An Uncommon Dialogue [Large Print] [Hardcover]

I have looked for the meaning of life for years and now I've found it. I've transcended fears and every day feels like pure bliss. It's had a wonderful affect on everyone around me too. Ever since I've chosen to concentrate on feeling happy and following the path to love and more and more light, I've noticed how people in my life have also changed and are still changing for the better. It's like a domino affect. I'm happier and somehow everyone around me are more lighthearted too.

The Conversations with God series has taught me how to manipulate energy and turn it into matter. I've been manifesting great worldly successes ever since:

Four years ago, I have just graduated college with nothing but a cheap Tercel. As the book says "You can have anything, whatever you want. With such great freedom are you to create yourself." Anyway, I've chosen to create worldly successes for myself and last year purchased a two million dollar mansion.

I've imagined myself rich and somehow things started happening/shifting. My business boomed. I'm 32, retired doing everything I've always wanted. Also, I've had this fear of heights for years, imagined myself losing that fear, went sky diving one day and loved it and do it whenever I feel like.

Recently, I chose to experience being a published novelist. I followed suggestions from the book/tape on how to manifest this. I wrote a 65,000 novel in two weeks and it's now being published by Harlequin/Silhouette.

Anyway, good luck to everyone. I wish everyone the best with everything. May all your wishes come true too :)

Does that mean you have to take it literally? No, not really. Yet, take a look at yourself, your life, your limits, and ponder, what did Einstein mean when he said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." "Conversations with God, book 3" is trying to get you to digest imponderables, not facts.

The principles are simple. A rock is just as much a part of God--the all-encompassing universe--as you are. Separateness is an illusion. The tendency of men is to put God and their gods in their own image. We imagine our lives, and their outcomes, as they are, as they'll be and have been, as we live them. (Take a clue from Shakespeare, in "As You Like It": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.") We all collaborate with the Creator in this mundane and divine drama: author, producer, director, interchanging roles as we choose, for the experience and expression of life.

Awful lot to assay in one book--even one so entertaining despite the fact that, By God, it's just one long dialogue!--and somebody is bound to get bugged by the repetitions and references to the earlier books. Someone else may get bent out of shape and cry "Blasphemy!" over its depiction of an Almighty with a sense of humor. There might be protests that this book represents reckless New Age idealism, that it rebukes that "old-time" religion, that at bottom it's only money-grubbing, ego-driven fiction--"all made up"--naked of fact and wrapped only in whimsy. Whew! If this book generates that much heat, then there must be a worthwhile fire at the center of attention...

If it comes down to a conflict of points of view between you and I and Neale Walsch's supposed superconsciousness, well, that's all right. According to the parable, blind men couldn't agree over the body of an elephant. It's just as likely we're not all going to agree over the body of truth. Does that mean we cease learning, speculating, striving to achieve better understanding? What Walsch does here (and pretty brilliantly, in my estimation) is provoke us to think, give us things to think profoundly about, and for that alone I applaud this book.