Book 7: Conversations with God
My father loved it... And while I haven't focused on it that much, I always respected many parts of it. This for example:
"...
So let’s enter the dialogue with a question I had been asking for a very long time:
How does God talk, and to whom?
When I asked this question, here’s the answer I received:
I talk to everyone. All the time. The question is not to whom do I talk, but who listens?
Intrigued, I asked God to expand on this subject. Here’s what God said:
First,
jet’s exchange the word talk with the word communicate. It’s a much
better word, a much fuller, more accurate one. When we try to speak to
each other—Me to you, you to Me, we are immediately constricted by the unbelievable limitation of words. For this reason, I do not communicate by words alone. In fact, rarely do I do so. My most common form of communication is through feeling.
Feeling is the language of the soul.
If
you want to know what’s true for you about something, look to how
you’re feeling about it. Feelings are sometimes difficult to
discover—and often even more difficult to acknowledge. Yet hidden in your deepest feelings is your highest truth.
The trick is to get to those feelings. I will show you how. Again. If you wish.
I
told God that I did wish, but that right now I wished even more for a
complete and full answer to my first question. Here’s what God said:
I
also communicate with thought. Thought and feelings are not the same,
although they can occur at the same time. In communicating with thought,
I often use images and pictures. For this reason, thoughts are more
effective than mere words as tools of communication. In addition to
feelings and thoughts, I also use the vehicle of experience as a grand communicator.
And
finally, when feelings and thoughts and experience all fail, I use
words. Words are really the least effective communicator. They are most
open to misinterpretation, most often misunderstood. And why is that? It
is because of what words are. Words are merely utterances: noises
that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols.
Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They are not the real thing.
Words
may help you understand something. Experience allows you to know. Yet
there are some things you cannot experience. So I have given you other
tools of knowing. And these are called feelings. And so too,
thoughts.Now the supreme irony here is that you have all placed so much
importance on the Word of God, and so little on the experience.
In
fact, you place so little value on experience that when what you
experience of God differs from what you’ve heard of God, you
automatically discard the experience and own the words, when it should be just the other way around.
Your
experience and your feelings about a thing represent what you factually
and intuitively know about that thing. Words can only seek to symbolize
what you know, and can often confuse what you know.
These,
then, are the tools with which I communicate, yet they are not the
methods, for not all feelings, not all thoughts, not all experience, and
not all words are from Me.
..."
I still view all these ideas as very valid, I did even before reading them I think, as intuitively some of this should be there for a lot of people...
Lets say we are entering a new place, a group or an activity... We can say that first few movements our Universe, all we know and most of what we are is interacting with the Universe of the group. Can think of it as 2 giant eletromagnetic donut shaped fields touching each other creating sparks.
In this early steps, as far as I'm aware, whatever happens is our divination of what will happen in our interactions with the group if we continue to interact with it more deeply. If we are greeted by severe conflicts, we can choose. If we are there for that, staying is wise. If not, leaving is nice. If we are greeted by silence, again can decide, do we want a reaction from the other site, or we prefer to not make waves and that is needed...
Overall, all future interactions in that place are compressed in that first few movements when the two Universes meet, as far as I'm aware. Stuff can change, divination is always just a direction it moves to, but this is more reliable then many "tool" based divination in my view.
That makes stuff very easy, we approach something new, we observe how that something will respond to us. And we decide if that response is something we want to deepen and know more about, or for some reason our place is not there at that time.
I think sometimes that can be misinterpreted... As someone not having "steady" approach to stuff, or "not taking them seriously" etc. I don't think its that, though, I just think its using divination by events in more direct form. No need to use tools, every time, most of what we may want to know will show by the situations we see.
Some of it, may turn to the opposite, though, but the general idea is the same.
And all this is a long way to just say that I still very much agree with this part of the book, and I still do agree with other parts of the book too... So it left a trace. Have seen going back to parts of it through the years, when finding out something mentioned there turned out to be valid...
Channeling is always coming from us, as mentioned above words can never be perfect, even less so when used that way. Yet in this specific book I think good work was done, so seems good idea to post it here too. : )
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