Has any one here read The Celestine Prophecy?

[EJ123]

I was at B&N and i was like man I need to find a good adventure story. Well I see this book, which has a cool cover lol, and it says the title and "An Adventure" below it. Im like cha ching that looks good already. On the back it says "you have never read a book like this before" and some other stuff. I read the first page there and then bought it and left. I was wonderin though if someone here has maybe read it and would like to put some input on whether it was cool or not. I know its suppose to be some like spiritual thingy, like why are we here and such. Hm im gunno go read it:D

[jyossarian]

and the brainwashing begins...

[Stacey]

I 'read' The Celestine Prophsey on audio book. I was impressed and enjoyed it. A little broadening of horizons is a good thing.

[yendor28]

I read the book when I was about 14 then again 10 years later.

Good but the lessons are best learned by living.

[EJ123]

Im on page 107, on the 5th insight. The books actually more suspensefull than I thought.:D

[rmwun54]

It has some intriging spiritual thought provoking ideas, but doesn't mean much if you don't explore your own awareness of self actualization.

[lotek]

there are no coincidences. . .

[Cromulent]

there are no coincidences. . .
there is no spoon...

[bluebottle1]

I read it about seven or eight years ago. It's at times, interesting and original. But never both at the same time. A lot of the concepts in it are lifted straight out of existentialist philosophy--Nietzsche, in particular, I thought--and the rest is a bunch of new age...well, for lack of a better word, crap. I never could figure out the whole, "gee, you're looking a little peaked; better go fry on the bushes for a little bit."

Frankly, it'd be fine if James Redfield left it as just an adventure story, but, of course, he's turned into a cash cow by pretending it's all true. Rather silly, if you ask me, but certainly profitable for him.

[RegularGuy]

I read it years ago. It's an easy go. The insights are unspectacular. The valuable ones are borrowed from standard, pop psychology.

I thought the end of the book, which I won't "spoil" for you, undermined the whole thing with New Age silliness.

[EJ123]

Oh=/. Theyre comming out with a movie for this spring. I might see it.

[bigskymacadam]

i started it, but didn't finish it. i must have gotten bored.

[EJ123]

Its a weekend reading book for me.