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James Redfield was born March 19, 1950, in Alabama. He is married to Salle Merrill (a massage therapist and writer). Redfield studied at Auburn University and has a M.A. in counseling. 

Philosopher and author James Redfield astonished the publishing world with the success of his spiritual vision in novel form, The Celestine Prophecy. Redfield first self-published the book, which had been rejected by several conventional firms, and sold copies of it out of the trunk of his car. He attracted sufficient attention in New Age circles, and circulated so many copies, that Warner Books decided to buy The Celestine Prophecy for 800,000 dollars in 1993. With a major company behind it, the volume's sales took off. As of June, 1996, according to Marci McDonald in Maclean's, The Celestine Prophecy had sold 5.8 million copies in thirty-two countries and had "a stranglehold on the top spot of The New York Times best-seller list for . . . 116 weeks." Redfield collaborated with Carol Adrienne on a workbook for the novel, The Celestine Prophecy: An Experiential Guide, which saw print in 1995. He also penned a sequel,The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision, and collaborated with Adrienne on a workbook for it, as well.

 Redfield was raised a Methodist, but was attracted to Eastern religions such as Taoism and Buddhism from an early age. While attending graduate classes at Auburn University, he also began researching intuition and other related subjects. He told John Leland in Newsweek: "For me the '60s weren't about burning down the ROTC building; they were the start of the Human Potential Movement, an explosion in research into consciousness." Leland went on to report that Redfield went to Sedona, Arizona, to "explore energy vortexes, " and that he "discovered his past lives among Franciscan monks in the sixteenth century, among Native Americans in the nineteenth."

Putting some of the beliefs embodied in his writings into practice in his own life, Redfield has been active in campaigning to preserve what remains of America's wilderness areas. In 1999 he became involved with the Global Renaissance Alliance, an organization committed to non-violent change that is attempting to integrate spiritual values into the political process. (Contemporary Authors Online)

Bibliography:
The Celestine Insights
The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure
The Celestine Prophecy: An Experimental Guide
The Celestine Prophecy: A Pocket Guide To The Nine Insights
The Celestine Vision
The Secret of Shambhala
The Song of Celestine
Tenth Insight: Holding The Vision
The Tenth Insight: Holding The Vision;
An Experiential Guide
The Tenth Insight: Holding The Vision;
A Pocket Guide

Author's Website:
http://www.celestinevision.com/main.html

Last Updated:
11 May 2001  

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