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Summary: found my home
Review: During the last 5 years i have been on a quest reading books of all kinds mystic,religion ect.A dear friend of mine said to me have you read the conversations with god trilogy? NO i replied. So i went right to the book store and bought the first one.I could not put this book down, I felt i knew the content already it was my life. I had never read more truth than what was in this book and at that point I wanted the world to know.
however when they were ready. I quickly went and bought all his books thirsty for more.I'm a firm believer that when you read these books with an open heart they will speak to you. Shed all the beliefs you have been programed for so long and listen as god speaks directly at you with the most awesome love and compassion.Question the ideas brought forth in this book as you need to however, really listen and pay close attention it will change your life forever and i literly mean forever.....
Some will say these books are the devils words yet, how could a book leave such a lasting impression of the most ultimate love and truth. Decide what you want about these conversations as we all have free choice but, leave your mind open and allow the words to communicate the answers we all have been wanting to know.
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Summary: A marvelous end
Review: I just finished this book recently...having already read book 1 and 2. I was so sad that this trilogy had to end. Although many concepts, ideas, suggestions are repeated over and over it is written in such a way that I felt like I was sitting right next to the author. This book is so very intimate and I felt as if I too was having a conversation with god. As with the other 2 CWG books, this is filled with practical solutions to any and every issue affecting our planet...from war to environment to personal relationships. What I have enjoyed most about the CWG series is the freedom. Never did I get the impression that the author was trying to shove information down my throat or threaten me with eternal damnation if I didn't agree with what he said. In fact, Mr. Walsch states clearly that he hopes the reader does not take the information in his books as the literal and only truth. Furthermore, he provides a list of other books...by other authors!! This book is not for the religious zealots who intend to 'spread' the word by throwing it at people. If you have an open mind and, more importantly, an observant mind then you will find this and the other 2 CWG books highly useful. I have never read anything regarding spirituality and life that made as much sense to me as the Conversations With God trilogy. Thank you Neale!!
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Summary: What we all want to hear
Review: I would be lying if I said that I wasn't compelled by page one to read this book. After all, it caters to what we all want be assured of. We have nothing to worry about at all! Everything we could possibly want is already existing. When we choose to have them, there they are! We no longer have to worry about the afterlife. We will have whatever we choose! I do think that Neale is retelling a lot of interesting metaphysical ideas, known through the ages and propogated by groups like the Theosophical Society. It takes away any of the urgency that the true mystics and saints of all the great religions have sensed, and given us a perfect post-modern template with which to live our lives. There is no real right and wrong! Whatever you do, its ok! Couched in the rhetoric of love and grace is the licence to experience whatever we want. What about 'God's will be done', not our own? The danger with this book is that it aims to convince the reader that nothing we do will jeopardize our eternal selves and our relationship to God. True, I believe that the sacred does exist in the profane. But with this kind of licence, the reader is encouraged to live a life based not on principle, but out of desire. The urgency of the Gospel is forsaken. "Narrow is the Gate"... According to Walsch's 'god', the gate is boundless, and everything we do is really 'ok'. For truer guidance, try the "Philokalia" of Eastern Orthodoxy, or the New Testament. We shouldn't base our entire beings on our warm, fuzzy feelings. Human feelings are fickle! Ken Wilber said it best, although I cannot remember his exact words. He said that a huge misconception of modernity is that we can be enlightened through reading. The more we read, the closer we are. Not true. Wilber has enough sense to know that true spiritual progress takes work. The sages of so many religions haven't been holing themselves away on vigils, fasts, comitted to prayer and meditation, because it is swank to do so. Perhaps he understood in his own way that man has 'fallen' from grace, that the more we try to deify ourselves, our egoic personalities, the more we remove ourselves from the grace that is offered us. While sometimes a bit severe, the Orthodox fathers give much better guidance. Religion or 'spirituality' isn't just hearing what we want to hear. Christ said the world hated him because he showed them that what it does is at odds with the Father's will. That it is evil. We can white-wash it all we want, but the world is in crisis because man has lived primarily for himself and not for his Creator. In our longing for truth, all we really want to hear is that 'everything is ok'. Many of the people I know who believe in the kind of philosophy presented in "Conversations" are clearly indulgent, addicted to pornography and other destructive fun. This book offers God's blessing to do these things and not feel guilty about it. So people can go on creating death and hurting people, and receive a kind of holy licence to do so. Interesting concepts, but all in all, dangerous material to your well-being if you 'choose' to take it seriously.
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