In this episode of Skeptic Metaphysicians, Will delves into the book 'Conversations with God, An Uncommon Dialogue, Book One' by Neil Donald Walsh.
He shares an intro from the author, emphasizing the transformative impact the book has had on his life and urging listeners to explore its profound insights about life, love, and spirituality.
Will reads a compelling excerpt and invites listeners to join him in future readings and discussions of similar texts.
Follow The Skeptic Metaphysicians on https://www.instagram.com/skepticmetaphysician_podcast for more motivation and inspiration. Then tag them on Instagram with your favorite part from today's show and they will repost their fav’s every week!
Other Ways To Connect With Us:
Website: https://www.skepticmetaphysician.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SkepticMetaphysician
Support the Show:
Rate/review Us Here: https://lovethepodcast.com/SkepticMetaphysicians
Purchase Merchandise: https://www.skepticmetaphysician.com/store
Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SkepticMetaphys
WEBVTT
1
00:00:01.439 --> 00:00:05.639
My name is Will and unlike Boulder and Scully, so
2
00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:08.039
we've embarked in a journey of discovery. We've talked to
3
00:00:08.039 --> 00:00:11.199
people deeply entrenched in the spiritual and metaphysical world. We've
4
00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:14.599
thrown ourselves into weird and wonderful experiences. I even joined
5
00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:18.039
a coven of witches and wait, you joined a coven yep,
6
00:00:18.120 --> 00:00:21.000
all on the interest of finding something, anything that will
7
00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:24.160
prove that there's something beyond this physical, three dimensional world
8
00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:31.120
we all live in. This is the skeptic metaphysicians.
9
00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:34.479
Welcome back to the skeptic and positions. I'm Will, and
10
00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:37.039
today I'm going to be reading a little bit of
11
00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:40.280
the book that started it all for me. That's right,
12
00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:44.920
Conversations with God and Uncommon Dialogue Book one by Neil
13
00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:50.039
Donald Walsh. This book changed my life and I can't
14
00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:52.200
urge you enough to pick it up and read it
15
00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:56.200
for yourself. So maybe this little excerpt that I'm about
16
00:00:56.200 --> 00:00:59.399
to read, Mike just intentione to do that if you'd
17
00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:01.560
ever wondered what it was about, this might give you
18
00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:04.959
an idea. We're gonna start with the introduction from Neil
19
00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:11.879
Donald Walsh himself. Introduction, you are about to have an
20
00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:18.840
extraordinary experience. You are about to have a conversation with God. Yes, yes,
21
00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:21.879
I know that's not possible. You probably think, or have
22
00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:26.920
been taught that's not possible. One can talk to God, sure,
23
00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:31.239
but not with God. I mean, God's not going to
24
00:01:31.319 --> 00:01:34.079
talk back, right, at least not in the form of
25
00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:37.920
a regular, everyday kind of conversation. That's what I thought too.
26
00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:42.280
Then this book happened to me, and I mean that literally.
27
00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:45.599
This book was not written by me. It happened to me,
28
00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:49.560
and in your reading of it, it will happen to you,
29
00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:53.239
for we are all led to the truth for which
30
00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:57.319
we are ready. My life would probably be much easier
31
00:01:57.319 --> 00:01:59.959
if I had kept all of this quiet. That was
32
00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:03.959
the reason it happened to me. In whatever inconveniences the
33
00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:07.239
book may cause me, such as being called a blasphemer,
34
00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:10.039
a fraud, a hypocrite for not having lived these truths
35
00:02:10.039 --> 00:02:14.000
in the past, or perhaps worse, a holy man, it
36
00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:17.000
is not possible for me to stop the process now,
37
00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:20.400
nor do I wish to. I've had my chances to
38
00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:23.400
step away from this whole thing, and I haven't taken them.
39
00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:26.319
I've decided to stick with what my instincts are telling
40
00:02:26.360 --> 00:02:29.479
me rather than what much of the world will tell
41
00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:34.280
me about the material. Here, those instincts say this book
42
00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:38.919
is not nonsense, the overworkings of a frustrated spiritual imagination,
43
00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:42.879
or simply the self justification of a man seeking vindication
44
00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:47.000
from a life misled. Well, I've thought of all those things,
45
00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:50.000
every one of them. So I gave this material to
46
00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:51.840
a few people to read while it was still in
47
00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:56.240
manuscript form. They were moved, and they cried, and they
48
00:02:56.319 --> 00:02:58.960
laughed for the joy and the humor in it, and
49
00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:04.599
their lives they changed, They were transfixed, they were empowered.
50
00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:09.159
Many said they were transformed. That's when I knew this
51
00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:12.800
book was for everyone, and that it had to be published.
52
00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:16.439
For it is a wonderful gift to all those who
53
00:03:16.520 --> 00:03:21.639
truly want answers and who truly care about the questions,
54
00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:26.719
for all those who have embarked upon quests for truth
55
00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:31.039
with sincerity of heart, longing of soul, and openness of mind,
56
00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:35.879
and that is pretty much all of us. This book
57
00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:38.879
addresses most, if not all, the questions we have ever
58
00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:43.520
asked about life and love, purpose and function, people and relationships,
59
00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:47.240
good and evil, guilt and sin, forgiveness and redemption. The
60
00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:50.800
Path to God and the Road to Hell. Everything. It
61
00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:57.599
directly discusses sex, power, money, children, marriage, divorce, life, work, health,
62
00:03:57.759 --> 00:04:03.199
and the hereafter that before now everything. It explores war
63
00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:07.080
and peace, knowing and not knowing, giving and taking, joy
64
00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:11.280
and sorrow. It looks at the concrete and the abstract,
65
00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:15.879
the visible and the invisible, the truth and the untruth.
66
00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:20.160
You could say that this book is God's latest word
67
00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:23.199
on things, although some people might have a little trouble
68
00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:27.519
with that, particularly if they think that God stop talking
69
00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:32.000
two thousand years ago, or that if God has continued communicating,
70
00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:35.399
it's been only with holy men, medicine, women, or someone
71
00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:38.759
who's been meditating for thirty years, or good for twenty
72
00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:41.800
or at least half decent for ten, none of which
73
00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:47.920
categories include me. The truth is God talks to everybody,
74
00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:51.480
the good and the bad, the saint and the scoundrel,
75
00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:55.720
and certainly all of us in between. Take you, for instance.
76
00:04:56.319 --> 00:05:01.160
God has come to you many ways in your life,
77
00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:04.240
and this is another one of them. How many times
78
00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:07.000
have you heard the old axiom when the student is ready,
79
00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:11.439
the teacher will appear. Well, this book is our teacher.
80
00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:15.680
Shortly after this material began happening, to me. I knew
81
00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:20.680
that I was talking to God directly, personally, irrefutably, and
82
00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:24.519
that God was responding to my questions in direct proportion
83
00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:28.680
to my ability to comprehend. That is, I was being
84
00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:31.319
answered in ways and with language that God knew I
85
00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:35.319
would understand. This accounts for much of the colloquial style
86
00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:38.399
of the writing and the occasional references to material I
87
00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:41.800
gathered from other sources and prior experiences in my life.
88
00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:45.439
I know now that everything that has ever come to
89
00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:48.920
me in my life has come to me from God,
90
00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:53.199
and it was now being drawn together, pulled together in
91
00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:59.000
a magnificent, complete response to every question I ever had.
92
00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:02.680
And somewhere along the way, I realized a book was
93
00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:07.839
being produced, a book intended for publication. Indeed, I was
94
00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:10.920
told specifically during the latter part of the dialogue in
95
00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:15.439
February of nineteen ninety three, that three books would actually
96
00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:20.000
be produced, and that one, the first, would deal mainly
97
00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:25.199
with personal topics, focusing on the individual's life challenges and opportunities. Two,
98
00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:28.879
the second, would deal with more global topics of geopolitical
99
00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:31.519
and metaphysical life on the planet and the challenges now
100
00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:36.519
facing the world. Three, the third would deal with universal
101
00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:40.759
truths of the highest order and the challenges and opportunities
102
00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:44.120
of the soul. This is the first of those books,
103
00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:48.279
completed in February nineteen ninety three. For clarity, I should
104
00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:52.000
explain that as I transcribed this dialogue by hand, I
105
00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:55.759
underlined or circled words and sentences which came to me
106
00:06:55.839 --> 00:07:00.800
with particular emphasis, as if God were booming them, and
107
00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:04.959
these were later placed in italics in the typesetter. I
108
00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:07.560
need now to say that I am, having read and
109
00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:11.720
re read the wisdom contained here, deeply embarrassed by my
110
00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:16.360
own life, which has been marked by continued mistakes and misdeeds,
111
00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:20.839
some very shameful behaviors, and some choices and decisions which
112
00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:25.800
I am certain others consider hurtful and unforgivable. Though I
113
00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:29.079
have profound remorse that I was through others' pain, I
114
00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:32.319
am unspeakably grateful for all that I have learned, and
115
00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:35.319
found that I have still yet to learn because of
116
00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:39.800
the people in my life. I apologize to everybody for
117
00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:42.959
the slowness of that learning. Yet I am encouraged by
118
00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:46.439
God to grant myself forgiveness from my failings, and not
119
00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:50.319
to live in fear and guilt, but to always keep trying,
120
00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:54.360
keep on trying to live a grander vision. I know
121
00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:58.680
that's what God wants for all of us. Neil Donald Walsh,
122
00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:05.680
Central Point Organ, Christmas, nineteen ninety four. Well, that was
123
00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:09.759
quite the introduction. I read that when I was younger,
124
00:08:10.360 --> 00:08:13.360
and I wasn't ready for the book, simply because he
125
00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:17.040
kept talking about God and the book had the word
126
00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:20.000
God in the title. So I carried it around with
127
00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:22.959
me for a very long time, waiting for the day
128
00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:27.360
when maybe it would be my time to read it. Well,
129
00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:30.040
if something similar has happened to you, if you've heard
130
00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:32.320
about this book a lot, but yet you haven't gone
131
00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:34.919
out and gotten it started reading it for one reason
132
00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:38.879
or another, maybe this is your sign that it's time
133
00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:41.960
for you to pick up the book. It might just
134
00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:45.480
surprise the heck out of you. And hey, if you
135
00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:49.519
read the first ten, fifteen, twenty pages and it doesn't
136
00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:52.519
ring a bell, well close it. Come back to it
137
00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:55.039
again in a few years when you feel that maybe
138
00:08:55.120 --> 00:08:59.559
it's time for you to be ready. Anyway, I thank
139
00:08:59.559 --> 00:09:01.759
you so much for listening in this time around. I
140
00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:03.960
do plan on reading some more from this book and
141
00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:07.200
others like them. In the weeks to come, so stick
142
00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:09.480
with us. If you like these types of things, please
143
00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:13.039
feel free to follow along with us. And I hope
144
00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:19.279
that you found this helpful, enlightening, entertaining, educational, informative, whatever
145
00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:22.000
you want it to be. I thank you for spending
146
00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:25.720
this time with me. Until next time, I'm will and
147
00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:28.440
we'll see you in the next episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians.
148
00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:30.240
Until then, take care,
1
00:00:01.439 --> 00:00:05.639
2
00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:08.039
3
00:00:08.039 --> 00:00:11.199
4
00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:14.599
5
00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:18.039
6
00:00:18.120 --> 00:00:21.000
7
00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:24.160
8
00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:31.120
9
00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:34.479
10
00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:37.039
11
00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:40.280
12
00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:44.920
13
00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:50.039
14
00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:52.200
15
00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:56.200
16
00:00:56.200 --> 00:00:59.399
17
00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:01.560
18
00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:04.959
19
00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:11.879
20
00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:18.840
21
00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:21.879
22
00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:26.920
23
00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:31.239
24
00:01:31.319 --> 00:01:34.079
25
00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:37.920
26
00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:42.280
27
00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:45.599
28
00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:49.560
29
00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:53.239
30
00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:57.319
31
00:01:57.319 --> 00:01:59.959
32
00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:03.959
33
00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:07.239
34
00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:10.039
35
00:02:10.039 --> 00:02:14.000
36
00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:17.000
37
00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:20.400
38
00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:23.400
39
00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:26.319
40
00:02:26.360 --> 00:02:29.479
41
00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:34.280
42
00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:38.919
43
00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:42.879
44
00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:47.000
45
00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:50.000
46
00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:51.840
47
00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:56.240
48
00:02:56.319 --> 00:02:58.960
49
00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:04.599
50
00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:09.159
51
00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:12.800
52
00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:16.439
53
00:03:16.520 --> 00:03:21.639
54
00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:26.719
55
00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:31.039
56
00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:35.879
57
00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:38.879
58
00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:43.520
59
00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:47.240
60
00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:50.800
61
00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:57.599
62
00:03:57.759 --> 00:04:03.199
63
00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:07.080
64
00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:11.280
65
00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:15.879
66
00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:20.160
67
00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:23.199
68
00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:27.519
69
00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:32.000
70
00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:35.399
71
00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:38.759
72
00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:41.800
73
00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:47.920
74
00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:51.480
75
00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:55.720
76
00:04:56.319 --> 00:05:01.160
77
00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:04.240
78
00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:07.000
79
00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:11.439
80
00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:15.680
81
00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:20.680
82
00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:24.519
83
00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:28.680
84
00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:31.319
85
00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:35.319
86
00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:38.399
87
00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:41.800
88
00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:45.439
89
00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:48.920
90
00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:53.199
91
00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:59.000
92
00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:02.680
93
00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:07.839
94
00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:10.920
95
00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:15.439
96
00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:20.000
97
00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:25.199
98
00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:28.879
99
00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:31.519
100
00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:36.519
101
00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:40.759
102
00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:44.120
103
00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:48.279
104
00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:52.000
105
00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:55.759
106
00:06:55.839 --> 00:07:00.800
107
00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:04.959
108
00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:07.560
109
00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:11.720
110
00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:16.360
111
00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:20.839
112
00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:25.800
113
00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:29.079
114
00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:32.319
115
00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:35.319
116
00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:39.800
117
00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:42.959
118
00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:46.439
119
00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:50.319
120
00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:54.360
121
00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:58.680
122
00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:05.680
123
00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:09.759
124
00:08:10.360 --> 00:08:13.360
125
00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:17.040
126
00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:20.000
127
00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:22.959
128
00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:27.360
129
00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:30.040
130
00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:32.320
131
00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:34.919
132
00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:38.879
133
00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:41.960
134
00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:45.480
135
00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:49.519
136
00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:52.519
137
00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:55.039
138
00:08:55.120 --> 00:08:59.559
139
00:08:59.559 --> 00:09:01.759
140
00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:03.960
141
00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:07.200
142
00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:09.480
143
00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:13.039
144
00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:19.279
145
00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:22.000
146
00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:25.720
147
00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:28.440
148
00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:30.240
