Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends

by Neale Donald Walsch

Book Overview

An instant New York Times bestseller, Neale Donald Walsch offers the classic exploration of the process by which we end our lives here on earth and begin our so-called after life experience in God's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074326715X
• ISBN13: 9780743267151
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

You'll get what you expect

The reviews here are essentially: "I loved it", or "What kind of drugs are you on?", with a few, "hey, it's not the Bible!" thrown in for good measure. As the authors (I'll give Neale the benefit of the doubt, not that it really matters) are simply trying to help us all make sense of the unknown. Religions have been doing this for millenium, but how many religions have updated their doctines to keep up with new information? None. So people get fed up and decide to find the answers for themselves. The beautiful thing about the whole series is that it is internally very consistent, sort of a light version of "A Course in Miracles" (and a LOT easier to read). This last book actually does a nice job of bridging some of the differences between the two. It all comes down to what you want to believe. Actually, this is basically the message of the entire series: "if there is a God, and he created us like Himself, then we too would be God, and could do/have whatever we want". The problem is that our previously imprinted beliefs are so strong that we limit ourselves because we don't even really understand the concept of desire and how it manifests itself in our lives. If you read this book, what you will get out of it depends on: (a) how open your mind is; and (b) how much you want to believe the material. If you have (a) but not (b), you'll probably find it thought provoking. If you have (b) but not (a), you'll probably find it blasphemous. If you have neither, don't bother reading it. If you have both, you will find the experience truly uplifting - and may possibly never be the same (in a very good way!).

Best Book(s) Ever...

I have read all eight books in the "With God" series a few times now and I must say they are the best books I have ever read. The first book came to my life when I needed it most. I was depressed during the writing of my Master's thesis. I was smoking Marijuana half of the day and playing Quake III Arena online. At that time, I was an atheist and did not know what to do with my life. Then I got a wrist injury and could not game anymore or write my thesis. Then that Christmas (2000), I got the first book "Conversations with God" from my girlfriend. When I read it, I realized this was the book I had been waiting for all my life. I was an atheist because I never believed in Christian concepts such as Hell, original sin, the Church etc. These concepts made no sense to me. I thought if that is God than I am rather an Atheist. But in these books I found a God which I could really believe in. A God who is unconditional love, non-judgmental, peace, joy, wisdom and gentleness. I immediately read all the books of the series I could lay my hands on. Everything made perfect sense to me I immediately agreed with almost everything. I saw it as if someone had finally written down what I always had believed subconsciously. When I started reading these books, I asked God: are these books really true? Do you really exist? I must say that God answered me. During that period some extremely unlikely coincidences occurred to me which I perceived as signs from God. Then I was sure: this IS MY truth. However, applying these books to your life is not easy. When you read these books, you realize that most ideas you had about God, life, humans and the world are completely different from what you learn from these books. This requires a great willingness to change. It requires great courage to closely investigate you own ideas and see if they are still valid or not. Many people never challenge their own ideas and want to keep them the same throughout their lives. They just believe what they have been taught and do not challenge their own ideas and others such as politicians and religious leaders. I must be said that these books can make one feel lonely from time to time, because you realize that your ideas about life and God have become completely different from most people around you. As such, discovering your truth can be a burden from time to time. However, given the current state of our world, the endless wars, (religious) intolerance, and rapid decline of our environment, a new way of thinking and living is required if we are to survive as a species. I believe that these books offer us compelling solutions for the great challenges our world faces today. Therefore, I urge everyone to read these books. Now with this book this magnificent series has sadly come to an end. With the first three books, I must say that this is the best book of them all. However, the ideas, which are discussed in this book, are rather advanced so I would advise people to start with the firs

There Is No Death In God

In 1975 my mother passed away from this Earth plane. I was only nine years old. When I first heard of her passing, the news hit me like a ton of bricks and I was completely hysterical. I went out to the backyard and sat under the peach tree that my mother and I used to sit under many times and I had a very vivid dream of my mother and in it she told me how happy she was, how good she felt, how she really didn't die but just left the body she was using. When I awoke I was filled with a feeling of peace and a knowing that there is never any death of any kind in God. Well, needless to say this went over like a lead balloon when I told my family that mom didn't really die. They took it as being insensitive and that I must've not really loved her that much if I got over her passing so rapidly. No matter what I said I was shut down and made to feel very guilty. So I forgot all about my dream of my mother being happy and alive and doing well and I learned how to mourn and I learned how to mourn very well. One morning I woke up and I realized I was now 22 years old. Where was I for the last 13 years of my life? I was basically on auto-pilot. Even though I was now in my twenties I still felt like that sad little nine year old boy. The shock was traumatic and I actually had what professionals like to call a mental breakdown but I have since learned to call it a breakthrough. I finally got a chance to talk about my pain, my suffering, my guilt. I finally got an opportunity to tell someone who was willing to listen to me that I was sad and angry and disillusioned and somehow through the power of compassion and grace I could tell that the pieces of my psyche were coming together. I began to feel as though I was healing. When I got out of the "looney bin" I made a pilgrimage to the cemetery where my mother was and through some help, I located her grave. I fell down on my knees and cried bitterly, "Oh, mom, I've been such a horrible person. I'm sorry I didn't love you. I'm sorry I didn't care enough to think that you were gone from my life." I was so emotionally exhausted that I fell asleep at the gravesite. I had another dream with my mother in it. Once again she told me that she was fine, that she was still in my life, that the Love we had for each other could never be destroyed. I woke up feeling completely healed. I woke up knowing that God is a God of Love and Love never dies. This book confirms those things that my soul knows to be true. You can't really explain these things to people who aren't open to such things and we don't even need to. We will be with the ones who left before us again. We will continue our journey forever. Life and Death are not separate but the same. This is a great book. It took me three days to read it and I am now reading it again with a pad of paper and a pen so that I can take detailed notes. It's not going to be for those who are adamant that there's a place called Heaven and a place called hell, but it's for those wh

OUTSTANDING ABOUT the DEATH EXPERIENCE AS REAL LIFE

Neale Donald Walsh's OUTSTANDING new book "Home With God: In a Life That Never Ends" is a breathtaking explanation from God about the death experience, and what to expect when we go to the other side. To give you a feel for this extraordinary book, here is a brief explanation quoted directly from the book: (note: I placed "Neale" and "God" so you will understand who is speaking.) (Neale) "I had heard that we are reunited with our loved ones after death and that they help us "cross over," and I am soooo glad to know that this is true! (GOD) You may even become aware of the presence of some of those loved ones before your death. (Neale) Before my death? (GOD) Yes. Many people, while they are still in their physical bodies, announce to others in the room that they are seeing loved ones, or that their beloved has come for them. Those others in the room often try to convince dying people that they are seeing things-and they ARE seeing things, things that are very real, but things that other people cannot see because of their limited perspective. Your perspective widens immensely after "death"-and often in the moments just before you die. (Neale) That's exciting! Now you're almost making death sound exciting. (GOD) It IS exciting. In fact, your death can be one of the most exciting moments of your life. It all depends on what you believe. As in life, in death what you believe is what you will experience. For instance, if you do not experience the presence of these spirits at the time of your death it will be because you do not expect to, and because the possibility of their presence lies outside of your belief system. Yet if you so much as hope that these loving presences will be there, you will immediately perceive them. (Neale) I understand. So it is really important to be clear about your beliefs surrounding death. (GOD) It is important in life to be clear about your beliefs surrounding everything. It is not just your death that is affected by your beliefs, but your WHOLE LIFE." (My Caps.) ***** It is my deepest belief that anyone who has ever been afraid to die will receive great relief after reading this book. There is the most love filled tone throughout, of course that unconditionally loving tone and feel comes from GOD. There is so much reassurance, beauty and truth. Can we "prove" any of this information? Not with scientific data, however, we CAN ask anyone who HAS "died", went to the other side, and came back. Of course every person's death experience will be as unique as the person, and THIS is "why" this book is so important! There is GRAND LIFE in the death experience. I would also HIGHLY suggest this book to anyone who misses a loved one who has passed on. I feel you will receive a great deal of relief and inner peace from this book. I also feel this book would be PERFECT for anyone who does have a terminal illness, and IS facing "death" in the near future. I am positive it will bring the same feeling of relief a

I want to go home right now!

Is it really over? Is this wonderful series really coming to an end? Sadly, it appears so, as this is apparently the final book in the conversations with God series (which has changed my life for the better). But while it may be the final book, it is one of the most important, for it deals with the one issue that everyone, no matter who you are or where you come from, must inevitably face: What happens to us after we die? That's the one big question that is looked at in this book. Just what does happen when we die? Happily, the answers put forth not only make sense and give a reasonable view of the transition from physical life to spiritual life, but when one takes the answers given in this book and compare them to near death experiences and other other-worldly experiences, they match up. The big message of the book is this: It is impossible to live and die without God, but it is possible not to know this. No matter where you are, what you do, or how you die, God is with you. It's possible to know this, and it's possible not to know this. On to the subject of death itself, the book goes over death and it's implications. There's a lot of stuff presented here, so i'll just list some of the biggies: 1. Death happens in three stages, realizing that you are not a body, experiencing what you want to experience after death, and merging with your higher self. 2. One goes home to heaven when they have experienced all that they wanted to experience in this physical lifetime. The spirit of the individual may know this and when the lifetime will finish, but frequently the individual does not know when he or she will die. 3. The death experience is different for everyone, depending on your expectations, views, and ideas. If you expect to find nothing, you will be allowed to experience that (the second stage of death) until you decide to look for something else. If you expect to find yourself embraced in the arms of a loving God, you will be allowed to experience that. If you expect to find yourself being judged and sent to hell, you will be allowed to experience that (though you can change it by choosing to look for something else). 4. Death is simply becoming whole again, for you splintered upon birth. Death is the transition from one state of existance to another. Everyone inevitably makes it home. That's just the tip of the iceberg with regards to what happens after death. There's a life review, there's the big question that you will be asked (so big that all of heaven will pause to hear your answer), and there's deciding what to do next. Overall the book does accomplish what it set out to do, to explain death, what it is, what happens, and how you affect your own experience. Granted, what's said should be taken with a grain of salt because we, of course, cannot confirm for certian what happens after physical death. I don't agree with everything said in here about death (For example, spirits who see themselves in hell