Communion with God - Neale Donald Walsch (.pdf, .doc, .epub formats)
Here's another book by Neale Donald Walsch that does a superb job of explaining how myth and belief structures across the centuries have supported and fostered the illusion of reality we now experience and create, and why the illusions of relativity are necessary for the absolute to experience reality. (It also has been reformatted for easier reading.)
In human experience, all things are considered within the context of what you think you already understand. You cannot help but do this. You know no other way to proceed.
Put another way, you are looking at the illusion from within the Illusion. (A fish doesn't know it lives in water until it's out of it!)
Once you understand the structure of illusion, you will then be able to use the Illusion as it was intended to be used, as a tool with which to experience the Ultimate Reality.
As you become aware of creating the illusion, you will cause it to be what you wish it to be, rather than simply watching it present itself as you think that it has to be.
Enjoy the read.
"The Conversations with God series are some of my favorite books. They form the backbone of my current spiritual outlook, and I find myself continually referencing them whenever I feel lost. Very helpful. That being said, this book is one that I have tried to begin a number of times and failed to get through it. I kept getting lost in the language, not understanding. This time though, I couldn’t put it down. This book proves that sometimes the timing on a book is what makes it truly moving to you. I recommend this series to anyone, but I also preface that “mine is not a better way, it is just another way.” ~ Erinina Marie May, 2007
"This book makes so much sense and is so empowering. It places the human condition into clear perspective and provides common sense tools that can be used to achieve new states of being and greater consciousness. When I read Communion with God, I experienced a sense of remembering. The book reminded me of things I have always known but had clearly forgotten. It was like coming home." ~ Michele Harvey Feb, 2012
"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" i.e., Biblical stories and 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 repackage. 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." ~ (Oct.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. (From Publishers Weekly)
MsSVig
Here's another book by Neale Donald Walsch that does a superb job of explaining how myth and belief structures across the centuries have supported and fostered the illusion of reality we now experience and create, and why the illusions of relativity are necessary for the absolute to experience reality. (It also has been reformatted for easier reading.)
In human experience, all things are considered within the context of what you think you already understand. You cannot help but do this. You know no other way to proceed.
Put another way, you are looking at the illusion from within the Illusion. (A fish doesn't know it lives in water until it's out of it!)
Once you understand the structure of illusion, you will then be able to use the Illusion as it was intended to be used, as a tool with which to experience the Ultimate Reality.
As you become aware of creating the illusion, you will cause it to be what you wish it to be, rather than simply watching it present itself as you think that it has to be.
Enjoy the read.
"The Conversations with God series are some of my favorite books. They form the backbone of my current spiritual outlook, and I find myself continually referencing them whenever I feel lost. Very helpful. That being said, this book is one that I have tried to begin a number of times and failed to get through it. I kept getting lost in the language, not understanding. This time though, I couldn’t put it down. This book proves that sometimes the timing on a book is what makes it truly moving to you. I recommend this series to anyone, but I also preface that “mine is not a better way, it is just another way.” ~ Erinina Marie May, 2007
"This book makes so much sense and is so empowering. It places the human condition into clear perspective and provides common sense tools that can be used to achieve new states of being and greater consciousness. When I read Communion with God, I experienced a sense of remembering. The book reminded me of things I have always known but had clearly forgotten. It was like coming home." ~ Michele Harvey Feb, 2012
"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" i.e., Biblical stories and 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 repackage. 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." ~ (Oct.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. (From Publishers Weekly)
MsSVig