welcome to new connection where you can tune in and grow i'm your host vicky thompson you may be familiar with new connection magazine for conscious living which has been enjoyed by readers in the pacific northwest for more than twenty years now we're excited to bring new connection to life in your home on new connection we welcome authors practitioners visionaries to share new ideas for alternative health spirituality and personal growth today i'd like to welcome to new connection james  redfield who's the author of the twelve insight the hour of decision james is the creator of the cell esteemed prophecy series which spent seventy four weeks on the new york times bestseller list james welcome to new connection  more choir over time and now we're at the twelfth and for which i think is very very important in the sense that something's happening out there that i'm describing in this book you know but  flames well the whole seriousness has been such a phenomenon can you take us back to the beginning how did how did this start where did the story concept come from well you know i like to say that i'm not making this stuff up you know  covers the twenty twelve mayan prophecy also your book is set in egypt which is become a revolutionary place to be how can you put it in perspective based on the  happening today but i think what we're doing is we're taking all this that strength spiritual knowledge that meant a lot to and taking it into our daily lives in a way that we are integrating so that we wake up in the morning and we live a little differently because we expect these guiding intuitions to show up in when we follow them you know synchronicity will occur to broaden our lives bring information just at the right time so what i believe we're doing is that we're making one key step to bring our spirituality down to earth and that is we are returning to the authenticity in that center place that all the spiritual mystics talk about where we are sort of radically honest about who we are what our souls dream is where we are now what's working what's not and we're centering into very conscious communication with other people so that we're sharing dreams and it's making all this more real lead to these integration is that the characters go through in the black yes so one of the integration is about i think that what we're learning to do is it is gain more clarity about how to live a more effective spiritual life that if you're honorable over little you're given more and so what that feels like to everyone is that while there's so much description in the world i want to return to integrity and authenticity in my own life i want to make that deeply spiritual and what happens is that we center into this level where that feels as though we're becoming the star of our own movies in our lives skin in feels like our lives have a certain destiny it's always felt that way but now we're learning to sustain this flow of synchronicity so that our souls dream can come true and that's what's really motivating what's happening in egypt in other places in the middle east it was a very spontaneous event where young people who were connected it was a very honorable thing that happened over there and there there are all kinds of other forces wanting this sees the day there and they have their own idea of a government they want to create but it's very purely a search for more effectively based on the returned integrity so it's very fascinating in thrilling to me you know to be able to talk about it because i think everyone feels a quickening something is shifting and suddenly people who  synchronistic that when your book is just coming out at the same time all of these amazing things are happening in egypt absolutely you know i had i didn't plan that i had no idea that nobody knew that was about to happen but it's you know the mayan calendar is a predicted calendar and it says all right you know now we're starting to feel this what they call the ninth wave of creation coming in it's a it's a more unified we also have spiritual influence over each other yes how does that work and we also talk a lot about integrity being integrity that so if we do have influence over each other how can we work with that in a way filled with integrity but i think that and is the most exciting part about this is that not only we are we learning how to live in a more effective and more self empowered level spiritually but we are i think we're beginning to understand how we grow in power and the more we go in and of empowerment the more we create a kind of energetic norm for that in the culture so culture is more than just a set of habits or mores or a the way we act in tends to bring everybody else into that same way of life and consciousness so we have to take what we are our level of knowledge and make sure that we're standing for a truth that will allow that to evolve into a better truth and better understanding with and because we have an influence and and i would even goes so far as to say this this insight that we're having is the only way possible to save the world from the tendencies that are we see out there all the conflicts the slide toward armageddon the belief in armageddon that's the are standing for so you know if i could just speak one more little bit more on that point where we're understanding you know the first allergists of long said that we're only what three or four people catch the contagion and want to be that way then it goes to another person another person another person until it gets to the best friend of that young kid who's about to strap on a suicide bomb  i mean that's the way that we reach people that are in that much fear and alienation and likewise if it goes out and reaches you know the buzz alienated militarist anywhere in the world in the same way so what we're doing is just reaching people like that just by living our life and holding you know spiritual integrity integrity just in our local area  sounds which even dressed in your books before the power of prayer yes and the power of our intention and holding good intentions for others that's right so when we talk about armageddon and we have the sex sex or groups who want that and they're there leading towards that and that's in your book there's some groups that will or is fighting against and he's trying to turn them around so that they won't bring about the destruction of the world that's a very real thing that we're facing today it's it's the setting in which we all live and that's the reason i created that it's a context for the book because it really is a slide toward you know this war this war about  religion in space is sliding towards a nuclear level was no doubt about that so do i believe that enough of us will will awaken to the part this empowerment that could reach people in that much  r alienation yes i do but it is the hour of decision this is the time to do in the book you also talk about this mysterious law of karma how does karma work well here's what i think we're discovering and again i'm not i'm not this is not james redfield opinion i'm just reporting what i think is happening with all the books all the ideas and first of all almost ninety percent of people on the planet believe in karma in sense of generally what goes around comes around but i think we are in understanding that of more detail now so here's the way i think that we're we're coming to consider this about how it works  everything so if you speak from truth knowing you don't have all the truth that you're learning more and more about the trees then your your influences is is gets greater  but you also realize that when you speak truth it's not truth to one out somebody it's not true to put somebody down so you can control them is not truth to make yourself  better that truth that kind of truth is is that is a distortion because of that reason but truth pure truth in service to another person from the opinion of what can i do to help that person what can i say what do i intuitively i think would help that person when you do that truth in service then what do you draw back in to your life you draw karmic the other karmic response to that kind of life is that you drawn to real life people that are acting just like that towards all the same we have all these people who show up in just the right time to give you a truth it becomes a synchronicity maybe broadens your project and open the door of opportunity solves your economic problems whatever it might be but they appear in your life you that's who you draw in your life the people that can help you maneuver through life and unless you are in a more effective way but if you're doing the other stuff you know if you shade the truth and make stuff look better if you shade the truth to make a sale are to further a hidden agenda of any kind whether you think it's a good one or not doesn't matter if it's a hidden agenda it's untruthful and what happens then is you draw in two years in your life people that have hidden agendas with you in his steer you wrong and who and our lives someone people just like you but it's not as punishment it's to show you how you are so that you can realize the harm that the host people in  way the way it misleads them and so you can change it from back to truth it's just that's the desire i believe in i believe you know we're that's what we're putting together if you see all these new books about radical truth telling returned integrity there's something empowering about authenticity is there is and as we learn that then all of a sudden you know there's a new norms not because it's the best thing you can do for everybody else in the world because that is the best thing we can do for ourselves it's a win win situation all way around so for that to be clearer now so that we can that's so can stand for that kind of life it just reverberate all around the world and i believe it's the counter trend the only character that can really enter intercede with the kinds of trends negative trends that we see going on then well at trend it sounds like your book is creating and can create is the oneness intention and holding us all together can you share how we can use that today or one of the steps and clarity that we are discovering and again the book takes the reader through these but one of the ones that once we start handling karma correctly then we can energize our projects and our souls mission even more when we really go to a deeper level with a person not in the book that that step in clarity about how to live spiritually and to oneness intention and i'll be even go as far to say that i believe it's certainly one that changed my life the most  intend to speak with the higher self is not the go in effect you go show up but we what we want to speak to the highest self of the person that we're talking to and to join with them in one this one this with the other person's higher self in to and the commitment comes from that place ourselves what happens is that then the conversation takes you know we we go from small talk to large start so that what you're doing answer to me and the same thing with you i'll think of something to say that is not that perhaps i'd never put it that way before because of the energy of the of the high to hi channels that we both have you know coming together here so that sounds slightly complicated it's really not that it turns a total stranger suddenly into a better friend it so far somebody is watching today how can they put that to work easily in an interaction maybe their next interaction that they have just before that you know they have to go talk to their boss if they have to talk to someone that they haven't gotten along with that well if they just want to have a deep conversation with the person in the elevator it's just to make that one intention i'm firm and i intend to connect with the one with a high self of the other person so it's again it's the the sort of slogan through this whole twelfth insight it's venture that people have gone through it you know prove it yourself each step in clarity or disintegration or live in the spirituality that in every day level each one of those is eminently proveable to oneself and that's why it's it's you know it's spreading among people out there in this kind of spontaneous way so again it's that's the amazing part of think about what's happening out there right now so you definitely talk about their their proveable and you can lend them can you give us some ideas something that someone could try to prove and to believe in themselves yes well i think that the you know the first step is to center in one's in one's truth and that means of course not just what you tell other people about who you are and what your dreams are but what you tell yourself i mean you know this is a step into authenticity and transparency which means you have to look yourself in the mirror and say you know there's a shadow side here you know you've got secrets that you don't you don't want to tell anybody because you've got the bad habits and you know it's it's the way it's that way therapist have learned to take people through a clearing of their bad habits you just tell the truth to yourself so that's basically what happens then is when you start to tell the truth to yourself then you  centered in your life so you know what's happening is your movie unfolding you know it's your your great adventure and that's what will increase the clarity about who you are what you want to do will start to increase once you center in that so again from there it all just gets bigger is it is when you're going to tell the truth to others when you learn to tune in to these guiding intuitions that we all have because once you get in  truth then you're more observant about what's going on in your consciousness so you know these are these ideas some ideas just drop in our minds in that can be directly applicable to a problem you have in life an economic problem a problem of the relationship a problem with well what am i going to do when i grow up all of that you know you get into it it's guidance it comes in about it and so the very simplest problem gets gets solved because you realize you just saw an image of yourself doing so on to the bookstore calling that old client that you forgot about called that old friend you start thinking about first thing in the morning and what that leads you to is is to a place the right place at the right time for an amazing synchronicity to happen where your problems are solved more readily now we all have this list we're trying to get done going ninety miles an hour every day and it could all go much much more quickly if we also listened to those intuitions you know the talk to that person in the elevator to strike up a conversation with these people seeing the sides in a restaurant all those opportunities for crossing with people you know  pursue them then what happens is that we begin to live a constant life of synchronicity life goes easier in the soul's drains can begin to come out and manifest in the world so that they're beautiful teachings and what i like  say is that our life as an adventure because i think to me it's not worth it unless it's not fun unless it's fun you have to have a good time doing what you're doing how has this changed your life because obviously you're living this great adventure with the books creating them and bringing them out well you know it's it's big it's it's it's really an exploration with my experience and talking to people other people about their  of spirituality on a math level now you know i'm the first one that has to prove these things to to myself because but it's very it's very time period you know it's just a verification that we can get really excited despite all the problems and challenges out there and get really excited because we're tuning into something that's enlarging our 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