Enthusiastic participation in life the 'Celestine Prophecy' way
September 27th 2006 02:09
Ancient Mayan ruins
Just started a good self-help book called "The Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield, who has a back-up website called www.celestinevision.com.
I'm appreciating it as an "adventurised" self-help book. The usual "shoulds" in boring old didactic style self-help books are replaced in the cut and thrust of an adventure story.
The reader is led in a quest set in South America to discover a series of insights attributed to the Ancient Mayan culture.
Struggle and danger is brought to the quest by opponents - government authorities in league with radically conservative church leaders, all keen to have the insights suppressed.
The first insight is to use the coincidences that occur in life as a kind of paper chase, looking to act in whatever direction the coincidence seems to be pointing.
Certain elements of establishment church are offended because the insight puts each person at centre stage in their own lives. But there are individual priests keen to have the truth told.
The writer seeks to stir readers in the same way as the book's main characters are stirred - to be enthusiastic participants in the evolution of their own lives and those of others, with whom contact comes from acting on the "coincidences".
I googled to see what some critics said about the book. Most of them obsessed about the author's lack of literary prowess. To me the message of the book nullified the urge to keep score of spelling errors and finer literary deficiencies. I discounted the critics as ill-informed as to this purpose.
Any other readers of 'The Celestine Prophecy' out there?
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