The Celestine Prophecy (Chapters one through three)
The Celestine Prophecy: Chapters 1-3
In chapter one, we meet the narrator, whom I assume is James Redfield himself, meeting with an old friend by the name of Charlene that he hadn’t seen in a long time. Though I usually don’t like books that are told in first person this one didn’t bother me… too much.
When I met the narrator’s friend I was struck by the words the author used to describe her, using intense quite a few times. On arrival the narrator finds that his friend’s briefcase had been stolen, though there was nothing of great value in it.
Sadly, I didn’t like Charlene as much as I felt the author wanted me too, she seemed, to me, that she thought herself superior for her knowledge of The Manuscript, giving little hints about what was inside it but not saying it outright.
She also seems to be a boarder line zealot to me, and those kind of people make me feel apprehensive, even about something as wonderful as the thought of this Manuscript.
She tells the narrator about the first insight, which surfaces unconsciously, will be a kind of profound restlessness, and though he is convinced in the end, at first the narrator is skeptical.
Charlene also tells the narrator about how some churches and Peruvian government are trying to suppress the manuscript, for the church it is as simple as ‘it challenges the completeness of their religion’.
After the two finish their dinner and the narrator goes home, to a cabin by a leke he’s staying out to get his plans together, he thinks on all she said, about the coincidences and the restlessness. By the next morning he’s feeling adventurous and confident… so he call a travel agent and gets a ticket to Peru if he can leave in three hours.
This, to me, was rather disappointing not to mention unrealistic, I don’t know anyone (ANYONE) who would pick up and go unless they were on the run from someone.
So starts chapter two.
We found our narrator on a plane to Peru with that happy, exalted I-can-do-anything-I-want draining away, perhaps some sense is finally entering the picture? Then we meet Dobson, a professor from the university of New York, who has a copy of the first and Second insight.
The second insight is a little strange to me and I don’t yet understand it, what it says in the book is; in the second millennium we will identify a particular preoccupation that developed during the later half of the second millennium and extends our consciousness of historical time. Luckily for humans the Manuscript says that the preoccupation was a necessary part of human evolution.
Apparently we were denied a world where God and human spirituality was clearly defined, so we set out to conquer the world and call it ours the problem is that our focused, obsessive drive to discover and control nature and make ourselves feel like we ruled the world left nature and natural resources polluted and on the verge of collapse.
But in this chapter we get some information on the Manuscript! YAY! In the book it was translated three years ago but no one know when it was first discovered we also learn that there are eight insights in the original text but it does mention a ninth insight. Later in the chapter, when we’re done reading about the first and second insights and the manuscript we find Dobson careening down the street and being chased by the Peruvian police. He tells the narrator to run just before he gets shot at and stumbles.
The narrator follows the order and bolts, jumping over fences until he meets up with Wilson James, who takes him to a small hut on the edge of a large farm, he says the narrator will be safe here.
Then the rescuer says that he’s planning on looking for the ninth insight and invites the narrator to join him, which he does.
This chapter seemed a little too much like an actual book for me, so I couldn’t take that many notes, which was irritating, though the style of writing grew on me after the first few pages so it was a pleasure to read.
And so we move onto chapter three. Wilson James and the narrator are traveling through the mountains on their way to a certain lodge, on the way there Wilson James deters any conversation and tells the narrator to look at the scenery.
When the two finally get to the lodge the narrator is awed by the intense beauty of the place, finding that the very air he breathes makes him feel better, stronger, happier.
He goes off to explore and meets a scientist by the name of Sarah Lorner, who happens to have a copy of the third insight on her, she also explains a lot about the place and how she is part of a team of scientist that are studying the energy that all living things give off, and this is where we learn about the third insight.
The third insight describes a new understanding of the physical world and says that humans will learn to perceive which was formerly an invisible type of energy.
Also it appears as though humans were disconnected with the larger source of the energy so they felt weak, insecure, lacking, thus humans sought to increase their energy by taking it, without knowing it, from others.
AH! So this is where Stephen king got his inspiration for Insomnia. All is beginning to make sense now.
The manuscript also says that human perception of the energy first begins with a heightened sense of beauty which explains why the narrator was so floored by the loveliness of the place he had found himself.
In the end of the chapter Sarah Lorner gives the narrator a copy of the third insight and in the pages it describes the fourth insight.
The fourth insight says the eventually humans would be able to see the universe as compromised of one dynamic energy, an energy that can sustain humans and respond to expectations.
Also in this chapter we meet a sort of love interest by the name of Marjorie, who ‘sensed’ his approach and deterred him… for the moment by at the end of their meeting offered a coy smile and just happened to be out near the gardens when the narrator and Wilson James were driving by,
I liked this chapter a lot because it was a perfect blend of interesting information and the story. It also had some wonderful descriptions and I have a mind to try seeing energy the next time I feel inspired and connected to the earth.
In chapter one, we meet the narrator, whom I assume is James Redfield himself, meeting with an old friend by the name of Charlene that he hadn’t seen in a long time. Though I usually don’t like books that are told in first person this one didn’t bother me… too much.
When I met the narrator’s friend I was struck by the words the author used to describe her, using intense quite a few times. On arrival the narrator finds that his friend’s briefcase had been stolen, though there was nothing of great value in it.
Sadly, I didn’t like Charlene as much as I felt the author wanted me too, she seemed, to me, that she thought herself superior for her knowledge of The Manuscript, giving little hints about what was inside it but not saying it outright.
She also seems to be a boarder line zealot to me, and those kind of people make me feel apprehensive, even about something as wonderful as the thought of this Manuscript.
She tells the narrator about the first insight, which surfaces unconsciously, will be a kind of profound restlessness, and though he is convinced in the end, at first the narrator is skeptical.
Charlene also tells the narrator about how some churches and Peruvian government are trying to suppress the manuscript, for the church it is as simple as ‘it challenges the completeness of their religion’.
After the two finish their dinner and the narrator goes home, to a cabin by a leke he’s staying out to get his plans together, he thinks on all she said, about the coincidences and the restlessness. By the next morning he’s feeling adventurous and confident… so he call a travel agent and gets a ticket to Peru if he can leave in three hours.
This, to me, was rather disappointing not to mention unrealistic, I don’t know anyone (ANYONE) who would pick up and go unless they were on the run from someone.
So starts chapter two.
We found our narrator on a plane to Peru with that happy, exalted I-can-do-anything-I-want draining away, perhaps some sense is finally entering the picture? Then we meet Dobson, a professor from the university of New York, who has a copy of the first and Second insight.
The second insight is a little strange to me and I don’t yet understand it, what it says in the book is; in the second millennium we will identify a particular preoccupation that developed during the later half of the second millennium and extends our consciousness of historical time. Luckily for humans the Manuscript says that the preoccupation was a necessary part of human evolution.
Apparently we were denied a world where God and human spirituality was clearly defined, so we set out to conquer the world and call it ours the problem is that our focused, obsessive drive to discover and control nature and make ourselves feel like we ruled the world left nature and natural resources polluted and on the verge of collapse.
But in this chapter we get some information on the Manuscript! YAY! In the book it was translated three years ago but no one know when it was first discovered we also learn that there are eight insights in the original text but it does mention a ninth insight. Later in the chapter, when we’re done reading about the first and second insights and the manuscript we find Dobson careening down the street and being chased by the Peruvian police. He tells the narrator to run just before he gets shot at and stumbles.
The narrator follows the order and bolts, jumping over fences until he meets up with Wilson James, who takes him to a small hut on the edge of a large farm, he says the narrator will be safe here.
Then the rescuer says that he’s planning on looking for the ninth insight and invites the narrator to join him, which he does.
This chapter seemed a little too much like an actual book for me, so I couldn’t take that many notes, which was irritating, though the style of writing grew on me after the first few pages so it was a pleasure to read.
And so we move onto chapter three. Wilson James and the narrator are traveling through the mountains on their way to a certain lodge, on the way there Wilson James deters any conversation and tells the narrator to look at the scenery.
When the two finally get to the lodge the narrator is awed by the intense beauty of the place, finding that the very air he breathes makes him feel better, stronger, happier.
He goes off to explore and meets a scientist by the name of Sarah Lorner, who happens to have a copy of the third insight on her, she also explains a lot about the place and how she is part of a team of scientist that are studying the energy that all living things give off, and this is where we learn about the third insight.
The third insight describes a new understanding of the physical world and says that humans will learn to perceive which was formerly an invisible type of energy.
Also it appears as though humans were disconnected with the larger source of the energy so they felt weak, insecure, lacking, thus humans sought to increase their energy by taking it, without knowing it, from others.
AH! So this is where Stephen king got his inspiration for Insomnia. All is beginning to make sense now.
The manuscript also says that human perception of the energy first begins with a heightened sense of beauty which explains why the narrator was so floored by the loveliness of the place he had found himself.
In the end of the chapter Sarah Lorner gives the narrator a copy of the third insight and in the pages it describes the fourth insight.
The fourth insight says the eventually humans would be able to see the universe as compromised of one dynamic energy, an energy that can sustain humans and respond to expectations.
Also in this chapter we meet a sort of love interest by the name of Marjorie, who ‘sensed’ his approach and deterred him… for the moment by at the end of their meeting offered a coy smile and just happened to be out near the gardens when the narrator and Wilson James were driving by,
I liked this chapter a lot because it was a perfect blend of interesting information and the story. It also had some wonderful descriptions and I have a mind to try seeing energy the next time I feel inspired and connected to the earth.
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