"As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless." -- Neale Donald Walsch
Neale Donald Walsch (also known as Neale Marshall-Walsch) (b. September 10, 1943), is an American author of the series Conversations with God. The books so far in the series are Conversations With God (books 1-3), Friendship with God, Communion with God, The New Revelations, Tomorrow's God, What God Wants, Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends, Happier than God, and his newest book When Everything Changes, Change Everything.
"A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.""A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.""And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.""And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.""And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.""As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win.""As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'""Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.""Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.""Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!""Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.""I think in metaphysical terms, I would call that increasing the speed of the vibration of life.""I think that things happen individually first, and then collectively. It's not the other way around.""I think that's a result of just a general increase in speed of the vibration of life itself.""I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.""I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.""I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.""If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.""It graduates to 'our state is better than your state,' and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.'""It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves.""It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'""One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'""The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'""The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.""The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.""The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'""The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.""The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'""They may not use the word better. But they certainly believe that they'll go to heaven and Jews will not.""We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.""You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement."
Walsch was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on September 10, 1943, and brought up as a Roman Catholic by a family who encouraged his quest for spiritual truth. He studied The Bible, the Rig Veda and the Upanishads. He says his books are not channelled, but rather that they are inspired by God and that they can help a person relate to Him from a modern perspective. The God in his books, for example, says that "there is nothing you have to do." Walsch believes in a panentheistic God, who tries to communicate Himself as being unselfish. Walsch's vision is an expansion and unification of all present theologies to render them more relevant to our present day and time. He created Humanity's Team as a spiritual movement whose purpose is to communicate and implement his New Spirituality beliefs, particularly that we are all one with God and one with life, in a shared global state of being.John Style, “What Happens When God Describes Utopia?: Neale Donald Walsch’s UtopianVision”, Spaces of Utopia: An Electronic Journal, nr. 1, Spring 2006, pp. 135-147ISSN 1646-4729
Before the Conversations With God series in the early 1990s, Walsch suffered a series of crushing blows ... a fire that destroyed all of his belongings, the break-up of his marriage, a car accident that left him with a broken neck. Once recovered but alone and unemployed, Walsch was forced to live in a tent in Jackson Hot Springs, just outside Ashland, Oregon, collecting and recycling aluminium cans in order to eat. At the time, Walsch thought his life had come to an end. Despondent, Walsch began his writings after working his way out of homelessness following a short-lived job as a radio talk show host.
In 2003, the film Indigo, written by Neale Donald Walsch and James Twyman and directed by Stephen Simon was released. It chronicled the fictional story of the redemption of a grandfather, played by Walsch, through his granddaughter, who is an indigo child.
Conversations With God: The Movie opened in U.S. theaters Friday, October 27, 2006 and in Canada, November 10. The film was released on DVD February 27, 2007.
Walsch was accused of plagiarism for a six-paragraph entry in one of the daily postings on his blog during 2008, this one during the Christmas season, when he published an item titled "Upside down, or right side up?" on Beliefnet.com. Walsch's entry purported to tell the tale of a miraculous appearance of the words "Christ Was Love" during the rehearsal of his son's school Christmas pageant; but his article was almost identical to an article published 10 years previously by Candy Chand in a spiritual magazine Clarity and spread over the internet in places like the Heartwarmers website, down to the name of the son mentioned in both articles, Nicholas - as both authors have a son named Nicholas. Walsch publicly apologized, saying that he must have erroneously internalized the story as his own over the years, a claim the original author said she doesn't believe. The article was subsequently pulled from Beliefnet.com, and Walsch voluntarily withdrew from the roster of authors because of his error. Walsch explained that he found the anecdote in old computer files from years earlier, saw his son's name in the copy and was fully convinced that the history had really happened to him and that he had just forgotten it, but "remembered" when he saw the anecdote in his file. He cited it as a classic case of false memory, and said he had been repeating the anecdote as his own in many speeches over the years, adding that he was "chagrined and astonished that my mind could play such a trick on me".
What God Wants: A Compelling Answer to Humanity's Biggest Question (March 21, 2005) ISBN 978-0743267144
The Little Soul And The Earth: A Children's Parable Adapted From Conversations With God (August 1, 2005) (with Frank Riccio) ISBN 978-1571744517
The Complete Conversations with God (October 20, 2005) ISBN 978-0399153297
Meditations from Conversations With God (December 31, 2005) ISBN 978-1571745132
Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends (March 29, 2006) ISBN 978-0743267168
Happier Than God: Turn Ordinary Life into an Extraordinary Experience (February 28, 2008) ISBN 978-1571745767
When Everything Changes, Change Everything: In a Time of Turmoil, a Pathway to Peace (May 7, 2009) ISBN 978-1571746061
The Conversations with God Companion: The Essential Tool for Individual and Group Study (May 21, 2009) ISBN 978-1571746047
Interviews
Neale Donald Walsch Interview with Arielle Ford
'Being at One': Neale Donald Walsch Interview with Gil Dekel
The Ed Bernstein Show-Interview Neale Donald Walsch
Neale Donald Walsch on Synchronicity
Neale Donald Walsch Interview with Dr. Michael Laitman
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