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Conversations with God Book 1 began a series that has been changing millions of lives for more than ten years. Finally, the bestselling series is now a movie, starring Henry Czerny (The Pink Panther and Clear and Present Danger) and Ingrid Boulting (The Last Tycoon). Produced and directed by Stephen Simon (producer of Somewhere in Time and What Dreams May Come) and distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films and Fox Home Entertainment, the theatrical release is set for October 27, 2006. The movie is the true account of Walsch (played by Cierny), who went from an unemployed homeless man to an “accidental spiritual messenger” and author of the bestselling bookBlasphemy! Heresy! Who does this man think he is, claiming to speak directly to God?! Jesus did it, Muhammad did it, the Jewish prophets did it, but none of their Gods had the sardonic wit or raw verve of Prophet Walsch’s God. Neale Donald Walsch isn’t claiming to be the Messiah of a new religion, just a frustrated man who sat down one day with pen in his hand and some tough questions in his heart. As he wrote his questions to God, he realized that God was answering them… directly… through Walsch’s pen. The result, far from the apocalyptic predictions or cultic eccentricities you might expect, turns out to be matter-fact, in-your-face wisdom on how to get by in life while remaining true to yourself and your spirituality.
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How Does God Communicate to Us?,
Let me begin by saying that Amazon.com requires me to rate the book in order to write a review. Actually, I have no idea how to rate it because I’m not sure what the book represents. So my three star rating simply means “not rated.” If compelled to, I could make an argument for anything from one star to five.
I read this book on the advice of a friend. He told me the book was “fascinating.” I certainly agree.
The main thing I would like to say in the beginning is that this book shares some elements with Christianity, but is certainly not Christianity of the sort that most people will recognize. So if you do not like to read books that are at odds with your version of Christianity, avoid this one. It will be a one star book for you.
The author tells us that he had been writing down his religious and philosophical questions on a yellow legal pad for years. One day, he began to hear answers. He then wrote those answers down. What was “dictated” to him becomes the backbone of this book.
I have no way of knowing what the real source of these responses to the questions in the conversations is. It could be Divine communications. It could be Satanic ones. It could be a manifestation of the author’s psychology. There are a lot of other things it could be. You’ll have to decide for yourself. If you have a spiritual advisor or counselor whom you respect, that would be a good subject to discuss with her or him.
I found myself empathizing with the author’s perspective of the conversations. “I am . . . deeply embarrassed by my own life . . . .” “Yet I am encouraged by God to grant myself forgiveness for my failings and not to live in fear and guilt but to always keep trying — to live a grand vision. I know that’s what God wants for all of us.”
There were several concepts in the book that I found to be new, and which added to my spiritual perspective. One was: “The truth is, God talks to everybody.” That made me think about ways that I could pay more attention to what was going on to me and inside me as ways to know God.
A second one was the notion that the Ten Commandments are there not to be obeyed merely, but as ways for us to test ourselves on how well attuned we are to God’s way.
As someone who loves to work on creative activities, I liked the many affirmations about God wanting us to create the goodness we desire through our thoughts and deeds. “There is only one reason to do anything: as a statement to the universe of Who You Are.”
About two-thirds of the way into the book, the conversation lost me. There were extensive discussions of reincarnation, infinite universes, gods beyond gods, and moving from being a killer to being someone imbued in love. That material did not resonate with me in either a religious or a spiritual sense.
The most unexpected part of the book for me was that the voice of God (as described in the book) is a very colloquial and humorous one. It is hard for me to equate this God with the God of Moses and Jesus Christ. But that may just be my limitation. To give you a flavor, the language is much like that in the George Burns movie of many years ago, Oh God.
If you are curious about other perspectives on spirituality, you will enjoy this book. If you are looking for a different perspective than the one you have today, especially one that is less threatening, you may find this to be enlightening.
Let me share with you the three laws in the book: “The First Law is that you can be, do, and have whatever you can imagine. The Second Law is that you attract what you fear. Love is all there is.” God describes Himself as having no needs, but three desires: (1) that people know and experience Him (2) that people know and experience who they are and (3) that the whole process of life is a constant joy, continuous creativity, and never-ending experiences of total fulfillment.
May your life be filled with valuable spiritual experiences and guidance!
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|Seems harmless, but so did the apple in the garden,
I read this book when it first appeared in hardback. My mom, in an attempt to buy me a book on religion, got it for me for Christmas one year. As an young, growing Christian, I took the opportunity to read it, and honestly, I could not put it down. It was so enticing and captivating, and seemingly insightful that I ended up reading it all in a day. When finished, I was more in a daze than anything else. Walsch’s innovative approach to his personal relationship with God, and the results totally took me by surprise. It was contrary to everything I had known to be true about God up to that point in my life. Some of the ideas were revolutionary, but they totally made sense to me. Sure, why can’t God be flip. Sure, I imagine that God could speak to a common layperson, and inspire a book like this one. It is well written and very easy to read, and, as I said, hard to put down. There’s one problem though. If you believe in the Bible, Walsch’s book is not biblical. Not even close. Not because Walsch claims that God inspired the book….God would never inspire something that contradicted himself. 2Timothy 4:3 says, “For the time will come when they will not edure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.” Walsch is giving you what you want to hear, but do not mistake it for anything close to a realistic look at God. If you want to know or have a converstaion with God, pick up that dusty Bible of yours and look in there for the answers. Walsch’s book appears harmless, and upon reading opens many new doors for human thought and action. But I am reminded of how the devil offered Eve that apple saying that God wouldn’t punish them–that it was no big deal. The apple appeared harmless……but look what happened afterward. You can make your own choice, just like Eve did.
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|Conversations with the Drunk on the Next Barstool,
I’m not going to complain that God says “insignias” in this book; after all, they say Latin is a dead language. What pains me are passages like the following:
“In the beginning, that which Is is all there was, and there was nothing else. Yet All That Is could not know itself- because All That Is is all there was, and there was nothing else. And so, All That Is … was not. For in the absence of something else, All That Is, is not.
….In the absence of that which is not, that which IS, is not.
Do you understand this?
I think so. Keep going.
Alright.
….three elements suddenly existed: that which is here. That which is there. And that which is neither here nor there-but which must exist for here and there to exist….
Can you understand this?
Are you following this?
I think I am, actually. Believe it or not, you have used such a clear illustration that I think I’m actually understanding this.”
Now keeping in mind that Walsch was once in advertising, where anything, no matter how off-the-wall, can seem real, perhaps this is an honest statement on his part.
What is certain is that reading this book is like reading the “National Enquirer”: it’s impossible to satirize because the original is so bad already that any satire sounds like the thing itself.
This book is not merely the Dick, Jane, and Sally of spiritual literature. It’s Dick, Jane, and Sally pretending to pass itself off as one of the dialogues of Plato.
It is so abysmally, absurdly bad as to beggar description. If someone has never read the Hebrew or Christian Scriptures, never read any of the Koran, never read any of the discourses of Buddha, never, for that matter, read any of Sartre–such a person might think this book is profound. And that, friend, is pretty darn scary.
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