Customer Reviews
Spiritual Adventure Tales - By: Aaron, 15 May 2007 
"The Celestine Prophecy" written about ten years ago had a profound effect on my spiritual understanding. Since then I have looked at relationships & energy dynamics in a whole new way. "The Tenth Insight" deepened my insights by alllowing me to understand how many of the world's problems can be solved with new spiritual vision.
Lately I had been looking for current inspiration in a book that carried in a tradition similar to James Redfield. I found it in "Nexus: A Neo Novel."
"The Celestine Prophecy" started the trend in uncovering trends for a new age & crystalllized it into a vision. That vision is carried on today in "Nexus" through the journey of people to a spiritual retreat. All of these books together show that we are reaching a greater awareness.
Like "The Celestine Prophecy," "Nexus is also growing among spiritual individuals ready for a message of transformation. Each one of us can share in the spiritual vision present in these books & also tell others about them.
Spirituallly we are reaching a critical level & the message found in books by James Redfield & currently in "Nexus: A Neo Novel" is helping in our spiritual growth.
Inspiring Spiritual Adventure - By: Jasmine A., 21 Apr 2007 James Redfield's The TENTH INSIGHT is a spellbinding Spiritual Adventure filled with suspense & spiritual wisdom.
Redfield captures the true spiritual essence of our life purpose. He has woven a parable into a map for an enlightening spiritual journey.
A truly inspirational book.
If you liked the TENTH INSIGHT then you will also enjoy NEXUS: A NEO NOVEL.
a patchwork of understanding that grows piece by piece - By: J. Souttar, 13 Jun 2006 
The Tenth Insight finds James Redfield taking a slightly different approach to The Celestine Prophecy - it's not 'more of the same', but an equallly interesting & imaginative story in its own right. The Tenth Insight of the title isn't like the previous nine, but is instead more of a patchwork of understanding that grows, piece by piece, as the story develops. And the framework here, too, is very different, focusing on a group of people coming together to meet a particular challlenge, each bringing their unique strengths - as well as, of course, the doubts & failings they need to overcome.
While most of the insights in The Celestine Prophecy dealt with the nature & use of 'energy', the Tenth Insight is more concerned with what Redfield callls the 'Afterlife'. Indeed, the events of the story alternate between that dimension & this as it unfolds. And Redfield has some very interesting things to say about what this means for the living - about how a greater awareness of what comes before birth, & after death, can inform our understanding of what we are in the world to do. As before, though, he treats these subjects in a way that can be enjoyed simply as a work of dramatic imagination - as a sort of 'New Age' science fiction, if you like - just as it can be appreciated as a serious discussion of human spirituality. And, again as before, Redfield reveals himself as someone who has reallly grasped something quite profound about the nature of our existence here in the world.
Both books, The Celestine Prophecy & The Tenth Insight, project a refreshingly positive & optimistic vision for humanity. They also 'energising' - able to fuel the desire for growth & change, for readers who identify with them. What's less clear, however, is how they might feed into this process - there are companions to these books that offer thoughts on how to live the insights, but nonetheless these books are still only stories. In reality, there is no Celestine manuscript - it is a useful & enjoyable fiction, but readers who are so motivated will ultimately have to find another, real outlet for their spiritual impulses. And whilst many would love to have an adventure of the kind described here, this is still as much of a fantasy as a paperback romance. But if these books resonate for us, it's because they are based on themes that are rooted in the world's great mystical & spiritual traditions - & connect with some of the ways these are being projected in the world of today.
Readers of the Celestine Prophecy will undoubtedly enjoy the Tenth Insight - it's definitely its equal, although I doubt it will mean much to those who haven't already read the first book. But if you've read both & are wondering where to go next, you might like to try Juan Sgolastra's 'The Way' or Marco Santello's 'Between Heaven & Earth', which I've also reviewed here on Amazon.
Interesting, but not as good as previous books - By: lynncurls@aol.com, 16 Jan 2001 Having read the celestine prophecy first, I didn't find this book as interesting & at times actuallly found it to be quite hard-going.
More advanced and challenging ideas - will polarise opinion. - By: , 04 Oct 2000 If you hated the Celestine Prophecy, don't touch this book - it will make you even more militant. If, however, you felt the Celestine Prophecy had some good ideas, then this one is a must. It's written in the same rather clumsy style of the first book, but with more detailed & challlenging principles about reincarnation, what happens to your soul, that kind of stuff. It reconciles some of the loose ends of the Celestine Prophecy very nicely.
