Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield - Audio Book CD
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In the rainfall forests of Peru, an historic manuscript has been noticed. Within its pages are 9 key insights into lifetime itself -- insights each human being is expected to grasp sequentially; 1 understanding, then another, as we move toward a completely spiritual culture on Earth. Drawing on historic wisdom, it informs you how to create connections among the occasions happening in your existence now and lets you see what exactly is going to result to you in the years to come. The story it informs is a gripping 1 of adventure and discovery, but it is actually moreover a guidebook that has the force to crystallize your perceptions of why you may be where you're in lifetime and to direct your procedures with a modern power and optimisim as you head into tomorrow.
About the Author James Redfield
When writer and therapist James Redfield self-published his initially novel in
1993, the immediate ground swell of enthusiasm from booksellers and visitors
prepared The Celestine Prophecy the most lucrative self-published books of
all time.
Since 1994, when Warner Books published The Celestine Prophecy in difficult
cover, this adventure parable about a spiritual journey to Peru became 1 of
contemporary publishing's biggest success stories. According to Publishing Trends,
The Celestine Prophecy was the #1 global bestseller of 1996 (#2 in
1995). In 1995 and 1996, it was the #1 American book in the globe. This
phenomenal novel invested over 3 years found on the New York Times bestsellers list and
appeared on lists all over the world. In 1996, an eagerly awaited sequel, The
Tenth Insight: Holding The Vision, which furthermore became an instant bestseller,
joined The Celestine Prophecy. The 2 books invested a combined 74 weeks found on the
New York Times list, creating James Redfield the best-selling difficult cover writer
in the globe in 1996, as cited in BP Report (January 1997).
James Redfield was 43 when he published The Celestine Prophecy, which
chronicles Nine Insights into a better spirituality. He has been keenly
interested in human spirituality all of his lifetime. Born on March 19, 1950, he
grew up in a rural region near Birmingham, Alabama. From an early age, he was
inspired by a need for quality about spiritual issues. Brought up in a
Methodist Church which was loving and community-oriented, he was nevertheless
frustrated by a deficiency of answers to his issues about the true nature of
spiritual experience. As a young guy, he studied Eastern philosophies,
including Taoism and Zen, while majoring in sociology at Auburn University. He
later received a Master's degree in counseling and invested over 15 years as
a therapist to abused adolescents. During this time, he was drawn into the
human possible movement and turned with it for theories about intuitions and
psychic phenomena that would assist his troubled customers. All along, Redfield was
forming inspirations that would eventually discover their technique into The Celestine Prophecy.
In 1989, he quit his job as a therapist to write full-time, synthesizing his
interest in interactive psychology, Eastern and Western philosophies, research,
futurism, ecology, history, and mysticism.
Using an adventure parable approach that has been called 'piece Indiana
Jones, piece Scott Peck,' The Celestine Prophecy created a model for spiritual
perception and actualization that resonated with millions of individuals and focused
found on the mysterious coincidences that happen in each of our lives. Disdaining the
spotlight himself, Redfield proclaimed in The Celestine Prophecy that each of
us should intuit his own spiritual fate.
As he writes in The Celestine Vision, his non-fiction title published in
1997, 'the actual writing of The Celestine Prophecy happened from January 1989
through April 1991 and was characterized by a kind of trial-and-error procedure.
Quite amazingly, as I remembered earlier experiences and wrote about them,
lacing them into an adventure story, striking coincidences would happen to
highlight the points I desired to create. Books would show up
mysteriously, or I would have timely encounters with all the actual kind of
people I was trying to describe. Occasionally strangers would open to
me for no obvious reason and tell me about their spiritual experiences.'
Feeling 'form of stuck' at 1 point, Redfield went to the high-energy vortexes
of Sedona, Arizona-an region that he and various others respect as a sacred region. As
he recounts in an interview in Body, Mind, Spirit magazine: 'I was sitting on a
ridge close to the Chapel Vortex and striving to function with all the notes for the book. It
wasn't coming conveniently. All of the abrupt, a crow flew from the canyon and proper
over my head and then flew into the canyon. I continued to create notes. I
was having some trouble getting the story to flow out. The crow came from the
canyon again and flew over me, then back to the canyon, thus I went into the
canyon, and when I sat down the book simply came pouring out.' The flow halted,
yet, when Redfield started sending The Celestine Prophecy to publishers in
1992. He did obtain a limited has, but they didn't appear right. 'The businesses
all sought to take between a year and 18 months to receive the book out. I felt the
book was timely and that we must receive it out right away.'
All the coincidences stopped, and I felt dead in the water. I was
interpreting the complete deficiency of publishing chance as a failure, a
bad event, and that has been the interpretation that had stopped the
coincidences that I felt had been leading me forward. When I realized what was
happening, I snapped to attention and prepared more revisions to the book,
emphasizing this point.
Within days, Redfield heard about a publishing consultant from New York who
had really moved into the region. Driven by intuition to find him out, the 2 met,
and the coincidences started again. Redfield promptly decided to self-publish the
book. Simply as he went to print, he met Salle Merrill, who brought with her a
timely focus found on the value of providing. Then spouse and spouse, James and
Salle filled the trunk of their vehicle with duplicates of The Celestine Prophecy and
drove to bookstores, meeting visitors and chatting about the book. 'Of the initially
3,000 duplicates we printed, we mailed or personally gave away 1,500 to little book
stores and people in Alabama, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia.' James
recalls in The Celestine Vision, 'Word of mouth recommendations took care of
everything else.' In six months, the book had over 100,000 duplicates in print, was
in every 50 states, and was appearing in nations all over the world. 'It sold not
as a result of any publicity I did, but because others started to provide it to their
neighbors everywhere.'
After the self-published book was brought to the attention of Warner Books
through a perceptive sales rep, Warner Books purchased the rights and published
the difficult cover edition in March 1994. The book immediately climbed to the #1
position found on the New York Times bestsellers list. It stayed on that list for
over 3 years, joined by The Tenth Insight, which built upon the Nine
Insights revealed in the initially novel.
In October 1997, James Redfield was granted the very prestigious Medal of
the Presidency of the Italian Senate at the XXIII Pio Manzu International
Conference in Rimini, Italy. Pio Manzu is a nongovernmental arm of the United
Nations headed up by Mikhail Gorbachev.
James has been commonly associated in saving America's last wilderness regions. He
has lobbied officially and met socially with Senators and Representatives to
promote the Act to Save America's Forests, legislation created by the
Washington-based ecological group - Save America's Forests. In early 1999,
James Redfield became concerned with all the Global Renaissance Alliance (GRA), an
business founded by Marianne Williamson and Neale Donald Walsch. GRA's
mission is to reawaken persons more to the principles of non-violence and the
should infuse spiritual values into the political program.
In the spring of 2000, James joined Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat For
Humanity, as truly the only 2 recipients of Humanitarian of the Year honors from
their alma mater, Auburn University. Two months later, he was honored by the
International New Thought Alliance with another Humanitarian of the Year honor.
The Celestine series of adventure parables continued in 1999 with all the
publication of The Secret of Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight
(Warner Books). Set in modern Tibet, Redfield continued the inspiring
journey of The Celestine Prophecy and The Tenth Insight -- carrying visitors to
a modern adventure in a sacred destination where truths that could affect all of humanity
await. In 2002, James joined writer Michael Murphy and filmmaker Sylvia Timbers
in a collaborative function entitled God and the Evolving Universe (J.P. Tarcher).
In March 2004, James Redfield was honored by the Wisdom Media Group with all the
World View Award for engaging the discussion found on the nature of human existence
and for his ongoing efforts and contributions to the bettering of humanity.
James and his spouse, Salle, both natives of Alabama, live in Florida with
their cat, Meredith.
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