I’m currently reading Neale Donald Walsch’s book ‘Conversations with God’. I’m very familiar with Eastern philosophy but have never been a Christian, and so some elements of the book are only superficially familiar to me. Nevertheless themes such as good and evil, prayer, the Biblical creation story, and so on are to a certain extent pervasive within our culture and so of interest.
All of these things are addressed by the book, which takes the form of a dialogue between the author, who poses a variety of questions, and God, who writes answers back into the author’s legal pad using the authors own hand. It is thus a form of automatic writing.
The actual philosophy espoused in the book is that the universe when it was at one, decided it would try and experience itself and therefore subdivided itself and thus caused free will to be. It takes it from there, but basically any being is an aspect of God looking to express itself. Fascinating stuff.
