Conversations With God : An Uncommon Dialogue

This book found me. Roll your eyes. I would! But, it’s still true. I was going through the darkest professional and personal period of my life - feeling the stone hard bedrock of “rock bottom”. A place I would never have imagined my successful life to have ever reached. As a rational scientist, a long time atheist and occasional wonderer in matters-unknown based on experiences, I was a bit surprised when another scientist friend of mine recommended this book when I needed it. He said, “It’s not what you think.” Honestly, I had no thoughts on it. With a title like, “Conversations With God”, I didn’t expect it to be literal. I’ll go a little into “what I think” of it now. But, at the time I needed it, this book … god I hate to say this … “saved me”. During that dark period, I had started taking Xanax just to function. My anxiety and depression had hit levels that I’ve never encountered before. And I am certainly someone that most people would consider as having a lot of grit. So, these feelings were profound. What was more profound were the understandings provided by this book. As I read it, my anxieties, fears and depression disappeared. As I read it! Not over a long period of time. How can this be? There are deep philosophical truths in this series of books that I have not read anywhere else, but certainly felt within me, even before picking up this book. It covers Who You Are, the purpose of life, true Love (not this nonsense we’ve been taught to believe) and the truths about God (again, not this nonsense we’ve been taught to believe). On that last point, now here’s where I’ll provide a bit about “what I think”. It reminds me of the story “Life of Pi”. In telling his story, Pi started it with “It’ll make you believe in God.” By the end of the story, you have a choice to believe in the horrors people do to each other, or to believe in grandness of God. It’s more like you will “want” to believe in God. Similarly, the conversations in this series, the “truths” that are revealed - people can deny and debate them - provide a philosophical and/or spiritual framework you can adopt to live your life to its fullest. By reading this series, you will want to believe in God, because he/she is not the narcissist, insecure, vengeful god of religious myths. If you understand true Love, you will understand this. And you will have permission to believe in God regardless of how skeptical you are, because God doesn’t require anything of you except for you to be whoever you choose to be. You can choose to live your life using this framework, or you can choose a different one. But, this one makes the most sense for people who want to live full, joyful, loving lives. It doesn’t makes sense to choose a harder path. If you’re here considering reading this book, just click buy and read it. You’ve needed it. Here it is.

Life changing book. Answers to all the questions that my soul wanted to remember. Every person on earth should read this book and decide for themselves what is true.

Feeling and thought provoking reading

Only gave this 5 stars in hopes that this review would show up in place of the others. The second and third sentence in chapter 1 are enough to tell you that this is heresy. First of all, God has been speaking to us through His Word. Second, Christ Jesus was the final prophet and so there is no need for prophets in these days because God’s Word is final, Jesus was God’s final Word. Another issue of heresy here is found in the middle of the page on page 4 where it says and I quote “God” speaking to the author, “Now the supreme irony here is that you have placed so much importance on the Word of God, and so little on experience” and later says that the importance between these two should be “the other way around” in the next paragraph. That is TOTALLY opposite of what the Lord says in Scripture. This book is from the enemy and so I say to beware and to read the Scripture for that is truly God’s Word to us.

Interesting and amazing read for people seeking, whether there’s a belief in God/a Higher power or not. If you’re open to at least reading to understand I believe this book can be helpful. Not everything may resonate with you. But eat the meat and spit out the bones. Take from it what is digestible for you. I’m taking my time and highlighting so many things in this book. I was originally going to get this through Audible but I’m glad I bought the book instead. It’s useful to be able to pick up the book and refer back to something. My 70+ year old dad who has been into metaphysics since before I was born recently read it and told me about it. What’s surprising is that he just now read it. This was his time to run across it. I bought two copies and gave one to my son. He finished it and shared it with his girlfriend. If you’re at all curious I say buy it.

I would not call this book "God-dictated" as much as "God-inspired." It's a very human book with some divine seeds cast about. Most of it is almost written from a Deist perspective; however, it also espouses the New Age philosophy that everything that happens to you is created by you, which can be tough for some to hear -- especially those who maybe have lost a child, had cancer, or been bankrupted due to medical bills. I disagree with the book's basic philosophy that God doesn't care if we succeed or fail, if we sin or live to serve others, or if we do wrong or right, because there is no such thing as good or evil. But again -- the book is written by a human, from their human perspective. I do think it does a good job of introducing the idea that God is bigger than we know and capable of more than we understand, yet also someone we can talk to as we would a friend or beloved parent. So if it enlarges our concept of God or brings God a little closer to us, I guess that is a good thing. But if something in this book doesn't sit well with you, I'd say don't feel as if you're insulting God by not believing it. it's just one interpretation of many regarding what God thinks. And if you read it with that perspective, you'll probably enjoy it.

As with most of Neale's other work, I read this book in only a couple of sittings (always the sign of a very good book for me). If you have not read any of his subsequent works then it should be noted that the question and answer style of his books can lead to readers prematurely dismissing this work out of hand. Who could possibly speak directly to God AND GET ANSWERS you may ask. This is a valid response and it is up to the reader to believe it without question, dismiss it out of hand or just read the book with an open mind. I recommend the latter to get the most out of this book. Whether this is the word of God or a prophet or a schizophrenia sufferer is not important. What matters more than anything is the thought provoking message of the words in this and all the CWG books. I first read CWG Book 1 about three years ago, which was the first book ever to blow my mind in a spiritual sense and radically alter my outlook on life. I was previously engaged on a quest to find the meaning of life due to being disillusioned with society and even more by mainstream Christian religion which seemed to be just `going through the motions' and missing the important messages of the New Testament. From being a staunch atheist for all my life, based on my beliefs that if God actually existed then he/she would have to be a cruel, capricious, jealous and vengeful entity, I could see no place for God in my life. My search was therefore directed towards the sciences and my research in cosmology gave me the knowledge of the infinite scale and wonder of the universe, plus my reading on quantum physics was telling me that reality is not what we perceive it to be. I was starting to think of other alternatives, such as a creator of our reality. A new way of thinking about God and life is given in this book which can answer the questions non-believers have been asking, such as why is there so much suffering in the World if a God has designed it? Order this book and find an answer which will try to explain why the things are the way they are. It really does start to come together when you consider the words carefully. This book found me at the right time and seemed `heaven sent' in my search for spiritual knowledge and I value it as a true gift. People who want to believe in Hell and punishment in the here-after, please do not buy this book. You will be very disappointed to read that God does not need to forgive and loves us all, no matter what, because we are all part of God, and this can be no other way.

This is a life changer. Some of the most amazing, new, interesting and incredible concepts are written about in this book. Highly recommend if you're looking for a new perspective on things.

Esse livro é daqueles que você sabe que vai reler em pouco tempo. Traz grandes reflexões acerca das vida, do mundo como um todo e de como vivemos nosso cotidiano. Vale a pena ler e se aprofundar. Li graças ao Cadu Cassau (tem um canal no YouTube). Recomendam que entrem no canal dele e acompanhem também os vídeos, pois ele toca mto nos temas que esse livro engloba. ABS.

Poor printing quality. The font is even not consistent

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