A mysterious manuscript has surfaced in Peru. No, it’s not the 8th Harry Potter book, it’s some kind of religious text written by the ancient Mayans. Does it give us insight into this lost culture? Does it predict the end of the world? Nope and nope. It’s the first written example of long-winded hippies.
The Mayans wrote their ancient text, inexplicably, in Aramaic, the language of movies about Jesus. It’s broken down into 9 “insights” that range from “be nice to each other” to 1960s psycho babble about power dynamics in relationships to claims that vegetables are more nutritious if we love them harder. The Celestine Prophecy follows a couple of interchangeable characters as they search for these insights and measure each other’s energy. Every once in a while the Peruvian government shows up and kills people.
If this book actually existed, it would be completely uninteresting. But it doesn’t. Instead, this is a book about people reading a philosophical work and agreeing with it to each other. It’s so boring, there’s only one reason anybody would read it… because a hot chick asked them to (or in our case, a guy asked us to read it so he wouldn’t have to and could still talk to his hot chick about it). We’re here to help.
are you crazy!!! you didn’t “get” the Celestine Prophecy. Best book EVER.
You’re right. We didn’t get it. Feel free to explain it to us.
The fuck is there to “get”? I haven’t read it, but it sounds like a ridiculous pile of crap.
It’s worse when it’s given to you by a family friend who is one of those people who says, “I’m not religious, I’m spiritual” but they REALLY mean the ‘spiritual’ part.So I read it and I called them on their bullshit after reading it and I’M the asshole? I ask you?True story.
I read it years ago and like many who were caught up in the fix at that time of the early to mid 90s many people were glued to the ideology. It sounded really cool, I lived and worked in Sedona/AZ the land of Rape and Honey. So many fakes there oh boy. Sedona and Vegas are twins just different personalities.
I read the book cover to cover and it sounded really cool bro…..haha… My folks were all caught up in the New Age BS they thought it was a sign…..a sign…hahaha lmao.
All in all the book was a quick read of just 2-3 days and sounded pretty interesting. Tried out the insights to see if any would work……..aahhh….Nope.
My folks told me I was exceptionally Psychic, WTF was my response after my folks forked over $500 for the reading…… WTF!!
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Wait till you read The Secret of Shambala…..that was super super super Coolio.
So many people were delirious in the 90s thinking that all sorts of things were about to unfold from a cosmic level………so we waited…..and waited….the years went by and it is now 2025…..WTF?
So, 30 years passed on and nothing really happened outside of the usual wars, famine, crime, pollution you know the usual things with humanity.
It was cool at the time and thankfully people realized it was just another book.
I am totally positive that there is more wisdom in my cup of hot chocolate than in this book.