celestine Prophecy. With little interest from book publishers in 1992 he self published. Book sellers and readers made The Celestine Prophecy a red hot commodity. It was then picked up by Warner Books in 1994 and went to number one on best seller lists. The Celestine Prophecy was the number one seller in 1996 and sold more than 20 million copies worldwide with translations to 34 languages. In 1996 Redfield wrote a sequel, The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision that also was a best seller adding to Redfield's fame.
In 1997 Redfield produced a non-fiction title, The Celestine Vision: Living the New Spiritual Awareness, which explores the emerging spirituality discussed in his novels He continued and in 1999
with a series of adventure parables:
• The Secret of Shambhala (1999)
• In search of the 11th Insight (1999)
Then came the movies:
• God and the Evolving Universe, non-fiction film with Michael Murphy (2002)
• The Celestine Prophecy Movie (2006)
Finally, James and Salle Redfield are founders of the Global Prayer Project, a webcast that offers guided prayer and meditation. The Celestine Prophecy is a wonderful read and I appreciate the journey into the world of possibilities from the metaphysical.
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