Neale Donald Walsch

Neale Donald Walsch (also known as Neale Marshall-Walsch) (b. September 10, 1943 in Milwaukee) is an American author of the series Conversations with God. The books so far in the series are Conversations With God (books 1-3), Friendship with God, Communion with God, The New Revelations, Tomorrow'...

Neale Donald Walsch (also known as Neale Marshall-Walsch) (b. September 10, 1943 in Milwaukee) is an American author of the series Conversations with God. The books so far in the series are Conversations With God (books 1-3), Friendship with God, Communion with God, The New Revelations, Tomorrow's God, What God Wants, Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends, Happier than God, and his newest book When Everything Changes, Change Everything.

Biography

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 studied The Bible, the Rig Veda and the Upanishads. 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.

Career

Before the Conversations With God series in the early 1990s, Walsch suffered a series of crushing blows — a fire that destroyed all of his belongings, the break-up of his marriage, a car accident that left him with a broken neck. Once recovered but alone and unemployed, Walsch 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, Walsch thought his life had come to an end. Despondent, Walsch began his writings after working his way out of homelessness following a short-lived job as a radio talk show host.

In 2003, the film Indigo, written by Neale Donald Walsch and James Twyman and directed by Stephen Simon was released. It chronicled the fictional story of the redemption of a grandfather, played by Walsch, through his granddaughter, who is an indigo child.

Conversations With God: The Movie opened in U.S. theaters Friday, October 27, 2006 and in Canada, November 10. The film was released on DVD February 27, 2007.

Walsch was accused of plagiarism in his 2008 Christmas article, "Upside down, or right side up?" which was published in Beliefnet.com.[4][5] Walsch's story purports to tell the tale of a miraculous appearance of the words "Christ Was Love" during the rehearsal of his son's school Christmas pageant; but his article is almost identical to the same article published 10 years previously by Candy Chand in spiritual magazine Clarity and spread over the internet in places like the Heartwarmers website, down to the name of the son mentioned in both articles, Nicholas - as both authors have a son named Nicholas.[4][6] Walsch subsequently apologized, saying that he must have erroneously internalized the story as his own over the years, a claim the original author Chand doesn't believe.[4] The article was subsequently pulled from Beliefnet.com, and Walsch withdrawn from the roster of authors.[4] Walsch has explained that he was fully convinced that the history had really happened to him and that he had been repeating it as his own in many speeches over the last years, he says that "I am chagrined and astonished that my mind could play such a trick on me"

Bibliography

    * Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 1) (October 1, 1996)
    * Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 2) (May 1, 1997)
    * Meditations from Conversations With God, Book 2: A Personal Journal (December 1, 1997)
    * The Little Soul and the Sun: A Children's Parable Adapted from Conversations With God (April 1, 1998)
    * Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 3) (October 1, 1998)
    * Neale Donald Walsch on Relationships (September 30, 1999)
    * Neale Donald Walsch on Holistic Living (September 30, 1999)
    * Neale Donald Walsch on Abundance and Right Livelihood (October 1, 1999)
    * Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (October 1, 1999)
    * Questions and Answers on Conversations With God (October 1, 1999)
    * The Wedding Vows from Conversations With God (April 1, 2000)
    * Recreating Your Self (June 1, 2000)
    * Communion With God (October, 2000)
    * Signals: An Inspiring Story of Life After Life (April 9, 2001) (by Joel Rothschild, foreword by Neale Donald Walsh)
    * Moments of Grace (July 2001)
    * Conversations With God for Teens (November 1, 2001)
    * The New Revelations: A Conversation with God (September 30, 2002)
    * Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge (March 2, 2004)
    * What God Wants: A Compelling Answer to Humanity's Biggest Question (March 22, 2005)
    * The Little Soul And The Earth: A Children's Parable Adapted From Conversations With God (August 1, 2005) (with Frank Riccio)
    * The Complete Conversations with God (October 20, 2005)
    * Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends (March 29, 2006)
    * Happier Than God: Turn Ordinary Life into an Extraordinary Experience (February 29, 2008)
    * When Everything Changes, Change Everything: In a Time of Turmoil, a Pathway to Peace (May 8, 2009)