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Publisher's
Information: Something extraordinary is about to happen on
this planet.
Humanity is about to create a new form of spirituality. This New
Spirituality will allow humans to express their natural impulse toward the
Divine without making one another wrong for the way in which they are
doing it, and without killing one another in the name of it. When the New
Spirituality is embraced by humanity, it will, of course, change
everything. And that is exactly what is needed now.
This book contains an astonishing prediction.
And that prediction comes from an astonishing source. Author Neale Donald
Walsch says it comes directly from God. Whether you believe that or not, you
will find it difficult not to be swept up in the startling and profound
vision of our near future contained here.
Tomorrow's God says, point-blank, that
humanity will soon re-create its experience of God in such a way that our
experience of one another will be healed at last. You may agree or disagree
with the contents of this book, but you will never forget having read it.
Pat's Comments/Review: The more we
discover about our Universe, the more we discover about God. The more we
understand about Creation, the more we understand about The Creator. And
lately, there’s been a lot of discovering and understanding going on.
This is
reflected in the titles of a number of books published in the past decade.
And, as our view of the world changes, we must ask ourselves questions as to
how this changes our view of God. Here’s some titles: God and the New
Physics; The God Particle; Has Science Found God?; God and the Big Bang;
God’s Whisper, Creation’s Thunder: Echoes of Ultimate Reality in the New
Physics; Physicists and God: The New Priests of Religion?; and Beyond the
Quantum: A Journey to God and Reality in the New Scientific Revolution.
I’ve read some of
these books. (Even understood one or two.) They make clear that the new
physics, especially, is revealing the Universe to be far more elegant and
complex than previously believed. And a more elegant and complex Universe
implies a more elegant and complex God.
What would a more
elegant and complex God look like? How can we come to understand this God
and have a relationship with Him/Her/It? For the most part, the science
writers hesitate to deeply explore these questions. And religious writers
have difficulty seeing God in any way other than the standard All Powerful
Creator & Heavenly Father view of God.
So when I came
across Walsch’s new book, Tomorrow’s God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge,
even though I hadn’t read any of his other books (of which there are many) I
couldn’t wait to read it. I was rewarded with a wonderfully spiritually
uplifting guide to Tomorrow’s God. In actuality, the God he describes is
very similar to the God I have been coming to know for the many years of my
own personal spiritual journey.
For example,
here’s description #2 of Tomorrow’s God:
Tomorrow’s God is without gender, size, shape, color, or any of the
characteristics of an individual living being.
I grew up with
the image God being a white, bearded and aged (but energetic and youthful) Almighty Father
in the sky, who wears flowing robes that wave gently in the breeze. But my
changing view of God has become more complex than can be accommodated by the
limitations of human form and characteristics—no
matter how Supremely Devine the image of a Heavenly Father may be. This is
not that unusual; a lot of people, I’m sure, have said the same thing.
So let’s move
on to something more controversial like description #4 of Tomorrow’s
God:
Tomorrow’s God is separate from nothing, but is Everywhere Present, the All
In All, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the Sum Total of
Everything that ever was, is now, and ever shall be.
No separation.
Hmm. Now, there’s an idea to chew upon! And what about the bad stuff in the
Universe, is that God too? Walsch admits on the back cover of the book that
“the time to challenge your most sacred beliefs is at hand.” But he doesn’t
hit and run; he lays a wonderful foundation for understanding everything he
claims about Tomorrow’s God.
And,
interestingly enough, description #4 is very consistent with what the
authors of the new science books I listed above are saying—God is in
everything, in every working of the Universe, from the largest planetary
body to the tiniest subatomic particle. God is Light, God is Energy, God is
Thought. God is the Universe. God is all we know and what we do not yet know that lays
within and outside of the Universe.
Walsch (through
his conversation with God) offers us 9 new understandings of Tomorrow’s God.
Then, in several chapters, he (again, though his conversation with God)
explains how our understanding of Tomorrow’s God will be reflected in our
schools, our politics, our economics, our relationships, and of course, our
spirituality. I found much to celebrate in these chapters!
I believe a major
strength of this book is that gives us a very approachable way of wrapping
our mind around the idea of a more elegant and complex God—without losing
our relationship with God. Indeed, you may find Walsch’s book brings you
closer to God than ever before.
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