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Speaker 2: And welcome back to Coast to Coast George Nori with
Speaker 2: Neil Donald Waltsh will take calls with Neil next hour.
Speaker 2: His latest book is called God Talk, which we'll get
Speaker 2: into in a second. So, Neil, you start writing to
Speaker 2: God without really any idea that it's going to be
Speaker 2: turned into a book, right, never.
Speaker 3: Thought about anything like that, George. I'm just sitting there
Speaker 3: in my little little flat, little two room flat, writing
Speaker 3: a very angry letter, just trying to get out my feelings.
Speaker 3: So I'm writing, understablet what does it take to make
Speaker 3: life work? Now? What have I done to deserve a
Speaker 3: life of such continuing struggle? And finally, George, I'm writing,
Speaker 3: tell me the rules. I mean, just give me the rules.
Speaker 3: I'll play this silly game called life. Just tell me
Speaker 3: the rules. I don't know what's going on here? What
Speaker 3: do I have to do to make life work? And then, George,
Speaker 3: I heard a voice over my right shoulder. I would
Speaker 3: have sworn someone was in the room behind me. Neil,
Speaker 3: do you really want answers to all of these questions?
Speaker 3: Or are you just venting? And I whipped around. Of
Speaker 3: course there's nobody there. Now I'm thinking, oh, great, terrific.
Speaker 3: Not only have I lost everything, now I'm losing my mind.
Speaker 3: But the voice continued, you know, Neil, you know would
Speaker 3: give me an answer. What are you looking for here?
Speaker 3: And I said, you know, if you've got some answers,
Speaker 3: I am sure as hell. I like to know what
Speaker 3: they are. I don't know who I'm talking to. I'm
Speaker 3: sitting here thinking I'm talking to myself. But then the
Speaker 3: voice again came back as a voice in my mind.
Speaker 3: It's all in my head going on. And the voice said,
Speaker 3: you are sure as hell about a lot of things, Neil,
Speaker 3: But wouldn't you rather be sure as heaven? What's that
Speaker 3: supposed to mean? Now I'm writing on the yellow legal pad,
Speaker 3: and the voice says, to me, let me answer your questions.
Speaker 3: And I'm starting to get answers to all the questions
Speaker 3: I had asked, and to questions that I didn't even
Speaker 3: know existed.
Speaker 2: And they were good answers too, weren't they.
Speaker 3: Well, they were good enough for me. I can't speak
Speaker 3: for anybody else, but they were good enough up for me.
Speaker 3: And then somewhere along the way, I was told you
Speaker 3: will make of this a book one day, and you
Speaker 3: will cause it to be accessed by many people. And
Speaker 3: I'm sitting there thinking, yeah, yeah, right of course, Now
Speaker 3: I got you. This is what I'm thinking to myself.
Speaker 3: Now I got because you gotta know, I it's the
Speaker 3: middle of the night, and I'm thinking, I'm making this
Speaker 3: all this up. You know, I'm imagining it. It's just
Speaker 3: my imagination playing tricks on me. So I thought, if
Speaker 3: you think whatever this voice is, it's talking to me
Speaker 3: that this is going to become a book, think again.
Speaker 3: There's not a publisher in the country that's going to write,
Speaker 3: that's going to publish a book by guy who says
Speaker 3: he's talking to God. I mean, can you imagine the
Speaker 3: publisher going out to the workroom floor saying to his editors,
Speaker 3: hold everything, stop the presence. I got a guy here
Speaker 3: who's talking to God. It's not going to and he's.
Speaker 2: Got it on a yellow legal paper.
Speaker 3: It's not going to happen. Nobody's But you know what,
Speaker 3: as a dare, I simply was daring God. I took
Speaker 3: my handwritten notes that I had gathered up to that point,
Speaker 3: and I sent it off to a small publisher on
Speaker 3: the East coast of the United States. You know what.
Speaker 3: A week later they called me and they said, we
Speaker 3: want to publish this. This is fascinating stuff, that's amazing.
Speaker 3: Answers you're getting are incredible. I don't know where you're
Speaker 3: getting them from, but these are incredible answers to questions
Speaker 3: that all of us are asking about God, about life,
Speaker 3: about health, about children, about parenting, about right livelihood, about
Speaker 3: how to make your life work, about relationships, about sex,
Speaker 3: about everything. You've asked all the questions we're all asking,
Speaker 3: and the answers you're getting are incredible. I said, you
Speaker 3: really are going to publish this? They said absolutely. So
Speaker 3: I thought to myself, you know, it's not going to
Speaker 3: sell five hundred copies. Nobody's going to buy a book
Speaker 3: by a guy who claims to be talking directly to
Speaker 3: God and getting answers from God. And I was right.
Speaker 3: It didn't sell five hundred copies. You were right and
Speaker 3: sold five million.
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly. Now you're into your fortieth book. God talked,
Speaker 2: tell me about this one.
Speaker 3: You know, most people write, Most writers, whatever their topic,
Speaker 3: write a book and then they look for a publisher.
Speaker 3: And that's how it's been with me for the first
Speaker 3: thirty nine books. But about a year ago my phone
Speaker 3: rang and for the first time in my life, a
Speaker 3: publisher called me and they say, hey, you know, mister Walsh,
Speaker 3: would you'd be willing to write a book that answers
Speaker 3: the question can everybody have a conversation with God? And
Speaker 3: if there's a way that they could do it? Can
Speaker 3: you think of how you could explain that to people,
Speaker 3: how they could all have the same experience that you've had.
Speaker 3: I said, you know, fair question, good question. Yes, I'd
Speaker 3: be happy to write a book like that if you
Speaker 3: want to publish it. So I wrote that book, in
Speaker 3: which I included step by step instructions on how a person,
Speaker 3: at least how I think a person could possibly have
Speaker 3: the experience that I had, that they could access the
Speaker 3: divine and have their own conversation with God. Decided to
Speaker 3: call the book God Talk. And then the publisher did
Speaker 3: something very interesting. They put a call out on the
Speaker 3: internet George, and they asked people all over the internet,
Speaker 3: if you feel that you also have had a conversation
Speaker 3: with God, or at least that your life has been
Speaker 3: touched directly by the divine, what we call divine intervention,
Speaker 3: send us your story, and they told me later that
Speaker 3: hundreds of people said stories like that. They picked out
Speaker 3: the seven or eight best stories and put them in
Speaker 3: the book as part two of the book. So part
Speaker 3: one of the books is my story and how I
Speaker 3: got to have the experience that I've described to you
Speaker 3: in of course described in the book in much greater detail.
Speaker 3: And the second part of the book is the stories
Speaker 3: of these seven or eight people who've had their own
Speaker 3: experience of divine intervention. Makes for fascinating reading because these
Speaker 3: are real people from mid America, from Nebraska, Oklahoma, all
Speaker 3: over the place talking about their experience of divine intervention.
Speaker 3: A mother whose answers came through a vision of her child,
Speaker 3: a woman who was reassured about her health conditions, all
Speaker 3: sorts of experiences of people throughout the country, and a
Speaker 3: couple from elsewhere in the world. So we decided to
Speaker 3: call the book God Talk, and it contains a six
Speaker 3: step process that I hope will give people an opportunity
Speaker 3: to have their own direct connection with the Divine George.
Speaker 3: Let me just add one thing really quickly. Most people say,
Speaker 3: of course, we can all talk to God. I mean,
Speaker 3: by the way, eight out of ten people in the
Speaker 3: world believe that there is some kind of higher power.
Speaker 3: Sociologists have taken surveys in the past ten years asking
Speaker 3: a single question all over the world, do you believe
Speaker 3: in a higher power? And eighty five percent of the
Speaker 3: respondent said, yeah, there's some kind of higher powers. There's
Speaker 3: more going on here that meets the eye. So there's
Speaker 3: something larger than we know about specifically, we call it God,
Speaker 3: call it whatever you want, but yes, there's more going
Speaker 3: on here. We can't agree exactly what it is and
Speaker 3: what's really going on. So the real question is what
Speaker 3: is happening, what is that all about? And how can
Speaker 3: we make a direct connection with it. So with everybody,
Speaker 3: or at least a large number of people, eighty five
Speaker 3: percent of the people say there is some kind of
Speaker 3: higher power. The question comes, can we have a communication
Speaker 3: with that higher power? I mean a two way communication.
Speaker 3: Everyone agrees that we can pray to God if we
Speaker 3: think there is some kind of higher power, and most
Speaker 3: people had at least once in their life called out,
Speaker 3: oh God, help me, what's going on? What's going on?
Speaker 3: So we can pray to God. But here's what's interesting.
Speaker 3: The world's religions tell us that God will not talk
Speaker 3: directly to you. In fact, most of the world's religions,
Speaker 3: of which there are today two hundred and thirty six
Speaker 3: known religions on the face of the earth this date,
Speaker 3: not since history began, but on this day of our life,
Speaker 3: over four thousand religions being practiced, and those religions teach
Speaker 3: us God doesn't talk directly to you. You can talk
Speaker 3: to God if you want to. Of course, people we
Speaker 3: encourage you to pray to God, but don't go around
Speaker 3: saying that God spoke directly to you, because that's blasphemy,
Speaker 3: that's heresy, that's apostasy. So you're accused of of a sin,
Speaker 3: really of an ecclesiastical sin if you declare that God
Speaker 3: is talking directly to you. And they put people who
Speaker 3: say that away on the seventh floor of the hospital
Speaker 3: in the psychiatric ward.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: He thinks that God's talking to him.
Speaker 2: I used to ask. I used to ask my mother
Speaker 2: when I was younger, what is God? How did God
Speaker 2: come about? And she's still with us, she's ninety four.
Speaker 2: God lover, and she said to me, I'll never forget it.
Speaker 2: God always was and always will be, And I kept
Speaker 2: telling her, I said, Mom, that's not an answer for me,
Speaker 2: and she kept saying, the same thing, always was, always
Speaker 2: will be. And that's her answer to this day, Neil, boy.
Speaker 3: What clarity could and ask for a more clear cut answer? Actually,
Speaker 3: to try to define what God is is pointless because
Speaker 3: there's nothing that God is not. The first message George
Speaker 3: that I got in my very first conversation with God,
Speaker 3: she said, Neil, all things are one thing. There is
Speaker 3: only one thing, and all things are part of the
Speaker 3: one thing there is. And I'm answering. I said, well,
Speaker 3: that means that I'm part of you. Are you saying
Speaker 3: that God and me are? God and I are one?
Speaker 3: And the answer I got was exactly, that's exactly right,
Speaker 3: God and you are one. Well, do I dare say
Speaker 3: that publicly? Do I dare? Do I dare tell people
Speaker 3: that God told me this? But you know, somehow or
Speaker 3: another I got away with it. I mean, I put
Speaker 3: it in the book just the way I received it.
Speaker 3: There's no editing in the book. The book is an
Speaker 3: unedited transcript. It's just simply a dialogue between me and
Speaker 3: my understanding of the divine in which I was told
Speaker 3: basically in a few more words than your mother was told.
Speaker 3: There's only one thing. I always am, always will be,
Speaker 3: and always have been, and there's no time that I
Speaker 3: will not. And that the same, by the way, George,
Speaker 3: is true about us that God said to me, The
Speaker 3: same is true about you, Neil. You always were, are
Speaker 3: now and always will be. That is who you really are.
Speaker 3: You're not your body. You are a spiritual entity called
Speaker 3: a soul. And the soul that you are has been
Speaker 3: with me from the beginning, is with me now and
Speaker 3: will be with me forever and ever, and yes even forevermore.
Speaker 2: You mentioned these six steps and very quickly buzzed through
Speaker 2: them for.
Speaker 1: Us, Neil.
Speaker 3: Possibility, worthiness, willingness, wakefulness, acceptance, and discernment. I'd love to
Speaker 3: describe those in greater detail one day when we have time.
Speaker 3: But we have to agree that it's possible that a
Speaker 3: God exists and that we can talk to God. We
Speaker 3: have to agree that we are worthy to receive such communication.
Speaker 3: We don't have to be the pope or the Archbishop
Speaker 3: of Canadon, or the chief ulama or the head rabbi.
Speaker 3: We have to go to step three, willingness. We have
Speaker 3: to be willing to receive it. Even though religions tell
Speaker 3: us it's blasphemy. We have to be wakeful. We have
Speaker 3: to go to step four. Wakefulness, that is, we have
Speaker 3: to look all around us because God's talking to us
Speaker 3: in a million different ways, across a thousand moments in
Speaker 3: every lifetime. Then we go to step five acceptance, that is,
Speaker 3: we don't reject what we're hearing. Ah, it's just my imagination,
Speaker 3: or it's just a coincidence. No, no, no, no such
Speaker 3: thing as a coincidence. When you get the wisdom from
Speaker 3: the divine, you will know that that's what it is.
Speaker 3: And so step five is acceptance, and finally steps step
Speaker 3: six is discernment, not to call, not to fall into
Speaker 3: the trap of calling everything a conversation with God. That know,
Speaker 3: whatever happens in life, we say it's a sign. I
Speaker 3: reached it into my pocket to get my car keys
Speaker 3: and a ten dollar bill fell out, So now I
Speaker 3: have to throw all my money on the ground because
Speaker 3: it's a sign. So we have to have some discernment.
Speaker 3: Those are the six steps I talk about, and I
Speaker 3: describe them in great detail in the book God Talk Fantastic.
Speaker 2: It's an amazing thing. What do you do when an
Speaker 2: atheist comes up to you and says, I don't.
Speaker 3: Believe I save good for you. You don't have to believe.
Speaker 3: I don't need you to believe. I don't need you
Speaker 3: to do anything, least of all believe anything that I
Speaker 3: have to say. So if not believing serves you, by golly,
Speaker 3: step in that direction and always do what serves you,
Speaker 3: Because if there is a God, that's exactly what she wants.
Speaker 3: He doesn't want anything else. He wants you to serve
Speaker 3: yourself and to serve those whose lives you touch in
Speaker 3: a positive, compassionate, generous, caring and sensitive way. Do that,
Speaker 3: and your life will work, whether you believe in me
Speaker 3: or not. The beauty of God. I wrote a book
Speaker 3: called Tomorrow's God, and in Tomorrow's God, God tells us
Speaker 3: I don't need you to believe in me. In fact,
Speaker 3: I don't need you to worship me. I don't need
Speaker 3: you to love me. I don't need anything from you. You.
Speaker 3: My desire is to give everything to you. But I
Speaker 3: need nothing from you any more than you need anything
Speaker 3: from a sixteen month old child. You don't need the
Speaker 3: child to do something, or to say something, or to
Speaker 3: worship you. You don't need those things, because you're very
Speaker 3: clear that you are not in a position of need
Speaker 3: with regard to that child. So you are my children,
Speaker 3: God said, you are my children, and I need nothing
Speaker 3: from you. But my great desire is to give you
Speaker 3: the power and the understanding, the awareness, and the consciousness
Speaker 3: to step into your true self, your true identity, which
Speaker 3: is as an individuation of divinity. You are a part
Speaker 3: of me. Act that way and life will change for
Speaker 3: you forever, as will life on your planet once you
Speaker 3: reach critical mass in the number of people who decide
Speaker 3: to respond to this impulse in that positive way.
Speaker 2: Neil is prayer of vehicle to get to God.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Prayer's a wonderful vehicle. It's the beginning of a conversation,
Speaker 3: like any other conversation we have. Conversations start with one
Speaker 3: person opening up to another and asking a question, or
Speaker 3: exploring a topic in some way, or even sharing an opinion. So, yes,
Speaker 3: prayer is a very very powerful device. But we have
Speaker 3: to be open to the fact that when we pray,
Speaker 3: we may receive a direct answer. But God's answers are
Speaker 3: not always simply in words. They come to us in feelings,
Speaker 3: they come to us in images, in visions, in understandings,
Speaker 3: you know, frankly, even in smells, I mean fragrances. I'm
Speaker 3: walking through a department store a few years ago and
Speaker 3: I'm suddenly smelling Guardina, and I'm thinking immediately of my
Speaker 3: mother because that was her signature, fragrance. And I'm thinking,
Speaker 3: my god, I got to call them Mom. I haven't
Speaker 3: called Mom, and in months, I got to pay more
Speaker 3: attention to that. I went home and I picked up
Speaker 3: the phone and called her immediately. Thank goodness I did, George,
Speaker 3: because shortly thereafter she was no longer with us. Now
Speaker 3: you tell me that just walking through a department store
Speaker 3: is smelling Guardinia, my mother's signature fragrance, to do, I mean.
Speaker 2: Come on, it's not luck, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: No. And everyone has stories like that that come from
Speaker 3: their own life. I have never met a person who
Speaker 3: can't tell you a story similar to that. So pay attention.
Speaker 3: We're all having conversations with God all the time. We're
Speaker 3: simply calling them something else, women's intuition, a psychic hit
Speaker 3: and epiphany, whatever we can get away with. Because if
Speaker 3: we dare say God spoke to me directly, yeah, people
Speaker 3: will look at us askance. But you know I've gone
Speaker 3: past that. I'm just telling people directly, Yes, you bet.
Speaker 3: I'm having conversations with God. And the first thing that
Speaker 3: I ask God in that conversation, my first serious question,
Speaker 3: why me? Why would you choose me? And the answer
Speaker 3: I got, Neil, sweetheart, I'm talking to everybody all the time.
Speaker 3: The question is not to whom talking, The question is
Speaker 3: who's listening.
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