There are some books meant for something beyond the labelled purposes- educate and enlighten. Some books are not just mere pages, words and experiences (all inclusive) but they are MESSAGES meant for you and Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch is one such book. This book has three parts of which the first part is what this review-experience is all about. I am more convinced than ever that perfect timings exist, from doing or not doing something to reading a book or coming across a message, things happen on time. I would like to first acknowledge and express my gratitude to Shweta, one of my Instagram friends who introduced this book to me for which I’m eternally grateful. I see her as the God sent ‘Messenger’. Something in her post about this book stayed with me and I decided to read it. This book is what connected me to her and developed this friendship or rather connection that I know is meant to be and it is an honour to experience it. Heartfelt gratitude to the author N. D. Walsch himself who chose to write this book and spread the magic beyond him, on people who desperately need it. I believe this book has reached people at the time destined.

Every so often, you may suddenly find a book that was lying in a corner or amidst the stack for years, and decide to read it all of a sudden, only to find how life-changing it is. Conversations With God has been such a book for me at least. If I have to suggest one book to every person, this would be it. The book talks about almost everything and not just praising or defining God. It is more real and serious than it may even sound. People differ in their interests and choices naturally, some may be intimidated by this book or even find this review vague or ‘crazy’. However different our thoughts may be, in the deepest depth and farthest realm, we are all souls. We all have the potential to feel, think and experience similar, collectively and ‘crazily’. It all may direct to one message, one goal or one truth. Truth is, after all, One- with countless or limitless facets, much like us humans or souls or GOD.

Initial Thoughts

Initially, while reading the book, there was a little conflict within my mind. The book did not seem to resonate with my conditioned idea of God. The whole idea of a book speaking to me in the form of God was weird to me. In all honesty, I even thought that, perhaps, the author wants to create his version of God just so that he can give sense to what he is writing and all this he even did effortlessly and rightfully. I was just a thought away from discontinuing until the thought of – KEEP AN OPEN MIND barged in. First Walsch tries to make us comfortable with this idea that it is God speaking to him or us. He seems to be equally skeptical and uncomfortable, almost unable to believe. You can feel the dilemma, the struggle to come out of this conditioned zone. As I started reading further, I forgot that it is a book and is written by someone. I felt as if it were me and God having a dialogue. Despite being the reader, I felt I was the author. This is where I know Walsch has already done a commendable job. Shaking up a reader, un-conditioning the conditioned, making them contemplate and observe what they did not before, making them find their potential and believe in, making them believe that they are LIMITLESS. If this is not what describes a successful writer, then I don’t know what else does.

Knowing Your Creator- who is God?

Each one of us or factions among us define God in their own way and even conclude that ultimately, ‘God is One’. To some God could be in holy shrines, sculptures or images and even stone. To some God could be nothing or non-existent. The very idea or belief itself of anything, is something. Delving more into the book, I realized how simple and liberal the book is and how the author rather wants you to create your own version of God- call it the Universe, God, Higher Self, or simply Life. N. D. Walsch has simplified the concept of God that seems quite complex, sometimes beyond our understanding otherwise and makes the reader so comfortable with the concept. It may seem contradicting the ancient texts that talk differently about God but is similar to spiritualism. In the entire book there is at least one question that I am sure any person would relate with, the answer to which is, at least for me, thought-provoking and eye-opening. God is your Higher Self and if that does not satisfy you, you are free to find God and define the way you want, ultimately understand that God is not in limitations- neither in the definitions of the world nor in the most concrete form- mostly all of it and nothing.

Communication with God

I have always believed that God does speak to us in different ways and forms. Walsch elaborates it in the book very well with examples. How often we miss on the same messages or signs that keeps popping in front of us! The book, in one way or the other makes us think, helps us become conscious. It is important that conscious living starts defining us. Every conscious thought and action can probably make a better difference than the other and consciousness can differ from person to person, to some it may mean more analytic or calculative and to some it may mean more moralistic. It is mentioned in the book that “God communicates with us through our Highest Though which contains joy, Clearest Word which contains truth and Grandest Feeling which we call love. Anything less is from another source and not God”. If we think deeper this seems true. The first feeling and thought, the purest one, the one that just appears, seems like the one from the Supreme or ‘Unknown’.

Good and Bad; Right and Wrong

Using examples of casualties or wars, diseases, mental health problems, relationship and life problems and so on, the book takes you off the mindset that either victimizes oneself or blames the other. The book would make you solely responsible for the occurrences in your life. This does not include the bad occurrences that we don’t choose or ask for but the reason for that is better explained in the book. I realized that there has to be good for bad and bad for good. Both are relative. To know the other, the another needs to exist. Without ‘it’ there is no ‘that’. Without bad there is no good. However, in a limitless realm, in the wide whole universe, there is no good or bad. Simply actions or choices and consequences with polarities.

I have never set down a “right” or “wrong” or a “do” or a “don’t”. To do so would be to strip you completely of your greatest gift- the opportunity to do as you please and experience the results of that; the chance to create yourself anew in the image and likeness of Who You Really Are; the space to produce a reality of a higher and higher you, based on your grandest idea of what it is of which you are capable.

God’s answer, quoting from the book, p. 39

What if You are God?

You are LIMITLESS. You create and through you, God experiences. One would wonder what is this ‘God experiencing through his creation’? We believe that we are God’s creation, so how can we think that God’s creation would be any less? Walsch implies that we are Creators and we re-create.

Events are created by the combined consciousness of man. All of the world, co-creating together, produces these experiences. What each of you do individually, is move through them, deciding what, if anything, they mean to you and Who and What You Are in relationship to them.

Thus you create collectively, and individually, the life and times you are experiencing, for the soul purpose of evolving.

God’s answer. Conversations With God, p.37

We have come a long way and all of this has been our creation, with or without the help of God. This way God experiences through his creation’s recreation. It is like humans and AI, to make it simple. The message of this book revolves around the fact that we are limitless, our potential is far beyond we can even think. The book tries to make you question and think Who You Are. This phrase is often repeated. After all, this is what are hunt is all about. We create and we still try finding our purpose and under Who We Are.

The book has done a brilliant job in awakening the urge in me to create, to be the creator that I am already, create better and help others create better as well. Like many spirituality-centric books, this one also focuses on many aspects of spirituality, in a more Western way by quoting the western texts like Bible, and also every now and then the Eastern texts. I noticed, ultimately, I have got similar messages in different words and forms. It is indeed like the God speaking to me in different forms, we know the Universe does this. How different is the universe from God? How different are We from God?

-Pooja Ashokkumar, the creator and the Creator 😉

If you have already made up your mind to buy the book, here is a direct link for the same: https://amzn.to/3qrJAAL