My dear friends…

Last week in this space I said that in this present issue of the Weekly Bulletin we would look at something very important. Namely: If you believe that Who You Are is God, “particularized” (which Conversations with God invites us all to do), then you will necessarily conclude that it is impossible for you to be damaged or hurt in any way. And THAT has extraordinary implications for your life…

Imagine what life would be like if you thought that this way true. I mean, if you really believed that you cannot be hurt or damaged in any way. The implications would be enormous, indeed.

To begin with, you would never again find yourself experiencing a need for approval. At least, not the kind of need that emerges from a fear of some kind of consequence should you not be approved of by someone.

Indeed, fear of “consequence” in every and any situation would be a thing of the past. Would this promote aberrant or unacceptable behavior on the part of many people? There are those who say that the absence of the Fear of Consequences would be a blow to human morals, because people would feel perfectly free to act inappropriately. Yet Conversations with God tells us that this would not be the case.

Human beings, CwG says, are not motivated to behave well because of fear of what will happen if they don’t. Human beings are motivated to behave well because they hold a particular image of themselves — that is, because they see themselves as a certain kind of person. “Every act,” the text tells us, “is an act of self-definition.” Once people understand this, their behaviors are affected forever.

Thus, in a world with no laws, no punishments, no “down side” to “bad behavior,” such behavior would nevertheless not flourish.

Elimination of the Fear of Consequence is not limited to consequences in the form of “punishments.” It also applies to consequences in the form of things simply not turning out right, not showing up the way we expect them to. Once we no longer worry about whether a particular decision or course of action is going to produce a particular outcome, we are free to choose whatever course of action we wish — whatever course most pleases us or most excites us or most inspires us — without regard to whether it has a high probability of “succeeding” or not.

Indeed, our whole definition of “succeeding” would change. A thing might be said to have “succeeded” if it was simply done, instead of only if it produced a given result. In short, we would all be a lot more daring if we felt we could not be hurt, damaged, or destroyed by any outcome. Imagine where your own life would be right now if you had only been a bit more daring at a few junctures in your life.

The invitation of the New Spirituality is to act as if the idea of damage was just that: an idea, simply a thought, having nothing to do with ultimate reality. If you had acted fearlessly — utterly fearlessly — at certain junctures in your life, where could your life be today? That is a fair and important question.

The New Spirituality draws us deeper and deeper into a central, galvanizing and coalescing question: Who are we? I mean, who are we, really…?

And…your answer, please?

We opened the Foundation’s 5-Day East Coast retreat this week in Baltimore. Its purpose is to answer that question — and to render the answer practical in everyday life. Our next such program will be in December…and no, it is not too early for you to enroll. In the meantime, who are you? And what steps have you taken to demonstrate that in everyday life?

Love and Hugs,
Neale.

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The CwG Reader

Further explorations of the Conversations with God material from the author

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Neale Donald Walsch through the years has given hundreds of talks and written scores of articles revolving around the messages he received in his Conversations with God. Now, every seven days, we will present in this space a transcript or reprint of those presentations. We invite you to Copy and Save each one of them, creating a personal a collection of contemporary and uplifting spiritual thought which you may reference at any time. We hope you will find this a constant source of insight and inspiration.

This week’s offering: The last in a 3-part series of reflections on relationships offered in commentaries during the days preceding Valentine’s Day, 2007. This commentary will continue over the next three editions of the Weekly Bulletin because the subject deserves all the attention we can give it.

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Sexuality in Relationships

Beginning the dialogue
In all romantic relationships there is nothing more fun than taking off your clothes and touching and being touched in intimate and pleasurable ways. There may be things that are just as much fun, but I can scarcely think of anything that would be more fun.
Even in human relationships that are not necessarily deeply romantic, where two people would describe themselves simply as “friends” (or even as “acquaintances”), the sexual act can have enormous attraction and can bring mountains of in-the-moment pleasure.
These things are obvious to everyone. There’s nothing new here. This is not the Revelation of the Century. Yet with all that we know and all that we understand about human sexuality, with all that we have experienced and all that we have encountered in this area of human interaction, so many of us are still in a place of confusion with regard to the expression of our sexuality.
We are confused about whether to become sexual with another, about when to become sexual with another, and about why to become sexual with another. And some of us are confused about how to become sexual with another.
I find that among people who have committed themselves to a spiritual path especially, these questions can often be among the most pressing and among the most challenging.
There has been been, for centuries on this planet, an interesting thought about sexuality and spirituality which holds that the two do not mix. This thought suggests that sexuality is part of our “lower nature,” while spiritual pursuits are part of our “higher nature.” This has not been a casual, stray thought wafting its way through the higher regions of human experience over these past centuries and millennia. This has, in fact, been a deeply rooted thought, dictating and determining and directing the day day-to-day experience of the largest portion of humanity.
We are ashamed of our bodies, or consider them to be at the very least inappropriately erotic stimulations. And so we have made it a against the law to show our bodies to each other except in the most extraordinary or private and personal circumstances.
So ashamed are we of our bodies that many of us can’t even call our body parts by their accurate and actual biological names without some degree of embarrassment. And with our children and grandchildren we rarely do so, preferring to use a series of cutesy nicknames and substitute monikers such as “bottom” and “wee-wee.”
Small wonder that when we arrive at the age when we begin to experience our sexuality, so many of us have no idea of how to do that appropriately. We find it difficult and challenging to allow ourselves to experience our sexual nature naturally, joyously, shamelessly, adventurously, expansively, or lovingly, without hesitation, awkwardness, or embarrassment.
So upset are we about all of this, so ashamed and confused and embarrassed and convoluted are we around all of this, that in many communities and places we don’t even allow ourselves to teach in our schools what we were never allowed to learn when we were in school.
So upset are we about all of this, so ashamed and confused and embarrassed and convoluted are we around all of this, that we become angry and storm out of theaters when the act of sexual love is graphically depicted on our movie screens…while we have no trouble whatsoever with the accurate — the oh-so-accurate — depiction of physical violence.
The picturing of heads being lopped off and bodies being blown to pieces and blood oozing from open wounds is perfectly okay, but the picturing of simple frontal nudity, to say nothing of intercourse — is way, way, way out of bounds.
What an interesting set of values we humans have! What an interesting point of view! And what a confusing and complex set of standards we are asked to embrace and use as our guideline in the living of our lives.
Now along comes Conversations with God to help us in these and other matters; to help us as we bravely attempt to navigate the treacherous white-water rivers of the human lifestream.
This is not the only book to have some things to say on these subjects. It is not the first, nor will it be the last. But it does offer some marvelously refreshing perspectives on the topic of human sexuality and its connection to human spirituality — and on a great many other topics as well.
We shall explore these insights in some of the blogs just ahead. Stay tuned. And do offer your thoughts as well, in the Comments Section of this blog.

When to first have sex?
Too late, you’re already doing it!
In all new relationships with romantic potential (and you all know exactly which ones those are) a single question looms large: When do we become sexual?
In order to answer that question we must ask a larger one: What IS sexuality, anyway?
If we do not understand what sexuality is, we will not understand when to express ourselves in a sexual way. So here is the truth about sexuality that nobody ever told you: You are always expressing yourself in a sexual way. There is no way not to be expressing yourself in a sexual way. LIFE is a sexual experience. Life IS sex.
Conversations with God tells us that “sex” is the word we use to describe the experience of Synergistic Energy eXchange. The only thing is, we have it in our minds that this kind of energy exchange is limited to contact with certain body parts, when in fact it describes our contact with everything.
Everything we do is sexual. Sex is the Energy of Life, and the exchange of that Energy is Life Itself, expressing. Life creates more life through the process of life itself. It is by the exchange of Its Own Energy that Life does this. The process that we call “photosynthesis” is the synthesis of chemical compounds with the aid of radiant energy, and especially light. It is how the sun makes plants grow. It is also how we make each other grow.
Never thought of it that way, eh…? Well, it is. Human beings grow, they become larger in soul, in spirit, and in their hearts and minds, when they experience love. And Love is “the synthesis of chemical compounds with the aid of radiant energy, especially light.” When you send love to someone, you radiate energy. Literally. You radiate energy.
In fact, you radiate energy all the time, not just went you send someone love. The question is not whether you are radiating energy, but what kind of energy are you radiating? That is the only question in life that really matters. “What kind of energy am I radiating now—?” Whatever you radiate is reflected back to you. You receive what you send. What goes around, comes around.
Everyone else is continually radiating energy, too. Conversations with God calls this process Synergistic Energy eXchange. So, you are having S.E.X. all the time. The question is not whether you are having sex, but what kind of sex are you having?
I am not just playing with words here. I truly am not. This is the real answer to the question, “When should I start having sex in my new relationship?” It is important to understand that you are always “having sex” in your relationship — and the way in which you do that will provide the answer to the questions you may have regarding the physical activities of your body.
For now, start your new relationships in a new way. Indeed, start every relationship in a new way. You can do this each day…for each day, every relationship is a new relationship. You are capable of recreating yourself anew in every golden moment of Now, and you are creating every relationship you have all over from the beginning each time you lay eyes on that other person. Did you know that? It does not have to be what it was yesterday. Nor do you have to be who you were yesterday.
Whether your present relationship is new or old, you can begin having good sex right now, today. Declare and decide that your Synergistic Energy eXchange with your Special Other will be filled with light and love, understanding and acceptable, compassion and forgiveness, celebration and joyous recognition. Joyously recognize, each time you speak to that person, the wonder and the glory of Who They Really Are. See Godliness in them each time you see them at all. Smile at the gift that they are to life. When they say, “What are you smiling at, you little cutie…?”, just reply: “I’m smiling at the gift that you are. I’m feeling The Gift. And it’s making me smile.” Watch that change your day!

Final Thoughts About All This
Let’s take a final look at what Conversations with God has to say about love and relationships.
Most people, God said to me, enter into relationships for the wrong reason. The purpose of relationship is for us to create a context within which we might announce and declare, express and fulfill, our highest notion of who we really are. Very few people understand romantic relationships in this way.
I certainly didn’t in my life, and since I have been given this information I have found myself challenged at the very highest level. I have not always met the challenge. Indeed, I have failed time and time again to fulfill the highest notion I have had about myself in my relationships with others. Yet I believe that by my failures I have grown, and come to know more and more about what it means to be truly loving.
The first person that I have to be truly loving with, is myself. I know that sounds like nothing more than a shallow cliché, but I assure you that it is profoundly true — and immensely important. Loving oneself does not mean being selfish. It does mean not becoming a chameleon, not allowing yourself to change colors and change truths and change intentions and change the way it is that you are as an individual human being simply to keep another person in the room. It means loving yourself enough to be authentically YOU even if it looks like doing so will cause others to depart.
What will happen, in truth, is that certain people will depart, but certain other people will join you in your life in a new and powerful way. They will join you because they resonate with who you are. They are in harmony with the very essence of your being. They agree with your agenda. They hold the same intentions. They are compatible with you in many ways. They are not the same as you, but they are compatible. I cannot begin to tell you how important this is. A person cannot know — nor can you — whether or not they are compatible unless they know who you are in your Truthful Being.
This is a phrase that I have coined to describe a person who lives in, and comes from, his or her truth in every moment. I made a New Year’s resolution a few weeks ago. My resolution reads like this: “Tell your truth as soon as you know it.” For years I did not do this. In fact, for most of my life I have lied. I told small lies and big lies, trivial lies and important lies. And I did it because I felt that it served me to do it. Now I see that nothing has disserved me more. So old so soon, so smart so late.
And so I invite you to love yourself as you have never loved yourself before. Love yourself enough to speak your deepest truth to everyone whose life you touch. And especially to your Significant Other. Please speak to your Beloved from your place of transparency and total visibility in every moment. Hide nothing. Shield nothing. Stand naked before your Beloved not only physically, but mentally, emotionally, and spiritually as well. Let yourself be seen, let yourself be known exactly as you are. This will be the greatest gift you could ever give to anyone, and the most wonderful present you could give to the person with whom you share your life.
And so, this is not only an act of self-love, but an act of enormous love for another as well. For the willingness to be absolutely vulnerable and completely without defense in the space of another is the highest tribute that one heart can pay to a second human being. It says more than all the store-bought gifts could possibly ever convey. And it tells more about you than anything else you could possibly do in order to communicate who you are and how much you love.
The willingness to lose another rather than hold them in your life under false pretenses is the highest act of love. And the irony of all this is that having the courage to share what it is that you are certain will drive the other person away… is very often precisely what inspires them to stay. For they then know that they are not living with an “image” of you, but with a reality. A truth. The authentic article. The real thing.
Most people can live with reality. What they can’t live with is false hopes, misplaced dreams, and the knowledge that they cannot trust the words that come from the mouth of the person they love — not because that person is mean or cruel or deliberately trying to be hurtful, but simply because that person is so wounded that he or she cannot speak in words that can be trusted. They do not know their own truth. Because they have never identified it. Because they have never had the urge to speak it and to declare it and to announce it for fear of losing another. The result is that they have lost many others, over and over again in their life.
People with whom I counsel ask me how they can announce their truth to another when they do not even know it. They ask me to help them identify their truth, to come to understand who they really are and what they really want. I tell them that they must begin by simply verbalizing their truth. They must begin by talking. Out loud. To others. About everything.
How they feel. What they want right now. It may be quite true that many people do not know what they want in the long run, but it is not true that people do not know what they want right here and now. Everyone knows what he or she wants right here, right now. Everyone knows that. It is merely a question of whether we will have the courage to speak our truth about that. If we hold that truth in, and if we have done so for years, we literally lose touch with the essence of who we are and what we desire. We fall into a quiet resentment. We begin living lives of quiet desperation. We say less and less. We think more and more. We turn inward. And our significant relationship with our beloved other becomes unfulfilling — and we don’t even know why.
So today give the gift of truth. Just tell the truth. Tell the good truth and the bad truth. Say the words that you know will be welcomed, and the words that you know will not. Be brave. Be courageous. Be authentic. Be truthful. And in so being, be the essence of love itself.

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MONEY – LOVE – SEX – GOD

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These are the Four Cornerstones of the Human Experience, in reverse order of importance, and these topics are discussed in the Truth Seminar – the first spiritual program ever created by Neale Donald Walsch.

We’ve captured highlights of this presentation on a 3-disc set recorded at a retreat which Neale facilitated for a small group of people. Want to learn more about these subjects, and why “sex” is listed right next to “God” in importance in the human experience?

If you’ve been wanting to attend a retreat led by Neale and have just not been able to find the time or the financial resources, here is a wonderful and practical alternative. Close your eyes and listen to this recording and it will be almost like “being there.”

We are offering a special price for this abridged set: only $39.95 for a short time. Click here to “attend” this very special program by placing your order and start enjoying this wonderful visit with Neale Donald Walsch in The Truth Seminar.

Neal Donald Walsh
NOTE: The Weekly Bulletin is sent free of charge to anyone who asks for it. It is a publication of the ReCreation Foundation, a non-profit organization undertaking the work of sharing the message of Conversations with God with the world. That message is that the purpose of life is to recreate ourselves anew in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever we held about Who We Are.
The CwG Weekly Bulletin is prepared by Neale Donald Walsch, m.Claire, Geek Squared, LEP Graduates and other friends.

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Notes from Neale…

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My dear friends…

Below in this letter is the second excerpt from my new book, When Everything Changes, Change Everything. Don’t miss that! But first, let me say that it was fabulous to be in Hawaii and to join with my wonderful friend Alan Cohen in two joint presentations, one on Maui and one in Honolulu. Alan is an incredible teacher and a wonderful presenter and it is always an honor to be on the same platform with him. He has so many wonderful things to say that the man practically writes a book right in front of you! Wisdom, wisdom, wisdom every time he opens his mouth. What a treat!

We came back to Oregon to find snow and rain and cold winds and, oh, my, what a reality shift from those beautiful islands! But don’t get me wrong. I absolutely love Ashland. It is a fabulous place to call home, and every year winds up in the Top 5 on those lists of Best Places in America in which to live. It’s just that the temperature switch was so severe and so fast!

Many people in those island events were focusing on the changes that are occurring in so many people’s lives right now. Pink slips and home foreclosures and investment losses and relationship challenges being created by all of the above…

I am soooo pleased to tell you about our wonderful five-day CWG intensive, the Spring Cleaning for the Soul retreat – the only East Coast retreat this year – to be held at the Four Points Sheraton BWI Airport Hotel, in Baltimore, May 20-24.

This is a wonderful opportunity for you to learn more about the practical aspects of the principles from the Conversations with God books, and how to apply those wonderful messages in your everyday life. I love this program because it gives me lots of time to spend in a very personal way with a handful of people, looking deeply at CWG from every which way, and also doing a lot of personal spiritual process work with me!

Yes, I facilitate this retreat personally, and it is always a highlight of my year. By the way, the 20th and 24th are partial days (the program does not start until the evening on the 20th), so you can use those days for travel. The three middle days are loaded with lots of my personal sharings and insights on the material and its application, question-and-answer time, and process time. We begin each of these days at 9 a.m. and go until about 10 p.m. Lots of special time for me to personally share with you – time for you to get all the answers to all your questions.

What is this worth to you? Are you worth whatever the cost is? Or are you scrimping because you can’t afford to do something for yourself right now, in these difficult economic times?

The irony of life is that it is when we need to be uplifted the most, we pay attention to that part of our needs the least. It is especially during challenging times such as these that we should be scurrying to the source of our spiritual nourishment. What would CwG say about that? Perhaps it is time to re-read Chapter 8 of Conversations with God, Book 1, which is on relationships and points out that the most important relationship is the one with your Self.

The cost of these 5 days is $695 per person…and there are ways to reduce that cost. Call Will at 352-442-2244 to find out how. (A hint: bring two others and you get in for only $100…. OR bring 3 others and get in for free).

This is the only 5 day retreat I am doing on the East Coast this year, so if you’ve been thinking of doing a CWG event, now is the time to save on airfare! The Sheraton has special rates for those attending this retreat also.

So, come on. You do deserve it. It is time to take care of yourself. Or maybe you know another person who is going through some challenges right now and would never forget you for the rest of their life if you gave them a gift of this retreat…

Call Will, who can answer all your questions and also register you. Will’s number is 352-442-2244. Call now…because you and I have had a date to meet personally for a very long time, remember? You’ve been telling yourself about this for years, and now can be that moment.

Now, let’s take another peek into that new book, coming out in a few weeks. Here’s another excerpt…

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Let’s look at two of the Three Brands of Truth: Apparent Truth and Imagined Truth. It’s important that we do, because this is the key to everything.

Most people live in their Imagined Truth when things change, having been held down there by their past. This Imagined Truth births a thought, out of which arises an emotion, which produces an experience—which seems to them to be reality. As it turns out, it is a Distorted Reality.

This gets us back to where you might be right now.

Because of what has just happened to you, this huge change that has been visited upon you that is not something you would have chosen, that is something that just came down out of the blue, out of thin air, you’re angry, or sad, or frustrated, or disappointed, or disillusioned, or “all of the above”… all because you are afraid. And you are afraid…all because you are in love. You’re in love with yourself (even though you don’t think you are) and you’re in love with life (even though you say you hate it right now).

You’re afraid of trading in a past that you knew for a future you do not. Afraid of what might happen. Afraid of how things could be. And afraid that you may never find this kind of situation again (this kind of job, this kind of person, this kind of home); that you may never have this kind of experience again.

Well, you may never find this kind of situation again—but you may very well have this kind of experience again. (For instance, you may never be with the same mate again, but you may very well have the same experience—the experience of joy and happiness—with another mate. It all depends on what you buy into: your Imagined Truth or the Apparent Truth.)

Remember that the experience of happiness has nothing to do with a given situation. This is hard to accept because we are absolutely certain that it does. Yet there is no connection between exterior events and interior experiences, except in your head.

Your capacity to know joy is not connected to this one person or to that place of employment, for instance. You just think that it is. The Apparent Truth and the Imagined Truth are not identical. Ever.

Ever.

Events do not have meanings. Events are events, and meanings are thoughts. Nothing has any meaning save the meaning you give it. And the meaning you give to things does not derive from any event, circumstance, condition or situation exterior to yourself. The Giving of Meaning is entirely an internal process.

Entirely.

(More in upcoming weeks, as we print other excerpts from When Everything Changes, Change Everything. Note: This book may be pre-ordered from Amazon.com. It is scheduled for publication in May.)

Love and Hugs,
Neale.

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The CwG Reader
Further explorations of the Conversations with God material from the author

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Neale Donald Walsch through the years has given hundreds of talks and written scores of articles revolving around the messages he received in his Conversations with God. Now, every seven days, we will present in this space a transcript or reprint of those presentations. We invite you to Copy and Save each one of them, creating a personal a collection of contemporary and uplifting spiritual thought which you may reference at any time. We hope you will find this a constant source of insight and inspiration.

This week’s offering: The Five Attitudes of Godliness

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THE FIVE ATTITUDES OF GODLINESS

When I was a child I had a deep fascination with God. What was He like, I wondered? Where did He live?

I know now that my ideas about God as a man living somewhere in the sky were the products of my childhood upbringing in a Roman Catholic family. I know that God is not limited to being a “he” or a “she,” but that God shows up in every form in which Life Itself displays itself.

Still, I hold onto this idea that there are some attributes of God. I ask myself sometimes, if God chose to show up as a human being, what would that be like? What kind of personality would God have?

My questions about this were answered in the Conversations with God dialogue, in which I was given the Five Attitudes of God (CwG – Book 1, pg. 65-66).

“In the moment of your total knowing (which moment could come upon you at any time), you, too, will feel as I do always,” God said to me. And what way is that? Said God: “totally joyful, loving, accepting, blessing and grateful.”

This is, I found out later in the Dialogue, the way the soul always feels as well. That is because the soul of humans and the essence of God is one and the same thing. So our soul is always totally joyful, loving, accepting, blessing and grateful. The trick is to bring our body and our mind into alignment with that deep inner nature of our being.

The soul is always joyful because Joy is what the soul (and what God) IS. God IS that which we would call, for lack of a more technical or clinical description, “pure joy.” I am come to understand that God is pure energy, of course. The energy that we call Life Itself. But what does this energy feel like? That’s the question. And the answer is, pure joy. The energy feels like pure joy. Ultimate happiness. Or what some Eastern mystics have call “bliss.”

Because the soul is always in a state of bliss, or pure joy, it is always loving. As is God. God loving everything, because God is so excited with Itself! There is nothing that exists outside of God, nothing that is “not God,” and so, everything that God is happy about and excited about exists within God — and precisely because it does exist within God, God is happy about it!

And so, God is eternally loving. God is loving everything about Life, because God is Life Itself, expressing. If you were totally joyful all of the time, you, too, would be totally loving. There is no way you could not be.

Yes, you might say, but how can anyone be totally joyful all of the time? Look at the world around us.

The trick is to see the world as it is — as it really is — and not as it appears to be. (To learn more about this please read Communion with God, which outlines in wonderful detail the Ten Illusions of Humans.) This is how God sees the world, and so God is always totally joyful, and that causes God to be totally loving.

Because God is totally loving, God is totally accepting — for pure love is the rejection of nothing. Pure love is unconditional. In fact, all love in unconditional. Anything less than that is not love, but some counterfeit version of that.

Because love is unconditional, it accept everything. It does this by making no value judgments whatsoever. It does not call one thing “good” and another thing “bad.” A thing simply “is.” This is what CWG calls the “Isness,” and Isness has no goodness or badness to it.

Where we get into trouble in our lives is by attaching goodness to badness to a thing. We make value judgments, and those judgments create enormous difficulty for many reasons — not the least of which is that we keep changing them. One day we call a thing “good” and the next day we call the very same thing “bad,” depending on whether the thing we are judging serves our purposes or not.

Let me give you a simple example.

Rain.

One day we call rain good, the next day we call it bad. It all depends on whether it’s raining on our crop or raining on our parade.

Killing is another example. We think we have an absolute Right and an absolute Wrong around this, but the truth is, we can’t make up our mind until we know and understand what the killing is for. Killing in self-defence, as an example, may not be called “good,” but most people and societies agree that it is not “bad.” So we find a third word. It may be, we say, “necessary.”

That means it is required in order for us to do what it is we want to do.

It is because of this reasoning that we call all attack a “defense.” In this way, we can morally justify it.

Yet what if nothing in the world had to be morally justified? This is the State in which God lives. Because God does not feel the need to morally justify (or condemn) anything, God can be totally accepting. But how can God be in such a place? Easy. Since God is the All in All, nothing can hurt, damage or destroy God. And since nothing can hurt, damage or destroy God, God has no need to judge it.

Therefore, is the experience of God, a thing simply “is.” So, to, is it in the experience of Godliness. (Author and teacher Byron Katie makes this exact point in her astonishing book Loving What Is. Her latest book is referenced below.)

If we truly want the experience of what it is to be Godly, we will begin by removing our judgments from everything. Now this will be difficult for us to do as long as we are living inside of the Ten Illusions of Humans. The only way to escape our judgments is to escape our illusions.

Communion with God gives us the entire process by which we may do this. That’s what makes it such a powerful book.

Once we become, as God is, totally accepting, we move to the next level of Godliness, which is to become totally blessing. This is where God resides all of the time. God not only accepts what “is” in every single moment, God blesses it.

To bless something means to give it your best energy. Your highest thought. Your grandest wish. You send a thing good energy when you bless it — and this is something physical that you are doing, not merely something conceptual or philosophical.

Life energy can be moved around, manipulated, and we do this all the time with our thoughts. We also do it with our words and actions. Thought, word and action are the Three Tools of Creation (CwG Book 1). With these devices we create, and co-create with others, our individual and collective experience. We are literally producing the world around us.

That is why The New Revelations says that all behavior begins with beliefs — and that it is beliefs we must change if we really want to change the world. Interestingly, no one who says they want to change the world — international political leaders and worldwide religious leaders — talks very much in these terms. Political leaders don’t talk about beliefs at all, and religious leaders talk in terms of other people changing their beliefs, but insist that they, themselves, have all the right beliefs. Then they deny that this is precisely what causes the world to be such a dangerous place.

Now the true Master blesses all of this, she does not condemn it. And in so doing, the true Master transforms it, for the impact of his blessing energy shifts the energy of the condition itself. That is why blessing, and never condemning, is the greatest spiritual secret. It is why all Masters have said, each in their own way and their own words, “judge not, and neither condemn. For that which you judge, judges you, and that which you condemn, condemns you, and that which you bless, blesses you.”

Finally, God is always totally grateful, for thankfulness is the experience of God recognizing Itself. To recognize means to “re-cognize,” that is, to “know again.” When God knows Itself again (which God does in every single golden moment of Now), God once again becomes joyful and the glorious Cycle of Life which is Life Itself continues, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

These are the Five Attitudes of God, and they are the five attributes of the human soul. When we allow these characteristics to fill our minds and our hearts, we become Godly. Our whole lives change, as do the lives of those around us. For life around us cannot help but change when we fill it with God Stuff. And Joy, Love, Acceptance, Blessing, and Gratitude is God Stuff indeed.

The wonderful thing about these Five Attitudes of Godliness is not only that one produces and creates another, but that they can be run in reverse. That is, one start with Gratitude just as easily as one can start with Joy. Either way, if the feeling is fully expressed the first domino falls, and all the rest follow.

I have tried to overlay these Five Attitudes of God on my daily life. For me it is sometimes easier to begin with Gratitude. Sometimes when I first wake up, or during my day when I encounter some very unwelcome news or moment, it is hard for me to “get into joy.” I just can’t seem to go there, no matter how much I try. But Gratitude for me has been a real key. I can move into Gratitude, even for moments or events that I do not particularly welcome, because I know that all things lead to my highest good.

Nothing that happens in my life happens without good purpose. Everything is perfect, and when I can “see the perfection” (as CWG invites me to do), I see the hand of God, and I know that there is a higher reason and that all things are good and that everything is bringing me to my highest expression of Who I Really Am.

Think of it as a scientist does in his laboratory. There is nothing that happens in that laboratory that is not a success, not a good outcome. Even so-called bad outcomes are good outcomes, in that they lead the scientist closer to the truth and to the outcome that is desired.

We are all Celestial Scientists, creating something utterly magnificent in the laboratory called Life. We are creating our Selves. And there is no way we can wrongly do that. Nor is there any way that we cannot ultimately get to where we wish to go — which is back to total union with All That Is. That is, back home to God.

When we know this, when we deeply believe it and completely embrace it, we find the grace to move through our lives — and any moment in our lives — with joy, love, acceptance, blessings, and gratitude. And when we do that, we change our lives and change the lives of those whose lives we touch. And in this, we truly change the world.

I want to recommend a book that I believe you are going to love if you see any workable insights in the above commentary. It is Byron Katie’s book, A Thousand Names for Joy.

In it this wonderful lady, who has created what she has called The Work, talks about exactly what I am describing just above. She talks about tripping and falling on the floor and seeing it as “perfect.” She talks about a man putting a gun to her stomach and saying “I’m going to kill you” and seeing it as perfect. (She looked the man straight in the eye and said, “Thank you for doing the best that you can.” He stared at her for a long second, then simply walked away.) She talks about a diagnosis of cancer and seeing it as “perfect.”

Katie, however, would not even call it “perfect.” Because the very idea of “perfect” means that there must be something that is IMperfect. And both “perfect” and “imperfect” are nothing more than figments of our imagination, creations of the mind, ideas that we slap on things which cause us to experience happiness and joy or sadness and upset. Katie simply calls the fall on the floor, the man with the gun, the cancer diagnosis “what is.” It is what is happening, it is what is going on, it is reality, and there is no sense, Byron Katie says, in arguing with what is going on, because it is going on, and that’s what’s so.

Werner Erhard, creator of est, used to put this in his own unique way. “Obviously,” he said, pointing at something or referencing something, “this is What’s So. Not so obviously, it’s also So What?”

Neal Donald Walsh
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