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The Celestine Prophecy

Is this book a heavenly insight or a New Age fraud?

by Dennis Pollock

 

For almost a year it has been on the best seller list. It is being taught in churches, and has developed a cult-like following in a very short time. Study classes have gathered all over the country to discuss its precepts and implement its "insights." The Celestine Prophecy, written by James Redfield, is the latest New Age oracle which has managed to transcend the boundaries of the crystal gazers and navel meditaters, and reach out to large numbers of mainstream Americans.

The book makes some pretty pretentious claims for itself. From the inside flap of the book cover, we read:

"When you find and understand all 9 of the insights you will have an exciting new image of human life, and a positive vision of how we will save this planet, its creatures, and its beauty... And you will suddenly recognize the quantum leap forward humankind is preparing to make as we approach the new millennium."

On the back of the cover we find in bold print: "You have never read a book like this before... a book that comes along once in a lifetime to change lives forever."

Any book making claims like that has got a lot to live up to. There are, in fact, people who claim that the book has transformed their lives. Cosmetics saleswoman Frances Griggsby uses its teachings in dealing with her customers. Paramedic Chester Davison takes the author's advice about grabbing onto life's coincidences, and Nickie Molaire talks to strangers she would have once shut out.

The Peruvian Manuscript

The story begins with a restless, disgruntled social worker who can't figure out what's wrong in his life. When an old friend calls him out of the blue, she intrigues him with the story of an ancient manuscript that has been found in Peru. This manuscript supposedly contains all the secrets of life, but is being suppressed by the Peruvian government. The social worker is so swept up by the few things he is told, that he books a flight for Peru, to go in search of the document that can tell him the meaning of life.

Once in Peru, he spends the rest of the novel's length in avoiding hostile and misguided Peruvian officials who want to arrest him, and finding bits and pieces of the insights (numbered 1-9) that the manuscript reveals. As the story progresses our hero becomes wiser and wiser, learning step by step the philosophy of life which all mankind (excuse me, humankind) is destined to ultimately grasp.

He learns that all life's coincidences are meant for a purpose, created by a universal energy for the unfolding of man's spiritual evolution. He learns to draw on the universal source of energy, and thus be freed from the need of dominating others to steal their energy. He glimpses his oneness with the universe, and how to increase his energy by meditating on its beauty. By the end of the story he is getting so good at "energy drawing" that he finds himself turning invisible, though only for a short time.

Had this book come out in any other generation than our own, it would have been laughed off the shelves. It is not particularly well written and the new age delusions of grandeur approach the point of utter cornball. What this novel does have going for it is that it fits in beautifully with the many other truths that Shirley McLaine (Out On A Limb), Betty Eadie (Embraced by the Light), and all the other new age gurus have been saying for the last couple of decades.

Author James Redfield was asked, "Is there actually an old manuscript?" He replied, "The answer to that is no. I do think the insights in the book are coming to many, many of us at the same time." With that I certainly agree. There is a spirit of deception that has been loosed in our time which is speaking very similar things to many, many people. The Scriptures warn us: "Do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world".

The Nine Insights

This novel centers around nine insights which humans will begin to grasp sequentially, one insight then another, as they move from their present state to a completely spiritual culture on earth. The attaining and comprehending of these insights is the salvation offered by Mr. Redfield. None of them relate to Jesus Christ. Nothing is said about forgiveness of sins or reconciliation to God. Instead we are told that by learning and applying these insights, our lives will be spiritual and fulfilling, and all will be well. Obviously the cross of Jesus has no place here.

The insights are a curious hodgepodge of homespun philosophy, borrowed pop-psychology, and new age rhetoric. The first step is to realize that all of life's coincidences are for a purpose. The second one is to realize that man has left traditional religion, tried materialism, and now must find true spirituality (through the insights, of course). The third insight is that there is an invisible energy which people must learn to perceive, and that the universe is energy that responds to our expectations. The fourth reveals that the world is a vast competition for energy, and the fifth says that the "universe" can provide all the energy we need if only we can open up to it. I could go on, but I think you get the idea.

The fact that people are actually taking this seriously speaks volumes about the theological ignorance of Americans. Were it not for the fact that this book is a best-seller, I would be tempted to write it off as a silly piece of harmless fluff. But to thousands this book is not silly; it is an explanation of life's mysteries. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross writes on the front cover: "A fabulous book about experiencing life — I couldn't put it down."

Jesus vs. the Nine Insights

Let us consider some of the areas where we find the worldview that Christ believed and taught at odds with The Celestine Prophecy's insights. Mr. Redfield seems very defensive about his book not contradicting any religion, but rather building on their truths and revealing their true nature. When he was asked what was the book's central theme, he responded, "Each of us can come to a place where we make a true connection with the divine no matter what religion we are. And when we do so, we can begin to see that the world will open up to us to complete a mission or a calling." When the main character of the book had a mystical experience of being one with the universe, he was told, "This is the experience the mystics of every religion have always described."

This eclectic, all religions are fine, approach sounds very open minded and noble, but runs directly contrary to the teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ. He declares emphatically, "If you believe not that I am He, you will die in your sins." In John 10 He proclaims, "I am the door of the sheep. All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them." And in a great display of religious intolerance He boldly declared, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father, except through Me".

Thus we come to a dilemma. From whom shall we obtain our theology? From James Redfield or Jesus Christ? Let us consider their qualifications. Mr. Redfield has written one popular book. Jesus Christ has come from heaven, died for the sins of the world, risen from the dead, and sits at the right hand of the Father, having received all authority in heaven and on earth.

Energy, Energy Everywhere

If there is one word that gets run into the ground in the story, it is energy. According to the insights, life is all about energy. The manuscript reveals that "eventually humans would see the universe as comprised of one dynamic energy, an energy that can sustain us and respond to our expectations. Yet we would also see that we have been disconnected from the larger source of this energy, that we have cut ourselves off and so have felt weak and insecure and lacking." Although God is mentioned a few times in the book, the real god of this book is energy.

The Bible, likewise speaks about energy. The Greek word energeia (from which we derive our word energy) is often used to describe the powerful working of the Holy Spirit in the believer. Paul uses this term in Colossians: "To this end I also labor, striving according to His working [energeia] which works in me mightily."

So as a Christian I am not opposed to the idea of spiritual energy. However the Scriptures make plain that God's energy is only available through Jesus Christ and the filling of the Holy Spirit. This is not some universal power available to people of all religions. Jesus said, "He that believes on Me, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water". In Acts He promised, "You shall receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses of Me" . No Muslims, Hare Krishnas, atheists, or new agers need apply!

What this tale fails to take into account is that there is an evil energy that is at work in the world. This is the very energy that will one day empower the Antichrist. Paul writes, "The coming of the lawless one is according to the working [energeia] of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders". Those who would desire to open themselves up to universal energy, without bothering to make Jesus Christ the Lord of their lives, may find that the energy they receive comes from a most malicious source.

Where is the Cross?

The most condemning aspect of this book has got to be what it does with Jesus. For the better part of the book Jesus is not mentioned. Salvation of mankind is to be through the "insights." But near the end we finally learn what we are to think about Jesus. One of the "enlightened" priests spells it out:

"Isn't the story of the scriptures a story of people learning to receive God's energy and will within ... And isn't that receptivity to God's energy within what culminated in the life of a carpenter's son, to the extent that we say God, himself, descended to earth? ... Didn't Jesus, himself, say that what he did, we could do also, and more? We've never really taken that idea seriously, not until now. We're only now grasping what Jesus was talking about, where he was leading us. The Manuscript clarifies what he meant! How to do it!"

The Urantia Book

The great God makes direct contact with mortal man and gives a part of his infinite and eternal and incomprehensible self to live and dwell within him. God has embarked upon the eternal adventure with man. If you yield to the leadings of the spiritual forces in you and around you, you cannot fail to attain the high destiny established by a loving God as the universe goal of his ascendant creatures from the evolutionary worlds of space.





 

The book says that a person ultimately is destined to fuse with his or her divine fragment and become one inseparable entity with it, if the person chooses to accept the Adjuster's leadings and become self-identified with it. The act of fusion is the moment when a human personality has successfully and unalterably won eternal life, described as typically taking place in the afterlife, but also a possibility during earthly life. The result during human life is a "fusion flash," with the material body consumed in a fiery light and the soul "translated" to the afterlife. The Hebrew prophet Elija being taken to heaven without death in "chariots of fire" is said to be a rare example in recorded history of a person who attained fusion.

Once fused with his or her fragment of God, a person continues as an ascending citizen in the universe and travels through numerous worlds on a long, adventurous pilgrimage of growth and learning that eventually leads to God and residence on Paradise. Mortals who reach this stage are called "finaliters." The book goes on to discuss the potential destinies of these "glorified mortals."
The Urantia Book places much emphasis on the idea that all individuals have the same opportunity to know God, and it says nothing can hinder a human being's spiritual progression if he or she is motivated to be spirit led.

The book regards human life on earth as a "short and intense test," and "is not so much a probation as an education"and the afterlife as a continuation of training that begins in material life. The "religion of Jesus" is considered to be practiced by way of loving God the Father with a person's whole being, thereby learning to love each person the way Jesus loves people; that is, recognizing others as brothers and sisters and being of unselfish service to them.

we know 4 percent of the universe;7 cosmic principles..

Recently, scientists remarked  they just figured out that they only know of or understand about four percent of the universe. This is probably a gross overestimate, how can we ever know or understand even a small fraction of what the universe is all about....we just do not have the brain for it, no matter how clever or intelligent or educated we are or may be.

If we know too much, we surely would go insane. A few individuals in this world may well  have found some answers through extensive and long study and or meditation.
Much of what we do know or have learned is kept a secret. There are some hints and ideas which may make the subject somewhat understandable.

There are seven cosmic principles present and  throughout the cosmos and operating and extending even to its smallest activities. Understanding even parts of these Principals will go a long way of understanding how the universe works,  they are:

 

The Principle of:

Correspondence,

Law and Order,

Vibration,

Rhythm,

Cycles,

Polarity

Sex.

 I will try to explain somewhat:

Correspondence
Correspondence or analogy, agreement between manifestations of the various planes of activity in the cosmos. Ex uno disce omnes, from one know all. There is a correspondence between the laws of the various planes of life and being. The grasping of this truth gives one some means of solving many a dark paradox and many a hidden secret of nature. There are planes beyond our knowing but when we apply the principle of correspondence we understand much of what otherwise would be unknowable to us. In every thing there is to be found substance or body, motion or active energy, consciousness or awareness.
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Fred Leis

Passed away on February 5, 2012 at the Kamsack Hospital.  A funeral service was held on Thursday, February 23  from the chapel of Andrychuk Funeral Home.  Interment followed at the Lutheran Cemetery in Runnymede.

 famous writer, Mark Twain....the news of my demise is slightly exaggerated...

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Bilderberg

...here is another secret society...useful,making positive changes to the world?

The G 8 Membercountries
	Deutschland Germany 357.000 km² 82,3 M Frankreich France 643.000 km² 64,1M Italien 301.000 km² 58,1 M Japan 378.000 km² 127,1 M Kanada Canada 9.985.000 km² 33,5 M Russische Russia 17.098.000 km² 140,0M Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika  USA 9.827.000 km² 307,2M Vereinigtes Königreich UK Britische Inseln 244.000 km² 61,1M

The above
details were provided by Sven Klaus....the figures after the km2 are the current population estimates of the respective countries in millions. (M).Total....under a billion or about 23% of the world population.
Now my  comments:
I think the Americans started this G thing, they and the British, kind of an Anglo American effort to take control of the world...neo kapitaslisic effort.
They pretty well had to add France....and the former enemies Germany and Japan as they represented the quickly re-emerging new industrial powers and capital states.
And that was the G-5, a powerful financial club.For good measure and to add a couple of partners...not sure why...our beloved Canada and Italy ( Italy?) joined the group.And that was it...the G7.
More recently after they totally dumped communism (and in the process lost a few substantial components of the country), the former Soviet union joined the club as the Russian Federation. G8 then...and that's sort of my view of the exclusive club, the G8.
I would imagine that China, India and most likely Brasil will be the next two or three countries to be added...

The G20 is a horse of a different colour it was a group established to meet with a number of finance ministers,financial movers and shakers of a number of countries even Saudi Arabia is included.The figure 20 apparently is not accurate...in fact about 40 countries are represented.

The Bilderberg thing...a group of between 120 and 150 rich and powerful folks decided to get together and try to effect the future of the world financially...I believe the Euro came out of this. The club...has not included Japan so far...they are a bit on the secretive side and it appears that its mostly an Anglo-American and friends thing. Go figure. This year,they are meeting in Switzerland.This group first got together in 1954.