The Celestine Prophecy

One of the last books I read for this year was The Celestine
Prophecy by James Redfield. This book is an adventure book about people being
united and finding spiritual enlightenment. I’ve been describing the spiritual
enlightenment as the "Alex Grey Way"
to my friends so that they will understand that it is about energy.

The book starts off in the states with the main character, John, feeling
restless with life. (The book does not actually say his name but it is John in
the movie.) Then his old friend, Charlene, calls him and tells him about a
manuscript. In this manuscript there are insights. Charlene reveals the first
one to John but in order to find out the others, he goes to Peru.
When he gets there the man he met on the plane is captured and then he meets Wil
who takes him on this journey to learn the 8 insights and find the 9th.

On this journey John meets many people; each at the right time to help him
learn the next insight. And, throughout the whole book the characters rely on
their instinct and do not take coincidences for granted. The journey is
dangerous due to the government not wanting the manuscripts revealed. So, many
people do get captured and some are even killed.

This book was a good book. I loved the idea of all of the insights. I also
liked the adventure part of it. I thought that this book managed a good balance
of the different aspects a book should have. Apparently there are two more
books following this one. I can’t wait to read the next one.

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National Geographic Extinction

Today I read in the National Geographic blog that a new study is said
to suggest that by 2050 1/4 of plant and vertebrate animal species will
be in danger of extinction. In the authors’ reports there is an
estimation of 25 biodiversity "hot spots" around the world of which
their habitat will change. The main spots include South Africa’s Cape
Floristic Region, the Caribbean Basin, and the tropical regions of the
Andes Mountains.

I personally think this is bad. It’s not fair that these animals and
plants will be gone because humanity was too ignorant to fix what we
have done. It’s sad because some of the best parts of the world are
going to be affected.

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MOSI Dead Bodies

This past Saturday I was in Tampa. My moms decided something cool to go see would be the "dead" Bodies exibit at the Mosi museum. I was kind of nervous to see body parts. Things like that always make my body ache. It’s a reason why I might have never done very well in health class. The more I paid attention the more sick I felt. This exibit was interesting. There were more male bodies than female which was a little weird and a lot of the female bodies had black lungs which indicated that they were smokers. I can’t really describe the exibit. It’s one of those things you’d have to <a href=http://mosi.org>see for yourself</a>.