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Message From Neale

My Dear Friends...

Since I was given the startling and very direct information contained in The New Revelations (the first ten chapters of which came through me in six days following the 9/11 tragedy in 2001), I have been clear that the world is moving toward a moment of enormous and spectacular possibility for all humankind---OR, toward the brink of its own self-destruction. We get to choose, and that choice is being laid before us by the tide of events even as you read these words.

I don't have to tell you what is going on right now in the Middle East. This latest example of insanity threatens the peace and stability of not only that region of the world, but of the world itself.

In The New Revelations it is explained that for centuries and millennia human beings have been trying to solve their problems at every level except the level at which those problems exist. That is true today, even though we now consider humanity to be an advanced culture and a highly evolved species.

The problem in our world today is, of course, that we have still not found a way to live together in peace and harmony. It is not as if we have not been trying. Yet we have been trying in the same way for all this time, refusing to consider that perhaps our methodology might need to be altered.

We have been trying to solve the problem as if it were a political problem, by using political means. Endlessly we have debated, endlessly we have passed resolutions and voted on solutions and approved legislation...but none of it has done any good. We are today facing the same problem we faced thousands of years ago: we just can't get along.

So we have then tried to solve the problem as if it were an economic problem, by using economic means. Endlessly we have thrown money at it, or withheld money from it (as in the form of sanctions), imagining that by manipulating cold, hard cash we can create warmth in the human heart and change on-the-ground conditions that create disharmony...but none of this has done any good. We are today facing the same problem we faced thousands of years ago: we just can't get along.

So we have said, "Ah! If it is not a political problem and if it is not an economic problem, it must be a military problem." And we have tried to solve the problem using military means. Endlessly we have thrown stones at it and flung spears at it and shot arrows at it and fired bullets at it and dropped bombs on it...but none of this has done any good. We are today facing the same problem we faced thousands of years ago: we just can't get along.

Do you know the definition of insanity?

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting to get a different result.

All of these insights were contained in The New Revelations , and repeated in Tomorrow's God and in What God Wants . That trilogy of CwG books is essential reading for anyone thinking of joining The Group of 1000, because all of the texts make it clear that the problem facing humanity today is not a political problem, it is not an economic problem, and it is certainly not a military problem.

THE PROBLEM FACING THE WORLD TODAY IS A SPIRITUAL PROBLEM, AND IT CAN ONLY BE RESOLVED BY SPIRITUAL MEANS.

The problem has to do with what we believe. It has to do with our most sacred beliefs about God, about Life, and about Each Other. These beliefs drive the engine of our experience.

Passed on from generation to generation through a system of education that includes madrassas, yeshivas, parochial and private schools of every kind, these understandings of the world and How It Is are placed into the minds of human beings when they are 8 and 10 and 12 and 14 years old. And so, when they are 18, 20, 22, and 24, many of them are ready to fly airplanes into buildings, or over cities dropping bombs, and they do so with impunity, firm in their belief that what they are doing is "right."

By the time these humans reach 40, 50 and 60 years of age they are at the head of movements and governments and corporate empires that encourage, direct, support and sustain such actions.

And so, the madness goes on. Even as this is being read by you, more 8 and 10 and 12 and 14-year-olds are being taught the same values, given the same understandings, presented with the same histories and scenarios, and offered the same worldview---so that while we are all biting our fingers about today, the Long Range Thinkers are already impacting tomorrow.

Conversations with God says we can change all that. Just as its message has changed you, so, too, can it change other people around the world. Already these books have been translated into 37 languages and published in over 60 countries. Yet getting the books out there is not enough. Now it is time for us to become Long Range Thinkers.

It is time for us to put together an Action Plan to Change Our World and to create , not wait for , the change we wish to see in the world.

We can turn the tide of events on our earth, but CwG has made it clear that the only way this can be done is through education, creating community around a new set of beliefs, and recreating ourselves anew in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever we held about Who We Are.

OUR CHALLENGE IS TO CHANGE THE WORLD'S MIND ABOUT ITSELF, and I am convinced this will never happen until we CHANGE THE WORLD'S MIND ABOUT GOD, ABOUT LIFE, AND ABOUT WHO WE ARE IN RELATIONSHIP TO EACH OTHER.

Why? What's the point? Can it do any good? YES! It is the most important thing we could possibly do right now. You see, it is humanity's ideas about God and about What God Wants, and about Life and How Life Is, and about all of us and Who We Really Are, that is creating humanity's experience. Change those ideas and you change the world.

Yet how can we do that? Pass more laws? Argue more points in the United Nations? Spend more money trying to assuage the world? Fire off more rockets and drop more bombs in order to convince it? Shall we write more books, deliver more lectures, produce more radio and television programs?

No. This is not where the answer lies. The answer lies in the human heart. Somehow we must find a way to re-open the human heart.

To learn of one way that I am convinced we can do this, go to www.cwg.org  right now and look at two places:  RETREATS (to learn about our upcoming personal and spiritual growth offerings) and EDUCATION (to learn about our Life Education Program that can change your life and change your world).

Love,

neale

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Hello Friends~

First today I need to get business out of the way.   From what I've been able to gather, in the form of statistical and historical data - the Foundation, much like many companies, always hits a summer slump.   In years past, staff was laid off and other drastic measures had to be taken in order to weather this annual storm.   This year we've done much better, but with the Middle East in more madness than usual, heat waves around the world, hurricane season approaching in the northern hemisphere, gas prices higher than they've ever been and on top of all that, Mel Gibson's tawdry outburst, the Foundation's stream of contributions seems to be drying up.   I'm asking you who read this free bulletin and enjoy what CwG has brought to your lives to once again, or for the first time, dig deep in your pockets and contribute.   The truth is that the Foundation survives your generosity. It is my hope that if you feel served by receiving this bulletin every week, you will respond to our request for your help.

I thank you all now in advance - because I know our prayers have already been answered and the dollars that we need over the next several months to survive until the Christmas season are already on their way.   If you don't have dollars to contribute, I thank you for your prayers and your love and your light that I know you'll send our way to further help us to thrive again in the midst of our current hardships.

Whew!   You know I love money.   I love the energy of it and I love business and the energetics of making money - it's really just fun to me.   That's probably why I seem to be pretty good at it.   Yet when I find myself having to ask for money in the way I just did, there is a part of it that I find takes a lot more humility than I'm comfortable with.   I guess somehow I feel that being in the position where I have to ask for help is an admission of failure.

Now I get that this is "my stuff" and that it is based solely in my emotions and not a reality at all.   Yet, I guess, it's in my nature to have an over-developed sense of responsibility for the company I so dearly love and give my heart to.   It's almost like I think that if I'd done something differently, or if I'd been more, we wouldn't find ourselves in this position.   While I get this is all just crazy tapes that run through my head, they are nonetheless there.   I have to vigilantly watch this type of thinking in myself, because the results that will manifest in my reality will not be what I desire.   As we believe so shall it be!

Because I know that this is a tape I run constantly during financially insecure times, what I try to do is counter the thoughts with positive or affirmative counter-thoughts.   For instance, I might notice as I'm driving in my car (this is a quiet place for me where I have taught myself to be very observant of my thinking) the thought crosses my mind that CwG has a payroll coming up on the 15 th and there might not be enough money to cover it - I will immediately counter that thought with - of course there will be enough money!   Not only do I do that, but I immediately start creating in myself the feeling and emotions I'll feel when I look online at our bank account and there is more than enough money to cover that payroll.   I can really think myself into that feeling of relief and happiness.   What I understand is that while the thoughts I have can create - the emotions and feelings I have can create in a much bigger and quicker way.

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Some of you may remember, in the June 23 rd Bulletin, #198 - I addressed this matter of changing your thought-life in order to change your experience.   What I may not have shared with you then, is that I had just watched the movie "The Secret" several times (an amazing must see http://thesecret.tv/home.html ).   I had taken the information in the movie, which is exactly the same as what I've been talking about here, and used it to create the thoughts and feelings which I chose.

Well, let me tell you - I did what the movie said on June 19 th :

• I made a list of the things I wanted to create in my life by September 1.   Not wild crazy things but doable things.
• I was sort of dating two guys at the time and I wanted some real clarity around both of them
• I wanted $1500 dollars to appear from nowhere so that I could take my children on vacation and give my son the opportunity to compete in skateboarding
• I wanted a real marketer of for CwG and a comprehensive marketing plan for the Foundation's Fall season - something we never have had
• I wanted to have some extra time to spend alone with my daughter
• Then I put pictures that represented these things to me in a digital collage and I printed several color copies and placed them in strategic locations around my home - places where I would see them and also have a moment to think about them (the bathroom, over my desk, my bedside table)
• Then I made a second list of things that I was really grateful for in my life to which I added the things on the first list.
• I put this list on my beside table and every morning and every evening I would read each item and allow myself to get to the place of feeling my gratitude for each item - if it hadn't manifested yet I would allow myself to get to a place where I could feel the gratitude in advance for what I knew I was consciously creating.

Well let me tell you - within two days I had real and complete clarity around the two men in my life.   Within two weeks I had the $1500 and our little family was off on vacation.   The last week of July the board of director's of the Foundation approved our new marketer and a comprehensive Fall marketing strategy, and just last week I got to take a whole day off to spend with my daughter.

I just couldn't believe it, and yet I absolutely did, that everything I set out to create for myself between June 19 th and September 1st had manifested by July 22 nd .   Is that cool or what?!!   On top of being able to quickly and readily manifest these things in my life, the even cooler part was that really getting into the emotions and feelings of gratitude every morning and every evening consistently created a better experience of each and every day.   People that know me really well were constantly saying to me, "What are you doing?   You seem so up and happy?"   or they'd give me a sly grin and say, "What are you up to?   What's changed in your life recently? You seem so different."   The more I shared what I was doing, the more joy and excitement I would feel, and the cycle just fed on itself.

Friends - this worked for me and I know it will work for you!

So right now I'm doing the same thing with the much needed contributions for the Foundation.   I'm envisioning the joy that I will feel as I get letters and emails from many of you saying, "...read your article - got on your website - made a contribution, and furthermore made my own list and I'm going to try what you wrote about!"   I'm going to stay in the feeling of absolute unabashed gratitude, awe and wonder I'll feel when I get on my computer this weekend and see the receipts that come from our online store just rolling in, after many of you have decided to contribute.   Wow, I can feel it already.

So to all of you, thank you, thank you, thank you - in advance - for your continued support, love and light.   We at the Foundation are so grateful that you are in our lives and that we have this extraordinary opportunity to share with you the messages of CwG and the ways we use them in our daily lives.

Have a great and grateful week.

Marion Black, CEO
ReCreation Foundation, Inc.
dba Conversations with God Foundation

PS: My email is marion@cwg.org or my cell number is (541) 301-0365.  

Help!!  We are looking for the lovely and generous woman who recently gifted us with a copy of Quickbooks 2006.   We have misplaced her contact information and so we are asking her to contact Marion at the address/phone number listed above. Thank you!

"Others have judged you, and from their judgments

you have judged yourself.

Now you want God to judge you, and I will not do it."

- CwG, Book 2 , page 41

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Questions and Comments from CwG Readers

Mr. Walsch,

First, I want to thank you for writing your books and having the patience and perseverance to complete all of them and see them through to publishing.  I began reading them when my daughter Allison was born with Noonan Syndrome.  She was ill off and on and endured 7 surgeries in 9 years.  I was desperate to understand why she had to endure such pain and hardship and what I had done, if anything, to possibly cause her to live the difficult life she was living. 

In November of 2004, when she was 9, she was running on the playground at school and died instantly from an arrhythmia.  She had a contagious passion for life and made each moment fun.  She sang and laughed while doing everything.  Everyone seemed to be drawn to her. Even strangers would come up to her and want to talk to her and touch her.  I have been contacted by people as far away as New York who had heard of a friend of a friend who knew Ally.  

Since her passing, I find I have lost my passion for life.  I have another daughter who is recovering from the trauma of losing her only sibling.  I can't help feeling that if I was diagnosed with a terminal illness, I would be relieved.  I feel emotionally exhausted and I just want to move on from this part of my existence. 

I know Ally is OK and I believe that I will see her again.  It is almost as if while she was alive, I felt a direct connection to God.  I could look at her and hold her and I felt this peaceful feeling that I believe came from her.  I do believe that she was an angel. 

I do not fear death and just want this pain to end.  Living for 9 years with Ally, knowing in my heart that she was not going to live a full life, and then losing her so suddenly, has just drained me.  I continue on, have gotten my teaching credential, and I try every day to reach the children I teach and help them be the best they can be.  But something has changed in me. 

Is there any way I can find that peaceful feeling again?  I want to learn from Ally, and be the best I can be every day.  I do not wish to end my own life, I just am longing for the feeling I had when my Ally was with me.  I have dreamed of her twice since her death and both times I felt the connection again.  Any words of wisdom? 

Cindee

My dear Cindee,

I can think of nothing more devastating to any person than the loss of a child.  I completely understand your emotional response to this, and I experience enormous empathy when reading your letter.  You are a brave and very strong woman to have continued on to obtain your teaching certificate and to create a life where you are around other children constantly, to say nothing of your other daughter, who is, in your words, still recovering from the trauma of losing her only sibling.  I am sure that I do not need to tell you that this daughter needs you now more than ever, and that the children who look to you for care and guidance in the classroom every day are likewise depending on you at a very high level.  So I see the unique situation in which life has placed you -- and I honor you for holding that place with such courage.

The first thing I find myself wanting to do, Cindee, is recommend that you read (or re-read, as the case may be) my book  HOME WITH GOD in a Life That Never Ends.  This book will reconfirm for you everything that you already seem to know about your wonderful Ally -- and perhaps much more that you may only have wondered about or suspected.  Not the least of this information is the passage of that book having to do with the death of children.  That passage tells us, Cindee, that...

"Death is very kind to children, because children rarely move into death holding all sorts of preconceived negative notions about what happens afterward. They are pure. They have only just come from the spiritual realm. They are not that far removed from the Core of Their Being. They have just emerged from The Essence. And so small children move through the first stages of death very quickly and return almost immediately into Mergence with The Essence. 

"It should be said that children "grow up" in the Afterlife. That is, they become fully aware and fully conscious of all that is going on, and of Ultimate Reality. They know why they came to the Earth and they know why they left as early as they did. If they feel complete with all of that, they will move on, in whatever form they choose. If they do not feel complete, they will have the same opportunity to "come back to life" as any other soul. The process is the same for all souls, no matter what the age of their body when they leave the physical world. 

"But now I should like to say something about the agenda of children who die at a very young age.

"Those souls who enter the body and leave the body within a very short period--children who die ...at a very tender age--inevitably do so in service to the agenda of another, at a very high level...In some cases they are required to leave early in order to do that. This is never, however, a tragedy for that soul. They have agreed to leave early.

"Every soul who comes to the body to serve the agenda of others is an angel--and every child who has died very young has done so to bring a gift to another. That gift may not be understood for some time by parents and others who are, naturally, deeply grieving.   But I promise you that as time goes by and healing occurs, the gift will be seen, it will be received, and the work of that little sweetheart--who could only be described as an angel--will have been accomplished."

I know, Cindee, because you have told me so, that you already know that Ally was and is an angel.  But I wonder if you have previously considered the rest of that passage from HOME WITH GOD.  There is an agenda that Ally came here to serve, and it was not only her own.  Or, to put this another way, her own agenda was to serve the agenda of others.  These would include everyone whose life was touched by her...and you tell me that this was a great many people.  I am not surprised.  Yet have you considered the possibility that this included your own spiritual agenda, Cindee?

I know that, on the surface, that may be a difficult thing for a mother saddened by the death of her child to hear.  But I believe that just below the surface of that challenging statement is a deep revelation of enormous value.  I know that during the remainder of your years on Earth, Cindee, you will touch the lives of a great many people -- and a great many of them, because of your chosen profession, will be children.  Do you think this is an accident?  I, Cindee, do not.  I see in it a perfect design.  And I believe that you will be a more compassionate, more caring, more sensitive, more understanding, more insightful, more wonderful-in-every-way guide for those children than they could ever have hoped to find at their schoolhouse...all because of the experience in life that you have had, and that your angel Ally has brought you to.

I am going to go further, Cindee.  I am going to say that I believe that Ally and the souls of all those other children had it set up that way.  That is, your wonderful child died for a reason much larger than you might ever have imagined: to prepare you to touch the lives of not just one child, but hundreds and hundreds of children, in a way which could only emerge from a heart that had been broken...and healed again, thus to know the true wonder and glory of life, of childhood, of Divinity Itself, and the worth of each and every soul.  I believe every child in every classroom you ever enter from this day until the end of your life is waiting, Cindee, for you to give him or her that gift.  I believe that your other daughter awaits your giving of that gift every time she folds herself into your arms.  And I believe that when you hold her, you hold Ally, too.  For Ally's soul accompanies the soul of her sister into your arms, that her healing and joy may be yours, even as yours is her sister's.

Is this too large a reality for you to embrace or comprehend, Cindee?  I don't think so, or you would never have written me.  So go now, and celebrate Ally's everlasting presence by honoring her soul's intention, and yours.  Shed not tears of sadness, but tears of joy, for as you bring lightness and happiness and the promise of tomorrow to all other children -- and, indeed, to all people who enter your life -- you bring them a piece of Ally...who, after all, was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, a piece of YOU.

God bless you, my friend, and thank you for writing to me.  A part of me shall be with you always because of this exchange we have shared.  Know that God sends you strength and wisdom in unending abundance.

With love,

Neale.

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