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Conversations With God It’s not unlikely that you’re among the seven million people who enjoyed Neale Donald Walsch’s Conversations With God when it was on the bestsellers list. As a full-length feature film showing in theaters around the country, this classic of contemporary spirituality is a powerful representation of Walsch’s story. Losing his job and finding himself homeless, Walsch started asking God some difficult questions. Amazed when he heard God answering, Walsch began writing—and his new life as a spiritual messenger began. Director/producer Stephen Simon is the cofounder of the Spiritual Cinema Circle . Simon found his voice in the film industry with the movie What Dreams May Come and has vowed to continue his career as the creator of spiritual movies. “For the past ten years I have dreamed of making this movie,” says Simon. Conversations with God will be a powerful, mystical, controversial and surprising film.” Simon is right on all fronts. Henry Czerny, who plays Walsch, has stated that “Every once in a while, we actors get a chance to be part of an extraordinarily insightful story. I’m sure this is the way some of van Gogh’s colors must have felt when they were asked by his brush to mingle in ‘Starry Night.’” Czerny’s deep connection with the role shows. It is up to him to carry the movie and he does so with a nuanced, understated performance that almost feels like watching a documentary. Conversations With God is more than good entertainment. It is a gripping portrayal of one man’s awakening to Spirit around him and as him and how this realization of truth changes his life forever. It’s a great “date movie” for everyone in the family. —Cole Jones
Thousands Loved Him,” is the title of a key chapter in Marilyn Leo’s new book about Dr. Ernest Holmes, the founder of the Science of Mind. I predict thousands will love this book. Unlike previous books about Dr. Holmes, In His Company is not the recollection of one person, but a compilation of the memories of many people who knew Ernest Holmes and his wife, Hazel. Holmes’s relationship with the interviewees may have lasted a lifetime or only a few minutes, but he touched all of them in a way that changed their lives forever. Through their stories we experience Ernest Holmes in a very personal way. The insights of those who knew him reveal him as an amazing man of great depth and deep compassion, while also possessing a mischievous sense of humor and playfulness. The book recounts through new eyes the major events of Holmes’s life: his early years, his home life with Hazel and her death, the beginning of his philosophical studies, the founding of Science of Mind and Religious Science, the growth of the movement, the split of the organization, the building of Founder’s Church and Ernest Holmes’s transition in 1960. Through all the events we come to know Ernest Holmes in an intimate way that reveals both his transcendent and human nature. The book also includes reflections about Hazel Holmes and her life before and after meeting Ernest. Through many personal accounts and never before published photographs, their lives are placed in a temporal and physical context that I feel has not been accomplished in other books about them. In His Company also contains a wealth of Dr. Holmes’s philosophy and accounts of his amazing demonstrations and transformations of the lives he touched. Through this wonderful book Ernest Holmes truly lives again to inspire us through his insight and example. This title will be a wonderful addition to your New Thought collection. —Patricia Gentry |
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