The Celestine Vision: Living the New Spiritual Awareness [Paperback]

# We are spirits in human bodies.

# Our destiny/evolution somehow involves whether we collectively decide that since we are human, do we reach for and wish to achieve the divine and spiritual in each of us (because when we all are mindful of God, it actually creates God) OR, do we wish to remain animals like all the rest of God's creatures--to encourage our animal/beastly natures with simple desires, intuitions, and thus, in doing so, remain strictly of the Earth?

# There is generally more good than bad in life. Like Camus says, it is Sisyphusian even though we all ain't in rock rolling maintenance. And it is definitely worth living. You can get more of the goodness from life by focusing on the good/positive in any circumstance...even if there may be inconceivable pain and suffering involved. Like Frankl also says.

# I am quite sure a whole lotta people, some of them famous and great, have come up with something very similar thoughts and conclusions to the items I've listed above, but they are basic musings. OK...what do these musings have to do with Redfield's book?

Right. See, in the mid to late 1990's a handful of so-called New Age writers, self help authors, and televangelists were putting together their portfolios, so to speak, on the prediction, and, in their minds, "the need" for some kind of spiritual upheaval/spiritual explosion associated with the coming of the New Millenium. Some may say they are blessed with vision, others may say they are in it for personal gain. It ain't my intent to debate all the individual motivations here. But, during that time, Marianne Williamson comes out with a new book, Shirley McLaine comes out with a new book, Ken Wilber comes out with a new book, the Dalai Lama....

And Redfield. But, note. They are very similar. But, note. We everyday people don't get the basic messages of what they are saying until it either gets real, real close to it being too late or alas, it is ALREADY too late...so, mebbe, with another new voice out there sharing the message in their own style, SOMEONE may get the basic lesson. That's the real beauty of having so many of these visionaries out there.

Redfield may not be a new voice but certainly he has more than a few ways of getting your attention. Of this book, I found his subchapter on how it seems that the emergence of Einstein and Bohr and Pauli and Heisenberg and the new Quantum Physicists (and the adoption of the scientific paradigm which diverted from the Old Newtonian mechanistic world view) began to parallel the beginning of the western world's examination and adaptation of Eastern religion and thus what Redfield says is the beginnings of the (re)discovery of the Human Energy Field quite elegant in it's simplicity. (He did not, however, much mention how WW II influenced evverything during that this era he was speaking of, and to me, that is quite an oversight..) His exploration of the Jungian Synchronistic world view is also deftly done. While I do not get into the mystical experience and dream scaping he likes to go into and I don't see the need to go thru a lot of what's he saying to have an illuminating spiritual experience, I do think if some folks need what he's telling them to get to one, then, in a phrase "it's all good". (Kinda like what the positive vibing in synchronicity is supposed to be about.)

Overall, it is a good book because I feel that the start of the transforming self begins at home, and ultimately to the rest of the universe...the reader must simply START THE JOURNEY, and then, in a way, the universe DOES become more responsive....Redfield shows us one way to do this. He does the Basics. And he puts his spin on how everyday people can obtain the spiritual....