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Summary: Better than Book One in some ways. Excellent
Review: For souls with an open mind! And Book 2 is not just more of Book 1. If you are new to the Conversations With God books it is as good a place to start as any. Walsch and God continue the dialogue begun in the first book, expanding on many of the themes already discussed there. It deals more in specifics and the social implications of a new awareness of God, in oneself and in all of life. The quality and intelligence of the writing is outstanding as it is in all of the CWG series.
Some of the topics discussed are the nature of time (some very interesting science), organized religion (how religion actively separates man from a direct experience of God), sexuality (no stone is left unturned there!) and education (three core concepts of awareness, honesty and responsibility are suggested). "You must stop seeing God as separate from you and you as separate from each other" is proposed as the basis for all government and politics.
Of course Walsch and God are making all this up as they go along... which is exactly the point! Walsch and God ask us to tell the truth to ourselves and each other. "It is always your new thought that creates your reality".
Still inspirational a few years after I first read it.
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Summary: religon teaches judgement and hate - god teaches love
Review: I have read a lot of these reviews and there are some exteme religious people who claim to have an open mind - who clearly do not. There are many times in this book and the others - where God states if you do not believe this is God then it is fine - the other books 2 and 3 help to make sense of this one and give a lot of more answers which if you at it from an observers point of view, with an open mind and with intelligence and without religious interference you will see that a lot of this makes sense.
why is a collection of stories that have been handed down and are inaccurate due to the chinese whispers of the stories over the years and the translations made by powerful people who changed the writings - as religion was control and power - and the bad translation:plus the all the other stories that were taken out right: and this book wrong or evil.
all of these stories are written by different people and a lot of them were not born in the same century as when these stories happened. Over the years people have shown the different books to be hypocriticial and say the opposite to each other. That will happen when different people have written different books which make up the bible. A God who knows everything and make such a complicated structure of nature and the earth and the universe that we so far behind in understanding could not be A God is demanding, mean, angry, aggressive, cold etc. That is our interpretation using our parents and authority figures as an example to show what we think God is like, but he is not like that all. If Jesus is the son of God - i believe he was higher being and from the great highest union in heaven and he is an example of God then his compassion and love and other examples where shows how religon can be deceptive and hypocritical in different parables and stories shows us a different type of God. I find that a lot people who profess to be religious only live out some of the laws that they prefer, because if they lived it as it is written most of them would have stoned or killed - especially using the old testament.
we have so much information and knowledge to show us that a lot of the stories in the bible are just that - stories and I do not believe that God does not talk to people these days and that you have to be a saint for God to speak to you. Paul in new testament was a murderer and God spoke to him and this is why he is so extreme in this religous views and why he was crucified upside down. It was the guilt and knowing what he had done and knowing he wanted to make up for that.
I have read many spiritual books by many different people who say the same or similiar things as this guy. when it comes to together and makes sense and you can feel it is the truth to you and this is the God of love you have always known inside to be real - then I would rather know and love the kind of God that many people like Oprah, gary, donald, Sylvia, jonathon and many other welll known authors believe in that the God other people want me to believe in.
this a start of many great books written by this guys and I recommend you read all three before make your mind up and then new relevalations which speaks about religion very clearly and asking some difficult questions that if you really open minded will understand and see what it is saying. some people say they are religious and the words that come out of their mouth are the most unloving, hateful, judgemental, unkind, nasty, cruel, discrimating, vengeful, poisonous - does this come from love or God and if God is the final judge then they should leave it to him to pass judgement. If they are perfect and without sin they can throw the first stone.
this writer is not evil as some of the reviewers have said and if people believe that God does not talk to people these days and the bible is the true word then they should not read this book or attempt to read it.
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Summary: not as good as the first
Review: The first book kept reaffirming in my mind all that in fact, I already knew but was afraid to face up to. Reading it was a life changing experience for me. To get through the second book I needed to keep reminding myself that, as Walsh explains, God speaks to each of us through the filter of our own existence. Therefore, the word of God to me may be very different from the word of God to Walsh, with his filter tinted by his own life's experience. I needed to remind myself of this as the book frequently became preachy and political. Does God have such a left wing bias? Maybe so, I mean it's not hard to imagine God wondering what we humans are thinking as we foul his creation with our effluent - but I hardly needed this book to tell me that. If you've read book one, quit while you're ahead.
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Summary: Dear Cherisa77...
Review: Your views on this author come off as fanatical. From my experience, people like you have had bad relationships, usually with their families and others close to them in their life. They use religion to show the world they're much better people than others but really there is a love void where they cannot relate well to others. I bet somebody had their hands full raising you and if you have children I feel sorry for them too. You need to lighten up and be more trusting and accepting of others, and I bet your life will be a lot happier.
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Summary: dear chery
Review: If you can't think of any good reason not to believe Mr. Walsch's book, besides that it goes against some points in the Bible, I ask of you a better way to live your life. What is better than a life full of joy and love? A life of fear, intimidation, and judgments? I agree in that there are beautiful gospels and that much goodness comes from the pages of the Bible, but such restriction of natural instincts, such bias and judgment of sexual orientation, such hinderance of women's beauty, and such demands of us - to not sin, or it's hell for you - that are in the script and in the teachings of the Bible beckon more fear and negative feelings/thoughts/actions than loving, positive ones.
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Summary: Like I said.....
Review: In response to your post D. Gammon from Indiana, let me tell you my story. I have had the Uncommon Dialogue tape for several years now. When I first brought it home and listened to it, I felt enlightened... had a certain unexplained uneasiness about what I'd just heard, but nonetheless to a certain degree enlightened. I brought that tape out again after having thought I'd lost it six years ago and listened to it again. And that same unexplained uneasiness I had felt years ago came back but this time was magnified ten-fold. The change you might ask? After having developed a very close, very deep relationship with God in recent years, He showed me all the lies in this tape I had failed to listen to years ago. Mr. Gammon I am not sure how much of the word you have actually studied or how thoroughly you have studied it for that matter. But even the devil knows the Bible. He probably knows more about it than you've learned in your life span. The fact is he knows the Bible extremely well, inside-and-out, and is smart enough to know how to distort just enough truth to make it still sound like the complete truth even though it's not. You can look at it from a mathematical point of view... a negative plus a positive is still a negative. Likewise a truth plus an untruth is still an untruth. The word of the Bible is truth and anything that contradicts it is not the truth - a lie. You say you've studied the Bible, so Mr. Gammon you should know that. In my previous post (I hope you are knowledgeable to separate truth from untruth) I explained to CWG readers out there or to the tape listeners out there the many untruths Walsch mentioned that contradicted the bible. Right down the line, Walsch's supposed conversation contradicted everything from basic biblical verse to the Ten Commandments themselves. And yes, Mr. Gammon, the Lord is my Father... my very precious Daddy and yours. And, yes, we all have that common thread with each other that we are all His children as He molded each one of us into the likeness of His image. But it also saddens Him greatly when His children distort the word of the Bible. So really D. Gammon from Indiana, if you want to point the finger so hastily at someone for judging, point the finger at Neale Donald Walsch for judging wrongly against the Bible, the word of your Father, the Author of the Bible. If you get from the Walschs' tape a heightened sense of peace and love for your fellow mankind then bless your heart Mr. Gammon if you act upon them. But please, for your sake, learn to separate truth from the distorted truth as it is those distorted truths that I mentioned in my previous post that plant seeds in your head. And it is those "seeds" that subconsciously act like wolves in sheeps clothing as where the mind goes the man follows. So don't be so naïve to think that all black ink on white paper equals the truth. Go back and read more of your Bible to understand your enemy. The same as we need to know the character of God, we need to know the character of Satan, because if we don't know Satan's character then we won't be able to recognize when He's operating and when God is operating and then we will end up blaming things on God that the devil's doing.
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Summary: Conversations with God? Why not?
Review: Well, some of those who have read the book seem to bee off on the right track. Some sound sceptical or outraged and some - outright naive. This is to be expected. Assuming the conversations are real (I assume so), Mr. Walsch is not as much the author as the first reader of this book. The best practical point is that everything in the book is reproducible for anyone. Mr. Walsch has no monopoly on communicating with God. What, I wonder, is in the way of those sceptical, if they want to try it all for themselves? Some who met Mr. Walsch say he is rude and does not fit the image of someone who could be chosen by God to converse with. Yet doesn't God say that for Him there is nothing right or faulty, since these are human terms?
Well, let me put it short. Do not stop at just reading about someone else's experiences. God speaks with everyone (hasn't He said so?). Go ahead and make it your own reality. Whatever Mr. Walsch's personal character, his book is there and it gives all its readers a start in the right direction. Good luck!After having read some of other reviews, I have something to add to this one. There are some people who just said what they felt in a couple of words. Others exceeded the limit many times and had to keep going in new and newer review windows. Why don't they just write their own books instead? Mr. Walsch happens to be American, so some say "What's this god speaking American for Americans?". God doesn't speak English. Mr. Walsch does. If Mr. Po Quong had written the book, God would have spoken Chinese. Once again: there is nothing preventing you all from having your own similar experience, that is, outside of your scepticism, which kills it all. Jesus said (this is not an exact quote but the meaning is there), "If you had faith even no more than a mustard seed, and told that mountain to throw itself in the sea, truly believing that it would happened the way you commanded, the mountain would obey". So go ahead, get some faith and, when you have it, try it and God will speak YOUR OWN language.
The book is not without fault, yet I gave it 5 stars.
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Summary: Not your ordinary review
Review: Book one was good it laid the foundation to the Series. Two started off pretty good and the way it was going you would think it would be better. But in the 2nd Book it continues mentioning of the previous book. As in, "If you haven't gotten out and bought the first book, go buy and read it now". At first mention wasn't bad, but he kept doing it over and over again. Give me a break. The guy wrote the first book you think he would remember the questions he was asking God. If not just the questions, but the answers at least? I'm not entirely certain if he was purposefully selling his Series and newsletters, etc., but I hate to see this turn into one of those Chicken Soup for Soul package deals. Nothing against the books, but it's the "got to buy the whole set" series with the complimentary ginsu carving knife that bothers me, but I'll get over it. Why the popularity with this book, the series? People want to believe. They want to believe there is a God and our souls may be the only proof of such things. And at the same time we are trained mice. A book upon interpretation has brought more fear of a huge celestial bearded judge in a long white dress is at our judgment. And this little gem comes up with its embracing of all we encompass and posses inside of ourselves. But at times it becomes a selling tool beyond just mere suggestion. And well the politics become a little speculative as well. You'll see in the book where trade-offs are discussed for "hair-spraying over the ozone layer"? I would have chosen large chemical factories spewing their poisonous fumes into the air, but that would have been too obvious. One could say from funnels of all types, man and not man made. Or going back to industry and man with automobiles even. He goes with hair sprays here. Come on, even God knows they have virtually eliminated CFC's in compressed aerosol cans even by 1997 when the book was published. Maybe book 3 apologizes for most of the inconsistencies? In fact he explains the use of such devices over our environment as unhealthy or detrimental to our growth/health, but applauds advancements in technology in the 20th century, of course in due part to extra-terrestrials or aliens. Yeah I became a little disillusioned half way through the second book, but I was able to manage through it. There are two things I really like about this book that not many reviewers here covered, fear and sex. Not together, but on there own subjects I think are covered pretty well. So where do I stand amidst all this? Still in the middle, but for the most part I like these books. I'd rather read this book then the reviews of this book. Those that have gotten the most out of these books to me seem happy and have accepted this as a voice/a tool from God. Most have just merely suggested buying the book, using their own lives as an example of a positive force in this world. I think that is what would help me decide on buying and reading Book 2. With some inconsistencies in the second book as I have mentioned and the other reviews here, one question you have to ask yourself, does it do harm or good here? I think this book does more good than harm. With all the variances in this second book and to serve as a practical tool in the teachings or observations of God, it succeeds as the Bible does that we are still left to pick and choose. But in the end I don't think this should deter our faith, only strengthen it. A good deal of this book and the Conversations with God series as whole is factored around love. And well if it "insults" my intelligence for a little bit on some other matters then I think I can put up with the rest of it; as an intelligent person should. ~D
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