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Of Communion With Godby Neale Donald Walsch Download Book (Respecting the intellectual property of others is utmost important to us, we make every effort to make sure we only link to legitimate sites, such as those sites owned by authors and publishers. If you have any questions about these links, please contact us.) link 1 About Book Amazon.com 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. From AudioFile Beyond conversations and friendship with God, there is communion, which is to allow your innermost truths to be inspired by Him. Different from being led by Him, it has to do with finding God in yourself as you follow your path and despair at all the faults and failings you find along the way. You discover Him by realizing, the author says, that God created us without conditions for acceptance and without our needing to produce any particular result while we are here. Though the ideas will seem radical to many Westerners, they are so smoothly rendered that most will suspend their cultural defenses and learn something from the program. The best yet from Walsch in a strong series of transformational audios. T.W. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine From Booklist After publishing three megaselling volumes of Conversations with God with little Hampton Roads, Walsch goes big time with one wing of perhaps the world's biggest publishing house. No doubt, money talks, and so does Walsch, in soothing, reassuring, definitely oracular tones and in chapters made up of brief paragraphs that begin with the same one or two words or phrases, which hypnotically lull us into assent with them. We are agreeing that there are 10 great illusions from which we must all awaken--such as the illusion that we need anything and the illusion that failure exists. We are agreeing to teach our children about the illusions and to master them ourselves. Finally, we are agreeing to take control of our bodies and emotions so that each of us can seize a personal moment of grace. At the end of this communion with God, we will know that all is one and that "it is through the eyes of God that you look." And hopefully, we will get in touch with one of the organizations that Walsch and his wife run to subscribe to the newsletter and sign up for Empowerment Week or a retreat and maybe even request a grant to do good works. One could be forgiven for thinking this tract is just a long-winded commercial for CWG, Inc. At any rate, this is prime New Age stuff. Ray Olson Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Book Description Neale Donald Walsch has changed the way the world thinks about God. His books have beentranslated into twenty-five languages, and his Conversations With God series, book1, book 2, and book 3, have all been New York Times bestsellers-book 1 for over two years. In the Conversations books, Walsch shared with his readers the beginning of a sacred relationship, as he began an exchange with God on everything from love and faith, to life and death, and good and evil. And then, as Walsch recounted in Friendship with God, something else extraordinary began to happen. His relationship with God began to strengthen and deepen, just as our own relationships do, into a friendship. Now in Communion with God, his most richly intimate book yet, Walsch discovers how to elevate that friendship to a state of communion. In this blueprint for seekers, he reveals The Ten Illusions of Man-the misconceptions we hold about ourselves and our world and our God. He describes with striking clarity how we might heal the great divide that has arisen from these illusions. And as he explores the true meaning of bringing God into our everyday lives, of having the courage of our convictions. Walsch shows us that we can only break free from our illusions when we act always from a place of deep fellowship with all that is holy-a place of communion with God. Inside Flap Copy Neale Donald Walsch has changed the way the world thinks about God. His books have beentranslated into twenty-five languages, and his Conversations With God series, book1, book 2, and book 3, have all been New York Times bestsellers-book 1 for over two years. In the Conversations books, Walsch shared with his readers the beginning of a sacred relationship, as he began an exchange with God on everything from love and faith, to life and death, and good and evil. And then, as Walsch recounted in Friendship with God, something else extraordinary began to happen. His relationship with God began to strengthen and deepen, just as our own relationships do, into a friendship. Now in Communion with God, his most richly intimate book yet, Walsch discovers how to elevate that friendship to a state of communion. In this blueprint for seekers, he reveals The Ten Illusions of Man-the misconceptions we hold about ourselves and our world and our God. He describes with striking clarity how we might heal the great divide that has arisen from these illusions. And as he explores the true meaning of bringing God into our everyday lives, of having the courage of our convictions. Walsch shows us that we can only break free from our illusions when we act always from a place of deep fellowship with all that is holy-a place of communion with God. About the Author Neale Donald Walsch and his wife, Nancy, have formed ReCreation, a nonprofit foundation for personal growth and spiritual understanding, with the goal of giving people back to themselves. Walsch lectures and hosts workshops throughout the country and around the world, supporting and spreading the messages contained in his extraordinary books. He lives in Southern Oregon. Related Free eBooks
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