The Celestine Prophecy - An Adventure

The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure is a novel by the American writer James Redfield, published in 1993. It is written as a first-person account of a spiritual awakening.

The narrator undertakes a journey to Peru in search of a manuscript said to contain a series of insights, and the book follows him as he finds them one after another and discusses the ideas they hold with the people he meets on the way. The ideas are drawn from several ancient Eastern traditions and from New Age spirituality, and they concern matters such as how being open to new possibilities can help a person establish a connection with the divine. Because other people are also hunting for the manuscript, the search takes the form of an adventure with rivalries and obstacles in it rather than an account of study. The book was first printed by a small publisher and became widely known by word of mouth before any large-scale promotion, and it was followed by further books in the same sequence.

Redfield's book belongs to the spiritual writing of the 1990s, and it presents its ideas inside a story rather than as a set of instructions.