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