Neale Donald Walsch

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Neale Donald Walsch : biography

September 10, 1943 –

Neale Donald Walsch (born September 10, 1943) is an American author of the series Conversations with God. The nine books in the complete series are Conversations With God (books 1-3), Friendship with God, Communion with God, The New Revelations, Conversations with God for Teens, Tomorrow’s God, and Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends. He is also an actor, screenwriter, and speaker.

Criticism

Walsch was accused of plagiarism for a six-paragraph entry in one of the daily postings on his blog during 2008, this one during the Christmas season, when he published an item titled "Upside down, or right side up?" on Beliefnet.com., Belief.net Walsch’s entry purported 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 was almost identical to an article published 10 years previously by Candy Chand in the spiritual magazine Clarity and spread over the internet in places such as the Heartwarmers website, down to the name of the son mentioned in both articles, Nicholas – as both authors have a son named Nicholas., email in Heartwarmers.com mailing list, posted by moderator, history signed by Candy Chand, 2000-12-10 Walsch publicly apologized, saying that he must have erroneously internalized the story as his own over the years, a claim the original author said she does not believe. The article was subsequently pulled from Beliefnet.com and Walsch voluntarily withdrew from the roster of authors because of his error. Walsch explained that he found the anecdote in old computer files from years earlier, saw his son’s name in the copy, and was fully convinced that the history had really happened to him and that he had just forgotten it, but "remembered" when he saw the anecdote in his file. He cited it as a classic case of false memory and said that he had been repeating the anecdote as his own in many speeches over the years, adding that he was "chagrined and astonished that my mind could play such a trick on me"., New York Times, Motoko Rich, 2009-01-06

Writings

Conversations with God Series

The following are the nine books in the Conversations With God series. Each of these books is a claimed transcipt of dialogue between two beings, Neale Donald Walsch and "God", with the exception of "Communion with God", which is written only by "God".

  1. Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 1) (1996) ISBN 978-0-399-14278-9
  2. Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 2) (1997) ISBN 978-1-57174-056-4
  3. Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 3) (1998) ISBN 978-1-57174-103-5
  4. Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (1999) ISBN 978-0-399-14541-4
  5. Communion With God: An Uncommon Dialogue (2000) ISBN 978-0-399-14670-1
  6. Conversations With God for Teens (forword by Alanis Morissette) (2001) ISBN 978-1-57174-263-6
  7. The New Revelations: A Conversation with God (2002) ISBN 978-0-7434-6303-4
  8. Tomorrow’s God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge (2004) ISBN 978-0-7434-6304-1
  9. Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends (2006) ISBN 978-0-7432-6716-8

The first three books in the series are often called the CwG trilogy. In 2005, the trilogy was re-released as one combined ‘Gift Edition’ book. This edition contains the entire text of the first three books with ‘God’s words in blue ink and Neale’s in black ink, and features a combined 3-in-1 index at the back.

  • The Complete Conversations with God (October 20, 2005) ISBN 978-0-399-15329-7

Home With God, we are told, is the final book in this series of two-way written communication .

CwG Supplemental Material

In addition to the books of the CwG series, there are also a number of guidebooks, meditation books, and other books adapted from the CwG series and referring to the CwG message. The following books do not have any new information from the voice of "God", but were written by Neale Donald Walsch, to assist with understanding and applying the messages. Starting in 2008, The School of the New Spirituality, Inc. (SNS), founded by Walsch, starting publishing new guidebooks for the series.