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The God Solution: The Power of Pure Love
What is needed now is for humanity to agree on the most important topic in human history. If we do so, we can produce spectacular results, changing life on Earth for the better—forever. This is not out of our reach. In The God Solution , acclaimed spiritual author Neale Donald Walsch explores how we can bring an end to anger, violence, disagreements between people and nations, financial hardships, poverty, starvation, and the suffering of millions. He explains how we can bring peace, prosperity, security, opportunity, and joy to people around the world. In short, all that humanity has ever hoped for or dreamt of—and what we were truly meant to experience—can be ours. This could happen virtually overnight. And it can be done with the embracing of a single idea.
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144 pages, Hardcover
Published November 25, 2020
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Neale Donald Walsch
272 books1,887 followersNeale Donald Walsch is a modern day spiritual messenger whose words continue to touch the world in profound ways. With an early interest in religion and a deeply felt connection to spirituality, Neale spent the majority of his life thriving professionally, yet searching for spiritual meaning before beginning his now famous conversation with God. His With God series of books has been translated into 34 languages, touching millions of lives and inspiring important changes in their day-to-day lives.
In addition to authoring the renowned With God series, Neale has published 16 other works, as well as a number of video and audio programs. Available throughout the world, each of the CwG dialogue books has made the New York Times Bestseller list, Conversations with God-Book 1 occupying that list for over two and half years.
The With God Series has redefined God and shifted spiritual paradigms around the globe. In order to deal with the enormous response to his writings, Neale created the Conversations with God Foundation, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to inspiring the world to help itself move from violence to peace, from confusion to clarity, and from anger to love.
Neale's work has taken him from the steps of Macchu Picchu in Peru to the steps of the Shinto shrines of Japan, from Red Square in Moscow to St. Peters Square in Vatican City to Tiananmen Square in China. And everywhere he has gone-from South Africa to Norway, Croatia to The Netherlands, the streets of Zurich to the streets of Seoul, Neale has found a hunger among the people to find a new way to live, at last, in peace and harmony, and he has sought to bring people a new understanding of life and of God which would allow them to experience that."
In addition to authoring the renowned With God series, Neale has published 16 other works, as well as a number of video and audio programs. Available throughout the world, each of the CwG dialogue books has made the New York Times Bestseller list, Conversations with God-Book 1 occupying that list for over two and half years.
The With God Series has redefined God and shifted spiritual paradigms around the globe. In order to deal with the enormous response to his writings, Neale created the Conversations with God Foundation, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to inspiring the world to help itself move from violence to peace, from confusion to clarity, and from anger to love.
Neale's work has taken him from the steps of Macchu Picchu in Peru to the steps of the Shinto shrines of Japan, from Red Square in Moscow to St. Peters Square in Vatican City to Tiananmen Square in China. And everywhere he has gone-from South Africa to Norway, Croatia to The Netherlands, the streets of Zurich to the streets of Seoul, Neale has found a hunger among the people to find a new way to live, at last, in peace and harmony, and he has sought to bring people a new understanding of life and of God which would allow them to experience that."
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November 13, 2023
In this, his latest book, Neale Donald Walsch, discusses the nature of God – what He/She/It is really like.
He says eight out of ten people agree that there is a God, but do not agree about who or what It is.
He himself agrees that the views of most of us are inaccurate.
He calls this problem the God Dilemma and his answer, as described in the book, the God Solution.
One thing bothers me about the book. It is that the author keeps talking about how the various religions dictate to those belonging to them that God is such and such a being, and that is just the way it is.
Personally, I don’t adhere to any religion at all, and never will, but am in no doubt that God exists.
I agree with Jung, that I don’t believe that It exists, I know It does.
It’s just that in the course of the book I got fed up with hearing about these religions and what their members believed. I don’t think that God necessarily has anything to do with religion as such.
I realize that proponents of the various religions have didactically declared that God is such and such, leaving no room for doubt, as though they and they alone knew this.
But, firstly, Christianity, or at least the Old Testament, has got it all wrong and, secondly, in my view God has no need of religion.
I feel it is a personal, not a “religious” matter, what we believe about God.
What I’m trying to say is that I don’t see that Neale has mentioned that it’s a personal matter. I know that most of the world’s population are controlled by their religious leaderrs but it will not always be this way.
The world and its peoples are changing fast and I believe many are becoming more spiritually developed and will be casting aside the various forms of religious beliefs about God tht have previously been dictated to them.
I feel that this book has come at the exact right time, when many of us are ready to rid ourselves of old negative beliefs about God imparted to us by church authorities. We are ready to realize that if God is really a benign creator, then It is, as Neale propounds, a God of love, in fact, It is what I call Divine Love, and Neale calls Pure Love.
My own father was a minister of the Church, but he never told me anything about religion, Christ, or God, never. But this was a blessing because it meant that I had to find out myself who or what God was. And I did.
Of course, we’ve heard many times that God is Love. It’s been many decades, and it feels like centuries, since I’ve attended a church service. But I’m not sure that God is Love is the main theme that ministers/pastors or what you would call them are preaching about in church.
It does seem strange that, as Neale mentions at the start of the book, 85% of the world’s people belong to a religion, but yet “the world is a mess”. At present we have the war in Ukraine and the one between Israel and Gaza.
Neale mentions a suggestion of his wife, Em - “What if each of us could create our own religion?”
But I just don’t see that we need to have a religion. We can each have our own ideas and experiences of god. But why do we need a religion? What intrinsic connection does God have to religion?
Now I don’t believe that ministers, priests or whoever should tell us what to believe, and I feel that Neale could have written more about how we should find out what we personally feel about whether or not there is a God, and if so what Its characteristics are.
I really appreciate Neale’s definition of God as Pure Love.
I may be mistaken, but I don’t recall anything, or at least much having been written in the book about we ourselves being a part of God or that It is within us. I’ve had to return the book to the library so I can’t check.
Here I have to recount my first spiritual experience at the age of 14, since I feel it is absolutely relevant.
It was a lovely summer’s day in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I hd just come home from school and I was standing in my room looking out the window at our garden.
I experienced three things – one, the lovely summer’s day, which was not typical for Belfast, two, the beautiful flowers tended by my mother, who loved them and which I had never noticed/appreciated previously, and three, the birds’ cheerful chirping.
Suddenly, I was in a state of Bliss. I did not feel love, but Bliss. Perhaps the Bliss overshadowed the love.
There was a circle of golden light.
I was experiencing God, I was a pulsating cell in the body of God. I was a part of God, God was Bliss. I was Bliss.
There was no death and no time. I knew these things.
I don’t know how long the experience lasted, there being no time.
But, though I believe that God is within us, it must have been an out-of-body experience, because I felt my soul or whatever spiral back into my body, around my solar plexus, just like when the last of the bathwater spirals out of the bath.
I was still standing. I sat down on the bed and felt completely purified, as though many of my previous lives had been cleansed (though I was just 14 I knew about previous lives and recalled one of them). Perhaps there had been Love, Pure Love, and this is what had purified me.
This was the most wonderful experience I had ever had. I told nobody of it, because who of my family or those I knew would have believed it.
(I have also on three separate occasions experienced what I call Divine Love, though I didn’t feel at the time that it was God. It was amazing to experience this Love – there was no need to do anything other than sit and bask in the experience.)
So I would have appreciated Neale writing something, or something more, about how we are a part of God.
In the book Neale tells us that God loves with no strings attached whatsoever.
He says we should not resist unhappy circumstances but instead pour Pure Love into them. I will.
I have often thought that were a maniac to enter my home by force and threaten to kill me, I would not try to kill him. I do not have a gun. I think it’s only Americans that have guns. In my country only criminals and hunters (who are also criminals in my view) have guns. Instead I would pour Divine Love into them.
A potential murderer such as that would have to be in dire need of Pure Love.
And, anyway, I do not fear death.
Neale says “When we embrace the feeling that our newly defined God is, and allow it to flow freely in us, through us, and as us – and then project it forward into our tomorrows as a creative force – we are employing and magnifying, focusing and directing God’s Essential Essence, and the world we touch lights up with love.”
He adds – “This is called enlightenment.”
He poses the question - “Must the love of God be earned? ”Is Divinity incapable of giving love to sentient beings simply because it is God’s nature to do so, whether certain beings ‘deserve it’ or not. Could the offering of love to someone who does not ‘deserve it’ be the height of Pure Love?”
In short, Neale defines God as self-conscious, self-aware energy eternally projecting a feeling called Pure Love.
We are told how to deal with any possible negative outcome that we imagine occurring in our life. We should love it to death.
You should consciously call forth God energy that is within you, rather than call for it to be with you.
“You can use this energy to respond to somehing that is occurring in this moment, or project it toward producing something that you would like to occur in some future moment.”
We should feel the most powerful emotion we would experience if an outcome we desire is already manifest. This would be gratitude.
To sum up, this is an inspiring book which helps us to understand God perhaps in a more positive way than previously, and to use the God energy to deal with difficult situations.
I highly recommend this book and apologize for inserting so many of my own experiences into this review.
He says eight out of ten people agree that there is a God, but do not agree about who or what It is.
He himself agrees that the views of most of us are inaccurate.
He calls this problem the God Dilemma and his answer, as described in the book, the God Solution.
One thing bothers me about the book. It is that the author keeps talking about how the various religions dictate to those belonging to them that God is such and such a being, and that is just the way it is.
Personally, I don’t adhere to any religion at all, and never will, but am in no doubt that God exists.
I agree with Jung, that I don’t believe that It exists, I know It does.
It’s just that in the course of the book I got fed up with hearing about these religions and what their members believed. I don’t think that God necessarily has anything to do with religion as such.
I realize that proponents of the various religions have didactically declared that God is such and such, leaving no room for doubt, as though they and they alone knew this.
But, firstly, Christianity, or at least the Old Testament, has got it all wrong and, secondly, in my view God has no need of religion.
I feel it is a personal, not a “religious” matter, what we believe about God.
What I’m trying to say is that I don’t see that Neale has mentioned that it’s a personal matter. I know that most of the world’s population are controlled by their religious leaderrs but it will not always be this way.
The world and its peoples are changing fast and I believe many are becoming more spiritually developed and will be casting aside the various forms of religious beliefs about God tht have previously been dictated to them.
I feel that this book has come at the exact right time, when many of us are ready to rid ourselves of old negative beliefs about God imparted to us by church authorities. We are ready to realize that if God is really a benign creator, then It is, as Neale propounds, a God of love, in fact, It is what I call Divine Love, and Neale calls Pure Love.
My own father was a minister of the Church, but he never told me anything about religion, Christ, or God, never. But this was a blessing because it meant that I had to find out myself who or what God was. And I did.
Of course, we’ve heard many times that God is Love. It’s been many decades, and it feels like centuries, since I’ve attended a church service. But I’m not sure that God is Love is the main theme that ministers/pastors or what you would call them are preaching about in church.
It does seem strange that, as Neale mentions at the start of the book, 85% of the world’s people belong to a religion, but yet “the world is a mess”. At present we have the war in Ukraine and the one between Israel and Gaza.
Neale mentions a suggestion of his wife, Em - “What if each of us could create our own religion?”
But I just don’t see that we need to have a religion. We can each have our own ideas and experiences of god. But why do we need a religion? What intrinsic connection does God have to religion?
Now I don’t believe that ministers, priests or whoever should tell us what to believe, and I feel that Neale could have written more about how we should find out what we personally feel about whether or not there is a God, and if so what Its characteristics are.
I really appreciate Neale’s definition of God as Pure Love.
I may be mistaken, but I don’t recall anything, or at least much having been written in the book about we ourselves being a part of God or that It is within us. I’ve had to return the book to the library so I can’t check.
Here I have to recount my first spiritual experience at the age of 14, since I feel it is absolutely relevant.
It was a lovely summer’s day in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I hd just come home from school and I was standing in my room looking out the window at our garden.
I experienced three things – one, the lovely summer’s day, which was not typical for Belfast, two, the beautiful flowers tended by my mother, who loved them and which I had never noticed/appreciated previously, and three, the birds’ cheerful chirping.
Suddenly, I was in a state of Bliss. I did not feel love, but Bliss. Perhaps the Bliss overshadowed the love.
There was a circle of golden light.
I was experiencing God, I was a pulsating cell in the body of God. I was a part of God, God was Bliss. I was Bliss.
There was no death and no time. I knew these things.
I don’t know how long the experience lasted, there being no time.
But, though I believe that God is within us, it must have been an out-of-body experience, because I felt my soul or whatever spiral back into my body, around my solar plexus, just like when the last of the bathwater spirals out of the bath.
I was still standing. I sat down on the bed and felt completely purified, as though many of my previous lives had been cleansed (though I was just 14 I knew about previous lives and recalled one of them). Perhaps there had been Love, Pure Love, and this is what had purified me.
This was the most wonderful experience I had ever had. I told nobody of it, because who of my family or those I knew would have believed it.
(I have also on three separate occasions experienced what I call Divine Love, though I didn’t feel at the time that it was God. It was amazing to experience this Love – there was no need to do anything other than sit and bask in the experience.)
So I would have appreciated Neale writing something, or something more, about how we are a part of God.
In the book Neale tells us that God loves with no strings attached whatsoever.
He says we should not resist unhappy circumstances but instead pour Pure Love into them. I will.
I have often thought that were a maniac to enter my home by force and threaten to kill me, I would not try to kill him. I do not have a gun. I think it’s only Americans that have guns. In my country only criminals and hunters (who are also criminals in my view) have guns. Instead I would pour Divine Love into them.
A potential murderer such as that would have to be in dire need of Pure Love.
And, anyway, I do not fear death.
Neale says “When we embrace the feeling that our newly defined God is, and allow it to flow freely in us, through us, and as us – and then project it forward into our tomorrows as a creative force – we are employing and magnifying, focusing and directing God’s Essential Essence, and the world we touch lights up with love.”
He adds – “This is called enlightenment.”
He poses the question - “Must the love of God be earned? ”Is Divinity incapable of giving love to sentient beings simply because it is God’s nature to do so, whether certain beings ‘deserve it’ or not. Could the offering of love to someone who does not ‘deserve it’ be the height of Pure Love?”
In short, Neale defines God as self-conscious, self-aware energy eternally projecting a feeling called Pure Love.
We are told how to deal with any possible negative outcome that we imagine occurring in our life. We should love it to death.
You should consciously call forth God energy that is within you, rather than call for it to be with you.
“You can use this energy to respond to somehing that is occurring in this moment, or project it toward producing something that you would like to occur in some future moment.”
We should feel the most powerful emotion we would experience if an outcome we desire is already manifest. This would be gratitude.
To sum up, this is an inspiring book which helps us to understand God perhaps in a more positive way than previously, and to use the God energy to deal with difficult situations.
I highly recommend this book and apologize for inserting so many of my own experiences into this review.
August 18, 2022
Me gustó el tema principal del libro, ver a Dios como Amor Puro. Neale tiene una manera de redactar increíble que te hace sentir que estás teniendo un diálogo directo con él, eso hace ponerle más atención al libro. Creo que aún estamos muy lejos como sociedad de poder hacer un cambio positivo, no creo que sea imposible porque ante Dios no lo hay, pero sí creo que podemos caminar de la mano De Dios todos juntos.
January 20, 2024
Thank you Neale
All of your books have made a dramatic impact in my life. What if we practiced this solution for a day, week, month or a year. The course of our lives would change dramatically. When we realize we are all ONE and what we do to each other we do to ourselves, we can start to heal ourselves, each other and the planet.
All of your books have made a dramatic impact in my life. What if we practiced this solution for a day, week, month or a year. The course of our lives would change dramatically. When we realize we are all ONE and what we do to each other we do to ourselves, we can start to heal ourselves, each other and the planet.
August 12, 2023
¿Qué puedo escribir acerca de este libro? Bueno para empezar, la solución empieza definiendo el dilema. Esto quiere decir que para proponer una solución, primero hay que identificar el problema. ¿Es Dios realmente un problema? Cuando las más de 4,000 religiones existentes intentan ponerse de acuerdo, sí, parece ser un problema.
Me llama la atención que el autor hable de la regla de oro tan superficialmente, y se centre más en la regla de platino. Casi todas las religiones tienen su propia versión de La Regla de Oro. Y todas pueden resumirse en: AMOR.
Sobre esto es todo. Amor. Amor de Dios con nosotros, amor de nosotros con nosotros y con los demás. Este amor incondicional, entregado y tan puro, que no espera nada a cambio, ni siquiera amor de vuelta. Esta es la clave. El desprendimiento de los resultados, el abandonarse en el amor sin esperar nada.
Empieza algo lento, pero del capítulo 16 en adelante, se adentra en el tema y no hay vuelta atrás. Recomiendo estar familiarizado con algunos conceptos de metafísica, espiritualidad, ley de atracción y el agradecimiento, ya que este libro es solo un leve acercamiento del poder de Dios y cómo nosotros podemos usar ese poder.
Para concluir, recomiendo este libro como un complemento, un resumen de conceptos que requieren más profundidad. Entre las lecturas recomendadas pueden estar Las Conversaciones con Dios de este autor, El Secreto, Mensajes de los Sabios u otros de Bryan Weiss. Ya que se debe romper el concepto que tenemos de Dios y renovar la visión que nos han inculcado.
Me llama la atención que el autor hable de la regla de oro tan superficialmente, y se centre más en la regla de platino. Casi todas las religiones tienen su propia versión de La Regla de Oro. Y todas pueden resumirse en: AMOR.
Sobre esto es todo. Amor. Amor de Dios con nosotros, amor de nosotros con nosotros y con los demás. Este amor incondicional, entregado y tan puro, que no espera nada a cambio, ni siquiera amor de vuelta. Esta es la clave. El desprendimiento de los resultados, el abandonarse en el amor sin esperar nada.
Empieza algo lento, pero del capítulo 16 en adelante, se adentra en el tema y no hay vuelta atrás. Recomiendo estar familiarizado con algunos conceptos de metafísica, espiritualidad, ley de atracción y el agradecimiento, ya que este libro es solo un leve acercamiento del poder de Dios y cómo nosotros podemos usar ese poder.
Para concluir, recomiendo este libro como un complemento, un resumen de conceptos que requieren más profundidad. Entre las lecturas recomendadas pueden estar Las Conversaciones con Dios de este autor, El Secreto, Mensajes de los Sabios u otros de Bryan Weiss. Ya que se debe romper el concepto que tenemos de Dios y renovar la visión que nos han inculcado.
November 25, 2021
Simple And Profound
Neale hits the nail on the head with the God Dilemma. Our world is in the midst of an epoch that future generations will define themselves by. Our collective God confusion is leading to the fusion of heart, mind, and soul. Isn’t that the true purpose and meaning of religion? Only the religious would disagree.
As you entertain the ideas in this book you can not help but to become the “Idea Hero” Neale challenges us to be.
In the reading of these ideas one can not help but to feel the yearning of their soul binding itself to the evolution of our species. We are on this journey to evolve into something more and this book is another step in that direction. Thanks Neale for doing it again!
Neale hits the nail on the head with the God Dilemma. Our world is in the midst of an epoch that future generations will define themselves by. Our collective God confusion is leading to the fusion of heart, mind, and soul. Isn’t that the true purpose and meaning of religion? Only the religious would disagree.
As you entertain the ideas in this book you can not help but to become the “Idea Hero” Neale challenges us to be.
In the reading of these ideas one can not help but to feel the yearning of their soul binding itself to the evolution of our species. We are on this journey to evolve into something more and this book is another step in that direction. Thanks Neale for doing it again!
May 5, 2022
This book is so powerful. I listened to the audio version and felt that Neale Walsh’s reading added depth and meaningfulness. Walsch’s concept of what god truly is and is not gives the reader a great deal to think about. Moreover - it’s uplifting and a good reminder of who we truly are.
January 21, 2023
Excelente libro
Contiene puntos de vista y propuestas espirituales realmente innovadoras y a mi parecer necesarias de poner en acción en cada uno de nuestros entornos para lograr la transformación que tanto anhelamos de la humanidad.
Contiene puntos de vista y propuestas espirituales realmente innovadoras y a mi parecer necesarias de poner en acción en cada uno de nuestros entornos para lograr la transformación que tanto anhelamos de la humanidad.
March 28, 2021
As it could be
I was thinking that this offering is such a good addition to his body of works and is a testament to his growth as a writer. It's his style to express, in simple ways, profound thoughts regarding our human dilemma and a workable solution, which he does so well in this book. The solution resides within, where it has always been and where all the wise ones, of all times have pointed out but his take on it is nicely stated in a different way. Very clever in fact. A good reason to get and read this book.
I was thinking that this offering is such a good addition to his body of works and is a testament to his growth as a writer. It's his style to express, in simple ways, profound thoughts regarding our human dilemma and a workable solution, which he does so well in this book. The solution resides within, where it has always been and where all the wise ones, of all times have pointed out but his take on it is nicely stated in a different way. Very clever in fact. A good reason to get and read this book.
February 7, 2021
The writer as usual creating and keeping stigma for people who suffer from Mental health issues. This book or his teachings are not for those people. Means he is giving permission to society and the care givers to violate these people who are suffering from MH challenges. Cause it seems according to the writer, they can't be doing wrong. Who decides that? Cause according to the writer, MH challenged people lack the ability of giving and receiving pure Love.
March 24, 2021
sensational truths revealed and life changing book
Indeed, we humans are babies and do not understand what God is about! Once the pure love is understood and spread throughout the world, our life mission is accomplished. Learning about pure love and becoming a mature being is the only reason why we come into this world of chaos and selfishness, so that we may become part of the Light and find our real home after we learn the lesson and spiritually mature.
Indeed, we humans are babies and do not understand what God is about! Once the pure love is understood and spread throughout the world, our life mission is accomplished. Learning about pure love and becoming a mature being is the only reason why we come into this world of chaos and selfishness, so that we may become part of the Light and find our real home after we learn the lesson and spiritually mature.
August 13, 2021
A perspective worth embracing
NDW does it again but more emphatically. This book seems to come directly from his heart and his convictions are well thought out. A life long student and believer in metaphysics, I found some “new thoughts” for sure. More importantly, there were new practices to take on and for those, I am especially grateful.
NDW does it again but more emphatically. This book seems to come directly from his heart and his convictions are well thought out. A life long student and believer in metaphysics, I found some “new thoughts” for sure. More importantly, there were new practices to take on and for those, I am especially grateful.
July 19, 2022
What a powerful message from Neale. What if we entertained a new idea of “God”? What if we simply questioned our concept of the deity we were supposed to fear? I love the notion that it’s okay for our spiritual life to evolve and actually be challenged. Highly recommend this book if you are open to looking at spirituality from different angles.
May 8, 2022
Excellent, clear and thought provoking. All of the books in the Conversations with God series are wonderful. This book clearly challenges us to put into practice the messages of the series and he suggests how we can do it and how that will benefit our world.
July 16, 2024
Reading this book takes away the stigma often felt from the religious dogma we grew up with and replaces it with an "easy to understand and apply a name for" the very essence of who we are, "LOVE"
August 13, 2021
Pure Love
Very good book. Always enjoy Neale’s books. I liked it because it came to a conclusion that expressing Pure Love always is the answer. Should I do this or that? Go there or somewhere else. Treat My God, and other beings with pure love? Of course. Pure love will provide the answers to any and all questions in life. When the majority lives Pure Love, we will be in the light of God.
Very good book. Always enjoy Neale’s books. I liked it because it came to a conclusion that expressing Pure Love always is the answer. Should I do this or that? Go there or somewhere else. Treat My God, and other beings with pure love? Of course. Pure love will provide the answers to any and all questions in life. When the majority lives Pure Love, we will be in the light of God.
October 8, 2024
This book is our future...if we want it <3
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