So God explains for several pages why this is so: First, he says, evil doesn’t exist. Walsch, however, still has doubts about a statement God made in Book 1, about Hitler being in heaven. God suggests that Walsch say “I love sex” ten times a day, to overcome any lingering sexual guilt. Pages are devoted to the pleasures of masturbation, gay sex, and “kinky sex” and God recommends the Hindu/Buddhist Tantric methods for achieving spiritual energy through sex. (God is a panentheistic God we all exist as members of His/Her marvelous body, although we may have a nagging sense of separation.)Ī major catalyst for development in this “spirituality” is sex. The “different conclusions” include: There is no such thing as original sin no devil no good and evil no right or wrong no “Ten Commandments.” Everything is interconnected, and the task of the spiritual person is to overcome any sense of separation and reactivate consciousness of his/her unity with all. It cannot abide it. For Spirituality may bring you to a different conclusion than a particular religion – and this no known religion can tolerate.” The only important thing, however, is spirituality and religion is at odds with spirituality: “Religion cannot stand Spirituality. Walsch has a Catholic background, and brings up things he remembers from catechism classes – original sin, heaven, hell, purgatory, mortal and venial sin, confession, holy days of obligation, etc. God (occasionally referred to as a “she”) listens patiently to this litany, and then reminds him that this is religion. The author claims that these books were written during some difficult times he experienced during the 1990s he started to write down questions or comments for God, and thoughts would pop into his head. Starting with Book 2 is not really a problem, since God/Walsch summarizes points from Book 1 at various places. In any event, the experience was eye-opening about what large numbers of people are now reading about God. Perhaps he hoped this would expand my knowledge of the “subject matter,” or give me some clues about how to write a New York Times best-seller. A friend, aware of my recently published book on God, gave me his copy of Neale Donald Walsch’s Conversations with God, Book 2.
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