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Communion with God

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I have never found my answers in church. Walsch's series of books like C. A. Lewis' An Encounter With A Prophet portray a loving God who makes sense. I would recommend all of these books to anyone wanting answers about God that fit the heart and the head.

This book adds more power to Walsch's message of God unconditional love for us. If you want more of this message I would recommend the book An Encounter With A Prophet

I would recommend this book to anyone who feels that they have experienced life on a profound level on occasion, but has a hard time alligning those deep wonderfully-personal feelings with an existing system of beliefs. Even if you haven't read the first four "With God" books, this one is more than worth your time, I promise. It's basic message is a very simple but profound one, and one that may be difficult for many people to easily agree with. The idea is that we are all God, that everything in existence is a facet of God, and that we are not actually separate from each other or from "God," but that are rather under the illusion that we are in order to have the relative experience of ourselves.

There can't be light if there is no dark. If an artist drew a beautiful soul-filling, awe-inspiring drawing in white ink, you couldn't see it if it were on white paper. That's why we need darkness in order to fully experience ourselves.

In this book, Neale Donald Walsch does a very good, concrete job of laying out the 10 illusions that he believes have caused humanity the most pain and trouble throughout our history. It all starts with the necessary, but danger illusion that we are separate from each other. Each of the other illusion builds off the previous one.

I was not raised in a religious household, but I have enough religious experiences of passionate living to believe in God. Even though I am not religious, I feel I came to these books with the skepticism of one that might feel these writings are blasphemous. But I'll have to say, that even though Walsch has a tendency to get too cute in his wording, his basic concepts are very sound, and that while I don't always believe in his style of presenting his ideas, I think the ideas themselve are very sound, and very ispiring.

It's hard not to agree that you should trust yourself and find your truth in yourself.

I have read CWG 1, 2, 3, FWG and now Communion with God. I'm pretty experienced with the concepts in Neale Donald Walsch's books and they have helped me in my life greatly. For me, this was one of the best books in the series. A few things I really liked was the fact that in the book "God" says to go within for the answers (page 108) so if you think this book isn't true, then believe yourself and if you think it is true, then believe yourself. I also found it very amusing that at the end of many chapters God says "And they were right.. but they made a mistake, etc." You'll see what I mean when you read the book. I thought it was funny that he kept repeating himself, but I do have a weird sense of humor so that might be why...

What this book mainly talks about is the Ten Illusions of Humans and how to see through them. Some things kind of confused me, like the Illusion of Ignorance. If I have no ignorance, then why am I reading this book? I know my soul has no ignorance, but as far as my human mind is right now.. I'm pretty sure it doesn't know (or, remember) everything.

One thing I really want to say in this review is that this is "just another religion/belief." We Are All One, etc. Many people call this religion "New Age." New Age talks about being One with everything and it also mixes in some self-help and stuff with it, that is the New Age religion and even if this book or anyone else wants to deny that, when you really look at it this is New Age. This book says it's not a better way, just another way.. yet it also says that it really is telling the "Ultimate Truth" and one day all religions will eventually tell you "the Ultimate Truth" which is what CWG (New Age) and every other religion claim to be. However, the nice thing about New Age is that it doesn't condemn other religions.. meanwhile other religions love to condemn each other.

If you are a fan of the CWG series, I highly suggest you pick this one up. But please don't get too caught up in everything and forget that Love is all that matters. If you were to ask me about my religion I would say, Love is my religion and the Universe is my church. The truth is so simple a child could understand it completely, Love is the answer! But being the complex individuals we are, I think we try to make it harder than it is. That's just my belief though, you can believe anything you want. Even Jesus said that Love is the Way though. God bless all!

Communion with God deals with the ten major illusions of human - the illusions of need, failure, disunity, insufficiency, requirement, judgment, condemnation, conditionality, superiority, and ignorance. The way all these ten illusions have been put separately and then discussed in detail collectively is truly amazing.

While discussing the ten illusions and a lot more, the book goes deep inside the life of an ordinary human. And what we realize later is that life is the most beautiful gift we have ever got. Each of us has the ability to access eternal wisdom. Indeed, I believe that God is inspiring all of us, all of the time since the highest authority lies within us.

All of life is a gift, and all is perfection - the perfect tool with which to create the perfect opportunity for the perfect expression of perfection itself, in, as, and through us.

When we understand this, we will remain in a state of continual appreciation. That is, we will be growing. Growth is a meaning of appreciation. When something appreciates, it becomes more than it was.

At many a times we might think that we need a particular person to be happy, or a job to be successful, or some other physical or emotional gratification to be content. That is when we may wish to notice that we are here, right now, without it. Why, then, do we think we need it?

Close examination will reveal that we do not need it, not to survive, and not even to be happy.

Happiness is a decision, not an experience.

The book not only touches these points but also reveals much larger facts about the life. It is definitely not a document to be missed under any circumstance. It is another wonderful piece of note that has come out from Neale Donal Walsch. I highly recommend this book to all of you and look forward to see some more intellectual literature from Neale in the near future.

Happy Reading!

As much as I have enjoyed reading the whole CWG series, this one stands out for me. While the other ones have laid the foundation for an entirely new way to think, this one shows us how to really live! Live for ourselves, for each other and for God. In only seven sentences, it has captured me in a way that no other book has. While I read this book I really began to feel that this was written for me, by me. The words began to ring true as if suddenly someone had turned on a switch. This book has a wonderful pro-active message: We are responsible for ourselves, each other and bringing the world together to go forward. It details beautifully how we can lead fulfilled lives. By sidestepping our man-made illusions and co-existing with them, but not living "within" them. It teaches us how to identify illusions and to accept them and to ultimately decide for ourselves. This book has the power to change people's lives, to change the collective consciousness and to reawaken "our" spirit. Words cannot illustrate fully the marvelous impact this book can have. I would recommend this book,(and all the other CWG books)to anyone and everyone. We can change the world, and with the information in this book, we can make it happen. It is up to us.

This is the most recent in the CWG series, and it begins a shift. No longer is the format a question and answer dialogue, but rather just God/Neale with one voice. Personally this if fine with me. I sometimes found myself thinking "Neale, get a clue" in the earlier books.

One of the things I have notice about divinely inspired information is an extraordinary command of the language, and an ability to say a great deal with few words. You will find that within this book.

You know... there are no accidents... It is not an accident that you are reading these words. It may have different meaning relative to you, but it is no accident.

There is no doubt in my mind that CWG is from a divine source. And even if it is not, I don't care... I'll take brilliance and genius wherever I can get it.

There may be those of you who doubt whether these could actually be the words of God, and I have no quarrel with that. A valuable addage is "Know a tree by it's fruits" And the fruits of this book are Love, and Understanding, and Happines, and Connection... And that's good enough for me.

--Frank Boyd

If you are at all familiar with CWG series you know how powerful and transformational these books can be. Well, believe it or not, this book is even BETTER and more revealing than any of the other books! I couldn't put the book down and I read the entire thing the first day I bought it. The book transformed the way I see myself and the world. the 10 grand illusions, one by one, explain fully and deeply why the human experience can cause so much pain, confusion, anger and bitterness. Then it grandly explains how to escape from the illusions and USE them for their intended purpose. If you learn how to master these illusions (which is mastery of life on Earth) you will not be the same person, and the world will not be the same place. I highly recommend this book to anyone. These books have been such a great gift for me that I have created my own website dedicated to enlightening the world that has a lot of completely FREE resources: www.kulshreshtha.org

I would highly recommend reading the whole series in order. This 5th book in the series takes the major and most critical points from all the other conversations and organizes them into an organized, direct and to the point format. Reading all the questions and answers from the previous books were great. Entertaining and enlightening and a nice tool to broaden our perspectives. This 5th book does not entertain questions, but puts all the biggest and most important points into straightforward dialogue in the perfect order. Blam, blam, blam, blam. There you go, here is the help that most people are asking for. Take it or leave it, but here it is if you are willing to use it. Answering the tough questions of how we got to where we are and why we are having trouble with where we are and how to get to where we say we want to go. I had to admit, it certainly described my fears pretty well, leaving no excuses for whining about why my life has been the way it has been. Even if I don't change overnight, it is nice to have no misconceptions about things being exactly the way I have designed them to be. No victimhood, nobody to blame. What else is there to do except to accept responsibility and take life one day at a time?

Having read all of the CWG books, I doubt that this book would've had the impact wihout the foundation that the other books have laid. Having just finished it, however, I know that I have never read, nor expect to read in the near future any book as powerful and life changing. Since reading the first book I have been trying to live the principles that are recommended. I have now stopped trying and just started doing.

It is amazing the improvement in your own quality of life when you see every single person you meet as another beautiful part of God and feel the love that is there! Obviously, this book is not for everyone, but for those who are willing to examine their paradigm and look forward to shedding the illusions that society has placed upon you, this book will open your eyes to the possibility of a true heaven on earth.

Namaste