My dear friends...

I'm afraid that my letter is going to be very short this week. My brother celebrated his Continuation Day on Thursday. He had a heart attack that morning. He and his wife were traveling in their motor home, taking a tour of the U.S.A. for which he'd been yearning for years. Bryan was 65.

My Mom, and Dad, and my other brother, Wayne, have been waiting for Bryan for a number of years now, so I imagine they had a grand reunion. I have one brother remaining in this physical form, Allan, who is 14 years older than I.

Bryan left on Valentine's Day -- which is wonderful, because he loved life, he loved his wife, he loved his grandchildren endlessly and enormously, and now he's with those others he has loved so dearly, who left before him.

I love you, Bryan. We had a wonderful ride. See you in a wink...

(Want to hear something neat? I was sitting here on the couch, just thinking about things, thinking about Bryan leaving so abruptly, just...you know...mulling things over. And then I thought to myself, "Well, okay...let's live life to the fullest; let's move on. It's Valentine's Day. Let's move on, with a smile for Bry, and lightness of heart." And just then...JUST then...the lamp to the right of the couch flashed out. It had been on because I'd been up since just after 4, down in the living room, tapping away on my laptop, handling some things. And, of course, at 4 a.m. I needed the light.

Well, the bulb decided to blow just at that moment. The room was filled with a flash, and the light went out!)

Hey, Bryan...neat trick. Thanks for letting me know you are okay, and on your way.

And I trust that you will excuse this shorter-than-usual message here this week. I know that you understand.

Love and Hugs,

Neale.

(P.S. Oh, and, for the record, I do disagree with Marion on what she has to say in the letter below. Next week, a look at why!)

Hello Friends~

As I stated in the last few weeks, I'm now going to do a series of articles as I do my re-read through all of the Conversations with God primary text.  I'm starting with the first third of What God Wants, as it and Home with God (which I'll cover next) are the two books I never completed.

It's so funny and gratifying to go back and revisit the basic concepts of the material this way, because what I clearly and deeply am able identify is how much CwG and these ideas are just a working part of my life and understanding of the world. 

As I've been reading in What God Wants about man's basic ideas about God, Love, Marriage, etc...and how that so directly relates to Neale's ideas about the ills of the world, how it impacts the current plights of man and the planet, and how it has done so for almost as long as we human beings have inhabited the planet...I'm also struck by my own feelings that aren't quite as hopeful as Neale's are.  I don't tend to share Neale's ever optimistic view of the world and his deeply felt idea that there's time and man can and will change.

Unfortunately, that's just not my truth.  It could be that I'm about a generation and a half behind Neale in age.  It also may be that the entire way I view the world, and experience it, is very different from what I observe to be Neale's experience.  He is the eternal optimist!  Always hopeful.  Always willing to believe in the best of everyone and in the hope for all of humankind - almost childish in many ways.  But that's just not me.  I don't have that child like sense of wonder and amazement at the world and those of us who occupy this planet.

I don't think that man will change in time.  I believe that we are living in huge spiritual times on the planet, but my gut sense is that catastrophic events will happen on this planet in my lifetime and that then the door will open for those of us left to take it to the next highest level.  I'm not so sure that the Christians have the events of the rapture so wrong, in that many will choose to leave the planet, but not necessarily for the reasons they believe.

I believe deeply that Neale and other profoundly important messengers have come to the planet to usher in the New Spirituality - or the "new age" or "higher consciousness" - to wake many of us up, so that we can ready ourselves, those who are also awake, and our children and their children, with a new way of looking at the world and understanding the absurdity of the ideas that are held by the majority on the planet.

I don't mean to sound as if I'm viewing a future full of doom and gloom, because that is not what my sense of things is.  I feel full of hope and excitement at the prospect of things to come.  I feel so grateful to be here now on this planet at this time.  Wow, do I ever!  Because the truth is, I think this will become known in the evolution of our species and our planet as a pivotal time.  A time when great changes took place, and amazing messengers came to the planet and spoke, while others went on fighting one another, economies crashed, killing in the name of God ravaged the planet, and the weapons of war could that destroy everything of the known world proliferated. And when many have left the planet through war, famine, etc... there will be "those who know" here on the planet, ready and willing to lead those who are left, into the New Spirituality - into a new, higher, more conscious way to live with one another and the miraculous creatures and plants that share our planet with us.

I  don't know truly whose "right" or "wrong" in our views of the world, Neale or I, and as CwG tells us there is "no right or wrong," I imagine we've both got a little bit of what's ahead of us right.  I'd love it if Neale's vision were absolutely on.  I'd be ever so grateful if humanity could see what's really going on and wake up as a planet and choose differently for the good of all.  I have children and I want that for them, too, but if that's not what happens, I want to be prepared. 

I know in my heart that I am aware of the erroneous beliefs and understandings that I see most of the planet hold about God and life.  I've now spent twelve years of my life learning about this material and that of other like-minded messengers on the planet.  I've taught my children these ideas, too. I've learned how to live them in my own life and how to share them with others in a way that makes sense. 

What I know about this is - no matter what happens tomorrow or the next day - or years from now - the ideas of the New Spirituality have given me a way to live life that is full of happiness, love and understanding for myself and others. For that I'm grateful - so very grateful.

Wishing you all the very best in the week ahead.

Love and Light,

Marion Black, Executive Director

marion@cwg.org or cell: 541-301-0365