On Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God, and the New Revelations by Joseph George Caldwell

Author:Joseph George Caldwell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: spirituality, overpopulation, conversations with god, neale donald walsch, moral relativism, the new revelations, relative morality, evnironmentalism
Publisher: Joseph George Caldwell

Walsch’s Views on the State of the World, and What to Do About It

Each of Walsch’s CWG books deals with a realm of human existence. Book 1 deals mainly with interpersonal relationships, Book 2 with global problems, and Book 3 with “universal” issues. In Walsch’s words, Individual Truths, Global Truths, and Universal Truths. The New Revelations (TNR), which is book four of the series, deals specifically with the current crisis the world is facing (as Walsch sees that crisis).

It is apparent from reading CWG Books 1-3 and TNR that Walsch was oblivious to the gravity of the world’s environmental crisis when he wrote CWG Books 1 and 2. Book 2 (published in 1997) purportedly deals with global issues, yet Walsch never mentions the mass species extinction that is taking place and has been the major concern of ecologists and environmentalists and planetary biologists for several decades. At one place, he recognizes (two lines of text) the need to stop the systematic destruction of the Earth’s environment. He did not even mention the destruction of the world’s forests, which, apart from their role as habitat for millions of species, are the source of its oxygen and a primary determinant of weather. He did not even mention global warming, although he does make an incidental remark (in CWG3) that we are “placing dangerous things in our atmosphere.” In CWG3, which was published in 1998, he cites Thom Hartmann’s book, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunshine, which was also published in 1998. This book provides an excellent description of the planet’s environmental crisis.

Prior to reading TNR, I imagined that Walsch had been inspired to rewrite CWG2 (“Global Issues”) after being sensitized to the gravity of the environmental issue by reading Hartmann’s book or something similar to it. But that is not the case. The “crisis” that Walsch addresses in TNR is not a “crisis” at all; it is simply current human social issues – violence, abject poverty, human misery, oppression of minorities and women, persecution of homosexuals, and the like. In fact, Walsch seems so fixated on “human rights” that one might easily infer that he is a spokesman for the United Nations! In any event, from the lack of attention that he gives the environmental problem, it is obvious that it is of no real concern to him, whereas other things, such as violence or oppression of homosexuals, are of great concern. This is really amazing, given that an act of violence does not affect mankind’s future choices, but the extermination of a species changes the future and mankind’s options for all time.

Walsch’s view is that the world’s problem is not an economic problem or a political problem or a military problem. It is a spiritual problem, and if it is to be solved it will have to be understood and addressed as such. Walsch believes that it is important to realize that what human society is doing at the present time is not working. But Walsch is clearly thinking only in terms of current social issues, not environmental or ecological ones.

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