- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Putnam Adult (Jan 11 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0399146709
- ISBN-13: 978-0399146701
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 15 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 408 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (56 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #480,709 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Bestselling author Neale Donald Walsch (Conversations with God) moves beyond showing readers how to develop a friendship with God and instead offers a model for communion. Rather than using the dialog format, where Walsch shares personal conversations he has with God, he chose to write through the narrative voice of God--as if God were speaking directly to the reader. "I tell you this: You need nothing to survive," says God. "Your survival is guaranteed. I gave you everlasting life, and I never took it away from you." This format can feel a bit jarring, as if this was an attempt at channeling rather than Walsch's usual humble style of dialogue. Using a structure of top-10 illusions, Walsch has God speaking to illusions such as need, judgment, and superiority. At times God sounds scolding: "For I tell you this: Your idea of superiority could be the last mistake you ever make." Yet, the bottom-line message is that of unconditional love and the exhilarating promise of communion--a gift that is lavishly offered throughout the final chapters. --Gail Hudson
From Publishers Weekly
A stand-alone title to complement Walsch's bestselling Conversations with God series, this too-general spirituality manifesto borrows from most major religions while chastising all of them for their judgmentalism, with Christianity getting the harshest treatment. Walsch continues his tradition of writing in the first person as God, but this time there is no human counterbalance, making this no longer a conversation so much as a prophetic indictment. He begins by describing the "ten illusions of man" that have been perpetuated in unhelpful "cultural stories"Ai.e., Biblical storiesAand then helps readers understand and use these illusions in an effort to make their own realities. Walsch reassures readers that such things as failure, requirement and ignorance do not actually exist, but are among the ten illusions. We are part of God, he explains, and since God is perfect, so are we. Walsch seems to believe that his ideas are groundbreaking, but they are garden-variety New Thought concepts adapted for a therapeutic age. His once-innovative technique of writing in the voice of God has also lost its luster; God's prose is having an off day, as evidenced by Walsh's predilection for sentence fragments and stream-of-consciousness thought patterns. A superior work in general spirituality is Andrew Harvey's The Direct Path: Creating a Journey to the Divine Using the World's Mystical Traditions, which is in harmony with Walsch's declaration that "all paths lead to God" but offers outstanding writing and a more humble tone. (Oct.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This review is from: Communion with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (Hardcover)
Communion With God is the most logical and comprehensive explanation of GOD and our existence that I have ever experienced. Neale has expressed our connection to Source and each other with clarity and humility. While reading this book, I found my own truth validated by yet another person. I highly recommend all of Neale's books and videos to all people of all spiritual paths.
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Untruth,
This review is from: Communion with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (Hardcover)
This is from the man who said in an earlier book that Hitler was not evil because he released the Jews from their physical bodies so they could ascend to a higher level. Why trust anything someone like this would say? Why think it is from God? Any theology or worldview that denies the existence of objective evil is false and dangerous.(...)
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Surprised by joy!,
This review is from: Communion with God (Paperback)
Have you grown weary of the same old angry, jealous, vengeful God who pits one human being against another in a contest for His approval and love?Are you uncertain of exactly what this God wants/needs from you that you may win salvation and eternal life? Have you long hoped that perhaps we have misrepresented this God, and that He is after all unconditionally loving, compassionate, and has never separated Himself from his creation as is widely believed? If so, you could benefit enormously from reading this book.
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