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    Is it a ’sin’ to know God?

    Friday, November 27th, 2009

    CwG Weekly
    Bulletin #360
    Is it a ’sin’
    to know God?
     

    September 25,
    2009

     

    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.

     

    In This Issue…


    Notes from Neale


    The CwG Reader


    The Calendar

     

    Notes from
    Neale…
     
    My dear friends…

    We have been discussing here A New Theology, and last week we said
    that The New Theology tells us that it is possible to "know God."
    This is a departure from most present-day theologies on the earth,
    which teach just the opposite. It is not possible to truly or
    fully know God, they say — and, indeed, some even assert that it
    is against the Will of God that we do so…and so, we ought not even
    try, but simply accept what we have been taught and told about God
    on faith.

    Yet is it a "sin" to seek to know God? Is it an offense against God
    to question what we have been told about God? Is it blasphemy,
    heresy, apostasy to offer a new understanding of God…simply to
    offer     it, as an invitation to explore what we might now fully
    understand?

    No. The answer is no, it is not a sin, it is not an offense against
    God, to question what we think we understand about God, or to even
    offer a new understanding. Yet from where would a new understanding
    come? If knowledge of God is possible, from where would such
    knowledge arise?

    Well, as it turns out, it would arise from the most surprising
    place: You.

    This is, at least, what The New Theology teaches. Its foundational
    premise is that God is not in any way separate from anything that
    Is. God is, according to this idea, the Creator and the Created. The
    Alpha and the Omega. The Beginning and the End.

    God exists in, as, and through All Things. Life is the expression of
    God Itself. All of physicality is an expression of Divinity. This
    would include You. Therefore, to know God, know yourself.

    And then, once having come to know yourself, recreate your Self anew
    in every golden moment of Now, in the next grandest version of the
    greatest vision ever you held about who you are. This is said to be
    the purpose of all of Life.

    Life exists for God to know Itself. And God comes to know Itself
    through You, knowing Your Self — and then expressing Your
    Self as Who You Really Are.

    Let’s explore that a bit further. God, it has been said by nearly
    every religion, is Divine Love, personified. If that is true (and it
    is), and if it is also true that You and God are One (and it is),
    then YOU are Divine Love, personified. The only difference is, you
    may not know it. When you know it, you become Divine. You become
    Divinity Expressed.

    So, the fastest way to know God is to know Love, and the fastest way
    to know Love is to BE Love. If you want to know something, BE it. It
    is from a state of Pure Being that Knowing and Experiencing arises.

    Often, we think that we must experience something before we can "be"
    it. Yet in life it is really just the other way around. What you
    decide to be, you experience. And "being" is an arbitrary decision.

    To illustrate: you can decide to "be" the thing called "happy" no
    matter what is going on around you. Happiness is not dependent on
    outer events, but on inner. This is something that every Master
    knows — and that every student seeks to experience.

    Yet 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.

    That may be, right there, the most important statement and the most
    clear cut explanation of The New Theology. What I said was:

    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?

    Ah, yes…a good question for another week. We will see you here in
    seven days
     


    Love and Hugs,
    Neale.

     

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

     

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    This week’s offering: Big Self/Little Self.

     

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    The Daily Decision

    Who are you and who do you choose to be?

    It
    feels to me as if every day is an invitation to choose between Big
    Self and Little Self…or what visionary Barbara Marx Hubbard would
    call Universal Self/Local Self.

    Who do I want to be today? Who do I want to be right now? Do
    I want to be Big Neale or Little Neale? Do I want to experience
    myself in the space of Creation or Reaction? Do I choose this moment
    to be about the Dance or the Drama?

    I don’t want to simplify things here, because this is a very complex
    experience we are having, this thing we call our "life", but when
    one gets right down to it, that is the question. Who do I want to be
    right now?

    Conversations with God says that every act is an act of self
    definition. That puts things rather simply, and even a little
    bluntly. It makes it very clear that every single thing we think,
    do, and say defines and recreates who we are. Now the only question
    is, do we want to decide who we are beforehand, or do
    we want to find out who we are afterward?

    I mean, in the space of any event or moment, do we want to
    experience our Selves as an Afterthought, or a Forethought? As a
    Creation, or a Reaction? Which?

    Then, following the making of that choice, what do we wish to
    experience of ourselves? Do we wish to experience ourselves being
    Big or Little? We can make either selection, whether we are coming
    from Creation OR Reaction. We can CREATE ourselves as the Big Us, or
    we can REACT in a way that demonstrates our Big Us. And the same for
    the Little Us.

    The Big Us has no attachments, no fears, no needs, no requirements
    of anyone or anything, and no thought but love, peace, joy,
    forgiveness, compassion, and caring. (Yes, you can have "caring"
    without "attachment.") The Little Us lives in doubt, hesitation,
    fear, nervousness, sadness, disappointment, anger, and
    self-absorbtion.

    The Big Us is not concerned about the Self at all, because it knows
    that the Self does not even exist. Not as a Separate Entity with
    separate needs and a worry about its survival and happiness. The
    Little Us is only concerned about the Self because it thinks
    that the Self actually exists as a thing apart and separate from the
    Whole. It believes that the Self has needs and requirements and that
    it somehow might not survive.

    Not surviving is not possible, but this is something that the Little
    Self does not know. Every day is a journey, and the difference is
    that the Big Self knows where it is going and the Little Self does
    not. It has no idea where it is headed or what it is doing, and so
    it goes around in circles, facing the same problems and encountering
    the same feelings every day — usually sadness and disapppointment,
    followed by resignation and then, even bitterness and rage.

    The Big Self has a Larger Agenda and the Little Self thinks that
    life is about this afternoon’s appointment or tomorrow’s deadline or
    the weekend’s opportunity for at least a tiny bit of fun in this
    life…

    The Big Self wants to do nothing but dance and the Little Self seeks
    only the drama. When the problem is solved, the Little Self does not
    know what to do. So it goes out and creates another problem. The Big
    Self sees nothing as a problem, and cannot get into a "drama"
    if it wanted to.

    The movement from Little Self to Big Self can be made in the blink
    of an eye — and, the trick is staying there.

    I want to explore this business of Big Self/Little Self this week,
    examining the whole concept further, and much more deeply. I’ll
    enjoy being with you in the discussion.

    Oh, and remind me to tell you about Farfur.

     


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    The
    Calendar
     


    A look at events at
    which Neale Donald Walsch will share the message of Conversations
    with God     in the weeks ahead. You can learn more about the work
    of the ReCreation Foundation at these events…and on its official
    website,
    www.cwg.org, as
    well.

    NOTE: Not all events are sponsored by the ReCreation Foundation, but
    because all of the events move forward the message of
    Conversations with God    , which is the mission of the Foundation,
    the Foundation is pleased to inform you of them.

     


    Events
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    Who is Santas God?

    Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

    Neald Donald Walsh tells the story how he was inspired to write a book for children about god and Santa Claus.

    My name is Neale Donald Walsch and I wrote a book called Conversations with God. When I was a child I wondered a lot about God. One of the things that I didn’t understand was why there were so many different ones. Why was there God, Allah, Yehwey, Jehovah — to name just a few? And which God was the “real” God?

    Of course, the whole world has been trying to figure that out as well! And I realize now that if I had been really smart back then I would have asked the one person who would know — because he knows everything: Santa Claus! I chuckled as an adult as I contemplated what Santa would have answered if, when I sat on his knee at the shopping center, I had asked him: “Santa, who is your God?”

    Then, not long ago, I had an inspiring idea! Why not turn such an encounter into a children’s book — and have Santa actually answer the question? I realized that if there was one person who could really bring a wonderful message about God’s love for ALL humankind to children in a way that they would totally understand, that person would be Santa Claus.

    And so I was inspired to write SANTA’S GOD, a story especially for children about a little girl named Melinda who actually meets Santa Claus, and gets to ask him any question that she wishes. Her question? “Santa, who is your God?”

    She tells of the excitement of having foreign exchange students in her school, but then says she’s confused, because some children say they pray to “this” God, and some say they pray to “that” God, and Melinda wants to know: “Who do you pray to, Santa? Who is the real God?”

    Santa’s answer will delight and warm you — and makes for a message that your children will never forget.

    For 15 years now people have been coming up to me at lectures and workshops and other public events saying, “Neale, I just wish there was some way to get the most important message of Conversations with God across to our children.”

    Now there is! I am so excited about this new children’s book, beautifully illustrated with colorful, whimsical sketches by my wife, Em Claire — who, in addition to being a working poet, is a children’s book illustrator.

    This story is destined to become an annual Christmas Classic! I invite you to go now to www.santasgod.com to learn more about this remarkable story, in which Santa makes it gently and wonderfully clear to every child that the Real God is the God who dwells in the hearts of all those who know God — by whatever name.

    Please take 60 seconds and check this out at www.santasgod.com

    Sending love and hugs,

    Neale.

    P.S. I promise you, if you have children or grandchildren on your Christmas List, you will be so glad that you found this sweet book. Combining two of the greatest figures in human history — God and Santa — it is a terrific tale that will leave you with gladness in your heart that you shared it with the children in your life.

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    The messages of CwG documentary movie

    Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

    A Personal Note,

    Because Conversations with God has touched your life in a positive way, I know that you will be very happy to hear what I am going to tell you now. The producers of Conversations with God – The Movie have just released a special Collector’s Edition of the film, a DvD with more information on it about this incredible experience than anything since the original books, including…

    …personal reactions from me to every scene in the film

    …an exclusive interview in which, for the first time anywhere (and in response to many questions about this through the years), I reveal The Ten Most Important Messages I Received in My Conversations with God

    …the world premiere of Behind the Seen: The Making of Conversations with God, a remarkable documentary taking you “on location” as the film is being made

    This is another exciting way — and a very impactful way — for you to experience the life-altering messages of CwG. Those who have seen this wonderful movie have found they want to watch it again and again. Those who have heard about it but have never seen it are in for a very special gift for the soul.

    And as fabulous as the movie is, watching it with the Commentary Track running brings you my own private reflections on the dramatic moments of my life depicted in the film — reflections I have never before had an opportunity to share. The track also includes unique perspectives from the film’s producer and director, my dear friend Stephen Simon. “You may remember his wonderful movies What Dreams May Come and Somewhere in Time.”

    In the half hour special program I’ve added to this DvD I explore those top ten CwG messages one by one, explaining how they can be applied in our everyday lives, and showing how they all interrelate, connecting with each other to form a remarkably cohesive dialogue that has changed people’s lives.

    It is fascinating, too, to venture behind the camera to see — from the initial development to the scripting to the production prep to the actual shooting — just how this remarkable film was put together.

    This is a CwG keepsake you’re going to want to have for yourself…and that you’ll be so happy to share with excited gift recipients this holiday season. One look at the preview of this movie and you’ll know what I mean. If you have 90 seconds you can check it out at…

    www.CWGMovie.com

    In fact, tons of information about Conversations with God-The Movie is available at this site, including still frames from the film itself, other pictures taken on the set, notes from the director, an author’s blog, info on the cast and crew, even quotes from CwG used in the movie!

    Thanks for letting me tell you about the exciting release of the Collector’s Edition of the film so many CwG readers have been talking about. I hope you’ll go to our special webpage today to have a closer look! Again, the web address is…

    www.CWGMovie.com

    Sending love and hugs….

    Neale

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    Soulcialize & Change Everything!

    Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

    Why not Soulcialize a bit? Socialize with the soul. I like this expression so much that I added this newsletter from Neal Donald Walsh below.

    My Dear Friends,

    Since the release of my new book, When Everything Changes, Change Everything, I’ve been really excited about sharing ideas with you around changing the way that we move through change.

    The powerful Conversations with God principle, “Be The Source” is a wonderful tool for change. CwG says: “Whatever you wish to experience in your life, you can Be The Source of it in the life of another. That which you wish to have, cause another to have. That which you would seek to experience, cause another to experience. In so doing, you will remember that you have had these things in your possession all along.”

    Two months ago, I did a teleconference with my daughter, Tara-jenelle, discussing theBeing the Source message and how a nifty concept she created called Soulcialize is a perfect demonstration of that. It was really great fun talking with her about the potential of Soulcializing in these changing times.

    If you’re interested in knowing more about the Soulcialize concept and ready to make a Change, check out her upcoming 5-Week Telecourse on how the practice of Soulcializing can transform your life!

    I Love This Idea – Tell Me More!

    “This Soulcialize Telecourse was amazing! I continuously enjoyed, grew and learned from every minute of every interaction. I finally fully understand forgiveness for the first time in my life. What a gentle, sweet, loving Soul Tara is ~ full of wisdom and grace. What a refreshing course I was blessed to have crossed my path.” - Melanie DiLella, Naples, FL

    Here’s some more information on her wonderful Telecourse:

    Soulcialize Telecourse

    Begins Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 6pm (pacific time) Course is held every Thursday evening in the month of November at 6 pm for 5 weeks (calls are 1 1/2-2 hrs each).

    Neale joins Tara-jenelle & all course participants on the 5th week for a Bonus Call Q & A session

    The course is filled with colorful tools, approaches & suggestions that guide Soulcializing into your life in a natural way.

    By Taking this Program, You Will:

    * Attracts the Right & Perfect people into your life
    * Increase Clarity on your Life Purpose & Direction
    * Experience a deeper sense of Freedom with Who You Are
    * Attracts the Right & Perfect Opportunities
    * Feel the Innate Joy & Love in your Heart
    * Make New Friends
    * Create Meaningful Connections with Others
    * Live in the Present Moment more often
    * Release Judgments of Yourself & Others
    * Open Your Heart wider
    * Increase your Authenticity
    * Increase Transparency & Honesty
    * Increase Compassion
    * Increase Self Love & Self Respect
    * Inspires Yourself & Others
    * Increases awareness of your Feelings & Emotions
    * Leave Loneliness Behind
    * Be a Part of the Change!

    Sounds Great – Tell Me More!

    “Tara-jenelle’s message and gifts to the world are profoundly life-changing. Her Soulcialize Telecourse awakens you to remembering that it’s in living from your heart that brings true joy, connection, love and fulfillment. The tools she provides support you in shifting from ego into heart consciousness. Thank you Tara-jenelle for shining your light so that others remember it’s safe (and fun!) to do the same and be their authentic self.” -Kimberly Coots, Howell, MI

    Are You Ready to Soulcialize
    & Transform Your Life?

    Week 1 - The Power of Soulcializing & Starting with Yourself

    Week 2 - Soulcializing with Family & Friends

    Week 3 - Soulcializing with Strangers

    Week 4 - Soulcializing with Singles

    Week 5 - Bonus Week - Share your Experience:
    Q & A with Tara-jenelle & Neale Donald Walsch

    “Tara-jenelle is the real thing. I was a participant in her Soulcialize Telecourse and found myself openly weeping because of her stand that all people are known, appreciated and loved. Tara is out to cause a deep shift in the way people relate to one another and her Soulcialize Telecourse is the manifestation of this stand.” - Neal Abramson, Richardson, TX

    Wow, How Exciting – Tell Me More!

    “Tara-jenelle’s Soulcialize Movement has tremendous offering. As a participant in her Soulcialize Telecourse, I can describe the experience as; fun, challenging, warm, funny, thrilling, empowering, sometimes a little scary (but in a good way) and Loving, to name a few. Her step-by-step approach, utilizing the Heart as a Filter theory, is brilliant in it’s simplicity and will challenge you in ways you might not expect. If you decide to take this course and embrace its teachings, it will most definitely underscore and propel positive changes in your life. Plus, you’re going to meet some great people, not the least of which will be Tara, herself. She is smart, genuine, enthusiastic, interesting and interested in you…and she was so very available to all. I highly encourage anyone who is interested in their transformation to study with my new friend, Tara-Jenelle Walsch.” - Steve Sevilla, Belmont, CA

    Don’t miss this opportunity to start Soulcializing
    and open your life up to new levels!
    Visit http://www.soulcialize.com

    Love and Hugs,
    neale

    PLEASE NOTE:
    The producers of Conversations with God – The Movie have just released a special Collector’s Edition of the film, including…

    * personal reactions from me to every scene in the film
    * an exclusive interview in which, I reveal The Ten Most Important Messages I Received in My Conversations with God
    * the world premiere of Behind the Seen: The Making of Conversations with God

    www.CWGMovie.com

    Are Your Ready To Shift? – JOIN Me for this F*R*E*E Program -Click Here ==> http://budurl.com/Neale

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