Conversations With God : An Uncommon Dialogue Paperback – January 1, 1997

This book found me. Roll your eyes. I would! But, it’s still true. I was going through the darkest professional and personal period of my life - feeling the stone hard bedrock of “rock bottom”. A place I would never have imagined my successful life to have ever reached. As a rational scientist, a long time atheist and occasional wonderer in matters-unknown based on experiences, I was a bit surprised when another scientist friend of mine recommended this book when I needed it. He said, “It’s not what you think.”Honestly, I had no thoughts on it. With a title like, “Conversations With God”, I didn’t expect it to be literal. I’ll go a little into “what I think” of it now. But, at the time I needed it, this book … god I hate to say this … “saved me”. During that dark period, I had started taking Xanax just to function. My anxiety and depression had hit levels that I’ve never encountered before. And I am certainly someone that most people would consider as having a lot of grit. So, these feelings were profound. What was more profound were the understandings provided by this book. As I read it, my anxieties, fears and depression disappeared. As I read it! Not over a long period of time.How can this be? There are deep philosophical truths in this series of books that I have not read anywhere else, but certainly felt within me, even before picking up this book. It covers Who You Are, the purpose of life, true Love (not this nonsense we’ve been taught to believe) and the truths about God (again, not this nonsense we’ve been taught to believe).On that last point, now here’s where I’ll provide a bit about “what I think”. It reminds me of the story “Life of Pi”. In telling his story, Pi started it with “It’ll make you believe in God.” By the end of the story, you have a choice to believe in the horrors people do to each other, or to believe in grandness of God. It’s more like you will “want” to believe in God. Similarly, the conversations in this series, the “truths” that are revealed - people can deny and debate them - provide a philosophical and/or spiritual framework you can adopt to live your life to its fullest. By reading this series, you will want to believe in God, because he/she is not the narcissist, insecure, vengeful god of religious myths. If you understand true Love, you will understand this. And you will have permission to believe in God regardless of how skeptical you are, because God doesn’t require anything of you except for you to be whoever you choose to be. You can choose to live your life using this framework, or you can choose a different one. But, this one makes the most sense for people who want to live full, joyful, loving lives. It doesn’t makes sense to choose a harder path.If you’re here considering reading this book, just click buy and read it. You’ve needed it. Here it is.

Very interesting and teaches you… or explains rather the beginning of “Gods” existence and forward. The way we interpret things the Bible has said that are incorrect and much more!

The book I received is in excellent condition .

Only gave this 5 stars in hopes that this review would show up in place of the others.The second and third sentence in chapter 1 are enough to tell you that this is heresy. First of all, God has been speaking to us through His Word. Second, Christ Jesus was the final prophet and so there is no need for prophets in these days because God’s Word is final, Jesus was God’s final Word.Another issue of heresy here is found in the middle of the page on page 4 where it says and I quote “God” speaking to the author, “Now the supreme irony here is that you have placed so much importance on the Word of God, and so little on experience” and later says that the importance between these two should be “the other way around” in the next paragraph. That is TOTALLY opposite of what the Lord says in Scripture. This book is from the enemy and so I say to beware and to read the Scripture for that is truly God’s Word to us.

First I must address the bad reviews. Please note all the bad reviews come from a particular group that has been conditioned over the years to think a particular way. They tend not to leave space for anything else (odd since space is infinite and ‘god’ created space). Nonetheless this group thinks there’s only one way to skin a cat and that’s it. I day to those who don’t like the book or call it blasphemy, allow them the space...of the book serves you it serves you...and remember Jesus was denied by the very same type of people/thinkers (our way is the right way and only way)..I digress. For me, the book really comes alive when I can put it to the test of my life experience. And so far all of what has been said FEELS right and resonates with me. Try it out. Are the foundation of your actions, thoughts, and beliefs fear or love. You have to be honest about this question. You also have to have a serious inquiry into yourself and you’re beliefs.“You may be sincere but not serious”- Alan WattsTo conclude, what’s important is you, your thoughts, your actions, your emotions, your experiences, your evolution into becoming the best version of you. Own that truth and never let anything external impact your internal state of being. Be-ing. To be.

I would not call this book "God-dictated" as much as "God-inspired." It's a very human book with some divine seeds cast about. Most of it is almost written from a Deist perspective; however, it also espouses the New Age philosophy that everything that happens to you is created by you, which can be tough for some to hear -- especially those who maybe have lost a child, had cancer, or been bankrupted due to medical bills. I disagree with the book's basic philosophy that God doesn't care if we succeed or fail, if we sin or live to serve others, or if we do wrong or right, because there is no such thing as good or evil. But again -- the book is written by a human, from their human perspective. I do think it does a good job of introducing the idea that God is bigger than we know and capable of more than we understand, yet also someone we can talk to as we would a friend or beloved parent. So if it enlarges our concept of God or brings God a little closer to us, I guess that is a good thing. But if something in this book doesn't sit well with you, I'd say don't feel as if you're insulting God by not believing it. it's just one interpretation of many regarding what God thinks. And if you read it with that perspective, you'll probably enjoy it.

Great book everyone should read this it will change your life