Conversations with My Higher Power

What would God actually say if He sat down with you over coffee? In this quietly radical work of fiction, an old man finds himself in a series of conversations with a visitor who claims to be the creator of the universe. No burning bush. No commandments handed down from a mountain. Just a straightforward, sometimes surprising, occasionally funny exchange between a skeptic and a God who turns out to be nothing like the one described in Sunday school. The God in these pages doesn't read minds, can't predict the future with certainty, and refuses to break His own physical laws - which means He isn't responsible for your suffering, and can't simply fix it. What He can do is explain: how the universe began, why consciousness exists, what love actually is, how death works, and what happens after. He has opinions about religion - none of the major traditions get it quite right, and none of them are entirely wrong. He knows about the Singularity and has seen other civilizations face it. He has thoughts about artificial intelligence that are as unsettling as they are hopeful. The conversations move from creation to consciousness to the future of intelligent life on Earth, arriving finally at the question every serious person eventually asks: what is the point of all of this? >Praise for the author's other books - These meditations are quite personal ... like letters from a friend who cares ... I think they'd be useful for anyone. - MENSA Bulletin January 2018 - Best book of its type I've ever used ... Once through won't be enough ... Highly recommended ... A must-read. - Amazon reviews