"Neale Donald Walsch is approaching his fifties and takes stock of his life: he has just lost his job, his four marriages have ended in failure and his health is failing. Taken with anger, he writes a letter full of doubts to God. And then the miracle happens."
Editions "J'ai lu"
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« On Easter Sunday 1992, a year ago today, God entered into a dialogue with me. I know that sounds ridiculous, but that's what happened. »Neale Walsch explains how his exchange came about:« The process by which this information 'arrived' was exquisitely simple. On a blank sheet of paper, I simply wrote a question; any question... usually the first one that comes to mind. No sooner had I finished than the answer formed in my head, as if Someone was whispering it in my ear. I was taking a dictation! »
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Faced with its title, which sounds like an ultimate bluff, a coarse bait likely to attract the reader, my first instinct was to reject this book.
However, after reading, several elements prompted me to take it into account:
1/ Donald Walsch, from the outset, asks the question himself:
- How can I know if this communication comes from God? or from my own imagination?- What would be the difference? It's easier for me to work through your imagination.
2/ great wisdom emanates from many messages
3/ moreover, they confirm those of other sources, while sometimes going further. This is particularly the case for messages that address suffering, or love, or when it comes to distrusting what we are told – and in particular in the name of God (!):« Don't believe anything I say. Live it, experience it, then examine your experience to find your truth. »
I wanted to see in this warning a sign of honesty.
4/ finally, the 3 volumes are not only sold in paperback but available in pdf on the Internet.
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In these messages, the notion of experience (desired by the soul), rejects any idea of trial, suffering, or punishment. This is confirmed by other sources.
A long chapter is devoted to our personal relationships in order to draw our attention to their capital importance. Observations on the couple also shed some very interesting light.
For all these reasons, I could not bring myself to deny these messages; I preferred to let everyone decide whether to learn from them or reject them.
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However, certain remarks make Donald Walsch doubt that it is God himself who is speaking to him. Thus, when he hears this advice :
- Practice saying this ten times a day:
I LOVE SEX
Here are some other things you're not supposed to like. Practice loving them:
POWER
FAME
SUCCESS
GAIN
Further on, Donald Walsch tells him : - Now I have as many questions about politics as I do about sex !
- Some say it's the same thing: that getting involved in politics is getting...
- Wait a minute! You're not going to utter an obscenity, are you?
- Well, yeah, I thought I'd shock you a little.- Hey, HEY! Stop it! God isn't supposed to talk like that !Other sentences make him react:
[…] You are My body, but I am the body of another.- You mean you are not God?- Yes, I am God, as you now understand Him.
[…] You are My children... even if I am someone else's child.
- You mean I'm not talking to God?
- Have you ever looked into a powerful microscope and said, "Gosh, there's a whole universe in there. And for that universe, I must look like God!"
- Indeed...
- Well, you've given yourself a glimpse of what I'm showing you here.
...Which completely confuses Donald Walsch.
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Regarding the "miracle" of this contact, the journalist Alain Guillo who also benefited from the same type of communication, received these explanations:
« During the ages, manifestations of the same order as this, the direct communication between apparently distinct universes, have been related in the form of encounters with angels, messengers, guides. » (Buddha, Moses, Muhammad, Jesus...)
But if it were not God, then who could manifest Himself thus to Neale Walsch?
« It's a question of terminology, specifies the entity that manifests itself to Alain Guillo in the depths of his prison.We love the expression used by Jesus: The Father.
The Father is a spiritual "entity", more or less advanced, more or less complex. We are not God, far from it. We are multiple, like the members of a collective of researchers. We let go of what separated us to focus on what brings us together, to speak with one voice.
Beyond discord and dissension is the Spirit of men who have understood. We are disembodied beings, former women, former men, once made of flesh. Coming from the human species, we are still part of it.
These men, having reached the summit, cannot forget those who drag themselves on the road. They are closer to each of you than you might imagine. Yet they only speak if you are willing to listen. »
As if to confirm this precision, Donald Walsch heard this sentence one day:
« Keep growing, My son. Keep on going ! It is God's work that we are doing, you and Me. »
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Contributions by Neale Walsch on the subject of:
The life: everyday life, suffering, despair, old age
The way: the awakening, meditation, the purpose of life, God, religions
The love: the home, the meeting, romantic relationship, children, happiness
The death: the afterlife, lower astral, contacts, reincarnation, the animals, the suicide, Evil...
