Then there’s the voice of “God,” which contradicts virtually everything God has previously revealed about Himself in the Bible.
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On the movie poster itself, there is an endorsement quote by New Age guru, Deepak Chopra, an advocate of Hinduism and variant Transcendental Meditation and the company that produced the movie is the Spiritual Cinema Circle, a group that puts out just about anything with a spiritual bent, truth unquestioned.
The very name belies opposition to the Christian belief in a trinitarian God, and Unitarians are notorious for being sympathetic with just about every religious expression except the Christian one which necessarily excludes the others.
His mother also appears in dreamlike recollections where she apparently read his palms when he was a child.Įarlier in the film, we encounter Walsch giving a lecture at a Unitarian church. The OES symbol appears on her gravestone in the movie. Walsch was a Roman Catholic in his youth, but one wonders how devout his family was, given the identification of his mother as a member of the Order of the Eastern Star (a Freemason satellite fraternity which is disallowed by the church for its syncretism and occultism). Theologically, Walsch, like the god with which he converses, is all over the place. I hadn’t heard of him before, and I can fairly well guess that I am not alone so many less discerning folks will likely be inclined to purchase his materials after having been exposed to this film. If the premise is genuine, that God speaks to Walsch, then people will want to know what is being communicated, and they will pay to find out.
This movie is about the closest thing to an infomercial for the author’s spiritual musings and the religion they promote, as one can get without actually calling it such. The reality is that his books continue to publish and the world continues to read them. This is the manner of “conversations” which Walsch records voluminously in yellow notepads, and which eventually get published, making the author a very rich man, as well as an expert on “god” (after all, he wrote the book, or let’s say, another book). In fact, “god” later tells him there is no distinguishing, so I’m guessing Walsch believes himself to be deity. Walsch would then write whatever was being dictated to his consciousness by the conversing god that is indistinguishable from himself. It’s at that point when “God” supposedly began providing him conversational wake-up calls. Things get better for a short stint until bankruptcy shuts down his new employer, and once again, dirt bedding and refuse cuisine were looking all too probable for Walsch’s near future. Having once been employed in the business, he answers the ad and tries to recover his life. One miserable day, while sleeping on newspapers, Walsch spied a job listing for a radio show. It’s a frightening prospect for anyone who thinks they have job security and their retirement all planned. Unable to pay his bills and hold a job, not to mention, physically hold his head up, Walsch becomes a starving, homeless man, living in an Oregon park and eating out of garbage cans. The collision does just that, breaks his neck, and with it, his quality of life… which spirals to the absolute bottom. The movie flashes back and forth in time, but the real beginning has the near fifty year-old Walsch getting along fine in the world, when, while riding through an intersection, his vehicle received a violent side impact by another car traveling through at break-neck speed. He states that God speaks to individuals in their own voice, and for the duration of the movie, Neale speaks to himself mentally, and calls it “God.” Most would call it “talking to yourself.” With barely anytime spent in the theater seat, it is easily perceived that whatever conversations author Neale Donald Walsch thought he was having with God, were but his own mental meanderings, and those, none too Christian.
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