James Redfield is the author of the best-selling book, The
Celestine Prophecy, which chronicles Redfield’s “Nine
Insights” into how we can lead a life more attuned
to its spiritual dimensions. After studying Eastern philosophies,
including Taoism and Zen, while majoring in sociology
at Auburn University in the 1970s, Redfield earned a
master's degree in counseling and spent more than 15
years as a therapist to abused adolescents. During this
time, he turned to the human potential movement for theories
about intuition and psychic phenomena that would help
his troubled clients. What he learned helped form ideas
that would eventually find their way into The Celestine
Prophecy.
In 1989, Redfield quit his job as a therapist to write
full-time, synthesizing his interest in interactive psychology,
Eastern and Western philosophies, science, futurism, ecology,
history, and mysticism. He published The Celestine
Prophecy in 1993 and has since written two sequels, The
Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision, and The Secret
of Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight. He
is also the author of The Celestine Vision: Living
the New Spiritual Awareness, and coauthor (with Michael
Murphy and Sylvia Timbers) of God and the Evolving
Universe.The Celestine Prophecy movie, for
which Redfield cowrote the screenplay and served as producer,
was released in 2006.
Redfield has been awarded the highly prestigious Medal of
the Presidency of the Italian Senate. He has also been honored
by the International New Thought Alliance with their Humanitarian
of the Year award, and by the Wisdom Media Group with the
WorldView Award for engaging the discussion on the nature
of human existence and for his ongoing efforts and contributions
to the bettering of humanity. Redfield and his wife Salle
Redfield host the popular Global Prayer Project, a twice-monthly
teleconference and webcast offering guided prayer and meditation
to uplift our world. |
