Must we forget who we are in order to remember who we are? I believe the answer is yes…and for a most fascinating reason…
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Sunday is Message Day on the blog. Monday through Friday we look at contemporary events and day-to-day occurrences at the intersection of Life and the New Spirituality…but on Sunday, we reserve this space for a specific teaching derived from the material in Conversations with God
Through the years I have given hundreds of talks and written scores of articles revolving around this material. Every seven days we will present in this space a transcript or reprint of one of those presentations. We invite you to Copy and Save each one of them, creating a personal collection of contemporary and uplifting spiritual thought which you may reference at any time. We hope you will find this a constant source of insight and inspiration.
This week’s offering: About ‘Selective Amnesia’–
Why do we ‘forget’ Who We Really Are?
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I promised here that I would comment on the reason that ‘temporary amnesia’ (forgetting Who We Really Are) is a part of the process of the evolution of the human soul. I’m aware that most people who have read the Conversations with God material closely already understand what I am going to say here. I am also aware that many people read this blog every day who have not read all of the CwG dialogue books (there are nine in the series). So for some of you this will be a review, and for some of you it will be relatively new material.
When we move from the Spiritual Realm to the Physical Realm as part of our eternal and cyclical journey through life, we undergo a process of physicalization that involves the embedding of our Consciousness within the limited confines of the collective reality into which we have inserted our Self. During this process the level of awareness within our Consciousness contracts to fit the space in which it is being held.
It must be understood that Consciousness is nothing more than energy. Everything is energy. You. Me. Everything. Everything that we are is energy. Everything that IS is energy. Thoughts are energy. Emotions are energy in motion. Ideas, concepts, awarenesses — all are energy.
It must also be understood that…

…all energy impacts other energy. That is, the energy of life is interconnected. One energy affects another. Physicists have found a way to describe this interactive process as it relates to quantum physics by saying: “Nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer.” In other words, the simple act of looking at a thing has a material effect on the thing being looked at.
Put another way, we are creating what we are looking at by the way that we look at it and the place from which we are observing it. What this has to do with what I call “selective amnesia” is this: the movement of our Unlimited Consciousness into the environment of physicality produces a Limited Point of View of Ultimate Reality. This Limited Point of View reduces our awareness. Our Consciousness remains unlimited, but our awareness of all that our Consciousness knows is significantly reduced.
This is something like putting blinders on a horse.
Putting blinders on a horse does nothing to impair the horse’s eyesight. It simply impairs the horse’s ability to use its eyesight completely. The horse’s awareness is thus impaired. He is less “aware” of all that is around him, of the reality in which he exists. This makes his surrounding no less the reality, but his lack of full awareness allows less of it to be brought into his experience. The horse thinks that what he is experiencing is the actual reality. Only when you take the blinders off does the horse realize that there is “more than meets the eye” to reality.
In human beings, Consciousness is the eyesight of the sacred being known as You. It is unlimited and sees everything. Physicality is the blinder of Consciousness. When you “put on” physicality it is like putting blinders on a horse. You limit your ability to see everything that the unhindered Consciousness is able to see. Your awareness is impaired. You are less “aware” of all that is around you, of the reality in which you exist. This makes your surrounding no less the reality, but your lack of full awareness makes it less of your experience. You think that what you are experiencing is the actual reality. Only when you take the blinders off do you realize that there is “more than meets the eye” to the reality in which you exist.
Unlike the horse, you can do something about this. You can take the blinders off even as you are continuing your journey. The “blinders” of physicality can be removed all at once, or a little at a time. In the second instance, we see more and more gradually. In the first instance, we see everything all at once.
Sometimes we see everything all at once and then lose sight of it. This can happen when seeing everything all at once throws us into “psychic shock,” and it can also happen when we voluntarily withdraw back into “limited eyesight” in order that we may more gently and effectively confront and deal with all the data, the unlimited data, that was made available to us in our moment of Expanded Awareness.
Physicality “squeezes” our field of vision. As we squeeze our Unlimited Self into the extremely restricted space of physicality, we shift our point of view dramatically, obstructing it in the process. Greatly obstructing it, I might add.
None of this is accidental. None of this is a mistake or an unfortunate condition of having a physical body. It is all quite by design. It is all providential. Without this “squeezing” of our field of vision, we would “see” more than our Mind is equipped to process. We would “blow the circuits” of the physical mechanism that we call the brain. Yet if the brain was designed by Divine Intelligence, why wasn’t it, one might ask, designed in such a way that it could hold all the data of the universe (so to speak)?
That question will be answered in our next entry here next Sunday.
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IN THE MEANTIME…Have you seen the latest Reader Reviews at Amazon.com for the latest book in the CwG cosmology, HAPPIER THAN GOD, released just a few days ago? Here are a few samples…
(Five Stars)Deep, full of inspiration. Love it!
By M. Alfonso
I read this book in a day and a half. I just could not put it down. I have been studying the law of attraction and positive thinking for a long time now, but always felt there was a piece of the puzzle missing. Neale Donald Walsch does an excellent job putting it all together and I was finally able to find the piece that was missing.
I love the way he explains how the law of attraction works. Of all the books I have read in the subject I have never seen anyone explain it as clear. The author really makes everything make sense.
Buy the book, and read it. It is a very profound, very spiritual, to the point book.
(Five Stars) Belongs on Everyone’s Bookshelf!
By P. Vidal (Lauderdale by the Sea, FL)
This book is amazing. This is my first review and I felt compelled to make sure others found out this book is not to be missed!
I was still on the first chapter when I knew this book was a gem. This book is true spirituality, and it’s not about how to conjure a dream home, a six-figure income, or an SUV. You can have that, nothing wrong with it, and the book will explain how and why. And that is why this book is sooo good.
If you are curious about this book, it is not by chance.
(Five Stars) Another inspired book by NDW
By A. Nonny Mouse (Gainesville, VA)
I bought this book on pure impulse; it nearly jumped off the shelf of the store I was in. I had no idea what it would be about and was pleasantly surprised to discover that it’s about the Law of Attraction–PLUS! I’ve been a student of the LOA for a while now. “Happier Than God” fills in a lot of missing pieces for me.
My favorite revelation in the book is that when we work to manifest something positive, we attract both the positive AND the negative–AND WE GET THE NEGATIVE FIRST! This creates a context in which we can experience what we’ve manifested. Suddenly all the times that I’ve started a diet and GAINED weight make sense. 🙂 Now I have the understanding to help me be patient and push through to accept success.
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Dear Blog Reader…I am so excited about reader response to HAPPIER THAN GOD that I wanted to share some of the reader reviews with you! The book has been out less than two weeks and already the distributor has had to ask for a re-order from the printers, because they ran out. I hope that you’ll take a look at this book. I know that it is some of the most relevant and useful material on “how life works”–and how to make your life work–that you will ever read! Simply scroll to the right and click on the Happier Than God icon to learn more.