The Celestin Project

THE

CELESTINE PROPHECY
An Adventure

JAMES REDFIELD

A Time Warner Company

For Sarah Virginia Refield

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And those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of Heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. But for you, Daniel, these words and seal up the book until the end of time. Many will go back and forth,and knowledge will increase.

DANIEL 12:3-4

Contents
AUTHOR’S NOTE .............................................................................................4 A CRITICAL MASS ...........................................................................................5 THE LONGER NOW .........................................................................................15 A MATTER OFENERGY.......................................................................................................27 THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER ......................................................................................................45 THE MESSAGE OF THE MYSTICS .............................................................................................60 CLEARING THE PAST...........................................................................................................79 ENGAGING THE FLOW .........................................................................................................97 THE INTERPERSONAL ETHIC .................................................................................................................116 THE EMERGING CULTURE...........................................................................................................140

AUTHOR’S NOTE

For half a century now, a new consciousness has been entering the human world, a new awareness that can only be called transcendent, spiritual. If you find yourself reading this book, then perhaps you already sense what is happening, already feel it inside. It begins with a heightenedperception of the way our lives move forward. We notice those chance events that occur at just the right moment, and bring forth just the right individuals, to suddenly send our lives in a new and important direction. Perhaps more than any other people in any other time, we intuit higher meaning in these mysterious happenings. We know that life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal andenchanting — an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified. And we know something else as well: know that once we do understand what is happening, how to engage this allusive process and maximize its occurrence in our lives, human society will take a quantum leap into a whole new way of life — one that realizes the best of our tradition — and creates a culture thathas been the goal of history all along. The following story is offered toward this new understanding. If it touches you, if it crystalizes something that you perceive in life, then pass on what you see to another — for I think our new awareness of the spiritual is expanding in exactly this way, no longer through hype nor fad, but personally, through a kind of positive psychological contagionamong people. All that any of us have to do is suspend our doubts and distractions just long enough... and miraculously, this reality can be our own.

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The Celestine Prophecy

A CRITICAL MASS I drove up to the restaurant and parked, then leaned back in my seat to think for a moment. Charlene, I knew, would already be inside, waiting to talk with me. But why? I hadn’t heard a word from her insix years. Why would she have shown up now, just when I had sequestered myself in the woods for a week?
I stepped out of the truck and walked toward the restaurant. Behind me, the last glow of a sunset sank in the west and cast highlights of golden amber across the wet parking lot. Everything had been drenched an hour earlier by a brief thunderstorm, and now the summer evening felt cool and...