The narrator rises early the next morning, and Sarah gives him lessons about how to see the energy fields around plants when human beings interact with them. Sarah tells the narrator about the Third Insight, which is about the ability to see the subtle energy that surrounds all living things. In the first stage of the quest, Wil and the narrator head to a conference center, Viciente Lodge, where they meet a scientist named Sarah and two other searchers, Phil and Marjorie. He is heading out to find the Ninth Insight and invites the narrator to come along.

Wil is also looking for the manuscript and knows the priest who told Charlene and Dobson about it. In the chaos, a man named Wilson (Wil) offers to help him. He is unsure of Dobson’s fate but also runs away. As he arrives at the hotel, he hears gunfire and sees Dobson running away. However, the narrator soon realizes he is being followed and decides to meet Dobson right away. Upon arriving in Lima, Peru, the two men decide to search for the manuscript together, and they agree to meet at Dobson’s hotel later. Now, realizing the spiritual void this created, humans seek answers in new places. People once relied on religion to answer life’s big questions, he says, but they turned to material possessions when spirituality started being questioned by science. Dobson gives the narrator a broad tour of the last millennium of Western history. He explains the Second Insight to the narrator: A new sense of historical perspective is being achieved. Dobson went to Peru a few weeks ago and saw copies of the first two insights. On the plane, he meets a historian named Dobson who is headed to Peru for the same reason. Even though he is skeptical, he decides to go to Peru to find the truth. The nine chapters of the novel sequentially unfold these teachings.Ĭharlene tells the narrator about the First Insight, which relates to the idea of synchronicity: All humans are connected by a greater consciousness that will become apparent through a series of meaningful coincidences. She met a priest who told her that the manuscript presents numbered “insights” and predicts a great change that is about to happen in society. They meet up for dinner, and Charlene talks excitedly about an ancient manuscript she learned about during a recent business trip to Peru. The hero is an unnamed narrator who is contacted by Charlene, an old friend he has not heard from in years. The story follows the plot of the hero’s journey, in which the hero (traditionally a man) journeys out from his home, passes through a threshold into a different dimension, encounters mentors and obstacles, eventually achieves his goal, and returns home transformed.

The clandestine prophecy