The
New Revelations
A
Conversation with God
by Neale Donald
Walsch
ISBN
0743456947
256
pages, US$ 16.80
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The human race has reached a Time of Choosing.
Our options are being placed before us by the tide of events - and
by those who are creating them. We can either move forward,
building together at last a new world of peace and harmony based
on new beliefs about God and Life, or move backward, separately
and continuously reconstructing the old world of conflict and
discord. The New Revelations provides us with the tools to move
forward, to pull ourselves out of despair, lifting the whole human
race to a new expression of its grandest vision. In this book,
which offers possible and powerful answers to the questions facing
the world, bestselling author Neale Donald Walsch urges us to open
our hearts and minds to what may be one of the most important
spiritual statements of our time. A conversation with God that
began as a simple plea from one human being to the God of his
understanding, The New Revelations is a life-altering book, given
to us when we need it most.
Excerpted from "The New Revelations"
Copyright © 2002 Neale Donald Walsch. Reprinted by permission. All rights
reserved.
Introduction
The world is in trouble. Bigger
trouble than it has ever been in before.
This book provides an explanation
of the crisis we are facing in a way that not only clarifies the
crisis, but clarifies how to resolve it.
Here is an extraordinary insight
into what's really happening to us right now on this planet, why
we've gone astray, and how we can get back on the path that we say
we wish to take.
We can look away from what's
happening -- the sudden and eruptive disintegration of life as we
know it -- for only so long before the fact that we really are
in big trouble presents itself to us in ways that we cannot
ignore.
That is what is occurring right
now. We are being confronted by events and conditions that we
cannot ignore.
This does not mean that now is a
time for despair. Despair, in fact, is the last thing this is a
time for. Despair is what has created the problem. More
despair is certainly not going to solve it.
No, now is not the time for
despair, but for repair.
As we seek to repair the damage
that we are doing, we are invited to explore the matter of why we
are doing it. What has led us into the depth of despair that would
cause us to begin destroying ourselves? That is the key question
addressed by this book. It is a question many people do not want
to ask. The answers are too threatening to our very way of life --
and many humans would apparently rather destroy their way of life
than change it. They would rather see their lives end than see
their lives altered.
This is a life-altering book. It
contains New Revelations. It provides the tools with which to pull
ourselves out of despair, lifting the whole human race to a
new level of experience, to a new understanding of itself, to a
new expression of its grandest vision.
This book was given to us, sent to
us at just this moment, to help us. It presents its revelations in
the form of a conversation with God. You do not have to believe
that such a conversation took place to derive benefit from it. You
have merely to be willing to follow the conversation, consider its
contents, explore the possibility of applying them in your life,
and observe the results.
The human race has reached a Time
of Choosing. Our options are being placed before us by the tide of
events -- and by those who are creating them. We can either move
forward, building together at last a new world of peace and
harmony based on new beliefs about God and Life, or move backward,
separately and continuously reconstructing the old world of
conflict and discord based on old beliefs about God and Life.
How long we can keep ourselves
going if we continue to choose the Old Ways is open to
speculation. But ultimately our civilization -- assuming no
dramatic alteration in our present pattern -- will simply cave in
on itself. And everything I see tells me we are just years -- not
centuries, not decades, but years -- away from that.
For those who are ready to embrace
new beliefs (or at least to consider them), the issue becomes,
what would they be? And what outcomes could they produce? I
believe these new revelations have been given to us to offer some
possible and powerful answers to these questions.
This conversation with God began as
a simple plea from one humble human being to the God of his
understanding, in the way that works best for him. I asked God to
reveal to us what we now need to know if we want to help change
the self-destructive direction in which humanity is moving.
Now the God of my understanding may
not appear to be the God in which you believe, but It is, I am
convinced, the same God nonetheless. And I believe that if any
person goes to this same God in purity, sincerity, and with deep
desire, God responds.
This book is God's response.
I believe it can save the world.
Author's Note
As in all conversations, there are
things repeated here that have been said before. I want you to
know that I am aware of that. No attempt was made by me to
"edit out" material that makes the same point (sometimes
in the same words) made in previous books I have produced. I
assume these matters wouldn't have come up again if they weren't
important within the context of what is being discussed here. I
have thus forgiven all redundancies, and invite you to do the
same.
The list of fallacies about God and
Life in this book seems, in particular, to be very similar to the
Ten Illusions of Humans given to us in Communion with God.
They are plainly based on those illusions, and are
recontextualizations of them. Yet not everyone who has come to
this current dialogue has read that previous book, and the present
material was clearly meant to stand alone.
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