Lessons from ‘Conversations with God for Teens. Neale Donald Walsch’ (by Gil Dekel, PhD. Pt 2 of 2)
Part 2. Go back to part 1. page 190 When you love another for what you are, not for what they are, you then demonstrate that you need nothing from them, and that your love is not based on what you can get from them. 207 Society is a group of people formed around a particular way of seeing things. Thinking is the act of considering ideas. Learning is the act of memorising. Facts are rarely facts....
Read MoreLessons from ‘Conversations with God for Teens. Neale Donald Walsch’ (by Gil Dekel, PhD. Pt 1 of 2)
Part 1. Go to part 2. page 12 All people have free-will. God gave people free-will because God is a creator, and He created people that are creators in themselves. Without free-will people will not be able to create at all, because they would only re-act. They would only obey and do what they are told to do. Obeying is re-acting, not creating. With free-will people can choose, and so they can...
Read MoreLessons in Tanya – Chapter 1 (pt4)
with Gil Dekel. ואפילו העובר על איסור קל של דברי סופרים מקרי רשע כדאיתא בפ”ב דיבמות ובפ”ק דנדה “Even if a person transgresses only a very light rabbinical prohibition [one which was forbidden by the sages, but isn’t explicitly mentioned in the Torah], he is considered a Rasha.” Let’s give an example:...
Read MoreLessons in Tanya – Chapter 1 (pt3)
with Gil Dekel. ולהבין כל זה באר היטב וגם להבין מה שאמר איוב [ב"ב פ"א] רבש”ע בראת צדיקי’ בראת רשעי’ כו’ The Alter Rebbe goes on now to explain a few views on what Beinoni is and what he is not. Alter Rebbe says “we’re going to have to understand all that we mentioned above very clearly; and a further thing,...
Read MoreLessons in Tanya – Chapter 1 (pt2)
with Gil Dekel. אך הענין כי הנה מצינו בגמרא ה’ חלוקות. צדיק וטוב לו צדיק ורע לו רשע וטוב לו רשע ורע לו ובינוני. “The matter is as follows. We find in the Gemara five categories [of human beings]. Tzadik ve Tov Lo, Tzadik ve Ra Lo, Rasha ve Tov Lo, Rasha ve Ra Lo, and Beinoni”. ופירשו בגמרא צדיק...
Read MoreLessons in Tanya – Chapter 1 (pt1)
with Gil Dekel. ליקוטי אמרים, ספר של בינונים, פרק א’ תניא בספ”ג דנדה משביעים אותו תהי צדיק ואל תהי רשע In this first ‘Perek’ (chapter) of the Tanya book, we are being referred to the end of the third chapter of the tract page from a different book – the Talmud tract called ‘Niddah’. In the tract of...
Read MoreLessons in Tanya – Sha’ar (title page)
with Gil Dekel. ספר ליקוטי אמרים חלק ראשון הנקרא בשם ספר של בינונים We start with the title page of the Tanya book, which is known by the name the ‘book of Beinonim’, or book of the average person, the intermediate, ‘Sefer Shel Beinonim’; in Hebrew: ספר של בינונים . Traditionally, It is believed to be original work, but...
Read MoreLessons from ‘Conversations With God’ Book 1, Neale Donald Walsch (Part 3 of 3)
by Gil Dekel, PhD. Part 3 of 3. Back to part 2. Back to part 1. A summary of main insights from CwG Book 1, with page numbers: 130 At all breaking points in life there is one question to ask: what would love do now? Love is not to retain the best of the other – but the best of your self. 131 The highest good for me becomes the highest good for the other, as we all are one. There is...
Read MoreLessons from ‘Conversations With God’ Book 1, Neale Donald Walsch (Part 2 of 3)
by Gil Dekel, PhD. Back to part 1. This is Part 2 of 3. Go to part 3. A summary of main insights from CwG Book 1, with page numbers: Pages 66-67 Hold on to values that serve you. Look which values bring the highest you. Examine them. Tell the world. If you can tell the world who you are without hesitating, then you are happy with yourself. Then you have created yourself and reached...
Read MoreLessons from ‘Conversations With God’ Book 1, Neale Donald Walsch (Part 1 of 3)
by Gil Dekel, PhD. Part 1 of 3. Go to part 2. Go to part 3. A summary of main insights from CwG Book 1, with page numbers: Pages 3-4 God talks to all people but just a few listen… God does not only talk but communicates. A talk is limited to words, thus God do not communicate only with words. God’s most common form of communication is feelings. Feeling is the language of the soul. If you...
Read MoreLessons from Neale Donald Walsch ‘The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Future of You’. Part 2.
by Gil Dekel, PhD. Part 2. Back to part 1. Page 64 In the ‘peace room’, just like the war room, we would map breakthrough and innovations that are working on this planet. The peace room will monitor every trouble spot on the earth and will link it with working solutions. People in need will be able to connect with those who have the answers. The idea is to focus on what is working rather...
Read MoreLessons from Neale Donald Walsch ‘The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Future of You’. Part 1.
by Gil Dekel, PhD. Part 1. Go to 2. The ideas of futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard (born 1929) are expressed in Neale Donald Walsch’s book, following his extensive research into her life-long journals, as well as in-depth interviews he conducted with her (sold separately on DVD). Neale describes Barbara’s visions of ‘the wheel of co-creation’, ‘the synergy engine’, ‘the peace...
Read MoreOm in eenheid te verkeer: Neale Donald Walsch Onderhoud met Gil Dekel, PhD (Deel 1 van 3).
Gil Dekel: Baie mense lees jou boeke en gaan doen dan iets positiefs … mense sit nie eenvoudig net die boeke terug op die rak nie. Hoe voel dit om ‘n man te wees wat miljoene inspireer tot aksie? Neale Donald Walsch: Ek voel nie dat ek dit gedoen het nie, ek voel dat God dit gedoen het … Ek is nie oormatig beskeie nie, en ek probeer nie om myself aan te bied op ‘n...
Read MoreBeing at One: Neale Donald Walsch Interview with Gil Dekel, PhD (Part 3 of 3).
« Back to part 2… « Back to part 1… Gil: What about the drama of life? It is an illusion, yet we live within it to the extend that it becomes true to us; the illusion becomes a reality. In that respect it is not illusion at all… Neale: That’s right; and free will is the act of choosing what we wish to call illusion and what we wish to call real. You’re...
Read MoreBeing at One: Neale Donald Walsch Interview with Gil Dekel, PhD (Part 2 of 3).
« Back to part 1… Gil: If we look at the level of the soul who chooses pain or violence – can the soul know what pain means to the physical body? Can it understand what it is like to be in pain? Neale: I think the soul understands everything. The soul understands every aspect of the human experience. It does not feel pain but it knows what pain is about. Just as if you would watch a...
Read MoreBeing at One: Neale Donald Walsch Interview with Gil Dekel, PhD (Part 1 of 3).
Gil Dekel: Many people read your books and then go and do something positive… people don’t just put the books back on the shelf. How does it feel to be a man who inspires millions into action? Neale Donald Walsch: I don’t feel that I have done that, I feel that God has done that… I’m not being overly modest and I’m not trying to present myself in some kind of artificially...
Read MoreDon’t Worry God, We Still Love You.
I have heard the breathing of the birds in the silence of my heartbeat. And the branches of my tree, weaving words for my mouth. So my soul could, once again, praise this glorious moment we call ‘Life’. Sometimes I have memories in seconds, when the sun sets in my heart and the bees sing my thoughts into honey. For centuries I search for the soul of the One, but now I know we are...
Read MoreThe Discovery of an Esoteric Message in Pascal’s Triangle.
By Paul Hartal. (לגרסה העברית Hebrew version) I began to experiment with Kabala inspired paintings in the 1990s. To my utter astonishment these experiments led to a totally unexpected and most exciting discovery of a transcendent communication. In the Hebrew alphabet each letter assigns a numerical value. When I substituted the numbers in Pascal’s triangle with Hebrew ...
Read MoreTurning On the Light Without Choosing Which Way It Will Spread.
The authorial-Self, a ‘Muse’ of poetry, is interviewed by Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: I am very happy to be able to interview my own ‘Muse’, my own creative self, and ask him about processes of inspiration in writing poetry. [1] I would like to thank you, the authorial-Self, for ‘descending’ from the so-called ‘collective unconsciousness, the spirit world’, and coming over here,...
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