“When’s Book 3 coming out?”, “Where’s Book 3?”, “When can we expect Book 3?” Youcan imagine what this did to me, and what impact this had on the process of bringing itthrough. I might as well have been making love on the pitcher’s mound in YankeeStadium. Actually, that act would have afforded me more privacy. In the writing of Book 3,every time I picked up a pen I felt I had five million people watching, waiting, hanging onevery word. All of this is not to congratulate myself on completing this work, but rather, tosimply explain why it has taken so long. My moments of mental, spiritual, and physicalsolitude have been, over these most recent years, very few and far between. I began thisbook in the spring of 1994, and all of the early narrative was written in that time period. Itthen leaps across many months, ultimately jumping forward a full year, and finallyculminating with closing chapters written in the spring and summer of 1998. On this muchyou can depend: this book was not forced out, by any means. The inspiration either camecleanly, or I simply put the pen down and refused to write—in one case for well over 14months. I was determined to produce no book at all, if it was to be a choice between thatand a book I had to produce because I said I would. While this made my publisher a bitnervous, it went a long way toward giving me confidence in what was coming through,however long it was taking. I present it now, with confidence, to you. This book sums upthe teachings in the first two installments of this trilogy. It then carries them forward to their logical, and breathtaking, conclusion. If you’ve read the Foreword to either of the first twoinstallments, you know that in each case I was a little bit apprehensive. Scared, actually, of what the response to those writings might be. I am not scared now. I have no fear whatsoever about Book 3. I know that it will touch many of those who read it with itsinsight and its truth, its warmth and its love. I believe this to be sacred spiritual material. Isee now that this is true of the entire trilogy, and that these books will be read and studiedfor decades, even for generations. Perhaps, for centuries. Because, taken together, thetrilogy covers an amazing range of topics, from how to make relationships work to thenature of ultimate reality and the cosmology of the universe, and includes observations onlife, death, romance, marriage, sex, parenting, health, education, economics, politics,spirituality and religion, life work and right livelihood, physics, time, social mores andcustoms, the process of creation, our relationship with God, ecology, crime andpunishment, life in highly evolved societies of the cosmos, right and wrong, cultural mythsand cultural ethics, the soul, soul partners, the nature of genuine love, and the way toglorious expression of the part of ourselves that knows Divinity as our natural heritage. Myprayer is that you will receive benefit from this work. Blessed be. Neale Donald WalschSeptember, 1998Conversations with Godan uncommon dialogue15It is Easter Sunday, 1994, and I am here, pen in hand, as instructed. I am waiting for God.He’s promised to show up, as She has the past two Easters, to begin another yearlongconversation. The third and last—for now. This process—this extraordinarycommunication—began in 1992. It will be complete on Easter, 1995. Three years, three
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