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What God Wants

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As an integral part of the "all that is", I have the power to transcend the behaviors driven by the reptilian and mammalian brains to create my experience and resulting reality, consciously and by choice

"Think only what you choose to experience
Say only what you choose to make real
Do only what you choose to demonstrate as your highest reality"

one of many useful insights from "What God Wants" which refresh material which may have been previously learned and integrated, but can never be heard enough. This book is particularly useful to disentangle the reader from polarized religious thinking by means of a heartfelt appeal to our rationality, while still honoring the value of faith traditions to our spiritual development. For these and all other audiences I highly recommend it! I encourage you to get the audio book as the option to simply listen with closed eyes in a meditative state can be a welcome alternative to reading, and Neale's expressive voice adds an emotional dimension to the work.

Based on Neale's explicit references throughout this book, I've ordered related material from the following authors which will serve to deepen the hues of Neale Donald Walsch's painting, in our relationship to our experience of "now", and our power to manifest reality through intent

Jerry & Esther Hicks and Abraham
Eckhart Tolle
Byron Katie

In Neale's work I'm next on to Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge

Jalaluddin Rumi, perhaps the most revered of Sufi mystics, offered this advice:


God has given us a dark wine so potent that, drinking it, we leave the two worlds.
God has put into the form of hashish a power to deliver the taster from self-consciousness.
God has made sleep so that it erases every thought.
God made Majnun love Layla so much that just her dog would cause confusion in him.
There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds.
Don't think all ecstasies are the same!
Jesus was lost in his love for God. His donkey was drunk with barley.
Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.
Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight.
Be a connoisseur, and taste with caution.
Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest,
the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed."
Drink the wine that moves you as a camel moves when it's been untied,
and is just ambling about.

--- Coleman Barks
One-Handed Basket Weaving
Maypop, October 1992
(Based on Nicholson's translation of the Mathnawi, IV, 2683-2696.)


I think you'll find that the contents of Neale's "jar" fits the bill for quality

Not only is the author so way off base with this book, he has the nerve to make money on it. He takes the worst of our human exisitance and blames GOD. It is total junk. If you really want to know what God wants, read the Bible and talk to a Pastor, know the 10 commandments. Unconditional love, as difficult as that is as a human...THATS WHAT GOD WANTS.