Book Review - Conversations with God

The Conversations with God series is a trilogy revolving around a man who hears God speaking to him and transcribes his conversations in a series of questions and answers.  I first saw CWG about 10 years ago, but didn't pick it up because I was put off by the title.  I thought it was going to be about Christianity and Jesus saving your soul and dying on the cross for your sins.  But that's not the case at all.

Throughout the trilogy, and the subsequent title, Friendship with God, we learn the true nature of God as presented to the author, Neale Donald Walsh.  The main take home from the series is that god is everything and in everything.  He/She/It is you and is in you, He is the creator and the created, She is with you alway in all ways.  God has no preference and doesn't care what you do.  There is no good or evil.  Everything happens for a reason.  This is quite a simplified view of the book, of course.  It explores topics such as reincarnation, marriage, sex, your purpose on Earth, life on other planets, education, and society.  It's brilliantly written, and God is quite cheeky.  I like God.

I devoured these books.  I read all four in the span of about two weeks.  I highly recommend them if you have any inclination towards spirituality.

Now, I have an interesting manifestation story connected with these books.  I picked up number 2 at the Largo library used book store.  I was drawn to it because I'd remembered seeing it in the bookstore years ago, but didn't pick it up for the reasons I mentioned above.  Well, this time I picked it up and started thumbing through the preface and the author was talking about how its not a coincidence that the reader picked up the book, etc.  That line cinched it, and I bought it... it was only $1, so I figured I had nothing to lose anyway.

Well, after reading the 2nd book, I wanted more and went to the used section at Barnes and Nobles to see if I could find it there.  It wasn't there, and I decided to do an experiment.  I decided that I wanted to buy the rest of the series, but I didn't want to pay full price.  I visualized myself seeing the books in the used section of the bookstore, picking them, and feeling happy because I had manifested the books I wanted and manifested them at a used price.  I was thinking between $1 and $5.  That was my experiment.

Not a week later, my grandpa and I are having a tour of Rochester's used bookstores because he had a trunkful of books he was trying to sell.  We weren't doing so well... no one was too interested in the books we had.  Though, I did have a chance to look around the other books, and saw The Secret which I also wanted.  We had been at it for about 3 hours, we were getting tired and had only made about $12 on books.  But we decided to go to one more bookstore.  This man picked out 18 books he wanted from our pile and offered us either $15 cash or $30 in store credit.  Grandpa let me take the store credit, so I had a look around the bookstore.  And guess what I found:

All the Conversations with God books AND the fourth book that I didn't even know existed, Friendship with God.  So I got all the books I'd asked for a week earlier... FREE.  Plus, I got The Secret, which I'd seen earlier that day and two others!!!  What a great testament to the universe... you really do get whatever you ask for... Exactly the ideas in the CWG books too.  Perfect.