Neale Donald Walsch has changed the way the world thinks about God. His books have beentranslated into twenty-five languages, and his Conversations With God series, book1, book 2, and book 3, have all been New York Times bestsellers-book 1 for over two years. In the Conversations books, Walsch shared with his readers the beginning of a sacred relationship, as he began an exchange with God on everything from love and faith, to life and death, and good and evil. And then, as Walsch recounted in Friendship with God, something else extraordinary began to happen.
His relationship with God began to strengthen and deepen, just as our own relationships do, into a friendship. Now in Communion with God, his most richly intimate book yet, Walsch discovers how to elevate that friendship to a state of communion. In this blueprint for seekers, he reveals The Ten Illusions of Man-the misconceptions we hold about ourselves and our world and our God. He describes with striking clarity how we might heal the great divide that has arisen from these illusions.
And as he explores the true meaning of bringing God into our everyday lives, of having the courage of our convictions. Walsch shows us that we can only break free from our illusions when we act always from a place of deep fellowship with all that is holy-a place of communion with God. The first book in a new series by the multimillion-copy bestselling author of Conversations with God. Neale Donald Walsch has changed the way millions of Americans think about God.
His Conversations with God series, book 1, book 2, and book 3, have all been New York Times bestsellers- book 1 for over two years. The essence of Neale Donald Walsch's message lies at the heart of faith- the sacred place in every person, where he stands alone with his God.
Walsch urges each of us to forge our own unique relationship with God, a God who is everywhere and speaks to us in all we do. It is up to us to stop and listen. It is up to us to respond The book helps the reader open his mind and his soul. It also helps the reader understand how significant the presence of God in life is. How important it is to keep this spiritual bond of a human and God.
The author described his way of seeing God in his life and how that has changed his life. The author has kept things straightforward and wants the reader to understand his perspective through his way he sees it. The design and setting of the book are unique and mesmerizing.
That helps the reader to understand better what the author wants to say or see. The book is worth reading. It is recommended to the people who think their souls need to be shaken. I kept my fingers over it, but then all the sudden it rushed out from under my hands and stopped at a letter and then turned so that the handle would point to a letter on the board. We never played with the Ouija board again. I met some women who were into learning how to give psychic readings.
They went to Heartsong in Berkeley, a school which taught you how to go into a trance and give psychic readings. I went with them. It was then that I began reading New Age books, many of them. They were only called New Age, the information was old. I joined a yogic tradition, stayed a few years and left it for yet another, then I left that one after a few years and went to Buddhism, first Zen, then Tibetan Buddhism.
Zen was peaceful, and it taught to do no harm. The Book Walsch sat at his desk with pen in hand, resting the pen on a piece of paper. He asked questions. He waited. The pen finally moved.
It began to write, and it never stopped except for brief periods. Books poured out of Walsch, and he became rich and has many followers.
It did not come from God. I recognized them all. He took what he wanted from those books, just as those who had written books on metaphysics had. But there was always a twist to them, a few biblical scriptures thrown in; a few from Hinduism and Buddhism, but due to the twists the teachings were never the same. The prophets had got it wrong, the gurus had it all wrong as well, but Walsch now has it right.
That is so wonderful to know. Finally, all of our questions have been answered. I learned a few things in just the four chapters that I had read: We are all God, just as the prophets had written. But his explanation had changed somewhat. God wished to become man, to know what it felt like to live in the flesh.
So he created himself in the flesh of all. And now God learned what it was like to suffer, to feel joy, to even have sex and reproduce. God got his desires fulfilled by doing this. If man wanted out bad enough he could pray to God, and God would take away all of his suffering. Just like that. But why does man have to pray if he is God? I guess all my questions have not really been answered.
Paramahansa Yogananda also liked Hitler and thought that he was a good person and that mankind was stupid and needed a dictator like Hitler. Then there is another thing: Hitler is important in the New Age Movement. The idea is that only an enlightened person could love Hitler, could forgive him, so they all speak of this love for him that they have, and Walsch put his foot in the door and joined them.
What happens when man believes that there is no good or evil? Well, you can use your imagination. Now, I realize that this is a generalization, but I have seen it all too often when I was in Hinduism and then in Buddhism, except to say that at least Thich Naht Hanh believed in helping those who suffered and sent money back to Vietnam in order to help the poor.
So, now I was beginning to see where Walsch was going with all this. I will give him credit for that much. But I question as to whether his God loves. No loving God would desire to feel pain and suffering. No loving God would say that there is no right or wrong, because by believing this people end up hurting each other. And then Walsch put his pen to paper again and learned more about this God: He tells us that we misunderstood Yogananda, not in those words, but he claimed that Yogananda was a very high being, that he was enlightened, yet in another paragraph he said that any guru who tells disciples that they have to be celibate is not a true guru.
But since Yogananda is a true guru in his eyes, his disciples got his message wrong. Yet, Yogananda put this teaching into his organization when he was alive. So, I came to realize, when reading this book, that Walsch likes sex, lots of sex, and he wrote how we should never feel guilty about sex but should have sex with anyone and everyone we liked.
And so he had sex with another woman other than his wife and got caught. But, hey, that is okay because there is no right and wrong. His wife wanted the experience of being hurt. So, now he is taking lessons from Tibetan Buddhism, a religion that Buddha did not teach.
This teaching came from Tantric Hinduism and was introduced into Tibet in the 8th century. And the teaching is that you have ritualized sex during meditation, and that this is the only way to become enlightened. No sex with meditation, no enlightenment.
And when I learned all of this in this book, I deleted it from my kindle. The only books that I had enough respect for to give away were my Zen Buddhist books. Why did I bother reading this much of this book? I saw that it was being read here and was curious why people liked it. View all 16 comments. Feb 17, Iona Stewart rated it it was amazing.
Neale began to take dictation of this book in but first finished in It was well worth waiting for. I will mention merely a comparative few of the valuable statements God provides us with. Fear and Guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Br cautious, be conscious, but do not be fearful. There is no devil. God talked about this in Book 1. Be concerned only for the Self. God is imagined to be all good, so we deny half of Him.
Bad is necessary so that one can choose the Good. He cannot choose to be magnificent unless there is something to choose from. People believe that they need to have a thing, then do a thing and they will be a thing, e. But in actual fact we need to begin by being happy, or whatever, and then we will find that what we are doing leads to having what we want. People are required to retire from their jobs just when they could really do the company some good.
Our soul is the tool through which God expresses and experiences Himself. There have been none higher than Jesus Christ but others have been equally as high. There is nothing that He is Not, and something He is Not cannot be.
Everything is happening at once. It can be in several places at once. We should only think of good and righteous things, and not on negativity and darkness. Whatever we think of is what we create and experience, though there is a time lapse between thought and creation. There is no time but now and no place but here. God repeats things over and over so that we better can take them in.
Though Hell does not exist, people can experience it. After death you will experience exactly what you expect and choose to experience. We are told that we may return to the One and experience the loss of our individual Self whenever it pleases us. There is no separation between us and anything we desire, God never says No. But He cannot give us what we do not believe we may have because the Law says so. We are all One. I love. You cannot control what you deny, for you have said it is not there.
The soul is everywhere. It is larger than the body and carries the body within it. The soul holds us together, just as the soul of God contains the Universe, and holds it together. There is no such thing as good or evil — all there is is love.
There is only one Being and hence, only One Soul. And there are many souls in the One Being. God is not for or against anything. It is not possible for one soul to affect another against its will. There are no victims and no villains. You have an internal voice telling you always of your highest choice.
God informs us in detail about highly evolved beings HEBs living on other planets. We should see everyone as ourselves, just having a difficult time. Then start acting as though there were enough.
God is a work in progress, as are we. We can see every problem as a blessing, and every perpetrator as an angel. There are three basic wisdoms: 1 We are all One. For those, if any, that have bothered to read this lengthy review, or part of it, I hope that I have contributed to increasing your understanding about God et alia, and have inspired you to read this valuable volume. Reading the book will help you to become better persons and to create a better world.
View all 4 comments. Oct 12, Nathan rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: everyone. Shelves: required-reading , wake-up. It was wonderful to read a book that illustrated almost every belief that I have about the universe so completely.
This book describes the meaning of life. Read it now or find out eventually in another life. View all 5 comments. May 06, Helena Harper rated it it was amazing Shelves: books-i-ve-read-which-aren-t-my-own.
Even before I had finished the previous two books in this series, I had already read the part in this book about highly evolved beings HEBs and life on other planets, because it answered a question I had repeatedly asked myself ever since I was a child i. I had always thought that there must be - the universe is just too huge for us to be the only ones 'out here' - and when this book confirmed that, how could I not read on? Many of these other inh Mesmerising! Many of these other inhabited planets have highly evolved civilisations and I found the descriptions of these societies absolutely mesmerising!
HEBs communicate absolutely truthfully and telepathically in fact, you can tell how evolved a society is by its dependance or otherwise on words for communication ; there is no concept of ownership or loss; they share everything they have; and their children set their own curriculum at school.
A key part of these societies is observing fully and acknowledging the truth of their observations, something we don't do. We see what is happening, but then we choose to ignore or deny it, because profits would suffer etc.
Although I was fascinated by what I was reading, I was also somewhat discouraged to see just how far we are from realising this kind of society on Earth compared to the HEBs, I felt like we were ants crawling around on the ground, whilst they soared like eagles above us.
But by the end, the overriding emotion was one of inspiration, because I had been shown the possibility of a different, far more fulfilling existence, where everyone's experience of life can be a fair and joyful one.
You can read this book in isolation, but I would recommend you read Book 1 and Book 2 first, because you will get more out of it if you do.
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