At The Water's Edge
The Celestine Prophecy Books by James Redfield
Back in 1999 (approx) a friend thought I would like The Celestine Prophecy. I read it and actually wasn't particularly moved by it and dismissed it as a bit of a novelty book.
At the end of last year (2012) I was looking for some answers as to the way forward and started to dip into The Celestine Prophecy "companion" books and much of what I read seemed to ring true. On an external level it fairly accurately predicted the financial crisis but of more interest to me was on the "internal" stuff such as discussing the occurrences of coincidences / syncronicities, and, actually most profoundly for me, the idea that we shouldn't be looking outside ourselves for love / self worth and that when we do, we can fall foul of addictive behaviour. (This isn't by any means to say that we shouldn't be loving but that we shouldn't be seeking love to feel better about ourselves, to fill a void.)
I'm doing a disservice to what has been written but I think the crux of it rests on the idea that we are "connected" to a Higher Source, Universe, God, whatever label you want to give it. This corresponds to how I'm beginning to feel about my life and also to the ideas in other books such as those of Diana Cooper, Louise Hay, Shakti Gawain, Shirley MacLaine, Joseph Campbell.
