Celestine Prophesy

[Elvee]

What do people think about the Celestine Prophesy. I've just read it and it makes a lot of sense, although I'm not sure if the vision of a new way of life would apply to everyone.
Really interesting though, and very much about the coincidences / syncronicity in our lives.

[Jane]

Hi

I did start reading "The Celestine Prophersy" ages ago (not sure if I still have it) but stopped reading it as I thought the "coincidences" and connections between people in it were just too impossible to believe - well, now I have started having these amazing experiences! I had almost forgotten about this book but I will try and find it and read it properly this time.

What really appears to have started me off on all this (I have had a life long interest in all this kind of thing - but not much personal experience) was doing something called Sajah Yoga (I didn't stay in it for long and am not particularly "advocating" it as a means towards Enlightenment!) and then having some really weird thoughts and ideas connected with Pink Floyd! This is what got me into thinking about Synchronicity (the fact that "The Dark Side Of The Moon" synchronises with the film "The Wizard of Oz" - thinking about this and looking it up led me to all kinds of other amazing coincidences).

However, all this has also made me horribly "aware" about other, awful things going on in the world, things I hadn't really "taken in" up to then, things like atom bombs! The first time I saw the bit of "The Wizard of Oz" which shows Dorothy running around with the tornado in the background, (synchronised with "I am not affraid of dying, any day will do") whilst the others go down into the underground "shelter" I immediately thought of a child caught up in a nuclear war (this was before I realised that Roger Waters had written most of the music to the film "When The Wind Blows"). I want to work towards stopping this from happening.

However, despite joining "Stop the War" and doing other things, it is only now - about four years since all this really started that I am beginning to feel more hopeful and positive that I can do something to help change things. It is nice to read what other people in this group have been writing. There is a man called Karl Dallas who is in a local Stop the War group and went as a "human sheild" to Iraq. He sang a song once with words something like "This and worse they will do to our children" unless we stand up against it, and that "We must become fearless, brave vessels of light". Then I heard he had been a journalist of some fame in his youth and looked up his work. He has written a book about Pink Floyd called "Bricks in the Wall". I feel I will have been just a brick in the wall if I see all this and don't help to change it!

Perhaps there is a way of altering events by groups of us getting together and trying to alter the cause of events? I realise one would have to be very careful that like Gandalf says "Of what we might do, thinking we were doing good" (ie make things even worse!). Perhaps I should read the "Celestine Prophercy" - it might make things clearer!

[roland]

Hi all-

new to the board here, but had a thought or two to share about the celestine prophecy. I think that one has to keep in mind that the book is trying to capture a lot through a somewhat fictional story.. However... I think the real point of the book is to explore a method of conversation. The whole idea of pouring energy into someone as they're talking or what have you. I'm not a big fan of the concept, but changing your expectations or more truly, neutralizing them, does allow for further exploration for all individuals involved.

Real conversations; ones that involve people who are actually PRESENT; well... it's almost like space travel. The more you eliminate ego wants, the more ability you have for discovery.

If it's no longer about winning the race, what does it become about?
Stamina? (another ego want)
Or is it about synchronicity in some way?

It's redundant food for thought.

-take care