European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                T James red Fie id Aja Herleiv b a a it i Quot la Kiil  Iiara. A embraced by aging death and the spirit a �?�1 f. A a a a by Jocelyn Mcclurg the a Riloff Coutant b lame it on the Boomers. Books about aging death near death and spirituality Are ruling the Best seller lists. Call it the new new age. Out with the sceptics. A a a a As the millennium approaches along with advanced Middle age and expanding waistlines for baby Boomer books about improving our lot on Earth and crossing Over into the great beyond Are finding receptive audiences. Embraced a the Light by Betty j Readic the co Lestine prophecy by James Redfield age Ess body. Timeless mind by Deepak Chopra soul mates by Thomas Moore How he die by she twin b. Nuland and further along the Road less travelled by a Scott Peck have been new York times Best Sellers. Its no coincidence says Joann Davis executive editor of Warner books which publishes the the _ cd pcs inc prophecy a mystical novel that reveals nine Quot insights about How to Lead a fulfilling life a there a a general acknowledgement that the �?T80s were devoid of anything of value and the emphasis on materialism is being rejected now Quot Davis says. A the turn of the millennium makes people extremely conscious about the values in their life. Also a aging is going on in the population so people Are More interested in life after death a life Afler death books Are nothing new. So How does one explain the phenomenal Success of embraced by the Light the no 1 nonfiction Best seller by Eadie a housewife who a a died after surgery met Jesus Christ and came Back to life there Are 1.3 million copies of embraced by the Light in print. The Book has been on the new York times Best seller list for 51 weeks and has pretty much stayed perched at no. 1 since the author appeared on Oprah. Published modestly in 1992 by a Small press in California called Gold Leaf embraced by the Light became a word of Mouth Best seller. After a bidding. A =.  the How of blk t1wu #1  1 id by the e of oaf Alia inv sch War last year the paperback rights were snapped up for an astounding sit million by Bantam books. The Book is due out in paperback in september. Readic Mother of eight and grandmother of eight grew up on an Indian reservation in South Dakota. She was 31 in 1973 when she says she had a near death experience and received a tour of the afterlife. Mitch Pogue general manager and marketing director for Gold Leaf press believes Eadies Appeal is that she so a rather simple average person,1 people respond to Eadies Book because it seems to Promise salvation says Pogue. A people Are saying a is there anything better is there something beyond the fact that death could stare us in the face what a beyond the door a the near giddiness of some of these books seems to reflect a simultaneous doom and gloom about the future. The Celestine prophecy ominously warns t hat if people done to change and Stop exploiting the planet a then we wont  travelled the edited lectures m. Scott Peck . Author of the Road less travelled the Celestine prophecy May be the most bizarre publishing Story of 1994. Author James Redfield an Alabama based therapist borrowed $20,000 to self publish Hisook last year. He got it into new age Type bookstores and through word of Mouth it became a cult hit Selling 100,000 copies. Major publishers caught wind of the Book and after a bidding War with Bantam Warner books paid 5800,000 to repackage and republish it. The Book hit the new York times Best seller list March 6 and is no 1 in hardcover fiction. Warner just went Back to press for a third print a a ing and there Are now 270,000 copies in print Warners Davis believes a the sky a the limit for the Celestine Propheta we Haven to had this Type of Success since the Bridges of Madison county or seen this Type of infectious enthusiasm for a Book a Davis says. A they Are both grass roots Best  not that the Celestine prophecy has a thing in common with Robert James Waller a love it or hate it love Story. A in Rcd Fields a utopian novel the narrator learns about an ancient peruvian manuscript that provides nine insights the a human race is predicted to grasp As we enter Art Era of True spiritual  As he Dodges bullets the peruvians done to want anyone to see the manuscript the narrator learns step by. Step about How to live an evolved life. A Quot. Whether the Celestine prophecy lives up to its jacket Promise a a a a Book that comes along once in a lifetime to change lives forever a is open Bojde Bate. The Bork a is not for sceptics a Davis says seekers  look far for More books on spiritual and life after death matters. Redfield is writing a sequel to the Celestine prophecy about the tenth insight just published is saved by the Light Vil lard by Dannion Brinkley with Paul Perry another life after death Book. Brinkley a near death experiences have also left him extremely psychic according to his publisher Diane reverend of Villard books. A the can Call me up on the phone in my office and read the correspondence off my desk says reve Rand. Who sees the spiritual death and dying Book trend As a reflection of aging baby Boomers who Are Quot looking at their lives searching for  All this seems to have made publishers psychic too. As they look to the future they predict More books like embraced by the Light and the Celestine prophecy. There is a desire to talk More about human potential and Way s we can improve our lot a says Warner s Davis. I think you re going to see Many More books like these As we go toward the year 2000,�?� Page 26 Sunda May 1,1994