Neale Donald Walsch - The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

The Complete

Conversations with God

an uncommon dialogue

A LSO BY N EALE D ONALD W ALSCH

Conversations with God,

Conversations with God, Book 1 Guidebook

Conversations with God,

Meditations from Conversations with God, Book 2

Conversations with God,

Questions and Answers on Conversations with God

Friendship with God

Communion with God

The Little Soul and the Sun

The Little Soul and the Earth

Conversations with God Re-MINDer Cards

Moments of Grace

Neale Donald Walsch on Abundance and Right Livelihood

Neale Donald Walsch on Holistic Living

Neale Donald Walsch on Relationships

Bringers of the Light

ReCreating Your Self

Conversations with God for Teens

The New Revelations: A Conversation with God

with Nancy Fleming-Walsch:

The Wedding Vows from Conversations with God

The Complete

Conversations with God

an uncommon dialogue

contains the entire text of
book 1, book 2, & book 3

Neale Donald Walsch

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Copyright 1995, 2002, 2003 by Neale Donald Walsch

Conversations with God, hardcover edition was previously published by G. P. Putnams Sons, 1996.

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Introduction

TO THE N EW E DITION

It was ten years ago that Conversations with God, also made the bestseller list.

Since then, the books have been translated into 34 languages and can now be found on the shelves of bookstores almost anywhere in the world, placing them among the most widely read contemporary spiritual books of modern times, selling in the multimillions. In many of the worlds countries it is difficult to find a person who has not at least heard about these extraordinary texts.

How is it that this has come to pass? Why has this occurred?

This has occurred not because I am a good writer, nor even because some consider my source to be unimpeachable. It has occurred because humanity has begun to lose patience with itself. To people everywhere, it is becoming very clear that human beings cannot continue living the way they have been living.

We cannot continue holding the opinions we have been holding, embracing the beliefs we have been embracing, saying the things we have been saying, and exhibiting the behaviors we have been exhibiting. Somethings got to change, or everythings going to change, irrevocably, and not for the better. Somethings got to stop before everything stops.

People know this, and so, they are looking for answers. Conversations with God came along at precisely the right time.

Now comes this 10th Anniversary Collectors Edition, with all three books in one, and it, too, is perfectly timed. The world has become more aware than ever, not only of the problems facing us, but of the nature of those problems.

On June 23, 2004, a most interesting press release hit the wire services. The story indicated that a scientific survey conducted by Harris Interactive the previous month had determined that 69 percent of adult Americans believe religious differences are the biggest hurdle to achieving global peace.

Nothing could be closer to the truthand most people know it. And that is why books like Conversations with God shoot to the bestseller lists in every country in which they are published. People may not know the answer to lifes biggest questions, but they know that the answers we have been giving ourselves up until now are not working.

So now that we have finally come to understand whats going wrong (and been able to admit it), we can take a look at some alternative ideas about God and Life and Each Other (they all fall like dominos once the first belief is changed), and we can at last seek a newer world.

This trilogy is full of such ideas. As I have said many times before, it is not necessary for you to believe that I had an actual conversation with God to find value here. I have never asked people to believe in my experience, merely to review the material and, irrespective of its source, explore the ideas offered here with an open mind and an open heart.

More than 100,000 people have written me personal notes, letters, and e-mails since these books have been published, telling me that their lives have been impacted in very positive ways by this material. Outlooks have brightened, attitudes have changed, guilt has fallen away, relationships have been spectacularly enhanced, sexuality has been un-shamed, marriages have been saved, right livelihood has been created, parenting has been elevated, self-esteem has been reclaimed, physical, mental and spiritual health has been improved, and faith in God has been restored.