The Celestine Prophecy

Was this review helpful to you? The main character undertakes a journey to find and understand a series of nine spiritual insights in an ancient manuscript in Peru. During pursuit, the narrator experiences real-world lessons that prepare him for each Insight in advance. Many events, characters, how the character interact and meet in the book are simply changed or do not occur. I understand that it would take six hours in film to present all that is in the book, but they screen play base missed many points. Personnallities of the characters differ from those in the book. The book is a first-person narrative of the narrator's spiritual awakening as he goes through a transitional period of his life. What was now occurring, explained the historian, was that the baseness of our current conditions had begun to infect our souls as well. The prophecy and its nine key insights, predict a new awakening that redefines human life and provides a glimpse into a completely spiritual culture on earth. A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of a college gymnast. The Celestine Prophecy contains secrets that are currently changing our world. The Celestine Prophecy describes a real, spiritual experience. Resistant at first, skeptical and unsure, John finds that each step he takes, each … Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. It is only in this letting go that he finds his destiny and comes to understand the meaning that had escaped him when his adventure began.

Be advised that the movie is loosely based on the book. Many of the book's most interesting points do not even come out in the movie. The book discusses various psychological and spiritual ideas that are rooted in many ancient Eastern traditions, such as how opening to new possibilities can help an individual establish a connection with the The story opens with the male narrator becoming reacquainted with an old female friend, who tells him about the insights contained in a manuscript dating to 600 BC, which has been only recently translated. He also discovers that powerful figures within the Peruvian government and the Catholic Church are opposed to the dissemination of the material found in the manuscript. A horror-thriller centered on a woman living with "face-blindness" after surviving a serial killer's attack. The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure is a 1993 novel by James Redfield that discusses various psychological and spiritual ideas rooted in multiple ancient Eastern traditions and New Age spirituality. The flow of events that in the book are very smooth, are choppy and fed to the view as though you a child. The audience is shown how they can learn and use 'The Secret' in their everyday lives. The book was generally well received by readers and spent 165 weeks on the This article is about the novel. The historian explains how the world is currently undergoing an enormous shift in consciousness, elaborating on how things had been generally understood (until now) to be: 1) In the beginning, people believed the world to be governed by the forces of divinity; everything could be explained as an act of a god or gods, 2) With increasing knowledge of the world, brought about by scientific inquiry, people turned to the men and women of science for an explanation of life and their world, and 3) Since the problem of how to find meaning in the world could not be solved by science, people chose to instead focus on efforts to improve their lives materially, subduing and plundering the earth for its natural resources, with a hyper-emphasis on controlling economic conditions and market fluctuations. Threats to his life forced the narrator to live nomadically, moving from town to town in search of kind-hearted people who would offer lodging in exchange for more information about the manuscript and its message. Disillusioned and temporarily rudderless, John Woodson is about to experience a dramatic and profound metamorphosis. Through a mysterious set of coincidences, he finds himself on an adventure to Peru in search of ancient scrolls, known as the Celestine Prophecy.

Through a mysterious set of coincidences, he finds himself on an adventure to Peru in search of ancient scrolls, known as the Celestine Prophecy. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. The casting was very good.Looking for something to watch?

This is dramatically illustrated when the police try to arrest and then shoot the historian after his arrival. The character development is very poor.

On the airplane, he meets a historian who also happens to be interested in the manuscript. Bittersweet explores the evolution of love and takes a long hard look at the underlying forces that often bring people together while just as often break them apart. While evading the Church and Peruvian government, the narrator finds time to read from the prized manuscript that offers 'Insights' as a sequence of passages. The prophecy and its nine key insights, predict a new awakening that redefines human life and provides a glimpse into a completely spiritual culture on earth.

In the end, he returns to the United States after learning the first nine Insights, and promises to reveal a 'Tenth Insight' to his audience in a short time.