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tinhuvielartanisThe Crazy Aunt pressured me with great stalker-like zeal to read The Celestine Prophecy in 1995. It was in this year I was coming to the realisation that a New Age Fluffy Bunny outlook wasn't as spiritually fulfilling as I perhaps had hoped it would be. While newcomers to the Trad were flitting about like airheads on crack, I was coming to grips with the fact that there was a darkness in me that demanded acknowledgment, even investigation and embrace. I was reading Dreaming the Dark and the book that would come to be one of most important volumes in my life, Mysteries of the Dark Moon at the time Crazy Aunt approached me with the groundbreaking novel that would alter the world's spiritual perceptions! This was actually the first indication to me that Crazy Aunt was indeed fucking crazy. She later proved my suspicions of her mental state a short few years later. What a loon that woman is..... But I digress.
The Celestine Prophecy!
I read it. And it was the Last Straw. Something within me just popped and I took my first steps away from the New Age Lie. I'm certain I'm not the only person The Celestine Prophecy drove to the Dark Side. The crap writing alone should be enough to inspire lemming-like suicides amongst the literate population. Now, I'm all for thought-driven manifestation. In fact, I am one of the few Pagans who believe in the existence of Satan. I believe that Satan manifested after centuries of keen focus by millions of fearful Christians who gave more power to the concept of Hell than they ever did the promise of Heaven. But the idea James Redfield is promoting, that faith-driven "Insights" can serve to manifest a better world, a virtual utopia......I'm sorry. It's not gonna fucking happen unless the Human Race is radically altered on every level.
We've been sent prophets, teachers, gurus, even saviours according to some belief systems, but we continue to get it wrong. Instead of embracing a thought form that would help manifest a kingdom of heaven, we consistently embrace the fear of ourselves, renouncing the dark and thus giving it power over us. We manifest our monsters and render ourselves powerless to effectively fight them. In my humble opinion, the Human Race is incapable of achieving the lofty ideals portrayed in The Celestine Prophecy. Instead of using our so-called mind power to make vegetables grow in Peru, we are working quite diligently to try to make manifest every horrifying Endtimes prophecy known to the Collective Consciousness. The rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem is us.
So, if there were a Celebrity Deathmatch between The Alpaca Lips and The Celestine Prophecy, I'd put my money on the Alpaca Lips and scamper off to my bunker with my ill-gotten gains 'cos, honey, that New Age Fluffy Bunny bullshit ain't gonna get anyone anywhere but crushed under the jackboot of reality. Perhaps I'm sharpening the big teeth of the monster that will be our undoing because of my beliefs, but I can't fathom Humanity, in our current evolutionary rut, overcoming our baser nature and achieving even a remote fragment of the Celestine fantasy.
The Celestine Prophecy!
I read it. And it was the Last Straw. Something within me just popped and I took my first steps away from the New Age Lie. I'm certain I'm not the only person The Celestine Prophecy drove to the Dark Side. The crap writing alone should be enough to inspire lemming-like suicides amongst the literate population. Now, I'm all for thought-driven manifestation. In fact, I am one of the few Pagans who believe in the existence of Satan. I believe that Satan manifested after centuries of keen focus by millions of fearful Christians who gave more power to the concept of Hell than they ever did the promise of Heaven. But the idea James Redfield is promoting, that faith-driven "Insights" can serve to manifest a better world, a virtual utopia......I'm sorry. It's not gonna fucking happen unless the Human Race is radically altered on every level.
We've been sent prophets, teachers, gurus, even saviours according to some belief systems, but we continue to get it wrong. Instead of embracing a thought form that would help manifest a kingdom of heaven, we consistently embrace the fear of ourselves, renouncing the dark and thus giving it power over us. We manifest our monsters and render ourselves powerless to effectively fight them. In my humble opinion, the Human Race is incapable of achieving the lofty ideals portrayed in The Celestine Prophecy. Instead of using our so-called mind power to make vegetables grow in Peru, we are working quite diligently to try to make manifest every horrifying Endtimes prophecy known to the Collective Consciousness. The rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem is us.
So, if there were a Celebrity Deathmatch between The Alpaca Lips and The Celestine Prophecy, I'd put my money on the Alpaca Lips and scamper off to my bunker with my ill-gotten gains 'cos, honey, that New Age Fluffy Bunny bullshit ain't gonna get anyone anywhere but crushed under the jackboot of reality. Perhaps I'm sharpening the big teeth of the monster that will be our undoing because of my beliefs, but I can't fathom Humanity, in our current evolutionary rut, overcoming our baser nature and achieving even a remote fragment of the Celestine fantasy.
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Date: 2006-01-01 04:17 am (UTC)btw, there's a reasonably nasty parody of The Celestine Prophesy -- The Philistine Prophesy. it's evil in the same way that Bored Of The Rings is. ^_^
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Date: 2006-01-01 04:32 am (UTC)http://www.americangreetings.com/display.pd?bfrom=1&prodnum=3094053&Searchstr=three%20wise%20camels&st=t&path=31871
For some reason I think you'll be amused. Forgive me if I'm wrong.
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Date: 2006-01-01 11:24 pm (UTC)I'd be betting on the Alpaca Lips, too.
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Date: 2006-01-02 06:34 am (UTC)Sometimes the one hand clapping is the master slapping the student.
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Date: 2006-01-02 06:46 pm (UTC)that book
Date: 2006-01-02 05:19 pm (UTC)I never finished it.
I wanted to use it to wipe my ass with, but the paper was too harsh and it was a gift from my former sis=n=law so it still sits unmolested on my library wall.
amusing, eh?
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Date: 2006-01-02 07:01 pm (UTC)And the Celestine, New Age lot are *not* as much in the first camp as they would like (us) to believe.
You've put it beautifully; fear is the key, and rejecting/fearing fear makes things a million times worse.
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Date: 2006-01-02 07:09 pm (UTC)