Seventeen years ago, internationally acclaimed author, novelist and film producer James Redfield from the United States published his first novel, “The Celestine Prophecy.” The book has soon became a phenomenal New York Times bestseller and one of the world’s favorite, with 20 million copies sold in 34 languages by 2005. It was also the #1 international bestseller in 1996. A sequel soon followed, titled “The Tenth Insight,” and together with “The Celestine Prophecy” spent a combined 74 weeks on the New York Times list.

Mr. Redfield has also been recognized for his contributions through several honors, including the prestigious Medal of the Presidency by the Italian Senate. In 1999 Celestine series brought forth new adventure with “The Secret of Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight.” And in February 2011, Mr. Redfield published the fourth book, “The Twelfth Insight: The Hour of Decision.” Like all his novels, the new book immediately grasps the minds and hearts of readers.

I’m very excited about talking about the new book, “The Twelfth Insight,” because it’s really happening out there. There is another step in consciousness occurring out there in the world and I think it’s something we’re all doing at the same time. It’s a return to the authenticity and integrity, and we can see it happening as a counter stream to all the challenging aspects of life right now.

You opened the “Twelfth Insight” speaking of truth telling and deceit. Well, you opened the “Twelfth Insight” with an interesting quote by George Orwell. “In the time of universal deceit, truth telling becomes a revolutionary act.” Why did you choose this quote?

Because what we’re discovering now is the power of truth. As soon as we decide as individuals to come back to truthfulness, and that means telling the truth to ourselves; that means all the secrets, all the addictions and distractions that we don’t want anybody to know about, we have to tell, to start to talk about those openly. What does that do? It makes you transparent. It also makes one authentic.

And that is a centeredness that opens the spiritual connection. We could believe all these things intellectually, but if we’re still living a lie, so to speak, then we can never integrate and live every day the spiritual path that we’re on. Now this is just a journey humanity’s taking, but as now we wake up to another step, what we’re beginning to tell is the radical truth, but in a loving way, in a helpful way.

At the time of the book’s release in February, movements of citizens speaking out for their rights and freedoms were spreading across the Middle East and elsewhere around the globe.

What’s alarming us is the degree of lying, deception and corruption in the world, and it’s always been there of course. But what’s happening is that people are becoming aware of it at all levels. And what’s occurring is then that we want to come back to an authentic life, because the deception makes us crazy, essentially, because we lose our grounding in truth. But what happen is if we begin to ground in truth, begin to open up to the rest of our wisdom, then we find the way to be guided and life goes better.

Will you tell us about some of the terminology that characterizes your work and message you are conveying?

Yes, what’s occurring in my view, and again I’m observing this and I’m experiencing it, I’m looking at the polls. I’m talking to the people that that are telling me they’re experiencing something new. We’re returning to a sense of personal authenticity, which means we’re more able to tell the truth about who we are, what our soul urges to do to make the world better, and move away from the corruption that characterizes much of the world right now.

In part, we’re moving away from it because it appalls us so, and choosing a life of integrity. And when we do this, what happens is a new clarity and also a “download,” if I can use that word, (Sure) of the rest of our awareness. So we’ve been operating too much on the left brain, logic, practical matters, trying to manipulate and control aspects of our lives. And some of that is important. The ego has a role in there. We do strategize.

But what we’re doing now is we’re taking that logical understanding about our lives that’s very materialist right now, and moving it into a place where we can add the intuitive side, from which we find these guiding intuitions. We allow ourselves to be guided more. Eventually we start to follow those intuitions. And when we do, we have these amazing synchronicities as though we’re learning how to turn on the universe, and universe begins to cooperate. So it’s a soul’s urge to come in and push human evolution forward into greater consciousness.

Mr. James Redfield has always been keenly interested in spirituality. Seeking to quench his thirst to life’s questions since he was young, he studied Western and Eastern philosophies. He also incorporated his research on the human potential movement into his 15-year profession as a therapist for abused adolescents. Thus, his novels weave together psychology, philosophy, science, futurism, ecology, history and more.

The truth – and this is an adage that has been around, across all cultures for forever, across all religions, and that is: “The truth shall set you free.” Centering in the best truth, and saying that openly to everyone, it sets you free in a way that’s personally transformational.

Mr. Redfield’s storytelling leads us on a journey to discover the Twelfth Insight, which he once defined as “the rise of a new clarity about how to live our spirituality at a new, down-to-earth level.” We become aware of the revelations through the characters’ experiences in the book. In doing so, we recognize the transitions as they are taking place today in both our personal lives and in society as a whole.

My job is to figure out something that I believe has really happened. It’s really, I’m chronicling human consciousness change, or human spiritual evolution. And I’m trying to point to where we are and what we’re discovering in a novel, in a story. Now the reason that that seemed the best way to do it for me, is because in a story, you see characters facing challenges, and figuring out how to overcome these challenges. Well, that’s what we’re doing in the world. That’s what’s happening. So, these books are adventures that the reader can go on, in order to explore what I think is an awakening that we can all prove to ourselves.

How exactly do you personally fit into your writings?

I’d have to say, I'm none of them and all of them. A little of me’s in all of them, and a little bit of every person – as I see what's happening out there – they're all in this. The political context of the book is the real political context of this world right now. We’ve got a lot of people that think that the best thing they can do spiritually is to create Armageddon. And the counter to that is those of us who are devoted to the goodness of the world, perfecting the world. People think that's crazy. A lot of religions…

But in fact, they all have a prophecy of perfection. They have a symbolic prophecy about somehow a return, or download, or reconnection will save the world and make it more perfect in the end. Well, I think at the soul level we all know that we each have a role in that. That's that’s something that pertains to every culture, every religion.

And what happens is then we influence people, who influence people, who uplift people. And you know what the sociologists say, that it only takes four people to reach anybody in the world. Somebody we know knows somebody, who knows somebody, who knows that person we’re trying to get in touch with. That’s the way spiritual influence is. That’s how we save the world. We influence someone who knows that CEO who’s about to do something unethical and greedy and collapse the financial system or something. Or, we know someone who knows someone who’s a high executive in a food processing companies that adds so many chemicals to our food. So, we can reach anybody. Just, if we live this ourselves, the influence reverberates out into the world.

Mr. James Redfield calls himself a reporter who describes the transformation of human consciousness as it is unfolding. He situates his novels at the coincidence between the end of the Mayan Calendar and a mystical sacred document that explains the true beginning of human existence. The insight of returning to authenticity or truth comes from this sacred document, and marks the new beginning of human history from within.

Well, we’re definitely opening up and as more people open up, the attitude of the world culture, opens up as well. We have extremes at every level, and these are controlling forces that aren’t presenting truth openly. What they’re presenting is an agenda. Both left politically and right politically have this agenda. So that means that a true spiritual path is above those two ideologies, into something that’s real from a spiritual point of view.

So again, the solution to the world’s problems happens at the grassroots. People living differently and having a different attitude, and having a greater spiritual connection and all that goes with that. What’s happening is that then individual truths and people coming together to stand for something they believe is right, and voicing that truthfully, lovingly but truthfully. That’s why nonviolence is so important. You have to be offering truths in a giving way, so the universe begins to open up for our dreams, our soul’s urge.

There are still much to find out about the messages for humankind in his new book, “The Twelfth Insight.” Please join us again for the conclusion of our interview with Mr. James Redfield, Wednesday, May 4, as he shares his thoughts about karma, how we can “download” the universal energy to help our planet, and more.

The book, “The Twelfth Insight: The Hour of Decision,” by James Redfield, is available at www.TheTwelfthInsight.com and www.Amazon.com

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Welcome, elevated viewers, to the second and final part of our interview with Mr. James Redfield, author of the international bestselling novel, “The Celestine Prophecy,” the first of what unfolded as his acclaimed Celestine Series.

Seeking to record the ongoing transformation of human consciousness in our world, The Celestine Series also includes the sequels, “The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision,” “The Secret of Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight,” and most recently, “The Twelfth Insight: The Hour of Decision.” As intriguing and adventurous as the volumes before it, “The Twelfth Insight” offers a new revelation at the current critical moment of human history.

Mr. Redfield’s writing has been seen as an important contribution to the New Age Movement, a spiritual movement with dimensions in psychology, holistic living and improvement of human consciousness. For his forward-thinking work, Mr. Redfield was awarded the prestigious Medal of the Presidency by the Italian Senate, the Humanitarian of the Year award from the International New Thought Alliance, and the World View Award from the Wisdom Media Group.

During an interview with Supreme Master Television, Mr. James Redfield further described the meaning of truth in life, as it relates to his newest book, “The Twelfth Insight: The Hour of Decision.”

What’s coming to us is the experience of this oneness with God.

I call it a “download,” because we’re familiar with computer terminology, (Yes) but that’s also how it feels. In other words, at the ego level, we think we’re smart or we’re not smart, we have all these attitudes about ourselves and other people, we’re defensive and protect ourselves and all those things. But what happens when we open up to a greater – actually half our brain, and when it begins to fire up, we download all this wisdom that comes from a higher Self. And it feels as though we’re guided in life and we’re helped in life.

And what happens is, as we move into allowing ourselves to be guided, we realize that especially to the extent that we can ground ourselves in truth, then the world begins to open up for us and we discover the soul’s urge and we find out that we’re being led into the exact right place to make a big difference out there in the world.

There's a term you used in “The Twelfth Insight” – “waking up from secular obsessions.” Would you care to describe and comment on that?

Yes, well, we all have our addictions. There are all these built-in ways we distract ourselves from what's the real program of life, and that is, to open up to a greater spiritual connection. And I name them in the book, of course, and it's about 100 of them, I guess. It's all the things that we distract ourselves with, from shopping, to sports, to an obsession with religious doctrine itself, rather than true religious experience, and especially food of all kinds, all the drug addictions of every kind. It's ways that we distract ourselves.

So, it's the higher Self that has to come in with the information about the nature of spirituality. And you have to have enough time to do that. You have to meditate, pray. You have to come back to this truthfulness. Our egos don't want to open up about our lives, because the ego thinks it'll get criticized or somehow be endangered. And so, our nature, from the ego point of view, is don't open up, distract ourselves, go shopping when we feel bad. Go get something more to eat when we feel bad, when we feel insecure. Do all the things that in our world society, at every level, we've learned to do.

Have you found many have simply opted for the concept of a new spirituality?

It’s definitely becoming more lived. So it’s happening outside of religious doctrine altogether in many cases. But the important thing to understand is that it’s happening across all religions at the same time. So religions are transforming from within. So, churches that prosper are those that talk about the authentic spiritual life, not just the intellectual understanding in that religion or church.

When we start to focus on the authentic spiritual life and how that feels, we realize it feels the same across all religions, because it’s authentic. We’re all the same. That’s why what’s happening is a unity consciousness. We’re all souls, and the more we focus on that, the more we realize that all the other differences that we might have thought we had with people begin to fade away.

Mr. James Redfield also elaborated on the new significance of truth and integrity, as reflected in other realms such as science and technology, social life, and personal lifestyle. The discussion went on to topics such as the emerging new relationships between spiritual truth and science and spiritual truth and karma.

You also mention that in the last few hundred years, the focus of science has been on the outer material world. Recently, more scientists are starting to investigate spiritual matters such as the connection between quantum mechanics and our consciousness. Do you foresee that science can play a more positive role in humanity's search for spiritual truth in the future, and how?

Absolutely, I mean, science is moving in that direction, and not only just modern physics, but every part of science – nutritional science, science of the paranormal, science of our mental ability. Because when we have a spiritual awakening and we download this side that is wise, and has guidance and clarity, things fire up in the brain, which can be mapped with brain wave graphics. Scientists are seeking to go in that direction. Good scientists, devoted scientists are moving in that direction. And so, there’s more and more research.

You talk about karma. What is your take on that?

Well, I truly believe that we’re understanding karma finally, for the first time.

For the first time?

Now, if you look at all the polls, everybody believes in karma. I mean, it’s, worldwide, it’s like, average is 80, 89 to 95% of the people. If you ask them, “Is karma real?” using the idea of “what goes around comes around,” the answer from everybody is “Yes, absolutely.” Because why? They’ve seen it. And guess what? They’ve also experienced it. (Experienced it.)

So here’s how it works, I believe. One, the truth activates karma. So if we tell the truth in the service of other people, in other words, we’re trying to give them the best truth we know, knowing we don’t know all the truth. “Here’s what my life’s about. This is my dream…” Then what occurs is, the karmic response is that we draw into our lives people that do exactly that; that we draw into our lives that people who reflect the way we are, not as punishment, but to show us how harmful it is to other people to tell half-truths.

And what happens is, is that that can help us recognize, “That doesn’t feel good to do what I do.” And we can move toward telling the radical truth, and centering in truth, and following intuition again. So you see how it works. As soon as we start telling the radical truth in service, we begin to draw people who arrive in our lives to help our dreams come true. And it’s as simple and as difficult as that.

You mentioned in the book that food is the first level of energy we allow into our consciousness. Do you think the adoption of a vegetarian or vegan diet plays a role in humanity's evolution to a higher consciousness?

Absolutely, moving toward alive foods. And the more raw the better. Because raw foods are more filled with light. You know, we have this glorious chlorophyll that’s still there, all these enzymes that come from sun still in this plant. So I believe the movement is toward more green, more alive raw foods in the diet, in terms of helping us maintain this awareness. Because this is energy level we’re talking about, and the first energy, as you say, is food. And there are a lot of problems out there with food. So what’s the solution? Prepare your own foods from nutritious organic ingredients, 90% and it’ll change your life.

Beside being a gifted and sensitive writer, Mr. James Redfield is also a filmmaker. He released a film version of “The Celestine Prophecy” in 2006. In addition, he edits and publishes the online “Celestine Journal.” He and his wife, Ms. Sally Redfield, who is also an author of several books on intuitive living, co-founded a bi-weekly tele-webcast Global Prayer Project that offers collective prayer and meditation.

Every two weeks, we meet and there’s thousands of people across all religious persuasions. The only pre-requisite is that we believe in the one God of love that’s within us. What we do is that we all just connect there. And then we uplift people by focusing on particular areas of crisis. Certainly, we’ve been focused on Japan of late. We seek to, in oneness, connect with everybody, and in that oneness, envision that they’re lifting into their own connection with the rest of themselves, which is God, downloading their wisdom and intuition, so that they can courageously act. They turn on to their own connection, their own guiding wisdom, in order to go do the best thing they can to help.

Prayer and meditation, as ways of downloading from God consciousness, enable the true experience of oneness. According to Mr. James Redfield:

The whole program for life, the whole purpose for history from the very beginning to right now has been to come to a unified understanding of how to live the spiritual life, one that’s simple, one that’s doable, one that we can prove to ourselves. That’s the phase of growth that we’re entering right now in my view. That’s the Twelfth Insight.

Thank you, Mr. James Redfield, for all the fascinating spiritual insights you have shared through your valuable books and this interview. We join you in looking forward to the time that all humans reconnect with God and live in truth, wisdom, and harmony.

The book, “The Twelfth Insight: The Hour of Decision,” by James Redfield, is available at www.TheTwelfthInsight.com and www.Amazon.com

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