Conversations with God

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A man at the age of 49 was going through very tough times in his life with failures on many fronts, personal ones, and professional ones. At one night he was not able to sleep, and he decided to have a conversation with God and to ask all the questions troubling him.

He decided to ask God what it takes to make this life he lives work – he was planning to take his own life down if he had not gotten the answers.

Then suddenly a voice came out from behind his shoulder – though there was no one in the room with him – and yes, he got answers to his questions and this is how a very uncommon dialogue started.

The above is not a part of a movie, in fact, it’s a real experience that Neale Donald Walsch had gone through ( as he mentioned to Larry King on CNN Live back on April 7th,2000.) This experience led him to write one of the best seller books ever written discussing vital questions that we all as humans have no answers for.

On the contrary, the books do not run the conversation with God by asking questions related to a certain religion of belief (so you will not come across questions like: does God have a son or not for example), rather all the questions and conversations are all living/life ones.

The book was a trio officially named “Conversations with God – An Uncommon Dialogue 1,2 and 3” and they were published starting 1995 to 1998, and they had like nine conversations – in which the writer had touched base on some critical matters that we often think about but not in the way he did or that we often consider taboos.

One of the most interesting things he wrote about in his books is what death is – or what it means to him.

In Walsch book, he explains that there is no such thing as death, which he quoted as “a great illusion“.

According to Walsch, he explained that the soul simply changes form but life itself for us is eternal and it goes on forever. He also shared another important opinion that he called an important lesson, which is that: we are all one.

So for example in a room with many people there is actually no one but you but in various forms and when you treat those people across the table or with you in the room exactly as you would choose to treat yourself you would not have the fear about death to begin with there is no death and you are only changing into another form and secondly you will treat all of the other people exactly like you want to be treated as they are also representing you but in various forms.

In the same sense Walsch believes there is no such place as hell, which ties with the fact that there is no such thing as death, to begin with, hence what happened after death ( changing the form of the soul ) is not eternal reward or eternal condemnation, rather in the author’s opinion, it’s a continued evolution of the human soul.

Along the lines of the trio series of Conversation with God – Walsch later had a book named Friendships with God which was published in 2000.

When asked about how can friendship with God be possible given the conversation with God model, he had shared and believed had happened to him personally, he simply said: the relationship with God is like our relationship with each other. It all starts with a conversation. Once the conversation goes well, it transforms into an experience of friendship. Then if the friendship goes well, it turns into an experience of oneness with God.

As a reader – when I read the first book I felt a little bit uncomfortable from the whole idea, but then when I adjusted my mind that I am only reading the book not believing in its content I found some of what the nooks had shared eye-opening and indeed true and they resembled a lot with some of my own beliefs.

One of the best quotes the books shared was this one – I believe if we only stick to it, we will not only be doing good to ourselves moreover we will be doing good to the bigger circle of our surroundings and eventually the whole world.

“Start telling the truth now and never stop. Begin by telling the truth to yourself about yourself. Then tell the truth to yourself about someone else. Then tell the truth about yourself to another. Then tell the truth about another to that other. Finally, tell the truth to everyone about everything. These are the 5 levels of truth-telling. This is the five-fold path to freedom “.

If you are okay with reading things that you might not be 100% aligned to – I would recommend Conversations with God Books to you, after all, you will for sure have a conversation with yourself and others before anything else.

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By Mona Radwan