![]() ![]() ![]() 1 position on the New York Times Best Seller List. Warner Books bought the rights and published the hard cover edition in March 1994. When Redfield self-published The Celestine Prophecy, his first novel, in 1992, the interest from booksellers and readers led to its becoming one of the most financially successful self-published books of all time. 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. 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. He later received a master's degree in counseling and spent more than 15 years as a therapist to abused adolescents. He studied Eastern philosophies, including Taoism and Zen, while majoring in sociology at Auburn University. Redfield grew up in a rural area near Birmingham, Alabama. He is notable for his 1993 novel The Celestine Prophecy. James Redfield is an American author, lecturer, screenwriter, and film producer. ![]()
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