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Loading... The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy) (original 1996; edition 1998)by James Redfield
Work InformationThe Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision by James Redfield (1996)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Review: The Tenth Insight by James Redfield. This is the second book of “The Celestine Prophecy” series which I didn’t really relate too much that was written in the book but however interesting. I related more to some of the content in the first book and I connected more with some of my own opinions and beliefs. This second book was written for someone who is deeply involved with the spirit world. Redfield really came on strong spiritually, starting from the beginning of evolution to the afterlife. Plus, Redfield provides introduction to some basic metaphysics and his own personal vision of utopia. This book still mentions the nine insights of the first book and then the tenth insight wrote about in this book goes deeper into the spiritual aspect. I’m not criticizing what has been written and would not offend anyone of their belief. It was just way over my head to understand or connect with the story. It emphasizes a need to generate a loving energy unto all beings in search for a genuine meaning in lives through prayer and synchronistic events. There was a lot of fascinating data about dreams and secret sites. I found the last third of the book interesting and more on my level. What I thought Redfield was trying to get across to the reader is encouragement through positive behavior. He wrote about the way we live and think about what and why the world is the way it is today. All the insights came together in a more understandable way about the economy, environment, population, race, culture, etc…Redfield doesn’t claim to be a professional in these areas he just expresses in words explainable to the reader as a small spiritual awakening to negative and positive aspects as we strive to live out our lives in harmony. His spiritual wisdom is more on what we are trying to achieve in a changing evolutionary journey… After millions of people read "The Celestine Prophecy" and failed to actualize the full potential of spiritual energy released by following the guidelines of the first nine insights, Redfield exposes a tenth insight. Narrated in the same style as "The Celestine Prophecy" this added insight is told as a parable, taking the reader on an adventure of danger, intrigue, and self discovery. Redfield provides more detailed explanations of the first nine insights and admits the nine insights alone will not bring a full awakening. The "Tenth Insight" deals with spiritual connection to the afterlife, and solving the mystery of human existence. Redfield shares his theories about intuition, dreams, reincarnation, the current world situation, the birth of the universe and the history of evolution, religion and the bible, the concept of hell, the afterlife, prayer, and attaining full knowledge of our life existence. Open your mind to the concept of pre-life memory and afterlife memory, all achievable while we are here on earth. The ultimate goal – the two dimensions can become one; a World Vision with energy and communication shifting back and forth between life and afterlife. Death, as we know it, would be obsolete. Redfield also explains how the World Vision ties in with bible theories (Armageddon and the rapture). Focusing on love, optimism, and the power of positive thinking with the aid of the ten insights, the human race would be capable of creating a utopia on earth. If one is to believe Redfield’s theory, all spirits born to humans come to earth with good intentions. But since newly born humans have no recollection of afterlife, once the spirit enters a human body, it becomes part of the mortal world on earth and is dominated by fear and an uncontrollable urge to survive. One major flaw in Redfield’s rationale is that he expects the reader to take a leap of faith and believe in the unknown….that anything is possible, yet he refuses to believe that evil spirits/souls can exist…simply because he has not yet encountered one. All things considered, "The Tenth Insight" is thought provoking, entertaining, and amusing to contemplate. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesCelestine (2)
This volume is the second novel in The Celestine Series, beginning with The Celestine Prophecy. One of the characters of The Celestine Prophecy, Charlene, disappears while exploring a forest in the Appalachian Mountains. The book discusses ideas about other dimensions, past lives, conception and birth, the passage through death to an afterlife, hell and heaven. It also illustrates the author's vision of human destiny and the idea that fear of the future is endangering Earth's spiritual renaissance. In the story, each individual soul is part of a larger "Soul Group", which shares the mission of helping the evolution of the cosmos. At times, a soul from a given Group incarnates itself, choosing the conditions of its life according to its needs, while the other souls observe. Each soul creates a reality around itself, which later brings consequences upon it. These consequences take the form of life and afterlife, which vary according to the person's choices. On Earth, people speak of the prophecy written in the Book of Revelation as if it were coming true. Many fear that it will come partly true, in that a dictator (an Antichrist) will arise, but will not be thrown down. To counteract this idea, which is damaging to the spiritual renaissance, the protagonists hold their own, Utopian "World Vision" to the exclusion of its opposite, until it dominates the opposite at the book's climax. No library descriptions found.
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