We're discovering something new about human life on this planet, about what our existence means, and according to the priest, this knowledge will alt… - James Redfield

How can you remain so calm? What if they come crashing in here and arrest all of us? They gazed at me patiently, then Father Sanchez spoke. Don't confuse calmness with carelessness. Our peaceful countenance is a measure of how well we are connected with the energy. We stay connected because it is the best thing for us to do, regardless of the circumstances. You understand that, don't you?

The real reason we spent five centuries creating material supports for human life was to set the stage for something else, a way of life that returns the mystery to existence.

Certainly this consciousness has been experienced and described before... the Manuscript says the number of people who are conscious of such coincidences would begin to grow dramatically... He said that this growth would continue... we would reach a specific level of such individuals a level I think of as a critical mass.