Holy Experience

The Most Important Key Of All

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Neale Donald Walsch | Neale Donald Walsch
December 8 2011

We continue this week our ongoing series on The Holy Experience. As I said last week, the second step in creating the Holy Experience is understanding that you are worthy of having it. This understanding is born of the clarity that God finds us whole, complete, and perfect just as we are, in this moment, for we are not judged by God in any way.

Yet even if we accept that God will never judge us and never has, there is still the question of our own self-judgment–the harshest judgment of all. And so a major process for us, a huge portion of our internal work and of our personal preparation for the Holy Experience, and what we termed the most important key of all, has to do with self-forgiveness.

Almost always it is easier for people to embrace the idea that God forgives them than it is for them to forgive themselves. We have a whole list of “wrongs” we imagine ourselves to have done in our lives, and we can’t forget them.

We, and only we, know the inner workings of our mind, the quiet scheming of our heart, the sad assessment of our very human conscience, as we look at our lives and give ourselves a grade.

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Different, But Not Divided

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Neale Donald Walsch | Neale Donald Walsch
November 28 2011

DivinityHello my wonderful friends…

It has been my great joy in these past weeks to be discussing with you what I have come to call The Holy Experience, which in my world is the moment–and I hope there are many of them for you–of meeting God.

Perhaps I have not made that clear before. That IS what we are talking about here. That is what we are discussing. When we talk about the Holy Experience we are talking about meeting God. It is a face-to-face meeting, too, not something that exists only in conceptual constructs.

We are talking about looking at Divinity directly, seeing It right there in front of us, knowing It as part of us, experiencing It as integral to us, and merging into It as our felt reality.

This is precisely our experience following our death, and God has made it clear to us that we are not required to wait until death in order to have it. We may embrace–and, indeed, create–this experience at any time. But we must feel that it is possible, and that we are worthy, to do so.

How, then, to shake off our own thoughts of unworthiness?

The first step is to re-identify ourselves. We must decide again–and for many decide anew–who we are. So long as we imagine that we are other than Who We Really Are, thoughts of our unworthiness will be possible.

The moment that we re-identify ourselves, assuming our true and real identity, the idea of unworthiness as it relates to us becomes impossible to conceive.

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Neale Donald Walsch ~ Believe that it IS possible

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Neale Donald Walsch | Conversations With God
November 2011

Hello my wonderful friends…

I have been asked many times, how can one create what you, Neale, call “the holy experience?”

godWell, the first step is believing that it is possible for you to have it.

Now you may think that this is an elementary step–almost a given. Yet for many people this a very difficult step because they find it hard to believe that any kind of “holy experience” can happen to them.

Some believe it is impossible to have the Holy Experience because they do not believe that such an experience even exists.

Others believe it is impossible to have such an experience because, while it may exist, they do not know what it is or how to access it. They believe it is understandable and accessible only to ascetics and monks and holy ones– people who have devoted their entire lives to the search for inner truth and higher realities.

Still others believe that while it may be accessible to regular, ordinary people, they, themselves, are not worthy. They believe this for one reason or another. Some feel that there is something specific that a person has to be, do, or have in order to enter into the Holy Experience. It is, they believe, reserved for a special class of people who, while they may be ordinary, are single-minded in their determination to know of this experience, and are clear that their particular doctrine–which tells them that there is only one way to have the Holy Experience–is absolute and correct and is to be applied without exception.

Finally, there are those who feel that because of their own behavior in this life, they are not sufficiently “holy” to have the experience in any event. It is with these varying ideas that people approach the Holy Experience– and life itself. And ideas, of course, rule all human experience. The idea that one has about anything produces one’s reality around that. And where do ideas have their birth? In how you look at things. Your perspective about a thing is what creates your idea about it.

If your perspective is created by your Mind, it will be based on Data. If your perspective is created by your Soul, it will be based on Awareness. If your perspective is created by your Mind and your Soul, working co-jointly, it will create Wisdom.

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