James Redfield, An Author For Our Times
MP: One integration is holding one’s spiritual truth. How do we do that? JR: We start the process by centering ourselves in our best truth and then telling others what we are doing with a kind of radical honesty, with no hidden agenda. This centers us in our own movie and feels like a journey where our truth just gets ever better more complete about who we are and what we want to do in the world. Remember the old saying: “when one is honorable over little one is given much.” It also creates a flow of Karma where we are helped through life.
MP: Your characters are pursuing an understanding of a mysterious influence that humans have over one another. How does that work? JR: The more we live in the best truth we know, the clearer and more empowered we become, and thus the more we become a positive model for others. Consciousness is positively contagious at the spiritual level and touches people all around us.
MP: The book explains a mysterious law of Karma we have to be aligned with for a fuller life. Please explain. JR: The more we live and share our best truth, intending to be helpful, the more we draw people into our lives who act the same way toward us. People show up, synchronistically, at just the right time to bring us information and solutions that make our lives better.
MP: One of the main themes is that humans must learn to ‘tune in’ to intuition and perception, even to other people. Please describe this ability. JR: When we live our best truth, and download more of our spiritual consciousness, we can detect our guiding intuitions of how to move forward in life, and how to be helpful to others. Following these intuitions puts us in the right place for an important synchronicity to take place – our lives blossom.
MP: What is the Oneness Intention? JR: This is when we intend to be one with another person’s highest self, not with their ego where the defenses and conflicts occur, but with their highest soul wisdom. That’s when total strangers open up to us like best friends, and conversations go even deeper, moving from small talk to large talk.
MP: The character, Wil, in the book, keeps saying that one can prove all these spiritual techniques to oneself. Please explain. JR: No more need for Gurus. We’re all integrating a deeper spirituality at the grass roots level because it works day to day. Hence, we’re finding evidence for a higher life for ourselves that occurs at the common sense level.
MP: The characters in this novel must try to turn people around who are determined to destroy the world. Please talk a little about how they try to do that. JR: As we integrate a life of truth and service, and expand our consciousness, we grow more influential because higher consciousness is contagious to others. Everyone’s mind is designed to pop open in the exact same way, so when we see it and feel it in others, our minds lift up into it automatically. Hence, people who live at this level touch others who touch others and so on until we reach the best friend of some kid that’s so alienated he’s thinking about strapping on a suicide vest. Because of us, the friend feels the inspiration and courage to reach out and lift this person into something better. It’s the only way to save the world.
