A Letter to Neale

Dear Mr. Walsch,

Thank you for being the vehicle through which the CwG material has been transmitted to the rest of the world. It has been said that many are called but few are chosen. Clearly you have been one who has been chosen, or perhaps it is more correct to say you are one who chose. It’s also been said that it is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. Well, my friend, the light from your candle has already touched over a million souls…and you have only just begun.

Basically, I have one question. I am asking your assistance for further clarification, too. In CwG God said through you that in life there is nothing to learn per se. We are here to remember, to remember who and what we truly are. Well, as you have said, there is really nothing new in CwG. All this information has been given to us again and again by God. I recognize much of it. However, for me this last statement is new. So new, in fact, it represents a major paradigm shift. I was taught this, and as a spiritual counselor, teacher, healer, etc., I have passed this lesson along many times. That is, this is “school house earth,” and we are here to learn our soul lessons. We get to do them over and over again until we get them right, too. Then we go on to the next level, etc., until ultimately we return once more to the source—that is, we become one with God again.

 It is said that experience is the best teacher. The “school house earth” paradigm has not only been my understanding and belief, it has been my experience, too. The “school house earth” concept worked. How can it be transitioned into “remembering”?

Therefore, if you would be so kind and please share with me your insights and understandings! I ask this help not only for myself, but for all who have shared this concept, especially my beloved teacher. She is a wonderful person who helped awaken me to a spiritual path.

Thank you for responding to this question. May you live your truth, be in joy, and always be surrounded by love.

Blessed Be, Harold,  AZ 

Neale Responds

Dear Harold,

Think of remembering as recovery from amnesia. The amnesia that we have been given provides us with a fertile field within which to plant the seeds of new remembrances. God chooses to experience Godself as the creator.In order for God to experience Godself as the creator, God has to enter the act of creation, for the creator creates.

Now we’ve got a problem here, because everything’s already been created, so there isn’t anything to create.So God, therefore, wants an experience that’s impossible for God to have.The creator seeks to create, yet all already is created, so there is nothing for God to do, Therefore, God has a problem.So what God has done is say, “Oh, I know what I’ll do, I’ll have the various disparate parts of me forget that I’ve created all that stuff, and I can create it over and over and over again.”

So, our selective amnesia, our forgetting who we are, has a very divine purpose.If we all remembered who we were all the time, we could never be who we are.In the beingness of it, we could never experience becoming it, but we’d always just be it, and it’s in the becoming of it that we become God.God is then caught, like Allen Funt used to say, on “Candid Camera” in the act of being Himself.God is caught in the act of creating Himself.Yet you cannot create yourself if you already know what you are!

So, to make it really simple, as I say in my lectures, let’s pretend that my greatest desire is to be six feet tall.If somebody walked up to me and said, “Hey, you’re already six feet tall,” I’m going to go (whiny, sad voice) “Don’t tell me that, don’t tell me that!I don’t want to know that!You don’t understand.My whole desire was to become six feet tall.I wanted to experience creating that, and now you’ve gone and spoiled everything by going and telling me that.See, I’m going to have to take a pill here, and forget that I’m six feet tall.I may even go so far as to forget that there’s such a thing as six feet tallness!I may forget the whole damn thing so that I can come to the question again, cleanly, knowing nothing about that.And when I recreate it anew, that’s when I get “Oh, I was always six feet tall!”But I then confront that knowledge with joy, not with exasperation.

That’s a brief explanation of the reason that we have been given this, what I call, spiritual amnesia.This is what I call the God game, the forgetting, remembering, forgetting, remembering, that allows the breathing in, breathing out, of God to continue eternally and forever more.

With Pure Love,