Notes from Neale

Reflections from the text of the
CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD books…

The work goes on here in Europe, and it has been an exciting
journey. For those of you who do not know, I have been on the
Continent since September 14 sharing the principles of a New
Theology, and the messages of Conversations with God from
which they were derived, with audiences in Norway, Germany, Austria,
France, and The Netherlands. Em joined me here after the first week
of the tour — which will be my last extended trip in Europe.

I have spent many weeks at a time here nearly every year over the
past decade, but now my extended travel days are over, as I truly
wish to "retire" from so much "on the road" presentation and move
into different ways of making these messages available.

I am hoping that I can enlist all of you to join with me in that
effort, each of us doing whatever we can to bring the news of a New
Kind of God to humanity. I know that embracing this New Kind of God
will lead the way to creating a New Way of Life on the earth.

Folks everywhere are excited and inspired by the wonderful,
expansive, freedom-giving messages of Conversations with God,
and that was evident wherever we went. Over 1,200 people gathered in
the Concert Hall in Oslo for an evening that went from 6 p.m. until
10, exploring a new way to experience Divinity and a new way to
create Humanity. Some 600 more filled every seat in a hotel ballroom
in Bergen to listen to the same lecture — and well over 300 stayed
for the next two days for an extended spiritual renewal retreat.

Then, at a beautiful retreat site just outside of the tiny village
of Kisslegg in Bavaria, another 125 joined us for an even longer
event — a five-day intensive that ended last Sunday. This weekend
we present a lecture and offer a one-day program in Austria, and
then it is on to Paris.

I believe that "change" — particularly unexpected, unwanted change
— is rapidly becoming the biggest sociological event of the 21st
Century. Learning how to deal with it is going to be humanity’s
biggest challenge. (The challenge of the 20th Century was equality,
and creating it. The challenge of this century is going to be
change, and negotiating it with dignity, peace and grace — and
with the Self intact.)

What humanity does not have as we move forward in our evolution are
the tools with which to do so joyfully, painlessly, and
effortlessly. We need new equipment to confront the new conditions
of this new life in a new millennium. That is where the new
theology comes in.

What we need is a new knowledge of God. Not a new religion, but a
new theology. There is a big difference. A religion is a set of
doctrines and dogmas. It is, in essence, what someone else has told
us about God. The New Theology is based on evolutionary principles
that arise out of individual experiences of God, and that are
offered as invitations for further exploration, not as set-in-stone
"laws" or doctrines or rigid Statements of How It Is. Its dogma is
no dogma, its doctrine is no doctrine. It is the essence of freedom,
which it invites us to investigate as the true nature of God.

It states that God is an energy, not a "being" as we understand the
word — although that energy can take the form of any being it
wishes to emulate or create. It states that this energy, this
Essence, is best described in human language as pure intelligence
and pure love. That is, intelligence without limitation and love
without condition. Intelligence and love in its purest form, not
constrained in any manner whatsoever, and needing nothing, requiring
nothing, and demanding nothing of anyone or anything, but simply and
utterly at our complete disposal.

Finally, it states that there is no separation between this Essence
and Anything Else That Is, but rather, IS All That Is, manifested in
multiplicities of Form and Substance. It is the energy of life and
that which lives. It is both The Creator and The Created.

The concepts of this New Theology are enormous in their
implications, life-altering in their impact, and world-changing in
their scope and sweep. Should the invitation to embrace these
concepts be accepted by humanity, the day-to-day experience of all
sentient beings upon the earth would shift so dramatically as to
make the entire planet a paradise, and our movement from birth to
death nothing less than bliss.

The New Theology says this is what it was meant to be. What has
stopped life from being this is simply our misunderstanding.

Last week we continued our discussion of this New Theology, and our
article ended with this…

What the Master knows, the Master experiences, and what the
student seeks to experience, the student cannot know, for knowing
must come before experiencing, not after, and being must come before
knowing.

Seek, therefore, a State of Being, first, and all ways, and Knowing
and Experiencing will inevitably follow. Yet how to seek a State of
Being?

This week, let’s look at that.

A State of Being — as I was just teaching at the retreat site near
Kisslegg in Germany — is something that we choose arbitrarily. It
is a product of Will Power. It is a choice we make, and something
that we create out of thin air.

We do this by making I AM statements. I am happy. I am content. I am
at peace. I am joyful. I am grateful. I am wonderful. I am wise. I
am patient. I am…whatever I want and choose to be.

Nothing is required from our Outer World, because States of Being
are Inner World experiences. Yet they can and do create Outer World
realities. More on this next week, as we continue our discussion of
the New Theology.

It is no different from the message that your heart sings every time
you look into the eyes of another with love. It is no different from
the message that your heart cries out when you see suffering
anywhere.

This is the message that you bring to the world, and that you would
leave with the world, when you are your True Self.

It is the message that I leave now with you, that you may remember
it once again, and share it with all those whose lives you touch.

Be kind to each other, and good.

Be kind to yourself, and good, as well.

Understand that these two do not have to be mutually exclusive.

Be generous with each other, and share.

Be generous with yourself, as well.

Know that only as you share with yourself can you share with
another. For you cannot give to another what you do not have.

Be gentle with each other, and true.

Be gentle with yourself, and true, as well.

To thine own self be true, and it follows as the day the night, thou
canst not then be false to any man.

Remember always that betrayal of yourself in order not to betray
another is betrayal nonetheless. It is the highest betrayal.

Remember always that love is freedom. You need no other word to
define it. You need no other thought to comprehend it. you need no
other action to express it.

Your search for the true definition of love is over. Now the only
question will be whether you can give this gift of love, to yourself
and to another, even as I have given it to you.

All systems, agreements, decisions and choices that express freedom
express God. For God is freedom, and freedom is love, expressed.

Remember always that yours is a world of Illusion, that nothing you
see is real, and that you may use The Illusion to bring you a grand
experience of the Ultimate Reality. Indeed, that is what you have
come here to do.

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