Conversations With The Big Guy In The Sky
I am now reading "Conversations With God" (book 2) by Neale David Walsch. I read the first book a few years back. I think it was a present from my brother, Jonathan, who is something of a new age acolyte.
Many years back, I used to be into new age stuff in a big way, but it was never my faith. That is, I approached it with some scepticism: quite rightly as it turns out.
"Conversations With God" is one of those best-sellers that has probably made the author millions of dollars. I'm sure many people were fascinated by a guy who claimed to be channelling the big guy in the sky. But the question is, was Neale really channelling God? Or, could it be that he was just channelling his idea of God?
Well, I've now uncovered irrefutable proof that it was the latter. Check out paragraph 5 of page 60 where "God" lets it be known that us humans were obsessed with subdivisions of 12 because we observed that there were 12 lunar cycles a year. Now, you don't need to be a mathematician or an astronomer to work out that if the moon orbits the Earth every 28 days it actually does so 13 times every 365 days. Maybe God didn't have a pocket calculator handy?
The thing is, a book entitled "Conversations With Who I Imagine God Might Be" just wouldn't sell quite as well. Also, it might be harder to claim that Hitler got into heaven without the authority of Divine Say So.
Now, don't get me wrong, I actually think that a lot of Walsch's ideas are interesting: well worth reading and chewing over, but if he actually thinks he's having a conversation with God then he is - like many other new age authors - deluded in the extreme.
There is a famous old adage, which is very worth bearing in mind. "If you talk to God, you're praying. If God talks to you, you're insane". So beware of people who have conversations with God, be they new age authors, adolescents in trench coats, chief policemen or the president of the USA.
Many years back, I used to be into new age stuff in a big way, but it was never my faith. That is, I approached it with some scepticism: quite rightly as it turns out.
"Conversations With God" is one of those best-sellers that has probably made the author millions of dollars. I'm sure many people were fascinated by a guy who claimed to be channelling the big guy in the sky. But the question is, was Neale really channelling God? Or, could it be that he was just channelling his idea of God?
Well, I've now uncovered irrefutable proof that it was the latter. Check out paragraph 5 of page 60 where "God" lets it be known that us humans were obsessed with subdivisions of 12 because we observed that there were 12 lunar cycles a year. Now, you don't need to be a mathematician or an astronomer to work out that if the moon orbits the Earth every 28 days it actually does so 13 times every 365 days. Maybe God didn't have a pocket calculator handy?
The thing is, a book entitled "Conversations With Who I Imagine God Might Be" just wouldn't sell quite as well. Also, it might be harder to claim that Hitler got into heaven without the authority of Divine Say So.
Now, don't get me wrong, I actually think that a lot of Walsch's ideas are interesting: well worth reading and chewing over, but if he actually thinks he's having a conversation with God then he is - like many other new age authors - deluded in the extreme.
There is a famous old adage, which is very worth bearing in mind. "If you talk to God, you're praying. If God talks to you, you're insane". So beware of people who have conversations with God, be they new age authors, adolescents in trench coats, chief policemen or the president of the USA.
posted by Dee Rimbaud @ 10:33 PM
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