"Conversations with God" is a hoax!
The books read like a dialogue with God. Here is some witty banter between author Neale Donald Walsch, and God:
God: How deep do you wish to go in your higher understandings? Should you choose to continue with this conversation, I will present you with 100 more words -- a 100 Word Formula for All of Life.
NDW: Well, there's a tease.
God: That's exactly what it was meant to be.
NDW: And it worked. I'm not about to cut the conversation short now. So here I am having a conversation with God about living and dying. Again.
God: Yes, but looking at many things that we have never discussed before.
NDW: Who would believe this . . .
God: It doesn't matter. You're not having the conversation for anyone else, you're having it for yourself.
NDW: I have to keep reminding myself of that.
God: So often people see themselves as doing something for someone else when they're really doing it for themselves.
Everybody is doing everything for themselves. When you awaken to this awareness, you will have reached Breakthrough. And when you understand that this is true even about dying, you will never fear dying again. And when you no longer fear dying, you will no longer fear living. You will live your life fully, right up until the very last moment.
NDW: Hold it. Wait a minute. You're saying that when I'm dying, I am doing it for myself?
God: Of course. Who else would you be doing it for?
Unbelievable. I like how the author pretends like he is outside the system, like when he says to God, "So here I am having a conversation with God about living and dying. Again. ... Who would believe this". No one in their right mind would believe this! And God replies that it doesn't matter. But contrary to God, it does matter, because this is currently the #1 selling book on Amazon.com.
I am really disappointed that so many people are into this series. Here are some choice quotes I've seen from a few people who aren't (with my emphasis):
Maddox:
My book is currently ranked #2 on the best seller's list on Amazon.com, push that son of a bitch to #1! I'm currently being beat by a book called "Home with God." Are you shitting me? Pre-order my book for $9.57 now.
Nick Hriciga (Amazon.com reviewer):
To say I expected much from this book would be a lie; I cannot expect much thought in a book so inherently devout in topic. I did, however, expect more than some self-riotous sack conversing with god and assuring me of a heaven. We don't need these books. All they succeeds in doing is agreeing with the bible in every way possible. Way to use faith to blind your consumers. Neale Walsch is a manipulative hack, go out of your way to avoid this garbage.
"Person" (Amazon.com reviewer):
How can you copyright words from God, have all rights reserved for it, and require permission to show it elsewhere?
And here is one ecstatic Amazon review by "Barbara Rose, Ph.D" that is so downright nutty I originally thought it was sarcastic:
It is my deepest belief that anyone who has ever been afraid to die will receive great relief after reading this book.
There is the most love filled tone throughout, of course that unconditionally loving tone and feel comes from GOD.
There is so much reassurance, beauty and truth. Can we "prove" any of this information? Not with scientific data, however, we CAN ask anyone who HAS "died", went to the other side, and came back.
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Thank you, Neale, for your extraordinary contribution to humanity!
This book deserves at minimum 10 stars!
I think the elephant in the room is that you can't have a conversation with God when there is no god. So look at this crap the God character is spouting to get around the dilemma:
God: It is impossible to live or to die without God, but it is not impossible to think that you are.
If you think that you are living or dying without God, you will experience that you are.
You may have this experience as long as you wish. You may end this experience whenever you choose.
OK, God, if that is your real name. I choose to end the experience... NOW. [I pause from typing, waiting for the experience of living without God to end.]
Nope, the experience is still going on. This experience is called sanity, and for most people it is not as simple to end as making a choice. But a lot of people have the handicap of a lifelong indoctrination that began in childhood. And as one reviewer pointed out, Mr. Walsch is taking advantage of their faith to sell bullshit books.
