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The Celestine Prophecy: The Making of the Movie
The book was voted the #1 all-time favorite religion & spirituality
book by New York Times readers. Now there are more than 12 million
copies of it throughout the world in more than 50 languages.
 

     In 1993, a relatively unknown psychotherapist from Alabama self-published a spiritual adventure novel with an intriguing title: The Celestine Prophecy. Author James Redfield and his wife Salle then peddled it to bookstores throughout the South, giving a copy to any bookseller who would agree to read it. It became the best-selling American book in the world in 1995 and 1996. Then Redfield received multi-million-dollar offers from Hollywood to produce the Nine Insights on film, but his intuition led him not to accept them. He was clear:

     “We want this film to come into being in accordance with the vision of the new spiritual consciousness that the story seeks to describe:” We either fear that human culture is falling apart, or we can hold the Vision that we are awakening. Each of us must consciously choose between these two futures.

     What Redfield once imagined can now be experienced at the movie! And then you can reawaken the vision through the 160 full-color photos taken on location in the tropical forests of Costa Rica and St. Augustine, Florida in The Celestine Prophecy: The Making of the Movie by James Redfield and Monty Joynes (ISBN 1-57174-458-4). “The real impact of the film is one you’ll sense without thinking, and feel with your body and soul,” says Redfield. The same can be said for this narrative of the film’s transforming pre-production synchronicities to the final editing by the producers, director Armand Mastroianni, and the actors and crew.

     "Life, yours and mine, is essentially a spiritual journey no matter what we see as our occupation or our duty….All that occurred in the making of The Celestine Prophecy movie was the result of a sacred intention to be faithful to its purpose."— Barnet Bain, Emmy-nominated Producer of The Celestine Prophecy Movie

     "Perhaps now we’ll actually embrace a reality that before we could only intuit".... James Redfield
Just as the novel’s Nine Insights ignited a worldwide dialog on the future of humanity, the film and the book about its making will reignite and expand the vision to a whole new audience.

     Get inside the imagination of the remarkable people who came together to fulfill the magic of the vision. It’s in The Celestine Prophecy: The Making of the Movie. It’s the Eighth Insight. Instead of taking energy from each other, you give it. No matter what.

Fall 2005  •    Film  •  ISBN 1-57174-458-4  •  Trade cloth  •  $29.95