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Summary: A Great Big Warm Fuzzy
Review: Conversations with God presents itself in an interesting paradigm. As a practicing Catholic, I cannot deny that God has and does speak to many people in varied ways - sometimes even in shocking ways. Whenever God speaks to the Hebrews in the Hebrew Scriptures, he has a way of saying the most inscrutable and difficult things. They things prophesied are inscrutable not because the language is unclear, and difficult not because the context is archaic. Rather, we find them inscrutable because they we feel they could not possibly mean what they say, and difficult because what they say is so hard to accept. That is, whether we read of the Red Sea drowning Pharoah's army or Isaiah promising freedom to his captive minority of exiles trapped in a strange land, they rarely are what the writer would have expected to hear, and almost never what he wanted to hear. In the Buddhist tradition, we encounter words of which, flying in the face of the values expressed in the every day life of our culture - and even if immediately and obviously appealling - one still requires a lifetime, if not longer to gain mastery and understanding. So why is it that CWG manages, in very smooth and vague style, to reinforce every presumption and superficial wish encountered in modern western society? Asking if sex is good, the author takes the obvious answer ("yes") and uses it not to challenge but to reinforce ("therefore do it whenever it feels good, which is pretty much always"). Yet for the more fundamental questions, the author is much more elusive. Seeking for identity or meaning in life, the reader is told to make his or her own. Conversations with God, I am afraid, is not so much New Age or Hinduism-cut-in-hald (though it smacks of those two things) as it is Capitalism. Our culture desperately seeks guidance while renouncing any kind of teaching. I have no doubt that Walsch has had conversations with a god. I doubt very much though, that he has been jabbering with Jehovah. I think it much more likely he has been drinking from the mouth of Moloch, whom the Hebrews would better know as Baal, the god of profit.
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Summary: CONVERSATIONS WITH SATAN IS MORE LIKE IT
Review: I believe someone was conversing with the author, but it certainly wasn't the God I have come to know and love. To learn the truth about Him, I would recommend reading the Bible. To learn the truth about Satan, read this biography.
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Summary: This book validated what I had been receiving from my spirit
Review: This book is my favorite read so far. While reading this book I cryed a little with tears of validation because this was exactly what I had been getting from my own spirit within. Prior to this I had not ran across anyone that had parallel perspectives with my own. This book was a God send for me. Thank you Neale Donald Walsh - and our God within. That really exists.
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Summary: This book does not help you to know God.
Review: What a frustrating book to read! The author claims to have had conversations with God, but if he did, then I think it was not with God, but with a god. His words rarely agree with the teaching of the Bible. He claims so much, but gives so little. I would not recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: Plagarizes another book
Review: Please do not buy this book. Parts of this book is so eerily similar to Shakti Gawain's "Creative Visualization", published in 1978, that it borders on plagarism. For example, Gawain has a chapter titled, "Being, Doing and Having" and Walsch also talks about being and doing on p.170. Gawain p.6: "When we create something, we always create it first in thought form." Walsch p.74: "Thought is the first level of creation." Gawain has a chapter on contacting your higher self which Walsch says in his book as "your Highest Thought about yourself." There are too many similarities to mention. The concept of oneness which is not new at all. In Hinduism, the universe is God, the One is the All. I suspect Walsch has borrowed many of his principles from other new age books and established religions as well. This book is obviously marketed to those with very little Eastern and New Age exposure.
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Summary: Must Read for Spiritual Seekers
Review: A profound book by any standards. It succeeds in synthesizing the essence of great philosophical and religious thought in an easy read, and eliminating the man-made aspects of power and control that degrade most religions. That it includes elements from Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity only reflects that indeed all is connected to one God whose message has always been one of love and compassion. The fact that it threatens and upsets the anti-New Agers and the self-righteous Christian lot points to its essential truthfulness - whether you believe the words are from God or not. It seems that those who preach fear and hate for their own selfish purposes are now themselves in fear of the spiritual truth Walsh and others are bringing the planet at this critical time in history. But it's OK - God loves all even if his name and message have been twisted for lowly gain. This book is another step in helping us attain a global consciousness that brings us closer to Him.
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Summary: This book is true inspiration- It grabs and gives you faith.
Review: This book is heart pounding- and it gives a good sense of reality because walsch dicusses real life experiences. In most cases everyone can indenify with the wondering if anyone is looking over them or if when we do ask questions -is anyone listening? Walsch gives you a feel of you being there with him and being in his situation. The book is a must read- especially for the soul!
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Summary: Message and style are disappointing
Review: I bought this book after recommendation by a friend. It has been one of the most disappointing books I have ever read. The contents are just a bunch of commonsense observations where they are intelligible. I am not a religious person, so I read this book with curiousity, not with faith. But even from a stylistic point of view, it is very boring.
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Summary: Hinduism on the cheap.
Review: There is nothing "uncommon" about the dialogue in this book. Over the past several years I've read and heard the channeled revelations and apocryphal Gospels of a good number of religious innovators like Mr. Walsch. His teachings show the typical limits of such literature. Unlike, say, Joseph Smith, who preached about Pilgrims on the moon, Walsch was smart enough to avoid dishing out many hard facts, but some of the few he did give, he got wrong. And the philosophy he tried to build around them is a watered-down version of all the most harmful religious theories of the last several thousand years.What Walsch appears to be trying to write is a Socratic primer for people raised in the Christian faith who would like to convert to Eastern thought but find the Bible getting in their way. Apparently he thinks if he inserts enough, "Thus saith the Lord" at the head of enough 90s New Age cliches, his readers will fall on their faces before their bedroom mirrors and confess, "I am God." But even when he lobs his "God" softball question after softball question, his smart-aleck "God" seldom hits the ball out of the infield of mushy monistic psychobabble. We are all gods. Suffering and evil are in our minds. There is no such thing as wrong. You are the most marvellous thing in creation; it was your parents who dragged you down. Listen to your feelings; you are the authority for all truth. Hell is ignorance. The church is lying. Sex is wonderful; go out and have as much of it as you like. "Conversations with God" is Hinduism on the cheap (reincarnation, but no karmic debt, moral binds, or caste obligations), or Zen Buddhism for weekend mystics. It's nothing we haven't heard from every New Age guru and pop psychologist in the last three decades, from Jim Jones to Bagwan Rajneesh and Shirley MacClaine. We even someone else is to blame, Christianity is the opiate of the people, etc. . . Walsch's God is clueless about the true history of both Western and Asian religions, has no mature and balanced philosophy of rules and freedom, and appears to have gotten most his ideas about the Bible from Humanist Society comic books. His version of how the Gospels took shape, that the New Testament writers "never saw Jesus in their lives" but wrote stories "passed down from elder to elder" proves the man knows nothing about the early church. Even modern critics, though they seldom put it in so many words, admit that the Gospels must have taken form within the lifespan of Jesus' original followers. Who was Walsch really channeling? The whole routine has come to sound familiar. "God never said anything nasty about death. Just do what you like! Take a bite! You will not die, but will be as gods, and know good and evil." Sometimes I wonder if the devil is really so unimginative Then again, these lines Chinese Culture
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Summary: Hell Doesn't Exist
Review: As the world changes, our values change. Although some people are a bit slower to grow most are moving forward. This book is a real eye opener that will help the reader form a basis for understanding. In these changing times, the latest good news comes from the Vatican where it is announced that "Hell doesn't exist" and that it is only a state of mind that we are in when we are away from God. The pope described hell instead as "the pain, frustration and emptiness of life without God." Think about your current values and try to see how you could apply them 1000 years ago, 2000 years ago, 5000 years ago.... For those who are frozen into a particular religion, what is going to happen to all the other people ? the other half of the world that doesn't agree with your beliefs ? Are they headed straight to hell ? What makes you right and them wrong ? Green or Blue, which is better , which is right and which is wrong ? In my opinion this is a must read and I hope and Wish that the author put these 3 books on the internet where more people will have access to it.
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