Editing Conversations with God (section)

{{Short description|1995–2017 book series by Neale Donald Walsch}}
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{{Infobox book series
| name = Conversations with God
| image = Conversations with God, book 1.gif
| image_caption = Book 1 in the series (North America book cover)
| author = [[Neale Donald Walsch]]
| number_of_books = 9
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<!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:CwG-books-Neale-Donalnd-Walsch-photo-by-Gil-Dekel.jpg|thumb|UK edition of 'Conversations with God' books (Book 1 is known as the 'blue cover'.)]] -->
'''''Conversations with God''''' ('''''CWG''''') is a sequence of books written by [[Neale Donald Walsch]]. It was written as a dialogue in which Walsch asks questions and [[God]] answers.<ref>{{cite book|last=Walsch|first=Neale Donald|authorlink=Neale Donald Walsch|title=Conversations with God|url=https://archive.org/details/conversationswit00wals_1|url-access=registration|year=1995|type=Paperback|ISBN=0-399-14278-9}}</ref>  The first book of the ''Conversations with God'' series, ''Conversations with God, Book 1: An Uncommon Dialogue'', was published in 1995 and became a publishing phenomenon, staying on ''[[The New York Times Best Sellers List]]'' for 137 weeks.

In an interview with [[Larry King]], Walsch described the inception of the books as follows: at a low period in his life, Walsch wrote an angry letter to God asking questions about why his life wasn't working.  After writing down all of his questions, he heard a voice over his right shoulder say: "Do you really want an answer to all these questions or are you just venting?"<ref>[https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~zechner/cwg/lkl-ndw.html Neale Donald Walsch on CNS's ''Larry King Live''] (April 7th, 2000)</ref>  When Walsch turned around, he saw no one there, yet Walsch felt answers to his questions filling his mind and decided to write them down. The ensuing [[automatic writing]] became the ''Conversations with God'' books. When asked in a recent interview how he opens up to God, Neale stated, "I am reaching out to touch others with this information. When I reach out and touch others with this information, I reconnect immediately with the divine presence."<ref>[http://www.poeticmind.co.uk/creative-thoughts/being-at-one-neale-donald-walsch-interview-with-gil-dekel-phd-part-1-of-3  'Being at One': Neale Donald Walsch Interview with Gil Dekel, PhD (Part 1 of 3), Paragraph 16]</ref>