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Summary: Independent Thought is a GOOD thing
Review: I first read this book more than 4 years ago. To be quite honest, it changed my life. It took the organized, gray way I looked at things and twisted them into bright, colorful images that resonated within my soul. I was raised in a strict religious home/community and found the hypocracy intolerable. I don't think Mr. Walsch promotes "selfsihness" as some others have reviewed. I think he promotes the "highest thought of the grandest vision" you could have about yourself - which thereby increases your compassion and lack of judgement upon others. Really, if you're not going to be good to yourself, how can you be good to anyone else?
This book encourages us to think for ourselves; to not simply follow along like sheep; to explore the inside world of spirituality instead of taking someone's word for it; and most of all to act out of love instead of fear.
I'm not quite sure where my life would be today had I not picked up this book those several years ago.
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Summary: It's rare that I can't finish a book..
Review: ..but I could not make myself finish this one.I have believed for a long time now that all religious doctrines at their most basic level are all telling humanity the same things: "you know when you're doing something wrong, so don't do it; do unto others as you'd have done to you." As with any kind of doctrine, religious or otherwise, individuals and/or organizations will re-interpret, alter, confuse, criticize, twist, etc, etc, those doctrines to serve their own purposes. As I began reading "Conversations with God", it appeared at first to confirm my own theories. I eagerly looked forward to reading it through. But before I finished the first chapter, I couldn't return it to the bookstore fast enough. I didn't even want it collecting dust on my bookshelf. I found it superficial and self-serving. To quote another Amazon review titled "God of Baby Boomers", 12/12/1996: "The morals (or the lack thereof) in the universe seem a TAD convenient for what the boomer generation is hungry for (essentially, do what feels good...and gobble up all the money and sex that feels right for you)." I admit I am no literary critic. Bottom line, this book just creeped me out.
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Summary: Toilet paper at best
Review: As someone who works for a hotel which has housed the "Conversations With God" seminars, I can safely say that the author of this text is amazingly rude for someone who claims to speak to God. Remember Mr. Walsh, the Divine loves all people, even those underlings who work the front desk and arrange your overpriced 'classes' :)
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Summary: Finally God and life makes sense.
Review: Before I read this book I was an agnostic. I was raised a protestant Christian and all of the hypocrisy turned me away from God. I was skeptical when I picked up this book, what a brilliant way to cash in, tell everyone you had a conversation with god! However the deeper I got into the book the more I was moved, the more I started to believe. I simply couldn't argue with what was written, it gave me peace, joy and I felt harmony with the universe, I finally found god. I have read many of the reviews in here with dismay. So much of the message of these books were lost on some people. You don't have to believe in god to understand that this philosophy of life makes sense and would vastly improve our lives and the lives of everyone if we all thought this way. To tackle the topic of homosexuality. I never understood why anyone cared, if you truly believe in the bible and a wrathful god would he not take care of them in the afterlife? So leave them alone, let them live their blasphemy if that's what you think. But I will tell you a story: my grandfather a devoute christian, studied the bible and toured the States to pass his message found himself in the ultimate dilemma, his youngest son came out as being gay. Now does he stick to his beliefs and cast his son out of his life, or does he re-examine his beliefs and and see the many holes in it? He has since gone back to the bible and saw the contradictions, he developed a new relationship with god and was able to embrace his gay son. Pain and suffering is not nessesary, and to inflict it on others goes against the teachings of God, "do unto others as you would have done unto yourself" this includes gays, people of all races and religions, drug addicts, criminals and the so called evil. Always do unto others, that is what God taught you, that is what you preach, so go one step further and practice what you preach! There are no exeptions, love everyone the same despite what you may believe, this is the only path to peace.
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Summary: books that speak to my heart
Review: These books speak to the part of us that we seldom acknowledge. They speak to our soul. I am so often moved by the words in these books for this reason. They touch a part of me that goes beyond any words or reason. I don't know what kind of things I can say to communicate what these books mean to me. They simply have shown me what is true, and brought great peace, joy, and love into my life.
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Summary: Only appreciated by those with critical thinking
Review: Some people actually think they have critical thinking skills when it is obvious they don't. If one had actually read the book then perhaps one would have picked up on some of the key points. One of which is that We are all One. Separateness is an illusion. That is why Jesus said what you do unto the least of my brothers you do unto me. Everything you cause another to experience you will one day experience, is one of the points brought across in convo with god series. Thus as for consequences? They are obvious: If you cause another to experience something you will one day experience it because you and the other are one. I repeat twice since the once or twice in the book wasn't enough for those with serious judgement filter up. The book obviously evokes strong emotions in even those who label it as bad. I know if I read a book and thought it was bad I wouldn't bother writing a review slating it. That is assuming I even finish it. Food for thought where this book is concerned.
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Summary: New Age Non-Sence or Old Truth ReVisited
Review: It's funny that ALL the posts that are against this book are from people who believe in the bible? I think it's conversations with God that points out how everyone, every race, every religion, every follower of every religion thinks their way is right, that their "book" is the right book. That is what creates 90% of the problems in the world, look at Hitler he killed millions with the help and encouragement of 1,000s because they where different and didn't believe what he believed. Almost all religions speak of humility but are very ego driven in their beliefs, almost all followers of any belief will tell you "it's my way or you go to hell". What about other religions, what about Hindu? Buddhism? Islam? Protestant? The Indians, etc... do all these people go to hell? It's funny the Christians condemn every religion to hell and every religion condemns Christianity to hell.... wana talk about funny that is what cracks me up.... then people have the nerve to say it's the devil that wrote this book, maybe the devil (if there was one) wrote all other books that help justify religions condemn everyone else to hell! Any way in the negative reviews people keep saying that all this "New Age" stuff speaks of reincarnation? That's very funny what about Buddhism? That religion was around before Christ and Christianity and Buddhism speaks a lot of reincarnation so it isn't really a new age idea? The idea of no right and wrong is also a Buddhist concept, the concept of "emptiness" in which nothing is right or wrong it just is, and it's my judgement of something which makes it right or wrong or good or bad or up or down, Everything is Everything, Nothing is Nothing. That isn't a new age belief either. Buddhist monks (or the ones I have visited from Tibet) are the most calm spiritual people i Have every met, wise, loving caring and more, and you never hear stories of them molesting little children! Look where the religions of the world have goen us? They have bread Sept 11th, the Crusades where millions where slaughtered in the name of god, the middle east crisis where thousands die weekly over religion and holy ground? If that is what World Religion has brought us, I will take this book as something different!!
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Summary: Meant To Make You Think...
Review: The series of books he has written are fantastic. I think that more than anything they are a philosophical and spiritual journey that everyone from the atheist to the right-wing extremist christian, to jews and muslims, can enjoy. It's meant to make you think - to make you ponder something greater than self, yet involve self directly in the process of something marvelous - something almost miraculous. The books are a journey and I highly recommend that you take them. You may wish to ban the books outright - many do as you will see from the reviews. Then again, a closed mind is a wonderful thing to lose, and you have nothing (save for maybe that closed mind) to lose by reading the series. Enjoy these books. Whether you believe it's a conversation with god or merely philosophical rhetoric from the common man, at least in the end the books will leave you enlightened, fascinated, and still questioning all that which makes up the greater universe.
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Summary: It will fill your soul
Review: If you are even a bit interested in this book, it means your sould has led you to it ~ buy it! IT IS MORE THAN WORTH IT!
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Summary: Funniest book on the planet
Review: This has got to be one of the funniest books on the planet. If you took Hunter S. Thompson on an acid trip, mixed it with the best of Neil Gaiman and threw in some Monty Python, you would have Neale Donald Walsch. I was laughing so hard at what this guy had to say in his "Conversation with God", that I nearly wet myself. I think he comes a little close to blasphemy with some of the things he says, but since this is a work of fiction, and as long as one continues to consider as such, it is just one funny book. I see he has several of them out there. It must have been one wild and wacky trip. I can't say I condone the use of illegal narcotics, but if that's what it takes for this guy to write, then by all means, he should keep at it. After all "Who says it's wrong? I'm not supposed to judge you, so go right on doing what you want. See that guy over there, go ahead and punch him, I can't tell you it's wrong, so if you feel it's OK to do so, well, by cracky you must be right!" I missed way too much by not being living in the sixties.
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