The New Revelations
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
Neale Donald Walsch's profound conversation with God continues with a "New Revelation" - brought to us at a time when we need it most. This life-changing book offers some possible, penetrating answers to the questions of our day, providing the tools to pull ourselves out of despair and towards a new world vision. Addressing the zeitgeist following the tide of events of September 11th, we are shown that the violence, loss, sorrow and terror of our world cannot be eliminated through political or economic action, but only by changing our beliefs. Five fallacies about life, combined with the five fallacies about God, continue to feed a deadly misconception that leads to devastating world events governed by violence and crisis. Through challenging the fallacies of our beliefs we can move forward, building at last a new world of peace and harmony based on our new, true beliefs about God and life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Like Walsch's earlier bestsellers, this New Age volume purports to be a record of a conversation with, and revelation from, God. The overarching argument is simple, indeed a bit tautological: humanity has reached a turning point. As evidenced by September 11, something about our world isn't working. We do not, however, need to tinker with our economics or politics; rather, we need to retool our beliefs about those systems that govern society. This is key, Walsch insists, because "beliefs create behaviors." Fond of numbered lists, Walsch gives us "Five Steps to Peace," which include our admitting that there is something we don't understand about "God and... Life, the understanding of which could change everything." Walsch also offers Nine New Revelations, some of which don't seem all that new, including the idea that God has always communicated directly with people, or that God would never punish us with eternal damnation. The Steps to Peace and the New Revelations all point toward the peaceful, humane spirituality that Walsch wants readers to cultivate, a spirituality that focuses not on morals but on "functionality." Because Walsch is ecumenical, drawing on Robert Schuller, Harold Kushner, the Bhagavad Gita and Shakespeare, seekers from many spiritual backgrounds will find his book inviting, and the dialogue format makes for easy reading. For those who are interested in a spiritual approach to global upheaval, these "New Revelations" will prove inspiring and companionable.
