My dear friends...

In Friendship with God I asked a very direct question --- and received a very direct answer. I would like to share with you that exchange...

Can’t You say something about gays? I have been asked over and over again, at lectures and appearances and retreats all over the world: won’t You say something to end once and for all the violence and cruelty and discrimination against gays? So much of it is done in Your name. So much of it is said to be justified by Your...

Reader Question:

Dear Neale... As the world reels to deal with global events, I find that some of my friends are having a difficult time coping with the daily news. Some of them have even taken to avoiding the news altogether. Any suggestions on what I could tell them?

Carolyn,
Topeka, Kansas

Neale Responds

Dear Carolyn... Putting your head in the sand like an ostrich is not the most personally beneficial or effective way of dealing with our world as it is. Simply pretending that...

My dear friends...

For the past many weeks we have been speaking here about The Holy Experience. I want to invite you to avoid developing preconceived notions about what that Experience is all about, or what it is supposed to “look like.”

It may not be about feeling “filled with the light” or “warm all over” or “One With The Universe.” It could be about that, but it also may not be.

It may not be about only speaking softly and always moving...

Reader Question:

Dear Neale... I am hoping that you will address the reaction of some people to the earthquake in Japan (again). A number of people, including public figures, believe that God sent Japan the earthquake as a punishment for various wrongs: 'greed', WWII (65 years late), or whatever. Apparently an appalling number of people still believe in an angry, retaliatory God!

Funny, they didn't blame the Chile quake last year, or the Christchurch quake last month, or the Indonesia quake...

My dear friends...

I spoke in this space last week about the fact that loneliness is the biggest social issue on our planet today. I said that we’ve been living in a world of increasing isolation, where extended families have been disappearing and the opportunities for closeness with others have been vanishing. The sudden rise and almost addictive use of social networking sites on the Internet by millions around the globe is, without doubt, humanity’s collective compensatory...

Reader Question:

Dear Neale...Regarding your comments about moving from faith to knowing I'd like to suggest that it's difficult enough for most of us to accept elements of faith, never mind the absolute of knowing. That's an immense shift in consciousness! Faith is believing in things unseen (and is) by itself a huge step in one's spiritual evolution, and has to be continually tested and proven until one eventually comes to "know. "

Without an epiphany it is an earned increment that is...

My dear friends...

We have been discussing in this space something that I have called The Holy Experience. And this week I want to share with you that I observe the quality of my life increasing exponentially when I am willing to be vulnerable, close, and naked—as opposed to being totally invulnerable, closed off, and always having my backside covered.

I find that when I am close to another, I am close to myself. I find that when I am ready to share intimacy, authenticity, the Real Me...

Reader Question:

Dear Neale...I just read your newsletter on being 'aware' instead of having 'faith'. It's deep. I don't know what to think of it. I can feel its truth, but the mind needs to wrap itself around this truth.

Please know that when I come across such a topic and I feel I need to read and re-read the article until the message seeps into me, I cannot move on with another article without quite 'getting' the previous.

I do really value your newsletters and it's the closest someone...

My dear friends...

We have been exploring here what I have called The Holy Experience, and how to create it in one’s life. There are a number of tools that I have found with which one may do this, and over the past many weeks we have been exploring them one by one. Last week we looked at Tool #10, Service. Today, we invite you to pick up the tool of Discipline.

I see this tool being used in two ways. First, as a means of forming and shaping my own day-to-day experience of life, so...

Reader Question:

Dear NEALE...Hey.  I have a question about something you wrote...

You say, "CWG calls DNA our Divine Natural Awareness. It is the coding that, if we follow it, leads us to our expression and experience of Divinity---in us, through us, as us."

You also say,  "life is not a process of discovery, it is a process of creation." It is not ours to "discover" Who We Are, it is ours to "create" Who We Are.

So, I am confused.  Do we 'follow' our Divine Coding? ...