Spiritual Adventure Tales - Rated 
"The Celestine Prophecy" written about ten years ago had a profound effect on my spiritual understanding. Since then I have looked at relationships and energy dynamics in a whole new way. "The Tenth Insight" deepened my insights by allowing 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 and crystallized 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 and also tell others about them.
Spiritually we are reaching a critical level and the message found in books by James Redfield and currently in "Nexus: A Neo Novel" is helping in our spiritual growth.
Inspiring Spiritual Adventure - Rated
James Redfield's The TENTH INSIGHT is a spellbinding Spiritual Adventure filled with suspense and 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 - Rated 
The Tenth Insight finds James Redfield taking a slightly different approach to The Celestine Prophecy - it's not 'more of the same', but an equally interesting and 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 challenge, each bringing their unique strengths - as well as, of course, the doubts and failings they need to overcome.
While most of the insights in The Celestine Prophecy dealt with the nature and use of 'energy', the Tenth Insight is more concerned with what Redfield calls the 'Afterlife'. Indeed, the events of the story alternate between that dimension and 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, and 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 really grasped something quite profound about the nature of our existence here in the world.
Both books, The Celestine Prophecy and The Tenth Insight, project a refreshingly positive and optimistic vision for humanity. They also 'energising' - able to fuel the desire for growth and 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 and 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 and spiritual traditions - and 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 and are wondering where to go next, you might like to try Juan Sgolastra's 'The Way' or Marco Santello's 'Between Heaven and Earth', which I've also reviewed here on Amazon.
Interesting, but not as good as previous books - Rated
Having read the celestine prophecy first, I didn't find this book as interesting and at times actually found it to be quite hard-going.
More advanced and challenging ideas - will polarise opinion. - Rated
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 and challenging 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.
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