FRIENDSHIP_WITH_GOD.(neale donald walsch)

Neale Donald Walsch (born September 10, 1943) is an American author of the series Conversations with God. The nine books in the complete series are Conversations With God (books 1–3), Friendship with God, Communion with God, The New Revelations, Conversations with God for Teens, Tomorrow's God, and Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends. He is also an actor, screenwriter, and speaker.

Walsch was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on September 10, 1943, and brought up as a Roman Catholic by a family who encouraged his quest for spiritual truth. He informally studied comparative theology for many years. He says his books are not channelled, but rather that they are inspired by God and that they can help a person relate to him from a modern perspective. The God in his books, for example, says that "there is nothing you have to do." Walsch believes in a panentheistic God, who tries to communicate himself as being "unselfish". Walsch's vision is an expansion and unification of all present theologies to render them more relevant to our present day and time. He created Humanity's Team as a spiritual movement whose purpose is to communicate and implement his New Spirituality beliefs, particularly that we are all one with God and one with life, in a shared global state of being.[1] This state can be achieved, Walsch argues, by the act of helping other people: "The fastest way to apply anything in your life is to help others to apply it... The fastest way to use any wisdom that resides in your soul is to help someone else... Because we are all one.".[2] Walsch has nine children. Neale has a home in southern Oregon where he lives with his wife, Em Claire, who is a working poet.

Before writing the Conversations With God series, Walsch worked variously as a radio station program director, newspaper managing editor, and in marketing and public relations. In the early 1990s he suffered a series of crushing blows—a fire that destroyed all of his belongings, the break-up of his marriage, and a car accident that left him with a broken neck. Once recovered, but alone and unemployed, he was forced to live in a tent in Jackson Hot Springs, just outside Ashland, Oregon, collecting and recycling aluminium cans in order to eat. At the time, he thought his life had come to an end. Despondent, he began his writings after working his way out of homelessness and following a stint as a radio talk show host.[3]

His first book, Conversations with God, was published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. It remained on the New York Times Bestseller List for 135 weeks. Six of his other books have made the Times list in the years since. He has published 28 books and his works have been translated into 37 languages.

The ReCreation Foundation, Inc., also known as the CwG Foundation, is a non-profit foundation created by Neale Donald Walsch in 1995 to address the response from people around the world to spread the message of the Conversations with God book series.[8] The video-oriented website, CwG.tv, was launched in 2008.

Neale Donald Walsch was deeply inspired by this message received, "the purpose of life is to recreate ourselves anew in the highest version of the grandest vision we ever had about ourselves."[8] Neale explains that "in order to take action with the messages and guidance of the conversations, wanted to make the truths and lessons from the CwG book not only functional, but also universally available."[8] Therefore, Neale formed ReCreation, "the Foundation for Personal Growth and Spiritual Understanding".

The Foundation has created retreats, activities and programs aimed at "allowing people to use the message to change their own lives and the world at large."[8] The online resources include a free book program, study groups, wisdom circles, as well as online videos and other media.[9]

The following are the nine books in the Conversations With God series. Each of these books is a claimed transcipt of dialogue between two beings, Neale Donald Walsch and "God", with the exception of "Communion with God", which is written only by "God".

Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 1) (1996) ISBN 978-0-399-14278-9
Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 2) (1997) ISBN 978-1-57174-056-4
Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 3) (1998) ISBN 978-1-57174-103-5
Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (1999) ISBN 978-0-399-14541-4
Communion With God: An Uncommon Dialogue (2000) ISBN 978-0-399-14670-1
Conversations With God for Teens (forword by Alanis Morissette) (2001) ISBN 978-1-57174-263-6
The New Revelations: A Conversation with God (2002) ISBN 978-0-7434-6303-4
Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge (2004) ISBN 978-0-7434-6304-1
Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends (2006) ISBN 978-0-7432-6716-8

The first three books in the series are often called the CwG trilogy. In 2005, the trilogy was re-released as one combined 'Gift Edition' book. This edition contains the entire text of the first three books with 'God's words in blue ink and Neale's in black ink, and features a combined 3-in-1 index at the back.

The Complete Conversations with God (October 20, 2005) ISBN 978-0-399-15329-7

Home With God, we are told, is the final book in this series of two-way written communication {see HwG page 308, "Our final conversation in public."}.