‘Conversations With God’ Author To Speak At WestConn

DANBURY — As part of its ongoing effort to enrich the quality of life and health within the community, the Institute for Holistic Health Studies (IHHS) at Western Connecticut State University will host “Conversations with God: An Evening with Neale Donald Walsch” on Tuesday, October 2.

The program will begin at 7 pm, and will be in Ives Concert Hall, White Street. A book signing is scheduled to follow the program.

General admission is $35. Seniors will be admitted for $20, students with a valid ID for $5. To buy tickets, call 837-8800.

Mr Walsch is an internationally known author and speaker. Through the phenomenal success of his book series, which includes Conversations with God, Friendship with God, and Communion with God, Mr Walsch has changed the way many people think about spirituality.

In February 1992, Mr Walsch had a mystical experience that sent his life on an extraordinary new path. At age 49, Mr Walsch found his career as a nationally syndicated radio talk show host failing, as was his relationship and his health. In a fit of despair, he sat down early one morning to write an angry letter to God, asking tough questions such as “What does it take to make life work? And what have I done to deserve a life of such continuing struggle?”

To his amazement, he began receiving answers. So profound were these inspiration that Mr Walsch, finding a legal pad near him, wrote them down.

Mr Walsch’s resulting work, Conversations with God, has been published, becoming a staple on The New York Times Nonfiction Bestseller List for more than 2 1/ 2 years. Mr Walsch has founded ReCreation, a nonprofit organization that produces programs and retreats around the world for persons interested in personal growth and spiritual development.

As Mr Walsch describes in his newest book, Communion with God, for most of his life not only had he failed to live the Ten Commandments, what he actually had been living are the Ten Illusions. So, too, Mr Walsch believes, has the rest of the human race.

Communion with God describes these illusions one by one, explaining how and why the human race created them. The book then offers practical suggestions on how people may liberate themselves from the effects of those illusions, leading the lives, at last, they were meant to live, and creating a deep and meaningful connection with God that Mr Walsch describes as a state of communion.