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Posted: 23rd May 2002
Hi

I recommend you read the until the end.. I thought it was a great book to use bits and pieces out of.. The next book - The tenth insight is a bit heavy..from what I remember it tries to suggest that we should emulate Christ and not revere him as he did the whole Celestine thing all those years ago - aparently. hhmmmm not so sure.. I thought it was an intersting thing to cram into my brain.. need all the info i can get so as to be able to make sence of things.. ie have all the information available befor you make a decision.. you don't have to use the info but it's there if you need it.

Next book for you would be The Barefoot Doctors handbook for the urban warrior - I'm half way thru.. pretty good Taoist methodology brought bang up to date with style!

I honour you as an aspect of myself..

You are never to old to storm a bouncey castle..

Posted: 23rd May 2002
I would say definitly finish it. I'm not sure how long ago you posted this ( I forgot to look) but I thought that this was a very good book and would read it again if I only had a copy. It is kinda heavy reading and it gives you a lot to think about, but it is worth it. Some of it is really out there, but some things said are really inspiring and made me think about my life for a little while. Then again it's pretty serious and requires some brain power, so don't think about it too much or you'll end up hiking to peru and trying to solve the mystery of life....

safe journeys...happy trails...and remember to smile once and awile on your journey through life

Posted: 23rd May 2002
Is it a picture book? I can only cope if there are a lot of pictures....

Meh

Posted: 23rd May 2002
Nah, even the one on the front's a bit whack even with a pyramid of words too.

Goddamn hippies...

stole my pen....

bu-uuuurp!

Posted: 23rd May 2002
FINISH IT!!!!
It may be hard to relate to when your halfway through, but a lot of the book rings true in regards to energy and the way that energy works and flows....
Hippies rule....

TAJ "boat mummy." VALURA "yes sweetie you went on a boat, was daddy there with you?" TAJ "no, but monkey on boat" VALURA "well then sweetie, Daddy WAS there with you"

Posted: 23rd May 2002
Finish it.
Even if at the end you totally disagree with what it says, at least you know you have gone through the thought process & considered that perpective.
In all likelihood you won't disagree with it all, & you will take away one important lesson from it. (& have plenty of ammunition for those "damned hippies" comic bitching sessions with friends )

It was a day for screaming at inanimate objects.

What this calls for is a special mix of psychology and extreme violence...

Posted: 24th May 2002
I'll have to learn to read first then. Unless there's a comic book version?

Meh

Posted: 23rd May 2002
finish, then try 'journey to shamballah' (search for shamballah, something like that) by the same guy. For a more theoretical and rational exploration of the energy thing try
' The Tao of Physics - an exploration of the parallels between modern physics and eastern mysticism ' by Fritjof Capra.
It just makes sense!!

let it out, let it go, let it all unravel,
set it free and it can be
a path on which to travel...

Posted: 23rd May 2002
Popular book this one. 2 things about it I know. 1: I made a very good friend because she stayed in town a little longer, walked into a book store to look for it as recommended, found it in the first place she looked, read it for a day then met me. Says that it happened because of the message in the book.
2: People who read it spout a lot of stuff along the lines of "everything happens for a reason", which I find offensive.
I feel I should read it to get a perspective on what people get from it. Any ideas?

UYI OLDSKOOL

Posted: 23rd May 2002
I read this book a few years ago on a recommendation from a friend, and she had just read it, and for both of us it was the exact reight time to read the book ... just as the book suggests.

For me to read it now, i dont know, dont think it may be relevant for me, and the 10th insight was not going to happen.

Another book along these lines is the alchemist by paulo coelho .. i read that recently and didnt find it as good as what my friends did, but they were in a different stage of life and discovery.

I think its all about what you can get out of the book, if you are struggling to get through it, chances are you wont take anything away with you ..

- Industrial design knows of no article more useful than the milk crate -

Posted: 24th May 2002
If you have got that far, I think you should try to finish it maybe.
Having said that, I only managed about a quarter of it! My sister recommended it to me a few years ago, so I bought it, but I really couldn't get on with it at all - it's the way it is written that put me off. I am sure there is something valid in the message of the book but I think the jargon (if thats the correct term to use!) is aweful - it just doesn't ring true.

I, also, found 'The Alchemist' not quite as good as I had been lead to believe for the same reason
- the way the book is written is a bit similar to Celestine, only it's not as bad!

Of course, thats just my opinion, different things appeal to different people!!

anniesparks

Posted: 24th May 2002
I've just got to the bit where he discovers he can see the entire history of life on earth and the universe (and what a subjective history it is too...), and takes a few moments while he's being tracked by Peruvian military police.

It's getting a bit too sticky to be believable. Is this a kids book? I mean, I can see why he wrote it, and I can see all the little devices he's putting in to convey a message, don't you think it's a little bit too transparent though?

Don't get me wrong, I've nothing against kid's books, I thought Sophie's World was fantastic - and that was translated from Swedish, or summat.

By the way, the word 'Hippy' was invented by 'the media', just like 'Raver' was, to pigeonhole something they didn't understand. Don't forget, if you dress like a hippy, you're easier to spot...

prime mate

Posted: 24th May 2002
i think it's a great book to read. but i read all types of spiritual books, basically anything that i can get my hands on. if u'r not really into that type of reading, it probably sounds like a whole load of horse shit written by some person who is trying to start a new religious cult. however,if you are able to get through it, i highly recommend reading the 2 books that follow, tenth insight and secret of shambala. i think the secret of shambala is the best of the 3.

i'm interested as to how much of the book is actually based on true spiritual happenings. alot of james redfields ideas are also discussed in other spiritual books, stuff like- people coming into your life at the right time, everything comes to us when we need it, energy fields between people etc. when u actually look at life in terms of how this book says, it begins to make sense as to how people think this way.

i'm a bit skeptical about the different levels of meditation etc that the books rave on about. especially that stuff about the 'lost civilisations' being on a different energy plane, hence invisible to people on the earth plane. but then, who really knows.

i find it all very interesting. the unknown, noone can really say if it is all true or not..but at least it gives many people something to believe in. perhaps all those people who say they talk to spirits actually have a mental disorder. i often feel like i'm talking to myself when i have a spirit communication during meditation. i, personally believe it all, but there's always a bit of skepticism in the back of my mind.
maybe i'm just going crazy and hearing voices...

Posted: 24th May 2002
Hmmm. That book again. Yeah I found some of it very interesting and thought provoking but the end (like the lost civilizations and all that) was over my head.

Yeah it's shakily written but if you take that out of the equation and look at the subject matter then at least the first few are really relevent to me. I can't see energy like he can and I suppose like others may think, it was a bit unbelievable. But perhaps that's because the writer was rushing us through the insights, so he has to make the main character go through it quickly.

As for am I a convert? Yey and nay. Sceptisism is something I'm still trying to work out if it blocks me or I'm just operating on a realism factor, on this one. Dunno, didn't then, still don't but by gum you got me thinking again...

Oh! and primate, about the hippies; you're right

Posted: 25th May 2002
Hmmm, the icon winks to the left... Does it have meaning, or is it co-incidence? Should I go and talk to it? Does it have a message?

Okay, okay, I was engrossed in it. The story had me gripped. Though I can imagine it was written for a mainly American readership, what with the author being American, I kept stopping and marvelling at the accessible level of language in the book (allowing even the deepest entrenched red-neck the chance to read it).

I was rather shocked by the implication that Jesus was the first man to transcend (so what did Buddha do? Explode?)

Given that it is a story, I do not expect a Harvard approach to crediting the various ideas he has used, but I'm sure a few notes here at the end would not have gone amiss, as well has supporting his visions. I though that none of his ideas were particularly new, and I had the feeling that I was being sucked into the 'Cult of the Prophecy'.

Apart from that, yep, I'm down with it. Admittedly the writing style does not have the finesse I would have liked, but what hell, if it at least makes one person happy...

Would I recommend it? Only to sceptics. The last thing I'd want is more hippies rattling on about how good the book is, spouting chi and karma, and all that crap.

I'd be more likely to recommend 'Cat's Cradle' by Kurt Vonnegut. Bokononism, now there's a religion...

peace, love & keep an open mind... buuuu-uuurp!

purrr! Aye, mate!

oh yeah, have a peep at this, it's a gem, it put me off the book for years: "Why I hate the Celestine Prophecy"