Conversations with God

Try as I might I kept coming across words like “religionists” (persons of excessive religious zeal) and “dyads” (a term in mathematics that the Oxford Reference Dictionary defines as ‘‘an operator which is a combination of two vectors’’). In the first instance of these esoteric words I quote ‘‘God’’ speaking:
“Some of your religionists have described the Triune Truth as Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Some of your psychiatrists use the terms superconscious, conscious and subconscious. Some of your spiritualists say mind, body, spirit...” etc etc.

And later I stumbled upon the following “... gross relationships are always dyads, whereas relationships of the higher realm are invariably triads.”

Others more spiritually inclined may be able to give readers a better understanding of this book of — perhaps the best way to express it is to write “where the author is coming from”. Myself I can only quote an extract here and there (though taken out of context) to convey my impressions of this perplexing book.

For instance, the author asks ‘‘God’’:
“Are you saying the world will always have problems? Are you saying that you actually want it that way?” (the last four words being printed in italics to emphasise the question) and ‘‘God’’ replies:
“I am saying the world exists the way it exists — just as a snowflake exists the way it exists — quite by design. You have created it that way — just as you have created your life exactly as it is.”

I end with this extraordinary dialogue — beginning with the author stating:
“The Bible writers were witnesses to the life of Christ, and faithfully recorded what they heard and saw.”
‘‘God’’ replies:
“Correction. Most of the New Testament writers never met or saw Jesus in their lives.
They lived many years after Jesus left the Earth. They wouldn’t have known Jesus of Nazareth if they walked into him on the street... The Bible writers were great believers and great historians.

They took the stories which had been passed down to them and to their friends by others — elders — from elder to elder, until finally a written record was made.”

Well, I leave readers more in tune with the spiritual and the philosophical to judge the book for themselves. Those who’d like to meet the man who wrote these bewildering words may do so at Nigel Khan, Bookseller in Westmall where he will be autographing copies of his books on Friday from 10 am to 1 pm.

Or you can buy copies of his books at the Nigel Khan Bookseller outlets in PricePlaza, Ellerslie Plaza and Gulf City.