Peter Murphy – Crystal Wrists
I finished The Celestine Prophecy last night…:
The Celestine Prophecy, By James Redfield, 246 pages
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I began to read this book, checking the cover for some sort of distinction into a class (non-fiction, fiction, religious…) and couldn’t find one. The story is an adventure of one man who travels to Peru on a whim after hearing about a revolutionary manuscript that was discovered. Through a series of coincidences he discovers the “9 insights” of evolving humanity… where we have all come from and where we are all going as humans and a culture. The book in itself as a story (fiction, used only to demonstrate the ideas) was full of surprises, the church has convinced the Peruvian government that this manuscript must be destroyed, so our main characters are forced to run throughout the novel to avoid capture… but the coincidences, so avidly described tended to get on my nerves a bit, as much as they were necessary for the point to get through. But of course the adventure was not what the book was about. This books was one man’s vision of spirtuality in this changing world. I was hesitant about his views at first because he believes that we are living in a special, profound time… and I think that everyone who has ever lived would have liked to think of their time period as a special turning point in history, every christian thinks their generation will be the one to see christ return. The insights pretty much outline a better way to treat our fellow beings, and it does make a lot of sense, even without his “energy fields”… Energy Fields, these were described as coming from everything living, energy that can be moved among things through different actions, and although I thought on this for some time, I really couldnt accept it, in the book the characters could actually see these (which I assume would sorta be like auras). Ok, so in all? I liked this book, it’s another one of those pychological books that got me thinking. I don’t believe that we will reach a perfect conciousness someday and transend material possessions, but treating fellow humans with respect and love is something we all could use a bit of practice with and this book outlines a very good way to doso.
That’s probably one of the longest I’ve written.
So yesterday Myk started thinking about us starting up a consulting business. Sounds like a good idea, could bring in some extra money and I’d actually have a job of sorts, even if it is just consulting, at least when people asked me I could seriously say “I’m a consultant”. So I started writing up a consulting proposal yesterday, which isn’t as easy as it looks, especially when our references and history is pretty sparce, since we are just starting consulting and all. Plus we don’t have a name, so it was difficult, “We ___ would like to develop a webpage for your company” that sort of thing. Anyway, I will work on it a little more today, hopefully get a standard one together. It would be kewl working on webpages and stuff professionally, since as of yet I havent made a penny from all my webwork.
In other news I am still working on that Magic bot getting a lot of help, a friend of mine on IRC is writing up card descriptions of all his cards, that should help ’cause I wont have to do them all myself. I am gonna go for a walk tho before it gets to unbarably hot… bbl