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What this book is about
The adventure continues in this next book in The Celestine Prophecy series. At the end of The Celestine Prophecy the main character has found 9 insights and this is the tenth.

My experience
Once again James Redfield has outdone himself. This book has action, adventure and activisms.

View book details at Amazon: The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy)

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I went and saw The Celestine Prophecy Movie on opening weekend. It was wonderful.

Movie evaluation
It wasn’t a big budget Hollywood movie, which might have been to its benefit. It managed to conveyed the principles introduced  in the book The Celestine Prophecy without going crazy with special effects.  I got a real sense that they were really being seen by the one who was in the position (in the movie) of viewing them at the time. It added to my understanding of what they were trying to teach the main character. The setting was absolutely beautiful.

Story evaluation
Shortening
It’s been a long time since I read the book but I remember things happening a little differently. If I’m correct, and the story was changed for the movie (I can’t find my book to check for accuracy – I think I lent it to someone years ago) the writers seem to have adhered to the basic plot line while changing events a little in order to deliver a movie of normal length. I honestly don’t recall all that was in the movie but not the book.

Special effects
The special effects were used to show the energy of all living things. How everyone and everything has its own energy and how this energy flows between all of us and all living things. Energy can even help guide us, if we know what we’re looking for.

Character development
I think there could have been more done to give us a better sense of who the characters were, why they were involved, what their abilities were and how they got those abilities. I think this was attempted in the manner in which the characters interacted with each other during certain scenes and through various dialogs but it seemed a little contrived. I don’t know how it would have come across to someone who hadn’t read any of the books or if they were able to follow it.

What I got out of it
I had forgotten a lot of the principles from the book. After all, it was 1994 when I read it, 12 years ago. It makes me want to read it again and study the Insights. What I’m calling "principles" they call "Insights", so I’m switching to "Insights" now. One thing I had forgotten was one way in which relationships can be more harmonious. In the book, the Insights explain how people get their energy from the Source of all Life. What happens in a relationship is we stop getting our energy from Source and start looking to the other in the relationship for our energy. Well, no one wants to lose their own energy so a battle for control of the energy ensues. One way to avoid this battle and make all parties much happier is to send the other person loving energy all the time, no matter what. When this happens the other person can’t steal your energy. How can something freely and lovingly offered be stolen? It really changes the dynamics of the relationship. I started doing it right away, sending love from my heart to whoever I was with. It’s powerful stuff! (Now I just have to remember to do it all the time.)

Conclusions
If you haven’t read the book I do suggest seeing the movie. If you like the movie then you’ll probably want to read the book. You’ll love that book so much you’ll want to read the sequels: The Tenth Insight : Holding the Vision, The Celestine Vision : Living the New Spiritual Awareness and The Secret of Shambhala : In Search of the Eleventh Insight. By making the story shorter the writers were able to be more succinct in their explanation of the Insights contained in the original book while offering a movie that isn’t too lengthy.

Supplemental
If you like the movie you might even be interested in The Making of the Movie. You can also find out what else James and Salle Redfield are up to.

See or download the trailers online for The Celestine Prophecy Movie

View movie details at Amazon: The Celestine Prophecy

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Amazing
Something amazing happened to me today and I want to share it with you. I was really feeling out of sorts and was wondering what was going on in the world to bring my energy down. I do feel the collective consciousness quite easily at times and sometimes the energy is so strong as to affect my own energy.

Sayings are more accurate than we admit
Truly we can see from this example that my vibration was slowed, brought down, today. Well, I’ve found a way to bring my energy back up, raising my vibrational frequency.

Two sources of new energy coming to the planet to help humans evolve
My parents introduced me to the teachings of the WingMakers several years ago. An extension of those teachings can be found on the Lyricus website. The teachings, music, paintings and story found on these two sites are meant to elevate human-kind to the next level of evolution. Think monoliths from 2001 – A Space Odyssey and 2010: The Year We Make Contact. Neale Donald Walsch’s books, Conversations with God, even mention that we are being helped. Well, these works are helping us reconnect to the heart and expand its energy, connection and whatever else. I’m still reading the information on the WingMakers’ site so I don’t have the whole picture yet.

My experience
I’ve found that these works can help bring my energy back up, open my heart and put me in a space of compassion, understanding and love, among other things. They’re great for lifting me out of a funk. Here I’m specifically talking about the discourses. After reading all the directions, putting the pieces together and doing it myself I’ll explain what to do.

What to do
The idea is to read the discourses, which are offered in the format of a teacher’s answers to a student’s questions, out loud while listening to the music that corresponds to that discourse. (I did it without the music before I knew the music was a part of it and it didn’t have the same affect.) So basically, when you are reading Discourse 1 out loud you will also be listening to track 1 on the discourses page. Sounds easy enough, right? Because of the way the site’s programmed it’s a little tricky. It is recommended to read each one out loud to the music once a month. I do it as often as I can since it makes the rest of my life much nicer, and me much nicer, too.

Walking you through it step by step
Unfortunately all the pages have the same URL as the main page so I’ll have to walk you through from the home page. When you get to the home page there is a lot of flash affects going on. Ignore them. Just click on the "Discourses" button in the top navigation. Once you’re on the discourses page the music will start playing. The tracks loop when they come to the end so just let them continue to play. Even if you think they aren’t going to start again, be patient. Track 5 has a longer length of silence before it loops back to the beginning. You can also get the CD (info below) instead of listening on the website.

I printed out the introduction and all the discourses and I read them from those pages because I don’t like to have the light from the computer monitor shining in my face for a long time. You can print them out or read them right from the monitor. I recommend copying the text into Word then changing the font to "automatic" so it’s black instead of grainy when you print it out. There is an option to download a printable version from the Wingmakers website but it comes out on a lot more pages.

PC Firefox Users who might have problems (this problem doesn’t exist with the latest upgrade of Firefox)
Track tricks As of this writing, while using Firefox as my web browser, (Internet Explorer works just fine) I can’t navigate through the tracks just by clicking on them in sequence so I’ll share my tricks with you.
Track 1 Listening to track 01 is no big deal, it starts playing when you get to the page.
Track 2 Track 02 is easy as well; just click on the arrow to the right of the box containing the words "TRACK / 01".
Track 3 From track 02 you have to click on any one of the buttons on the side navigation before you can click on the arrow to the right of the box containing the words "TRACK / 02" to get to track 03.
Track 4 From track 03 you have to click on any one of the buttons on the side navigation before you can click on the arrow to the right of the box containing the words "TRACK / 03" to get to track 04.
Track 5 From track 04 you have to click on any one of the buttons on the side navigation before you can click on the arrow to the right of the box containing the words "TRACK / 04" to get to track 05.
Track 6 To get to track 06 just click on the arrow to the left of the box containing the words "TRACK / 01".

Music on CD
The music on the website is actually excerpts from Lyricus: The Grand Portal CD available from the Wingmakers website. The cuts on the website are watered down versions of what’s on the CD. There is even greater benefit to listening to the CD while reading the discourses. That’s what I do.

Conclusions
Doing these readings out loud, to the music once a month, can help speed our evolution and raise our vibration as well as the earth’s vibration. My mother did these for a year and I really noticed a difference in her. Each one takes about 15 minutes to do but is so worth it! (And you know how infrequently I use exclamation points!) The lessons also contain exercises and visualizations you can also do. I’ve just started doing them.

Future
The exercises, meditations, visualizations, etc. that are embedded within the WingMakers and Lyricus websites are being compiled into one comprehensive file which will be available on the WingMakers’ site. A long time student of esoteric teachings and author of Hidden Foundations of the Great Invocation, Sacred Vessel of the Mysteries and the Seven Ray Energy Cards John Berges, has made a study of all that WingMakers and Lyricus have to offer. This compilation is just one of the many contributions John has made to further the understanding and implementation of this evolutionary material.

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Today’s the day to buy it so it will soar to the top of the best sellers list!

Well, we did it!
Home with God is #1 on Amazon.com’s best sellers list. As of noon today it was #2 but by 1 it was #1! Yesterday it was #117. I’ve watched it go up the charts during the week. Congratulations to everyone who got on board to buy this book today. You are really making a difference. And I think we’re all really going to like this book.

I’d like to know how many were actually sold. I’ll keep you posted.

Read the post I wrote about buying this book today.

View book details at Amazon.com: Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends

April 20, 2006 – Now that we’ve gotten the book on the charts read my review of Home with God: In a Life that Never Ends

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Start something new
Today is the first full day of Spring. Now is the time for making New Year resolutions. The energy of Spring is the time for new beginnings. Now is the time when nature and earth energies support us in starting new things. Think about it. Plants are starting to blossom, birds are starting to sing and build their nests; the whole world (or at least the northern hemisphere) is starting anew. Doesn’t it make sense that humans would be supported by nature in starting new things now too?

Make your New Year’s Resolutions work
If you tried a New Year’s Resolution in January only to fail, challenge yourself to try it again in the Spring. I bet it will be easier for you to stick to that resolution. I’ve always had more luck starting something new in the Spring. I feel an invisible force propelling me forward in whatever I start something at this time. I also feel a renewed inspiration for things I’ve been working on through the winter.

Summary of The Journey to Wild Divine
Based on meditation and relaxation techniques this computer program uses biofeedback (the blue thing with three rings attached), beautiful music,  high-definition 3-D graphics and video, and HeartMath methods to guide you on a journey through Wild Divine. Wild Divine is a mythological place outside the view of our world. Here you will find mentors and guides to help you on your path toward enlightenment. Breathing, meditation and relaxation techniques are taught along the way enabling you to accomplish over 40 challenges presented during your stay. Some challenges require calming your energy, others need your raised energy and some interesting experiences appear through your mastery of "Heart Breathing". All-in-all this program is created to calm the mind, sooth the soul and thereby create health among all the systems. The body becomes relaxed, the mind quiet and all the systems balanced. The Passage is the first in a series of three; Wisdom Quest is the second featuring Deepak Chopra.

My experience
Interesting and fun, at first I found it challenging to get myself into a calm space when I needed to. One particular door, leading to a real experience, required me to be calm for a period of time before it would open. It was a picture of a person with their arms over their head and a ball of light between the hands. As I kept myself calm the arms would open and the ball of light would move down through the head and into the heart. Once the ball of light was in the heart the door would open. Sounds easy, right? Well, watching the light progress toward the heart made it that much more challenging. Every time the light got close to the heart I would get excited and my energy would shoot right up into the "high energy" zone. I wound up having to start all over. I finally got the door open by using a mantra I learned from my studies of the Self Realization Fellowship teachings and keeping my eyes closed. That way I didn’t get excited when the ball got close to the heart!

I found it a nice change from conventional computer games, which I haven’t played in years because they have gotten violent. At the end of my time playing computer games I was playing children’s computer games (LOL). I like non-violent computer games but haven’t made time for them because I have so many other things I want to do, such as playing with Missy and achieving enlightenment (oh, yes, creating this website for you, too). When this computer program came along it combined teaching (relaxation and heart breathing), with adventure and relaxation time for me. I made it a habit to play for a while right before I sat for my nightly meditation and it helped me calm down faster than meditation alone. I guess it was because the game engaged my mind by giving it the job of focusing on my breathing instead of allowing its usual habit of wandering the landscape of my mind. I found the game very interesting, relaxing and engaging. The accompanying book was helpful when I needed some direction or explanation on the journey but otherwise I found my way easily enough.

Just released – Healing Rhythms:

Healing Rhythms: Biofeedback Training for a Happy Mind & Healthy Body
Demo Healing Rhythms

View product details at Amazon:
The Journey to Wild Divine Biofeedback Software & Hardware for PC & Mac: The Passage $147.45 plus shipping

View product details at Wild Divine:
The Journey to Wild Divine: The Passage $159.95
Part II: Take The Journey To Wild Divine!
The Wild Divine Expansion Pack
- Use coupon code LPFS for free shipping

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