CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD AUTHOR SPEAKS AT UNITY CHURCH, HILLCROFT
Over 1000 people are already packed in the pyramid-shaped sanctuary of unity Church on Hillcroft, waiting for Neale Donald Walsch’s arrival. Do they feel like I do, that Walsch has put into print things about God finally made sense? He arrives, warm, friendly smile, casual buckskin jacket, glasses, gray straight hair and beard. He loves every minute of getting acquainted with his audience. As he walks by, he shakes my hand open palmed, holding nothing back. I talk to him briefly about how much I enjoyed reading ‘Conversations With God’, and I can see from the crowd’s reaction that he has touched their lives as much as he has mine. He makes his way to the back of the sanctuary, covering all the audience in here, as if to feel out who we are and where we are.. And if the crowd feels as I feel, Walsch is ushering in a new era of compassion, brotherhood, truth and honesty where all is told (accepted at face value and nothing held back). He has given us all a sigh of relief, that it is harder to go wrong than it is to go right, when all along we thought the opposite was true. What a refreshing change!
“I am the messenger, NOT the message,” Walsch said. And the message he brings is that we are to reintroduce ourselves to each other and move to the grandest choice of our lives.
After Walsch said his “hello’s” to the audience, Reverend Howard Caesar, of Unity Church of Christianity, formally introduced him. Caesar said he first heard of Walsch when someone asked him if he had seen the Conversations with God book. “Pretty soon,” the reverend added, “people started bringing me the book.”
“I am working at a wonderful game,” said Walsch, “called ‘Change the World’.” Walsch said that if we change ourselves, that, one by one, we will “thus change the world.” Walsch talked about what people knew about man’s true relationship with God.
He said that there are people who don’t know, and don’t know they don’t know, and that they were the children. Those who don’t know and know they don’t know are the searchers. Those who don’t know, but think they know are truly dangerous. The ones who know, but don’t know they know are asleep.
“And the ones who know, and KNOW that they know have the glorious opportunity to no longer be spectators, but to play the game of life as co-creators with God,” Walsch said. Up to now, when things would occur, they would seem to happen “by accident.” Walsch said that we decide what we want to do. We can choose to create our lives ON PURPOSE, no longer by accident.
“I hope these books truly become the catalyst to those who know,” Walsch said. “Now is the time. This is the day [to] take what we do and apply full out in every moment and then see what will occur. We are on earth to co-create [with God].”
Walsch spoke about his life being a process of self-definition. At sixteen, he said he was ‘my hair’. When he outgrew that, at eighteen, he said he was ‘my car’. At 21, he was ‘my woman’, and that the woman he was with defined him. For a long time, he said, he was ‘my job’, then he was ‘my family’.
And, when the family left, he finally had to stop, look at what he was doing, and ask himself, “Who am I?”
“There are no victims, no villains,” he said. He was just constantly ‘doing’, not ‘being’, thinking that by “doing” things he was pleasing God _ until he found out that God does not care what we DO. God cares only about what we are BEING while we are doing whatever we do.
“There are three truths,” Walsch said.
1. “We are all one.” What would happen if we became all one? Clearly we would know that what is good for you is good for me. Under this paradigm, we could not allow thousands to die of starvation. There is a four decade difference between the life spans of rich and poor countries. Recognizing that we are all one as a combined mass consciousness, would mean that our best interest is at stake here. People will self-regulate when they have no laws. They will become mindful of their actions.
2. “There’s enough!” Enough time, enough love, enough food, money. The root of every human conflict is based on the concept of ‘not enough’.
3. “All there is, is love; all there is, is truth.” Become totally visible. Transparent. Least of all, don’t do it [hide the truth] for their own good! Total visibility, never hiding anything. The political system has abused this. And what you don’t know WILL hurt you. It always does. Tell the Truth.”
Neale Donald Walsch has been in communications as a reporter and radio talk show host during his lifetime. Now owner of ReCreation, Walsch began writing “Conversations with God” in 1992, with a series of angry letters to God, and that God, in turn, began to answer.
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