Dec 06, 2004 08:09 PM
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(Updated Dec 06, 2004 08:19 PM)
This is a book I unreservedly recommend to everyone I think can handle the thought processes involved. I started with the second book of the trilogy and it pulled me through a very tough phase in my life.
Walsh evolved a strange, persuasive style across these books, unique in the fact that it avoids preaching. He stands outside himself and lets that little voice in his head do all the talking. He's actually holding a conversation with that higher part of himself, and who's to say that isn't God?
A fascinating, evocative tone of conversation, coupled with a lot of good old common sense makes Conversations With God by Neale Donal Walsch worth reading. The questions he asks are the questions that plague us all, even if we don't recognize them. This is a book meant to be read and reread at regular intervals, until the understanding seeps in and starts changing your life.
I paraphrase.
''Why dont you fix the world?'' he asks god.
'' Why dont you?'' God answers.
''I dont have the power''
''Nonsense, you have the power to end world hunger this minute, to cure diseases this instant. what would you say if I told you that your Medical profession holds back cures .... to protect the structure of the healing system?''
Elsewhere...
''Rightness or Wrongness is not an intrinsic condition. It is a subjective judgement in a personal value system. By your subjective judgements do you create your self. By your personal values do you demonstrate who you are''
This is Walsh's personal god talking. Do you want to listen?
