James Redfield Biography

Redfield grew up in a rural area near Birmingham Alabama. As a young man he studied Eastern philosophies including Taoism and Zen while majoring in sociology at Auburn University. He later received a Master's degree in counseling and spent more than 15 years as a therapist to abused adolescents. During this time he was drawn into the human potential movement and turned to it for theories about intuitions and psychic phenomena that would help his clients. In 1989 he quit his job as a therapist to write full-time synthesizing his interest in interactive psychology Eastern and Western philosophies science futurism ecology history and mysticism. When Redfield self-published his first novel in 1992 the immediate interest from booksellers and readers made The Celestine Prophecy one of the most successful self-published books of all time. Warner Books bought the rights and published the hard cover edition in March 1994. The book quickly climbed to the No. 1 position on the New York Times Best Seller List. According to Publishing Trends The Celestine Prophecy was the No. 1 international bestseller of 1996. The novel spent over 3 years on the New York Times Best Seller List. As of May 2005 The Celestine Prophecy had sold over 20 million copies worldwide and had been translated into 34 languages. In 1996 the sequel also became a bestseller. The two books spent a combined 74 weeks on the Best Seller List making their author the best-selling hard cover author in the world in 1996 as cited in BP Report.

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