Speaker 1: My name is Will and unlike Boulder and Scully, so
Speaker 1: we've embarked in a journey of discovery. We've talked to
Speaker 1: people deeply entrenched in the spiritual and metaphysical world. We've
Speaker 1: thrown ourselves into weird and wonderful experiences. I even joined
Speaker 1: a coven of witches and wait, you joined a coven yep,
Speaker 1: all on the interest of finding something, anything that will
Speaker 1: prove that there's something beyond this physical, three dimensional world
Speaker 1: we all live in. This is the skeptic metaphysicians.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the skeptic and positions. I'm Will, and
Speaker 2: today I'm going to be reading a little bit of
Speaker 2: the book that started it all for me. That's right,
Speaker 2: Conversations with God and Uncommon Dialogue Book one by Neil
Speaker 2: Donald Walsh. This book changed my life and I can't
Speaker 2: urge you enough to pick it up and read it
Speaker 2: for yourself. So maybe this little excerpt that I'm about
Speaker 2: to read, Mike just intentione to do that if you'd
Speaker 2: ever wondered what it was about, this might give you
Speaker 2: an idea. We're gonna start with the introduction from Neil
Speaker 2: Donald Walsh himself. Introduction, you are about to have an
Speaker 2: extraordinary experience. You are about to have a conversation with God. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: I know that's not possible. You probably think, or have
Speaker 2: been taught that's not possible. One can talk to God, sure,
Speaker 2: but not with God. I mean, God's not going to
Speaker 2: talk back, right, at least not in the form of
Speaker 2: a regular, everyday kind of conversation. That's what I thought too.
Speaker 2: Then this book happened to me, and I mean that literally.
Speaker 2: This book was not written by me. It happened to me,
Speaker 2: and in your reading of it, it will happen to you,
Speaker 2: for we are all led to the truth for which
Speaker 2: we are ready. My life would probably be much easier
Speaker 2: if I had kept all of this quiet. That was
Speaker 2: the reason it happened to me. In whatever inconveniences the
Speaker 2: book may cause me, such as being called a blasphemer,
Speaker 2: a fraud, a hypocrite for not having lived these truths
Speaker 2: in the past, or perhaps worse, a holy man, it
Speaker 2: is not possible for me to stop the process now,
Speaker 2: nor do I wish to. I've had my chances to
Speaker 2: step away from this whole thing, and I haven't taken them.
Speaker 2: I've decided to stick with what my instincts are telling
Speaker 2: me rather than what much of the world will tell
Speaker 2: me about the material. Here, those instincts say this book
Speaker 2: is not nonsense, the overworkings of a frustrated spiritual imagination,
Speaker 2: or simply the self justification of a man seeking vindication
Speaker 2: from a life misled. Well, I've thought of all those things,
Speaker 2: every one of them. So I gave this material to
Speaker 2: a few people to read while it was still in
Speaker 2: manuscript form. They were moved, and they cried, and they
Speaker 2: laughed for the joy and the humor in it, and
Speaker 2: their lives they changed, They were transfixed, they were empowered.
Speaker 2: Many said they were transformed. That's when I knew this
Speaker 2: book was for everyone, and that it had to be published.
Speaker 2: For it is a wonderful gift to all those who
Speaker 2: truly want answers and who truly care about the questions,
Speaker 2: for all those who have embarked upon quests for truth
Speaker 2: with sincerity of heart, longing of soul, and openness of mind,
Speaker 2: and that is pretty much all of us. This book
Speaker 2: addresses most, if not all, the questions we have ever
Speaker 2: asked about life and love, purpose and function, people and relationships,
Speaker 2: good and evil, guilt and sin, forgiveness and redemption. The
Speaker 2: Path to God and the Road to Hell. Everything. It
Speaker 2: directly discusses sex, power, money, children, marriage, divorce, life, work, health,
Speaker 2: and the hereafter that before now everything. It explores war
Speaker 2: and peace, knowing and not knowing, giving and taking, joy
Speaker 2: and sorrow. It looks at the concrete and the abstract,
Speaker 2: the visible and the invisible, the truth and the untruth.
Speaker 2: You could say that this book is God's latest word
Speaker 2: on things, although some people might have a little trouble
Speaker 2: with that, particularly if they think that God stop talking
Speaker 2: two thousand years ago, or that if God has continued communicating,
Speaker 2: it's been only with holy men, medicine, women, or someone
Speaker 2: who's been meditating for thirty years, or good for twenty
Speaker 2: or at least half decent for ten, none of which
Speaker 2: categories include me. The truth is God talks to everybody,
Speaker 2: the good and the bad, the saint and the scoundrel,
Speaker 2: and certainly all of us in between. Take you, for instance.
Speaker 2: God has come to you many ways in your life,
Speaker 2: and this is another one of them. How many times
Speaker 2: have you heard the old axiom when the student is ready,
Speaker 2: the teacher will appear. Well, this book is our teacher.
Speaker 2: Shortly after this material began happening, to me. I knew
Speaker 2: that I was talking to God directly, personally, irrefutably, and
Speaker 2: that God was responding to my questions in direct proportion
Speaker 2: to my ability to comprehend. That is, I was being
Speaker 2: answered in ways and with language that God knew I
Speaker 2: would understand. This accounts for much of the colloquial style
Speaker 2: of the writing and the occasional references to material I
Speaker 2: gathered from other sources and prior experiences in my life.
Speaker 2: I know now that everything that has ever come to
Speaker 2: me in my life has come to me from God,
Speaker 2: and it was now being drawn together, pulled together in
Speaker 2: a magnificent, complete response to every question I ever had.
Speaker 2: And somewhere along the way, I realized a book was
Speaker 2: being produced, a book intended for publication. Indeed, I was
Speaker 2: told specifically during the latter part of the dialogue in
Speaker 2: February of nineteen ninety three, that three books would actually
Speaker 2: be produced, and that one, the first, would deal mainly
Speaker 2: with personal topics, focusing on the individual's life challenges and opportunities. Two,
Speaker 2: the second, would deal with more global topics of geopolitical
Speaker 2: and metaphysical life on the planet and the challenges now
Speaker 2: facing the world. Three, the third would deal with universal
Speaker 2: truths of the highest order and the challenges and opportunities
Speaker 2: of the soul. This is the first of those books,
Speaker 2: completed in February nineteen ninety three. For clarity, I should
Speaker 2: explain that as I transcribed this dialogue by hand, I
Speaker 2: underlined or circled words and sentences which came to me
Speaker 2: with particular emphasis, as if God were booming them, and
Speaker 2: these were later placed in italics in the typesetter. I
Speaker 2: need now to say that I am, having read and
Speaker 2: re read the wisdom contained here, deeply embarrassed by my
Speaker 2: own life, which has been marked by continued mistakes and misdeeds,
Speaker 2: some very shameful behaviors, and some choices and decisions which
Speaker 2: I am certain others consider hurtful and unforgivable. Though I
Speaker 2: have profound remorse that I was through others' pain, I
Speaker 2: am unspeakably grateful for all that I have learned, and
Speaker 2: found that I have still yet to learn because of
Speaker 2: the people in my life. I apologize to everybody for
Speaker 2: the slowness of that learning. Yet I am encouraged by
Speaker 2: God to grant myself forgiveness from my failings, and not
Speaker 2: to live in fear and guilt, but to always keep trying,
Speaker 2: keep on trying to live a grander vision. I know
Speaker 2: that's what God wants for all of us. Neil Donald Walsh,
Speaker 2: Central Point Organ, Christmas, nineteen ninety four. Well, that was
Speaker 2: quite the introduction. I read that when I was younger,
Speaker 2: and I wasn't ready for the book, simply because he
Speaker 2: kept talking about God and the book had the word
Speaker 2: God in the title. So I carried it around with
Speaker 2: me for a very long time, waiting for the day
Speaker 2: when maybe it would be my time to read it. Well,
Speaker 2: if something similar has happened to you, if you've heard
Speaker 2: about this book a lot, but yet you haven't gone
Speaker 2: out and gotten it started reading it for one reason
Speaker 2: or another, maybe this is your sign that it's time
Speaker 2: for you to pick up the book. It might just
Speaker 2: surprise the heck out of you. And hey, if you
Speaker 2: read the first ten, fifteen, twenty pages and it doesn't
Speaker 2: ring a bell, well close it. Come back to it
Speaker 2: again in a few years when you feel that maybe
Speaker 2: it's time for you to be ready. Anyway, I thank
Speaker 2: you so much for listening in this time around. I
Speaker 2: do plan on reading some more from this book and
Speaker 2: others like them. In the weeks to come, so stick
Speaker 2: with us. If you like these types of things, please
Speaker 2: feel free to follow along with us. And I hope
Speaker 2: that you found this helpful, enlightening, entertaining, educational, informative, whatever
Speaker 2: you want it to be. I thank you for spending
Speaker 2: this time with me. Until next time, I'm will and
Speaker 2: we'll see you in the next episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians.
Speaker 2: Until then, take care,