Hi Everybody,
Don't you wish that humanity would figure out a way to co-exist? To live together in peace? To live in a world where pain is nonexistent?
Neale Donald Walsch's book The New Revelations: A Conversation With God addresses this topic, as well as other problems humans have struggled with since the dawn of the human race.
There are many common sense solutions that if implemented could change the way humans think about themselves and others, solutions that could change the world for the better. Read on, if you're interested in the future of the human race! (-:
The following is from The New Revelations:A Conversation With God by Neale Donald Walsch.
pp. 116-118
(God)
[T]here is nothing that I do want. And this is what you cannot understand or refuse to accept.
There is nothing that God wants or needs.
God demands nothing, commands nothing, requires nothing, compels nothing. Teach this in your seminaries and your madrasas.
God neither orders nor requests, insists nor expects, anything. Tell this to your young.
I am the Author of Everything. I am the Creator and the Created. There is nothing that is that I am not. I have no need to give orders to anyone.
To whom would I give orders? There is no one to command but Me. I am the All in All. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. And whom would I punish were my orders not kept? Would I use my right hand to slap my left? Would I bite my nose to spite my face?
Your teachers and your doctors of law, your priests and your ulamas, tell you that God is to be feared, for He is a vengeful God. You are to live in fear of God's wrath, they say. You are to tremble in His presence. Your whole life you are to fear the terrible judment of the Lord. For God is "just," you are told. And God knows, you will be in trouble when you confront the terrible justice of the Lord. You are, therefore, to be obedient to God's commands. Or else.
Most of you, therefore, spend much of your adult lives searching for the "right way" to worship God, to obey God, to serve God. The irony of all this is that I do not want your worship. I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary to serve me.
These behaviors are the behaviors historically demanded of their subjects by monarchs--egomaniacal, insecure, tyrannical monarchs at that. They are not Godly demands in any sense, and it seems remarkable that the world hasn't by now concluded that the demands are counterfeit, having nothing to do with the needs of Deity.
Deity has no needs. All That Is is exactly that: all that is. It therefore wants, or lacks, nothing----by definition.
If you choose to believe in a God who somehow needs something--and has such hurt feelings if He doesn't get it that He punishes those from whom He expected to receive it--then you choose to believe in a God much smaller than I. You truly are Children of a Lesser God.
(Walsch)
Then you haven't given us "orders"?
(God)
No. It was human beings who felt they had to give human beings orders, in order to keep order. And the best way they knew how to get people to follow orders was to say that they came directly from God.
There were also those who sincerely believed that they were receiving directives from God about how life should be lived, and what they said that they received was passed on by others in good faith. Yet, this does not mean that what was passed on was always accurate, nor does it mean that the person who claims to have been the original recipient of these revelations was infallible.
(Walsch)
Any more than this book is infallible.
(God)
That is correct. That is exactly right. Any claim of infallibility for this book would be inaccurate.
(Walsch)
It would be inaccurate to say that this book is accurate.
(God)
Yes.
(Walsch)
So this book is accurate when it says that it is inaccurate.
(God)
That's clever, and that's another yes.
(Walsch)
So if it's inaccurate, why should I believe it?
(God)
You should not believe it. You should apply it and see what works.
Incidentally, put every other writing that claims to be a communication from God to the same test.
pp. 184-185
(God)
And so, you have imagined a God that separated humans from Him, because He was not happy with humans. This is what humans do to each other when they are not happy, and you have concluded that God would do the same.
This idea of The Great Separation created in you the experience of being separate from each other as well. I have already explained to you how this happened.
Human beings knew--they intuitively understood; they had a cellular memory of the fact--that they were one with all life. One with the Earth, and one with the creatures of the Earth. One with the sky, and one with everything in the sky. one with the divine, and part of that which is divine.
Then the stories of separation began. As I earlier explained, these stories arose out of humans' early experience. Religions codified that experience, transforming myth into dogma. The illusion of your separation was complete. Separation from God and separation from all life.
Modern religion has had a chance to break that illusion, to lead you to the truth. But modern religion has chosen to stick with the teachings of pre-modern times, to retain the dogma of hundreds and thousands of years ago. And so, modern religion has failed modern man.
If you are courageous, if you are very brave, you will allow a New Spirituality to enhance your religious experience. This spirituality will not reject outright your traditional religious teachings, but enlarge upon them and alter some of the teachings that you agree no longer apply or no longer function.
p. 186
(God)
You have accepted that you are Separate From God not because you have experienced that you are separate, but because you have been told that you are--by organized religion.
p. 222
(God)
It is not that humans do not want to live according to life's truest principles, it is simply that it is impossible for humans to do so when these basic principles are so clouded over by their beliefs that humans cannot even know what the principles are.
In short, human beings are trying to live the truth through beliefs that are false. In this, they have set themselves an impossible task. And that is why so much of life on your planet is not working.
Now please let me acknowledge here that some of your life on Earth is working. You have grown and evolved and become a grander version of humanity. You have learned from some of your mistakes, you have progressed in some ways, and you have become in some ways a magnificent species. And, as I said earlier, you have done this against all odds.
That is why it seems such a shame to see you making collective choices at this point in your development that could so drastically and negatively impact the life of your species as you know it--if not completely end it.
Those humans who understand deeply what is now going on see that the saddest part of all this is that so much could improve so quickly with a few simply changes in the things you choose to believe.
p. 283
(God)
Do not let a moment go by in which you have an opportunity to tell someone how magnificent they are. Do not let an opportunity pass in which you may offer praise. Give people the gift of self-esteem, and you will have given them a gift that many cannot find a way to give themselves. Yet when they find themselves through you, and return to their own most glorious vision and their own grandest idea of who they really are, they are lost no more, for you have returned them to themselves. Once they were lost, but now they are found.
To change people's behavior, change people's ideas about themselves. To change people's ideas about themselves, change their beliefs about Life and about God.
If you think that you were born in sin, are a sinner now, and will be a sinner always, how are you most likely to act? Yet if you believe that you are One with God, that you walk in step with the Divine, how then, will you behave?
I tell you this: You are an angel.
You are the angel for whom someone is waiting today.`
Walsch, Neale Donald. The New Revelations:A Conversation With God. Atria Books, New York, 2002.
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