-- Chaneller:
Gloria Wendroff and The Godwriting International Society of Heaven Ministries
703 E. Burlington Avenue Fairfield, IA 52556 USA
-- ABOUT THE CHANNEL, AUTHOR, or SITE:
Gloria Wendroff
Wendroff’s bio: from http:/(/www(dot)planetlightworker(dot)com/articles/gloriawendroff/article19.php and elsewhere:
After teaching creative writing, English, ESL, and business communications, writing boundary-breaking resumes and a monthly job advice column for many years, she learned and taught meditation, traveled Europe, studied in Thailand and India, and discovered God back in America. She Founded GodwriterTM and, through God's words, brings thousands of people closer to God and their own hearts. Today Gloria receives and sends out HeavenlettersTM every day, gives GodwritingTM workshops, works on her next book, How to GodwriteTM.
?? Certain Gloria Wendroff, (occupation: church) signed letter “Not in our name" against Bush regime, criminal wars on foreign countries, torture, violation of human rights http://www.nion.us/signers/signersW.htm.
Channelers:
-- What is the channeling method (conscious, light trance, unconscious trance, automatic writing/typing, spirit board, pendulum, alone, with a group, etc.)?
Looks like the method is authomatic writing
-- What is the format? Is it question-and-answer from the channel or an audience, or is the channel simply taking dictation?
Channel is taking dictation. Moreover, ‘god’, which is claimed to be the source of these heavenly messages is more likely a disincarnate spirit, checked out at the very early age. I didn’t notice grammar errors, but the style and the way ‘god’ presents his messages is astounding! Wendroff’s ‘god’ likely didn’t have ‘time’ to read Hemingway, Dreiser, Tolstoi, Kurosawa, etc..
-- How long has the channel been doing it, how did they start, do they channel multiple entities?
Let Gloria tell her story: (http:/(/www(dot)godwriting(dot)org/godwriting/why-godwrite-part-one-the-past.htm)
No, please see below
-- Does the channel sell the material or offer other products or services associated with their channeling ability?
Wendroff sells book, CDs, offers spiritual uplifting workshops, seminars
-- Are there any other clues that indicate a relationship to or influence by other channels, groups, organizations, etc.?
On site http:(dslsh)www.editura-foryou.ro/en_index.php Romanian For You Publishing House which
Gloria Wendroff; Gregg Bradden; Deepak Chopra; Drunvalo; James Twyman; Maureen Moss (sounds very similar to Maynard, his pseudonym or different person?); Ramtha; Ram Dass; Paul Ferrini, etc. Gloria chats with Margaret Weiner, Jack van Raders.
Book Authors
-- Don't read it, of course, just look up the book on sites that sell it, see what the descriptions are, look for reviews on the web, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc. Basically, find out all you can about the content.
Heavenletters: Love Letters From God - Book 1 by Gloria Wendroff; 1st World Library, 2004
Book is translated into Romanian
Appears not
-- What are reviews of their books like? Are there reviews on sites that promote a certain point of view, theory, prophecy, etc.’
Readers reviews on book state that they ‘enjoy Gloria’s vibrant inspirational uplifting language, love, wisdom, and empowerment’.
Book is quite popular: 32 reviews on amazon; readers ranked the book with five stars as:
-- Do they have a web site? What's on it?
http:/(/www(dot)godwriting.org/
http:/(/www(dot)heavenletters.org/
http:/(/www(dot)heavenarchives.org/- site is under construction, but transcripts ‘from god’ are available for reading and analysis
-- Does the person appear to be a serious researcher or just a promoter of some point of view?
Search on a word ‘research’ in Wendroff’s ‘god’ messages (archive) returned 0 hits. Clean.
Serch on a word ‘knowledge’ yielded 1 hit:
Other word hits in Wendroff’s ‘god’ messages- archive:
Heart- 151; Right – 48; God – 59; beloved – 90; love – 370 (that including 90 – beloved); yourself – 91; happen – 9 (in Gurdjieff: man doesn’t do, everything happens to him); perfection – 4
Truth – 9 hits, in this context:
-- Are there links on the site to other known people or groups? Who?
Gloria is a collaborator in The Bridging Heaven & Earth Art Project and has links to
www(dot)worldpuja(dot)org
www(dot)planetlightworker(dot)com
Paramahansa Yogananda?
www(dot)pathwayswithin(dot)com
www(dot)healthywealthywise(dot)com
www(dot)heaventoearth(dot)com
www(dot)selfgrowth(dot)com
www(dot)happinessclub(dot)com
www(dot)deeptrancenow(dot)com
-- Does there appear to be an organization behind the site?
If god is on the scene, who / what might be behind the scene?
ABOUT THE MATERIAL ITSELF:
Most important:
-- What is the central message(s), if any? This will usually be repeated often.
Quote from Wendroff’s god messages about importance of knowledge:
-- Does the material agree in large part with the work of known others?
Messages language to me looked quite similar to those of Pat Robertson… and other evangelist preachers. I would speculate that target audience what hooks on messages like those might be the same. I maybe off track here, AdPop will drive me home in one instant!
Gloria Wendroff and The Godwriting International Society of Heaven Ministries
703 E. Burlington Avenue Fairfield, IA 52556 USA
-- ABOUT THE CHANNEL, AUTHOR, or SITE:
Gloria Wendroff
Wendroff’s bio: from http:/(/www(dot)planetlightworker(dot)com/articles/gloriawendroff/article19.php and elsewhere:
After teaching creative writing, English, ESL, and business communications, writing boundary-breaking resumes and a monthly job advice column for many years, she learned and taught meditation, traveled Europe, studied in Thailand and India, and discovered God back in America. She Founded GodwriterTM and, through God's words, brings thousands of people closer to God and their own hearts. Today Gloria receives and sends out HeavenlettersTM every day, gives GodwritingTM workshops, works on her next book, How to GodwriteTM.
?? Certain Gloria Wendroff, (occupation: church) signed letter “Not in our name" against Bush regime, criminal wars on foreign countries, torture, violation of human rights http://www.nion.us/signers/signersW.htm.
Channelers:
-- What is the channeling method (conscious, light trance, unconscious trance, automatic writing/typing, spirit board, pendulum, alone, with a group, etc.)?
Looks like the method is authomatic writing
-- What is the format? Is it question-and-answer from the channel or an audience, or is the channel simply taking dictation?
Channel is taking dictation. Moreover, ‘god’, which is claimed to be the source of these heavenly messages is more likely a disincarnate spirit, checked out at the very early age. I didn’t notice grammar errors, but the style and the way ‘god’ presents his messages is astounding! Wendroff’s ‘god’ likely didn’t have ‘time’ to read Hemingway, Dreiser, Tolstoi, Kurosawa, etc..
-- How long has the channel been doing it, how did they start, do they channel multiple entities?
Let Gloria tell her story: (http:/(/www(dot)godwriting(dot)org/godwriting/why-godwrite-part-one-the-past.htm)
-- Does the channel comment on the material, research it, etc.?how Gloria Wendroff met god said:I was in the Me First Ego Stage of my life, and I wanted to see if I could Godwrite. Just that. I wanted to see if I could do it. And there’s more: Margaret, who now proofreads the Heaven ebooks and lends constant support, loaned me a little book called Lui et Moi translated into the English He and I. It was a tiny book. It was simple and enchanting. I remembered that the writer was a nun, and that she lived and wrote in an early century. It’s a long time since I’ve seen the book, but someone recently mentioned it was written in the 1930’s and that the author was not a nun! So much for my memory! Anyway, each entry was very short. Basically, the author would give the date and location, and she would say, ‘Jesus, I am not worthy of you.’ And Jesus would reply, in one way or another, ‘Yes you are.’
I read that book from cover to cover with great fascination, and yet, when I finished, I said to myself proudly: ‘Hmph, I can do better than that.'
Added motivation for circulating Heavenletters
Later, when Godwriting™ was really happening, and I started sending Heavenletters out to a few friends, and they liked it, I am embarrassed to say that I began to see dollar signs in my eyes![…] I really thought my future was secured. I rubbed my hands together with glee, added up figures, and started charging for Heavenletters. I stopped, abruptly not too long after, not for altruistic reasons, and not because I had come to my senses, but because record-keeping and notifying people etc. was getting to be too much for me.
No, please see below
-- Does the channel sell the material or offer other products or services associated with their channeling ability?
Wendroff sells book, CDs, offers spiritual uplifting workshops, seminars
-- Are there any other clues that indicate a relationship to or influence by other channels, groups, organizations, etc.?
On site http:(dslsh)www.editura-foryou.ro/en_index.php Romanian For You Publishing House which
gives the following recommended list of authors to immerse themselves in light - among others:intends to bring the newest books concerning spirituality and modern thinking to the Romanian readers. We're striving to publish the most important books written by great and representative authors, because in this period there have occured profound and significant changes in the mentality and way of thinking of the people all over the world. We try to help everybody to find their way towards Light and Love - two essential aspects that will characterize the third millenium.
Gloria Wendroff; Gregg Bradden; Deepak Chopra; Drunvalo; James Twyman; Maureen Moss (sounds very similar to Maynard, his pseudonym or different person?); Ramtha; Ram Dass; Paul Ferrini, etc. Gloria chats with Margaret Weiner, Jack van Raders.
Book Authors
-- Don't read it, of course, just look up the book on sites that sell it, see what the descriptions are, look for reviews on the web, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc. Basically, find out all you can about the content.
Heavenletters: Love Letters From God - Book 1 by Gloria Wendroff; 1st World Library, 2004
Book is translated into Romanian
-- Can you tell if they have a ‘major’ publisher?Love Letters From God said:What a difference when your awareness of Our Unity joins with My Awareness. How far we travel when you realize Our Oneness. That is Self- Realization. Ifall is Oneness, then there is One Self for you to realize. ...’
[…]An ancient rabbi said that man was created so that he might lift up the Heavens. Why not? Who knows what we are capable of giving and doing
It is as if you have been living life in a smoke-filled room....You are playing cards. Through squinted eyes, you see ... each player out for himself. You have to look again, for no matter how it appears, each player is a Child of God. Each player, no matter how skilled or unskilled, has a heart that beats. However faint, it echoes Mine.’
‘When you are on a crowded train or subway, you are jostled. Jostling is part of the ride. There is jostling, and there is your minding it. Do not compound the jostling with your resistance to it....You can be pleasant whatever the ride is like.’
Appears not
-- What are reviews of their books like? Are there reviews on sites that promote a certain point of view, theory, prophecy, etc.’
Readers reviews on book state that they ‘enjoy Gloria’s vibrant inspirational uplifting language, love, wisdom, and empowerment’.
Book is quite popular: 32 reviews on amazon; readers ranked the book with five stars as:
In messages of readersi I see almost desperate desire to be loved, merited, uplifted which lacks in ‘real’ life.Wendroff’s readers said:--this book helps to rediscover all that which is true, lovely and beautiful in your soul and in your life;
--I consider this the most important book I have ever read, because it makes me feel thoroughly loved and cared for by our Creator. It's not just the words that are so precious, but the loving intent that radiates through the words and penetrates every fiber of one's being. Basking daily in its golden, radiant sunshine, I want to dance in ecstasy.
-- I have taken Gloria's Heavenletters course and gratefully receive her daily emails from (its gotta be) God. […] The words seem to be accompanied by the power of the Love from which they emanated, helping me assimilate their lovingness directly into my life. Some of the lines are such perfect poetry that I am left speechless in awe and gratitude; undone, complete. If you are lucky enough to have heard about this book - buy it, right now!
-- No matter which heaven letter I am reading, it always brings clarity and a sense of calm. Whatever questions or problems I had been entertaining there is always a letter from God that answers and solves the issue.
-- if you have a problem, a worry or a mood, open the book to any page and an uplifting message is there for you.
-- messages in these letters are filled with so much love and wisdom that they are bound to bighten your days, look upon the world and the challenges you may be facing with a light heart and reconnect with the wisdom and love which are already within you.
-- Do they have a web site? What's on it?
http:/(/www(dot)godwriting.org/
http:/(/www(dot)heavenletters.org/
http:/(/www(dot)heavenarchives.org/- site is under construction, but transcripts ‘from god’ are available for reading and analysis
-- Does the person appear to be a serious researcher or just a promoter of some point of view?
Search on a word ‘research’ in Wendroff’s ‘god’ messages (archive) returned 0 hits. Clean.
Serch on a word ‘knowledge’ yielded 1 hit:
May be Wendroff’s god teaches us thinking?Wendroff’s god said:Perhaps you feel discounted, as if your existence is not acknowledged, as if you have been overlooked, as if you don't count or count for much, and so you demand that you are heard. You will make someone take notice of you if you can.
Teaches, indeed!First you find out who you are and what you think […]its real name is love, simply love. This is all you have to learn. You are learning, and I am teaching you.
Other word hits in Wendroff’s ‘god’ messages- archive:
Heart- 151; Right – 48; God – 59; beloved – 90; love – 370 (that including 90 – beloved); yourself – 91; happen – 9 (in Gurdjieff: man doesn’t do, everything happens to him); perfection – 4
Truth – 9 hits, in this context:
All Web SitesWendroff’s god said:[Your heart] has been bewildered, as if in a vast desert, when, in truth, it is in a green oasis.
It is necessary to look beyond appearances. Look into the eyes of Truth.
Take My love. I flood you with it. I immerse you in it. Truth be known, you drown in my love. You drink in the water of My love.
-- Are there links on the site to other known people or groups? Who?
Gloria is a collaborator in The Bridging Heaven & Earth Art Project and has links to
www(dot)worldpuja(dot)org
www(dot)planetlightworker(dot)com
Paramahansa Yogananda?
www(dot)pathwayswithin(dot)com
www(dot)healthywealthywise(dot)com
www(dot)heaventoearth(dot)com
www(dot)selfgrowth(dot)com
www(dot)happinessclub(dot)com
www(dot)deeptrancenow(dot)com
-- Does there appear to be an organization behind the site?
If god is on the scene, who / what might be behind the scene?
ABOUT THE MATERIAL ITSELF:
Most important:
-- What is the central message(s), if any? This will usually be repeated often.
Quote from Wendroff’s god messages about importance of knowledge:
In other words, central message is that: sleep with us, sleep as we are sleepin, and outsleep us!Wendroff’s god in message HEAVEN #2041 Preconceived Thoughts said:THERE IS NOTHING you have to know. Your mind is cluttered with all you know. Know less. Be less proficient. Know nothing.Then all the past is gone. All the presumptions, the attitudes, the evaluations, the judgments - all gone. Then you become a receiver of the Universe. Your head is clear, your eyes, your ears, and then you see with clear vision, and you hear with ears and heart and mind open to hearing.
It has long been promulgated on Earth that you are supposed to know a lot. This very learning and the knowledge it accumulates is cumbersome. For then you have to do sorting and resorting and buying more file folders and squeezing in more thoughts into your mind. Better to open your mind, beloved. Fling those mental folders away. It is enough to be alive and greet the sun.
All the accumulated knowledge cannot go everywhere with you. Like worldly goods, you will have to leave it and take openness instead. Another name for openness is love. You will bring all the love in the world with you. It weighs nothing. It fills hearts but takes up no room. Knowledge often surmounts love.
-- Does the material agree in large part with the work of known others?
Messages language to me looked quite similar to those of Pat Robertson… and other evangelist preachers. I would speculate that target audience what hooks on messages like those might be the same. I maybe off track here, AdPop will drive me home in one instant!