About me:

Neale Donald Walsch is a modern day spiritual messenger whose words continue to touch the world in profound ways. With an early interest in religion and a deeply felt connection to spirituality, Neale spent the majority of his life thriving professionally, yet searching for spiritual meaning before beginning his now famous conversation with God. His With God series of books has been translated into 27 languages, touching millions of lives and inspiring important changes in their day-to-day lives.
Neale began his journey in the most ordinary way. Overstressed and overextended by modern day life when the options ran out and frustration reached its peak, he turned to God. Desperate questions scratched on a legal pad in the middle of a long, sleepless night, began a precious dialogue which changed Neale's life forever and eventually changed the lives of millions. This process began over 10 years ago and became the much loved Conversations with God Series.
Today the books have been translated into 37 languages, and Book One remains to this day in the 100 top selling spiritual books on Amazon.com.
In addition to bring through the extraordinary With God series, Neale has authored 16 other works, as well as a number of video and audio programs. Available throughout the world, each of the first five CwG dialogue books has made the New York Times Bestseller list, Conversations with God-Book 1 occupying that list for over two and half years.
The With God Series has redefined God and shifted spiritual paradigms around the globe. In order to deal with the enormous response to his writings, Neale joined with loved ones and friends to create the Conversations with God Foundation, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to inspiring the world to move from violence to peace, from confusion to clarity, and from anger to love.
Neale's work has taken him from the steps of Macchu Picchu in Peru to the steps of the Shinto shrines of Japan, from Red Square in Moscow to St. Peter's Square in Vatican City to Tiananmen Square in China. And everywhere he has gone-from South Africa to Norway, Croatia to The Netherlands, the streets of Zurich to the streets of Seoul, Neale has found a hunger among people to create a way to live, at last, in peace and harmony. He has sought to bring men and women in every culture a new understanding of God and of Life which would allow them to experience that.
Neale was born into a Roman Catholic family living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His first spiritual teacher was his mother, who taught him not to be afraid of God, as she believed in having a personal relationship with the Divine. She taught Neale to do the same. A non-traditional believer, Neale's mother hardly ever went to church, and when he asked her why, she told Neale, "I don't have to go to church-God comes to me. He's with me and around me wherever I am." This view of God in his childhood would open Neale fully as an adult to transcend the traditional views of organized religion and bring to the world the message found in Conversations with God.
An insatiably curious child, Neale's comments about life seemed to possess a wisdom far beyond his years, and caused relatives and family friends to often ask, "where does he come up with this stuff?" While attending a Catholic grade school, Neale would often pose questions in Catechism class that would extend past the traditional grade school curriculum. Finally, the parish priest invited Neale to his rectory to answer questions. This meeting turned into a once-a-week visit that blossomed into an open forum where Neale learned not to be afraid to ask questions about religion and spirituality-and also learned that his asking these types of questions did not mean that he would offend God.
By the age of 15, Neale's involvement with spiritually-based teachings led him to begin reading a variety of spiritual texts, including the Bible, the Rig Veda, the Upanishads and Divine revelation according to Sri Ramakrishna. He noticed that when people got involved in religion they seemed less joyful and more angry, exhibiting behaviors of prejudice and separateness. Neale concluded that the collective experience of theology was not positive.
After graduating from high school, he enrolled at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, but academic life could not hold his interest and he dropped out of college after two years to follow an interest in radio broadcasting that eventually led to a full-time position at the age of 19 at a small radio station far from his Milwaukee home, in Annapolis, Maryland.
Restless by nature and always seeking to expand his opportunities for self-expression, Neale in the years that followed became a radio station program director, a newspaper reporter and, ultimately, managing editor, public information officer for one of the nation's largest public school systems, and, after moving to the West Coast, creator and owner of his own public relations and marketing firm. Moving from one career field to another, he could not seem to find occupational satisfaction, his relationship life was in constant turmoil and his health was going rapidly downhill.
He had relocated in Oregon as part of a change-of-scene strategy to find his way, but Fate was to provide more than a change of scene. It produced a change in his entire life. A car driven by an elderly gentleman made a left turn directly into his path, Neale emerging from the auto accident with a broken neck. He was lucky to escape with his life.
Over a year of rehab threw him out of work. A failed marriage had already removed him from his home, and soon he couldn't keep even the small apartment he'd rented. Within months he found himself on the street, homeless. It took him the better part of a year to pull himself together and get back under shelter. He found, at first, modest part time jobs, once again in broadcasting, then worked his way into full time employment and an eventual spot as a syndicated radio talk show host.
He had seen the bottom of life, living in the weather, gathering beer and soda cans in the park to collect the return deposit-but now he seemed to be on a roll again. Yet, once more Neale felt an emptiness in his life. In 1992, following a period of deep despair, Neale awoke in the middle of a February night and wrote an anguished letter to God. "What does it take," he angrily scratched across a yellow legal pad, "to make life work?"
Now well chronicled and widely talked about, it was this questioning letter that received a Divine answer. Neale says that he heard a voice, soft and kind, warm and loving, that gave him an answer to this and other questions. Awestruck and inspired, he quickly scribbled these responses onto the tablet.
More questions came, and, as fast as they occurred to him, answers were given in the same soft voice, which now seemed placed inside his head. Before he knew it, Neale found himself engaged in a two-way on-paper dialogue. He continued this first "conversation" for hours, and had many more in the weeks that followed, always awakening in the middle of the night and being drawn back to his legal pad. Neale's handwritten notes would later become the best-selling Conversations with God books. He says the process was "exactly like taking dictation," and that the dialogue created in this way was published without alteration or editing.
In July, 2005 Neale completed the final CwG dialogue book, HOME WITH God in a Life that Never Ends, to be released in March, 2006 by Atria Books, a division of Simon and Schuster. The book covers areas never before discussed in any of the previous CwG texts, of which there are nine, including Conversations with God-Book 1, Conversations with God-Book 2, Conversations with God-Book 3, Friendship with God, Communion with God, Conversations with God for Teens, the New Revelations, Tomorrow's God, and What God Wants.
In 2001 Neale founded Humanity's Team, which he has described as a worldwide civil rights movement for a soul (HumanitysTeam.org). In 2005 he began work on putting into place a global education program, The School of Theology of the New Spirituality (Schooofthenewspirituality.com). In early 2006 he created The Group of 1000, a community of supporters who seek to place Schools of the New Spirituality in cities, towns, and villages from around the world.
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Jun 16 2009 2:10 PM
Be Well :)
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The Hope Road Wellness Retreat: Description and Intentions
I’d like to thank you again for your interest in The Hope Road Wellness Retreat. We are so excited about this Life’s work and what a wonderful time for it to manifest. As many of you may already be aware of, we are now experiencing a time of Great! change and evolution on our planet. Mother Earth is now experiencing her own evolutionary process just as we are and she is also rising to a higher dimensional state of conscious reality. For those of us who are now preparing for the great shift into higher realities, The Hope Road Wellness Retreat has manifested itself through a great desire and positive energy, so that we like minded beings may be able to commune and stand together as THE NEW EARTHS FAMILY. I was inspired to create this work through an old friend by the name of “Robert Nesta Marley”, who gave me a song that actually changed my entire perspective on life. At this particular time in my life’s journey, I was suffering from my own created depression and a false perception that I was without and life really did not appeal to me much (basically I was suicidal). The name of the song that touched me so greatly was a tune Bob wrote entitled “So Jay Say” and this song became my inspiration for the creation of the Hope Road Wellness Retreat. So I began studying his words and his life, I wanted to know what kind of a person writes such material and presents it with such passion. I made a vow to myself that I would not only follow his works but continue this work in my own lifetime. It was love that inspired this song and it is love that inspired this work that we are now experiencing through this wonderful retreat. The Hope Road Wellness Retreat has many purposes but EVOLUTION AND LOVE are its highest goals. There is nothing on Earth like it and there is no greater time than now for it to manifest. The property exten
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Have a beautiful week, blessed each day, with inspiring gifts from the universe.
ShaRain
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Have a wonderful weekend!
Blessings,
Lisa
Jun 15 2009 8:46 PM
TGIF! I enjoyed watching the sunrise this morning and have been reading how to enjoy all the little moments, in order to find peace. I will be grateful for the little things and when life gets to hard to bear, I will focus on my breathing and say this too shall pass. I pray you to have joy, gratitude, abundance and pleasure in your life today, create it for yourself, because nobody else can give you peace, but you.
Love, Mary
Jun 15 2009 8:46 PM
Take some time to get out into nature and rejuvenate yourself.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend,
Love & Blessings Raine xxx
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Greetings from Kansas City!
Hope all is well in your world.
Sending best wishes,
Elaine & Antonio
Don Gato - K.C./Lima
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The greatest thing we'll ever learn, is just to love, and be loved in return.
Have a wonderful weekend,
Love & Kisses Raine xxx
Jun 15 2009 8:46 PM
Have a wonderful weekend!
Blessings,
Lisa
Jun 15 2009 8:46 PM
Peace and love your way, dear friend!
Being the change we wish to see in the world, Yolande
Jun 15 2009 8:46 PM
so if there's anything you want to ask me let me kno :) isabella
Jun 15 2009 8:45 PM
If you laugh,
You beaming brighter than any sun it can,
if you laugh,
is it to think calmly what I say to you '.
If you laugh,
looking at the pure luck to me,
if you laugh,
You totally put me in your spell.
If you laugh,
Your eyes sparkle like golden stars,
if you laugh ...
Do it again! I see it so happy!
I wish you still
a cheerful day.
In Love and Light
***Erika***;-))
Wenn Du lachst
Wenn Du lachst,
strahlst Du heller als jede Sonne es vermag,
wenn Du lachst,
geht sie auf, glaub' ruhig was ich Dir sag'.
Wenn Du lachst,
schaut das pure Glück mich an,
wenn Du lachst,
ziehst Du mich total in Deinen Bann.
Wenn Du lachst,
funkeln Deine Augen wie goldene Sterne,
wenn Du lachst...
Mach es nochmal! Ich seh' es so gerne!
Ich wünsche Dir noch
einen fröhlichen GuteLauneTag.
Ganz liebe Grüße von
Erika ;-))
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