Wednesday is Question and Answer Day on the blog…a time for exploring many of the questions that people have recently asked about the nine Conversations with God books and the New Spirituality. Here’s this week’s entry…
Topic: The Illusions
Question asked by: Dr Redman Crosby
Question: Dear Neale, your book Communion with God jumped out at me from my local bookstore the other day. I had asked that morning in my day prayer, for all that I must be, all that I must do, and all that I must know, as I do every morning.

My Question is this: the illusion of NEED of course is the real Illusion and every other is built on that, as stated in the book…. Do you yourself personally become fascinated with the shear antithesis of NEED? which is what, of course, it is there for. Do you sometimes pinch yourself at your own ability to see through the huge media contingent and press that follow you and quote you now in your life?
I have watched the movie C.W.G. five times at least now where the experiencing of your incredible life makes so much sense to the illusion you journeyed into and are still journeying.
around. Namaste ………. Red
Neale’s Response: Dear Red…Thanks for your question.
Yes, I do become fascinated with this whole subject of “need” and its antithesis. I find that most people I know feel…

…a deep “need” for certain experiences in their life — the highest of which is love.
But what if we did not need anything? Not even “love”? What if we actually were everything we think we need? I mean, what if everything inside of us corresponded to everything outside of us that we think we need, in terms of feelings and emotional content?

I am learning more and more these days to step away from my feelings of “need” when they arise (and, of course, they do.) But the real challenge is not stepping away from those feelings…it is stepping away from those feelings and then not feeling someone “un-human”. I mean, feeling a “need” for stuff feels very human. And NOT feeling a need for ANYthing (or most things) sometimes feels like I am a robot.
Do you know what I mean?
So I am working now on trying to retain my humanity and my compassion and my ability to empathize with others, while still releasing my sense of personal “need” for anything or anyone.
It’s a tough challenge. I write about this in my new book, Happier Than God. The folks in the media do a very good job, in general, of getting my message out, and I am grateful to all the reporters and their publications and TV and radio outlets who have covered me and my message as a “story.”
It is really God’s message, of course, and I am so happy and so humbled and so grateful to have been given a role in helping it get out to the people in our world.
(Ask Neale may be accessed on a daily basis in the Messengers’ Circle at Neale’s personal website: www.nealedonaldwalsch.com. Each week Neale selects a question from those posted there and publishes it in this blog.)