CwG
Weekly Bulletin #182: All
the World’s a Stage
Week of
My Dear
Friends...
It has been a
quiet and contemplative few days-- for me and for the ReCreation
Foundation. Last weekend I received a call with some very sad
news. "Neale, Dennis is gone." Then, in the next
breath, "Don't be sad. Don't! It was a beautiful death. It was
just beautiful."
Gerry and Dennis Weaver have been friends of mine, and of this Foundation, for
many years. Dennis was more like a brother to me, really. We thought of each
other as just that: brothers. We spent Christmases together. We traveled
on cruise ships together. We worked on projects together to help our world,
including Dennis' wonderful
There has never been a nicer man, a kinder man, a gentler man, a more loving
man on the face of the earth than Dennis Weaver. He wore his fame with enormous
grace, self-effacing humor, and a wholesome sweetness that touched everyone who
knew him and everyone who met him for the first time. I learned about walking
with fame from Dennis, the softest, gentlest teacher I ever had.
His spiritual depth and level of consciousness and awareness was and is that of
a person dwelling in mastery. A place of quiet peace existed within him, and I am
sure it still does, and it is from this place that he emerged in all of his
dealings with the world.
With his beloved Gerry at his side (they have been together since high school),
Dennis lived an extraordinary life. He used his high profile to do what he
could do to make the world a better place. His wonderful autobiography, All
the World's a Stage, tells his very human story in a warm and humorous way,
bringing wonderful lessons to us all.
I know that Dennis is watching me write this...so I'd better watch what I say.
He would never have it that he was anything more special than anyone else. Yet
he would have us
And speaking of
support and encouragement, we received word this week that the publishers in
New York (Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster) have already
gone into a second printing of HOME WITH GOD in a Life That Never Ends -- and
this, before the book has come out! Apparently the advance orders have
been tremendous for this last book in the CwG series.
MARCH 29 is the
day that I am asking all my friends everywhere, if you are planning on getting
this book anyway, to please order it from amazon.com or barnes&noble.com.
If we can create enough sales for the book on that one day, we can drive it to
the best seller list -- and that means that it will come to the attention of
many, many other people around the world! So please, if you are thinking
of adding this final dialogue in the CwG series to your library,
ORDER IT ON THIS
HOME WITH
GOD in a Life That Never Ends looks deeply at the most important aspects of life by exploring
deeply its most misunderstood process: death and dying.
This mystical text describes what occurs in the moments following our
departure from physicality, the journey of the Soul through its merging with
The Essence, and the miracle of re-emergence, when the Unified Soul becomes
once again a Singular Expression of Divinity, carrying the same identity it
held at death, but with an Expanded Awareness that produces the experience of
what humans call "heaven," "paradise," "nirvana,"
or "bliss."
Here is information that has never appeared in any form in a previous CwG
dialogue. HOME WITH GOD will bring to its readers gentle comfort and a deep
awareness of the glory and the wonder of life---a life that never ends. It is
as much about the here and now as it is about the hereafter, for, as the book
itself declares, when you unravel the deepest mysteries about death, you
unravel the deepest mysteries about life.
Please mark your
calendar, and make WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, "HOME WITH GOD
Thanks for doing
what you can do, and God bless.
Neale.
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This
Week’s Bulletin Topics:
- When does it all end?
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Support Your Growth
- Questions & Comments: “What about young
people that have a bright future but do
themselves in because of a painful present moment?”
- The New Spirituality and the News
“You have
accepted that you are Separate From God not because
you have experienced that you are
separate, but because you have been told
that you are—by organized religion.
One’s
religion is a product of one’s birthplace and early teaching. It is a product
not of eternal truth, but of cultural environment. People believe what they
have been taught to believe. They do not question it, because they do not wish
to question its source.”
–
The New Revelations, page, 177
When does it all end?
When God has brought the
knowingness of the absolute into complete experience through us and we are
simply being God,” the duality will end. That is correct. “Will we simply be
perfect love, life, and light and will fear, death, and darkness have no
existence?” Yes, that is also correct. “Is this what
is meant by the teaching of many metaphysical schools that there is no evil?”
Bingo again.
However when you experience
the absolute, and reside in perfect love with the knowingness that it is all
there is, you will be satiated. You will be complete. Happy.
Content. And ready to start all over again. For you—me, we—are God “godding!” We are
life living. We are That Which Is, becoming. And once
we have become what we seek and choose to be, we will unbecome
it once again!
Once again we will give our selves
the glorious gift of forgetfulness, so that we may once again remember and
recreate Who We Really Are. This is the divine rhythm of the universe; this is
the eternal cycle of all that is. For there cannot be “this”
without “that,” “here” without “there,” “before” without “after,” “up” without
“down.” Nor can there be that which is divine without
that which is not divine. And that explains, at last, why God would
create “evil!”
In truth, there is no evil.
Yet we will create “evil,” we will create “less,” we will create not knowing,
we will create not remembering, we will create that which we are not, in order
that we might know and experience once again That Which We Are.
What we are is the all of
it. And so we will create ourselves as less than the all, that we might look
upon the all, adore the all, earnestly seek the experience of the all, and
return to the all, then to separate from the all once again, in a never ending
cycle. For The All cannot know itself as The All if The All is always in its Allness.
This is the great mystery
which is explained in Conversations with God. This is the great
revelation. It is why we have reincarnation. It explains that doctrine once and
for all. It is why we have that which we call “evil.” It explains that experience
once and for all. It explains why we seek over and over again that which we
already have, and that which we already are. It explains why we forget, why we
remember, and why we forget once again.
Now, do you understand? If
not, re-read Conversations with God Book 1. It’s all there. Put
very simply. Explained very exquisitely. It is really
a rather remarkable document.
As is CwG, Book 3,
which explains why some souls choose not to go back to
forgetfulness, but to remain in total knowing and pure beingness.
These are the masters and the avatars, and they walk among us even today,
helping us to remember, helping us to know. And there are angels, too. Divine
beings of pure light who guide us, assist us, comfort
us, and—more often than we will ever know—keep us safe. And then there are the
messengers. The tellers of stories and the spinners of tales and the weavers of
dreams, whose job it is to ignite, and keep burning, the flame of wisdom and
the light of love within the human experience.
I am such a Messenger, and
so are you. And so are we all, if we answer the call. Yet many are called, but
few are chosen. For we are the callers and the choosers.
We call our Selves to the challenge, and we choose or not, as we desire, to
carry the torch. - NDW
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Hello Everyone:
My name is Marion Black and
I am the Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation. I have decided to become a weekly contributor
to the Bulletin, because I feel it is so very important for you, our
readership, to be recognized, appreciated and kept informed about what we are
up to here at the Foundation.
I also hope to explore in my
articles what it is like for an organization to apply the concepts of CwG
in its dealings with individuals and the world.
This will be an ongoing demonstration of “truth with ourselves about our
selves”(as an organization), and “truth about ourselves (as an organization)
with others (you our readership”). I
can’t tell you how excited I am to open this door into our world with you and
to become even more visible over the months to come.
This week at the Foundation
has been pretty calm. Will, our Retreat
Coordinator, is off in
Some of you may know Will
from our events. It’s funny – of the
five of us that run the Foundation, Will is the oldest and yet one of the most
spry. He’s always the one up early in
the morning and ready to work and since I’m very much a morning person, I
really appreciate that. I use him often
as a wise sounding board and sage. He is
our observer; he never really gets into much of our drama, but when asked it is
always clear that he has been very vigilant.
Often, he offers me great insight in his gentle way. At any rate, what I’m really trying to say is
that when he’s not here I miss him.
Rachael, the head of our
education department left yesterday as well, for
I am often struck by how
unusual many of the circumstances we find ourselves in here at the Foundation
are. Years ago I was in the healthcare
profession and whenever there was a situation or task in front of us as a
company if we didn’t know what we were doing or we needed new and fresh ideas
all we had to do was look around us at what other like organizations were doing
and we could easily avail ourselves of almost unlimited resources as grist for
the mill. In this business, we don’t
have such luxury.
While there are other
organizations entrusted with information to disseminate and educate people
about, the information in Conversations with God is just huge and almost
everything new we try is a test run without much in the way of market research
underneath it. On top of that, we have
our market, that’s folks just like you.
There isn’t a standard profile for a CwGer
they are as diverse as the population on the planet.
As the books say, it isn’t
whether God is talking but who’s listening.
Well let me tell you, those that are listening and responding are just
as different as the colors of the spectrum.
This is tremendous in the whole scheme of things, but it’s a real
challenge when you’re trying to develop programs to reach our readers and ideas
to excite and entice them.
It’s like this,
if I’m running a program to educate realtors in short order I can determine the
kind of individual that is attracted to selling real estate. Over a period of time I can assess the ways
in which those attracted to selling real estate learn the best and after that
it is nothing to put together a program that utilizes this information to teach
these people interested in selling real estate the necessary information they
desire to learn in a way that is consistently effective.
Not so with CwG! Try teaching people about how the world and the
universe work. Try teaching people how
to become who they really are, when they are from every continent on the globe,
every social strata and walk of life, every faith and primary belief
system. All I can tell you is that our
research and development has to come from inside and just as we are trying to
teach all kinds, we too—the five of us in the room are very, very different and
this can lead to chaos and uncertainty. It brings up our own stuff (and I don’t
know about the others but I can tell you I sure have mine that often gets in
the way!).
When it’s all said and done
at the end of the day, we step towards principles over personalities and let the
universe conspire in our behalf. We
trust our intuitive thought and direction and hold our breath to see if we got
it right or not.
Sometimes we have a hit like
our FasTrak where lives are completely transformed in wonderful ways, and
sometimes we miss—like the retreat we had to cancel this month. I love this company from the bottom of my
heart. The material is the core of my truth, but every single day it pushes me
to be more and better than I was before, and often I fail miserably. I guess the greatest gift I’ve found in
working with this material, is to get that even in uncertainty, even in the
midst of failing miserably, it is all still perfect. The chance to do more and
to try again is always there and I am able to do so with great hope and joy in
my heart.
Blessings
to all of you this week and thank you for this opportunity to share with you.
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Questions
and Comments from CwG Readers
Hello Neale,
my name is Michael. I'm now 16 years old. I have written to you before some
months ago. I wanted to ask you a question on Death. Is it really true, that
when people die they actually come to total awareness at a full conscious
level? And then right there, they know who they really are?
Dear
Michael...It is my understanding that this is true. My new book, HOME
WITH GOD in a Life That Never Ends, speaks of this directly. It
indicates that there are Three Stages of Death: (1) Release of personal
identification with the body; (2) Release of personal identification with the
Mind; (3) Release of personal identification with the soul. It is at the
end of the Third Stage of Death that we come to full awareness, and know who we
really are. HOME WITH GOD then describes the further journey of the soul
through its Merging with The All, and its re-emergence as an Individuation of
Divinity carrying the identity that it held in its most recent physical
form. The text goes on to describe the reason for this journey,
and, therefore, the reason for all of Life. HOME WITH GOD in a Life
That Never Ends is the final book in the Conversations with God
series and can be purchased on March 29 from Amazon.com. Blessings,
Neale.
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Thank you.
Neale, for having the courage to publicly call attention to the revelations
that God has given to mankind. As the actions of nations get even more
desperate and rash, this information brings a sane background in which to
compare the actions to the ideas. I only hope that different choices are
taken by the political leaders in accordance with these principles that
will bring about peace.
Now to my question: I have wanted a spiritual answer to this situation
for a long time. I've been trying to reconcile what I have learned in the
CwG teachings with my
real life experience. My son died 3 years ago. He was 18, had
gotten himself in legal trouble due to alcohol; and on the eve of his
sentencing he had gotten drunk with his friends and later committed suicide.
I know that God has no preference in our choices, including suicide; but all
I've seen regarding this issue is about people with terminal illness.
What about young people that have a bright future but do themselves in because
of a painful present moment?
Thank you for your time and effort in your reply. Could you let me know
if you have answered this in your bulletin or audio section so I know where to
look to find your answer? I work full time, am a single mommy to my
daughter, and I go to school as well. I don't always have time to look in
many places to find out where your reply may be placed. Thank you so
much.
With Kind Regards,
Beth
Dear Beth...This
is starting to sound like a promotional brochure for my new book, but I assure
you it is not. But it is funny how letters relating directly to material
in the book all seem to come in at once, in the days before its
publication. Beth, the answer to your question is found, also, in HOME
WITH GOD, the final book in the CwG series, to which I referred
in the letter above. The explanation of all of this is much too detailed
and too nuanced for me to try to place that reply in the space we have
here. I do want to tell you, however, Beth, that your son is in a
wonderful place, but not in a place that allows him to "escape" from
the experiences that he sought to avoid. Just the
opposite. In the nicest, gentlest way, he is being allowed, now,
the opportunity to revisit and move through those same experiences, so that he
may achieve the growth that he intended to achieve while he was here. How this occurs is explored in detail in HOME
WITH GOD. I hope that you will order a copy on March 29 from
Amazon.com. It can be in your home the very next day. Love and
hugs...Neale.
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Dear Neale.
Hi this is Mitali.
I am 18 yr young. Since a year even I sit in the seat of meditation many
times I have experienced something different....very different. Sometimes I
feel something from within me is guiding me or talking to me. At this
adolescent stage of mine I am having big dreams...exciting plans for the future
but I am also distracted with things happening around me. Sometimes I feel so
stupid that in spite of knowing the right things, I am not able to put it into
action. Right now as a student I want to focus on my studies but I am not able
to focus....I have lost my interest in studies. I want to get it back...I want
to improve as a student… for now this is it. Thanks for reading. Have
exceptional time. Love and regard. Mitali
Dear Mitali...It is very common for people who meditate to feel
"guided" and to suddenly have "big dreams and exciting plans for
the future." This is because in meditation the Mind is restful, and
from such a place of peacefulness within, wonderful thoughts and ideas and new awarenesses emerge. Be very grateful for these, and
honor them, because it is the Deeper Part of You "talking" to you in
this way. These thoughts and ideas do not have to be distracting to you,
however. One way to keep them from causing you to lose focus is to get
them out of your head and onto paper. Write them down. Then you
will not have to hold onto them and have them continually take up space in your
thoughts out of fear that you will forget them. This will create
mental "space" to re-focus on your studies. You can regain
interest in your studies if you tell yourself that what you are now learning is
exactly what you need in order to prepare you for the Big Dreams and Exciting
Plans of your future. Your time of learning is PART of your Big Dreams
and Exciting Plans. It is like the fuel for your rocket, allowing you to
get to the high places where you are going!
Love, Neale.
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THE
Observations and
Commentary by
PLEASE NOTE:
The following material contains information relating to certain topical and political
news of the day which may be considered by some readers to carry negative, and
therefore unwelcome, energy. Our purpose in reviewing these items is to
participate in creating New Realities, by first looking at what we are now
creating, then deciding what we would like to next
place in our collective experience. We believe there is value in this
process.
Each week there is a news story or two
that provides us with a wonderful opportunity to look at the world through the
eyes of CwG and the New Spirituality.
We are co-creating these events, of course. So let’s take a closer look at…
WHAT
James Hansen, director of NASA's Earth Science Research,
said that disaster could probably be avoided, but that it would require
dramatically cutting emission outputs. If the proper actions aren't taken,
Hansen said, the sea level could rise as much as 80 feet by the time today's
children reach middle age. "We now must choose between a serious problem
that we can probably handle and, if we don't act soon, unmitigated disaster
down the road," Hansen said.
NEALE’S
COMMENTARY…We humans really don’t care about “unmitigated disaster down the
road.” As
WHAT
NEALE’S
COMMENTARY…Many people have used the fact that “some passages in Scripture” say
this and say that, in order to justify their actions. The Bible says: “If a man's testicles are
crushed or his penis is cut off, he may not be included in the assembly of the
Lord.” These are words right out of the Bible.
Do they upset or embarrass you? Do you find it hard to believe that such a
prohibition is even IN the Bible? Turn to Deuteronomy 23:1-2, New Living Translation.
Or you could go to the King James Version, which has it this way: “He that is
wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into
the congregation of the Lord.” This means if you have testicular cancer and
have had a surgical procedure to prolong your life, you may no longer go to
church.
And what
does Scripture have to say about children who don’t obey? Kill them. What? Yes, Sue Chatfield of
So, Sue, I
am absolutely certain that we can reply on a literal reading of the Bible to
find out What God Wants.
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