The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision
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Authors: James Redfield
THE TENTH INSIGHT
“In another spellbinding adventure tale, a worthy sequel to his
Celestine
masterpiece, James Redfield packs thrills, suspense, and spiritual wisdom into a book you cannot put down. You must read
THE TENTH INSIGHT!”
—Brian Weiss, M.D., author of
Only Love Is Real
and
Many Lives, Many Masters
“Everybody’s reading THE TENTH INSIGHT, James Redfield’s sequel to
The Celestine Prophecy.
Run, don’t walk, to your nearest bookstore.”
—Los Angeles Features Syndicate
“THE TENTH INSIGHT captures not only the adventures of this life but the true spiritual essence of what we are trying to achieve.”
—Dannion Brinkley, author of
Saved by the Light
and
At Peace in the Light
“Will move us further along toward spiritual enlightenment as we near the millennium.… With INSIGHT, Redfield has tried to
stress that
everyone’s
life, like his, is a ‘spiritual adventure.’”
—
Detroit News
“James Redfield has achieved what the greatest storytellers across time and culture aspire to. He has woven a parable accessible
to all… an extraordinary map for the evolutionary journey begun in
The Celestine Prophecy.”
—Michael Murphy, chairman, Esalen Institute,
and author of
Golf in the Kingdom,
The Kingdom of Shivas Irons,
and
The Future of the Body
“In THE TENTH INSIGHT, Redfield continues the
Celestine
message of living a life that will help others.”
—
Rocky Mountain News
“James Redfield has distilled the spiritual teachings of the ages into a thrilling, fast-paced adventure… to help humanity.”
—Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., author of
Fire in the Soul
“Enlightening.… Profound teachings interwoven within a gripping story of good versus evil, of life and death, that both delights
the senses and stretches the mind.”
—Tulsa World
“Not to be missed.”
—
New Age Journal
“Will take readers to unimagined plateaus of spirituality… may change forever the way we look at life, death, and our purpose
here on Earth.”
—
Arizona Networking News
“Inspiring… unique and joyful… Redfield has again captured our deepest intuitions as he illuminates the worlds outside us
and within us… a must-read for everyone!”
—
Commonwealth Journal
“A profoundly moving continuation of
The Celestine Prophecy.
… The plot has many clues and visions and moves with the speed of a first-class thriller.”
—
Abilene Reporter-News
“The strength of this book comes from Redfield’s message that the future will be dramatically better than the present. The
story in this book goes well beyond its predecessor, especially in the range of ideas it covers.”
—
Body Mind Spirit
magazine
“As you read THE TENTH INSIGHT, you might see parts of yourself and others that you’ve never seen before. You might also see
the need for change.… The Tenth Insight must be experienced personally. In the first nine insights, for example, intuition
is experienced as gut feeling, but in The Tenth Insight you actually live it out.”
—
Sunday Record
(NJ)
“A colorful, imaginative pilgrimage.… Some of the visionary moments in the story remind me of the kind of imagination operating
in classic stories like the Hindu
Ramayan
or the Chinese
Journey to the West.
It is a way of thinking that gives palpability to obscure areas of psychological and spiritual experience, so that impulses
toward what is traditionally viewed as other-worldly are given a level of earthiness.”
—
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The Celestine Prophecy
The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision
B
Y
J
AMES
R
EDFIELD AND
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DRIENNE
The Celestine Prophecy: An Experiential Guide
The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision: An Experiential Guide
Copyright © 1996 by James Redfield
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For my wife and inspiration
Salle Merrill Redfield
M
y heartfelt thanks to everyone who had a part in this book, particularly Joann Davis at Warner Books for her ongoing guidance
and Albert Gaulden for his sage counsel. And certainly, my friends in the Blue Ridge Mountains, who keep the fires of a safe
haven burning.
L
ike
The Celestine Prophecy,
this sequel is an adventure parable, an attempt to illustrate the ongoing spiritual transformation that is occurring in our
time. My hope with both books has been to communicate what I would call a
consensus picture,
a lived portrait, of the new perceptions, feelings, and phenomena that are coming to define life as we enter the third millennium.
Our greatest mistake, in my opinion, is to think that human spirituality is somehow already understood and established. If
history tells us anything, it is that human culture and knowledge are constantly evolving. Only individual opinions are fixed
and dogmatic. Truth is more dynamic than that, and the great joy of life is in letting go, in finding our own special truth
that is ours to tell, and then watching the synchronistic way this truth evolves and takes a clearer form, just when it’s
needed to impact someone’s life.
Together we are going somewhere, each generation building upon the accomplishments of the previous one, destined for an end
we can only dimly remember. We’re all in the process of awakening and opening up to who we really are, and what we came here
to do, which is often a very difficult task. Yet I firmly believe that if we always integrate the best of the traditions we
find before us and keep the process in mind, each challenge
along the way, each interpersonal irritation can be overcome with a sense of destiny and miracle.
I don’t mean to minimize the formidable problems still facing humanity, only to suggest that each of us in our own way is
involved in the solution. If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been
perfectly placed, in exactly the right position… to make all the difference in the world.
JR
Spring, 1996
… I looked, and behold,
a door was opened in heaven:
and the first voice which I heard was as… a trumpet
talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will show you
things which must be hereafter. And immediately
I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven.…
and there was a rainbow round about the throne,
in sight like unto an emerald. And round about the throne
were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four
and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment.…
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first
heaven and the first earth were passed away.…
REVELATION
CONTENTS
I
walked out to the edge of the granite overhang and looked northward at the scene below. Stretching across my view was a large
Appalachian valley of striking beauty, perhaps six or seven, miles long and five miles wide. Along the length of the valley
ran a winding stream that coursed through stretches of open meadowland and thick, colorful forests—old forests, with trees
standing hundreds of feet high.
I glanced down at the crude map in my hand. Everything in the valley coincided with the drawing exactly: the steep ridge on
which I was standing, the road leading down, the description of the landscape and the stream, the rolling foothills beyond.
This had to be the place Charlene had sketched on the note found in her office. Why had she done that? And why had she disappeared?
Over a month had now passed since Charlene had last contacted her associates at the research firm where she worked, and
by the time Frank Sims, her officemate, had thought to call
me
, he had become clearly alarmed.
“She often goes off on her own tangents,” he had said. “But she’s never disappeared for this long before, and never when she
had meetings already set with long-term clients. Something’s not right.”
“How did you know to call me?” I asked.
He responded by describing part of a letter, found in Charlene’s office, that I had written to her months earlier chronicling
my experiences in Peru. With it, he told me, was a scribbled note that contained my name and telephone number.
“I’m calling everyone I know who is associated with her,” he added. “So far, no one seems to know a thing. Judging from the
letter, you’re a friend of Charlene’s. I was hoping you had heard from her.”
“Sorry,” I told him. “I haven’t talked to her in four months.”
Even as I had said the words, I couldn’t believe it had been that long. Soon after receiving my letter, Charlene had telephoned
and left a long message on my answering machine, voicing her excitement about the Insights and commenting on the speed with
which knowledge of them seemed to be spreading. I remembered listening, to Charlene’s message several times, but I had put
off calling her back—telling myself that I would call later, maybe tomorrow or the day after, when I felt ready to talk. I
knew at the time that speaking with her would put me in the position of having to recall and explain the details of the Manuscript,
and I told myself I needed more time to think, to digest what had occurred.
The truth, of course, was that parts of the prophecy still eluded me. Certainly I had retained the ability to connect with
a spiritual energy within, a great comfort to me considering that
everything had fallen through with Marjorie, and I was now spending large amounts of time alone. And I was more aware than
ever of intuitive thoughts and dreams and the luminosity of a room or landscape. Yet, at the same time, the sporadic nature
of the coincidences had become a problem.
I would fill up with energy, for instance, discerning the question foremost in my life, and would, usually perceive a clear
hunch about what to do or where to go to pursue the answer— yet, after acting accordingly, too often nothing of importance
would occur. I would find no message, no coincidence.
This was especially true when the intuition was to seek out someone I already knew to some extent, an old acquaintance perhaps,
or someone with whom I worked routinely. Occasionally this person and I would find some new point of interest, but just as
frequently, my initiative, in spite of my best efforts to send energy, would be completely rebuked, or worse, would begin
with excitement only to warp out of control and finally die in a flurry of unexpected irritations and emotions.
Such failure had not soured me on the process, but I had realized something was missing when it came to living the Insights
long-term. In Peru, I had been proceeding on momentum, often acting spontaneously with a kind of faith born out of desperation.
When I arrived back home, though, dealing again with my normal environment, often surrounded by outright skeptics, I seemed
to lose the keen expectation, or firm belief, that my hunches were really going to lead somewhere. Apparently there was some
vital part of the knowledge I had forgotten… or perhaps not yet discovered.