One's Energy Into A Higher Vibration example essay topic

The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield tells the story of a man who tries to learn and understand the nine key insights into life itself in an ancient manuscript that has been discovered in Peru. It predicts a massive spiritual transformation of society in the late twentieth century. We will finally grasp the secrets of the universe, the mysteries of existence, and the meaning of life. The real meaning and purpose of life will not be found in religion or in material wealth, but rather in things like auras.

He comes across the insights in numerical order since that is how one must understand them. Overcoming an initial skepticism, the narrator's understanding grows with each insight. They include the following: 1. A Critical Mass. 2. The Longer Now.

3. A Matter of Energy. 4. The Struggle for Power. 5. The Message of the Mystics.

6. Clearing the Past. 7. Engaging the Flow.

8. The Interpersonal Ethic. 9. The Emerging Culture. In the first 15 pages, while the plot is still forming, at least eight basic ideas are introduced: a spiritual awakening is occurring in the world (p. 4); humanity is evolving into a higher spiritual consciousness (p. 4); seek the experiential (p. 5); coincidences have spiritual significance (synchronicity) (p. 6); the knowledge contained in the manuscript's insights has been hidden from most of the world (esoteric, secret knowledge) (p. 8); anti-Christian attitudes (p. 9); discover truth through experience (p. 10); and when the student is ready, the teacher appears (p. 15). These ideas are not always expressed in so many words, but their principles are.

For example, the basis of the story is that the spiritual insights humanity needs are hidden in an ancient document, and must be uncovered if mankind is to advance spiritually. Not everyone, according to the story, is ready for or able to comprehend these teachings. The insights are for those spiritually ripe, the spiritual elite. The book implies that in time others will accept these ideas but for now the more advanced must lead until a critical mass of people have grasped the insights. The first two insights are that coincidences have a deep significance and that this decision-making should guide an individual. Later insights build on this, teaching the narrator that he should be guided by daydreams, intuitions and thoughts that may flash in his mind.

So at the very beginning of the story, the subjective is valued over the objective. The truth is not outside ourselves but exists in us; we only have to learn to recognize and follow it. If indeed this is truth, then there are no absolutes. Your truth is your truth and my truth is my truth. No one can judge another's inner experience of truth; therefore, there can be no right or wrong.

Yet the book implies there are wrong ways of thinking when it is refers to the 'traditional beliefs' that one must reject in order to understand the insights. Apparently, some truths are truer than others. The next several insights are based on the belief that the universe is comprised of pure energy 'that is malleable to human intention and expectation' (p. 42). Later, the narrator states, 'I perceived everything to be somehow part of me' and he realizes his real body is actually the universe (p. 98). Connecting to this energy field is essential to spiritual development since this energy is life, love and God. The narrator is advised that love exists 'when one is connected to the energy in the universe, which, of course, is the energy of God,' (p. 153).

The narrator learns how to see energy fields around plants and people. The story builds as the narrator encounters each insight that leads him into a state where he is able to understand the next insight. The culmination is a realization that spiritual evolvement is moving one's energy into a higher vibration. Matter is the densest form of energy and therefore less evolved.

As one evolves and the energy vibrations accelerate, one becomes freer of the body and the material world. This concept is introduced as the narrator describes a vision he has of the history of the universe in terms of scientific evolution. Energy somehow coalesced into matter which then 'leaped' past simple forms into more complex forms (p. 99) The narrator realizes that each emerging species represented matter 'moving into its next higher vibration' until finally 'at the pinnacle stood humankind,' (p. 100). Humankind is at the pinnacle and yet it is nature that is holy.

Man vibrates at a higher level but the universe is his body. If moving into a higher vibration is the goal, then should not we want the trees and rivers to progress to that point? Is nature capable of this, and if so, how would it be done? The book does not offer the reader any insight on this dilemma. Since we are evolving into a higher vibrational state, according to the book, we will eventually one day reach a vibration so high that we will transcend matter. The Ninth Insight offers this teaching as a crowning revelation.

The narrator is told that Christ walked on water because he was vibrating at a high frequency (p. 241), and one day we will all be vibrating 'highly enough so that we can walk into heaven, in our same form,' (p. 242). Fear lowers the vibration, so the narrator is told man must conquer fear in order to maintain a high vibration level. While the narrator is taught this insight, one of the characters achieves this high vibratory level and disappears. Heaven actually already exists here on earth, but until we are spiritually advanced and are vibrating at the higher level, we cannot see it (p. 243). These nine insights are the way to the transformation.

How do we know this? Just look at the restlessness all around in the world. The dissatisfaction and restlessness we feel is the key. We are like caterpillars ready to morph into butterflies. After all, you cannot seek fulfillment if you are fulfilled.

Do you think it is a coincidence that coincidences are happening more and more frequently? The following is an excerpt from the novel: ... the Manuscript says the number of people who are conscious of such coincidences would begin to grow dramatically in the sixth decade of the twentieth century. He said that this growth would continue until sometime near the beginning of the following century, when we would reach a specific level of such individuals -- a level I think of as a critical mass (p. 8). I am not sure but I believe Redfield meant to say the seventh decade, not the sixth. The sixth decade of the twentieth century would be the 1950's. Nobody seems to think that the '50's were a time of restlessness.

The '60's, however, has entered historical consciousness as a very restless period: the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement, marijuana and LSD use, the Civil Rights Movement, assassinations of the Martin Luther King Jr. and John and Robert Kennedy, the 'invasion' by the Beatles, etc. In any case, the novel has some good advice. Make love, not war. Be neither intimidator, interrogator, aloof nor pitiable. We do not need fear, humiliation, guilt or shame. Contemplate mediate and follow your intuitions and dreams as you go through your spiritual evolution.

Fact or fiction, it does not matter. Truth is what you make it. Life is too short and too complicated to deal with reality. Make your own reality. It seemed this adventure was a condensed story of what could possibly happen to a Spiritual seeker over several years time. Crossroads encountered several times in one day in The Celestine Prophecy probably happen over a much longer period to someone finding one's self.

I enjoyed and was intrigued by the control dramas analogy that was presented in The Celestine Prophecy. They sure seemed to enhance understanding on the issue. Also this spiritual enlightenment story portrayed to me that healing to an awareness of our inner light can move right along when we are not encumbered by blame and guilt. There was no judgment implied as to which choices that one makes, it seemed to be simply a matter of preference if one chose to liberate or not. Acceptance of whatever is flows through the entire book. Naturally we would come to choose healing, and naturally we would tolerate those not ready to do so yet.

But what blew me away is how blatantly and clearly the writing conveyed how the fearful phenomenon of dysfunctional codependency plays itself out -- people attempting to live on each other's energy in lieu of tapping their own inner power. This can be seen in the scene where they seen the energies exchange between some people. All and all I enjoyed reading this novel by James Redfield..