“Conversations with God”: Listening to that inner voice

Poster of the film

A starving hobo scrabbling in garbage heaps for much needed food, humiliating rejections professionally and relationships that have fallen apart. This is the compelling story of the film Conversations with God which relates the painful saga of Neale Donald Walsch.
The story begins when he breaks his neck in a car accident and is laid off from work. The protagonist undergoes a dramatic metamorphosis from the man next door to a homeless bum. He battles fiercely to get his life back to “normal” and in the process forges meaningful relationships and finds work. Just when it seems that everything is hunky dory, his world is once more turned around. An angry, embittered Neale asks God a number of challenging questions -- and, believe it or not, receives his answers. All this is in the depth of his mind and though he is unsure whether it is truly God or his subconscious speaking, he battles on to make sense of his life.
Conversations with God is based on the eponymous book. It is a series of nine books, written by Neale as a dialogue between him and the Divine. It was in 1995 that his first book in the series, titled Conversations with God Book 1: An Uncommon Dialogue, appeared on the book shelves and hit the jackpot. Succeeding volumes too were well received. The conversations have been read by over 7 million people in 36 languages globally and seems set to reach more people.
The film is directed by Stephen Deutsch and written by Neale in conjunction with Eric Delabarre. The central message: "Within every one of us, there is a voice that speaks the truth..."To Neale, that compassionate and loving voice, needs to be heard eternally and it can change one's world into an oasis of peace and harmony.
The film, Conversations with God was organised by the Foundation for Universal Responsibility (under the aegis of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) together with the India International Centre and is a part of a series of monthly screening, going by the name of 'Films on Spirituality and Faith.'
Writing in Sixty Second Preview, Jeff Craig, sums it up succinctly: "The work is highly recommended to anyone who's open to a moving message of compassion, spirituality and trust in your inner voice.”