Great change is taking place on the Earth and whether you believe in God or not, there is going to be a change in how you see the world.
By Belle Salisbury
The world is not an easy place within which to become your greatest nature because you and the rest of the world has forgotten why you exist at all. The problem with that forgetfulness is you cannot find happiness in your life unless you remember the reason you came to Earth. You came here for one reason, you are designed to find the mind of God and to give that mind to every activity you perform. When you learn to open your human mind and capture the great creative force that dwells somewhere above your thinking brain, then you will uncover the riches you seek and the abundant life held from you. Please understand the only one holding you back from the very thing that you wish for is your misunderstanding about the nature of being. Take a moment to build your strength and then turn the page to learn where you left off when you left the realm of God to visit the sphere we call Earth, which inhabits your soul.
I sat down with author, Sondra Sneed, filled with questions about her claim of having once been an atheist, and later finding God, which led to her title as a Godscribe and the release of her book What to Do When You’re Dead. After speaking with her, I walked away filled with inspiration and complete admiration for this woman of God.
Belle: I read on your web site that you used to be an atheist. Is this how you were raised as a child, or when did you come to decide that you were an atheist?
Sondra: I was raised mainly in the Evangelical Christian back ground, you know the typical Bible-beating church with a lot of intolerance. What I experienced as hypocrisy as a kid, I know now, as an adult, the struggle that adults have just trying to be their best person. So what I saw as a teenager as hypocrisy was just people being people.
In college, I took a lot of liberal arts classes, everything from science to philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and sociology. I think what happened was that I intellectually reasoned that there is no God, based on the information I got within the Evangelical Christian upbringing – where they take the Bible very literally, and just none of it made sense from a rational perspective. None of it made any logical sense. I just didn’t believe in anything that I couldn’t see, smell, taste, touch, feel. Things I couldn’t empirically prove existed. I did look back on my time as a child and I never really felt as if I believed in anything then either. I kind of just went along with it because that is what we were.
B: You lived out your youth and young adulthood believing that you were an atheist having been more scientific minded. Was that because of your education, or do you think that was who you were even coming into this world?
S: Yes, while I was an atheist, before my experience with God, I saw in science this grand sense of awe that only science could provide me. You know, it really penetrates and examines nature in a way that religion certainly doesn’t do. Now that I do know that God is all these great things that science explores, that was the only place I could feel that sense of awe, so that was why I drawn to science.
B: When I began my studies in metaphysics, which was contrary to the scientific physical aspect, I used to joke about it and say that metaphysics is simply the scientific study of what you can’t prove scientifically.
S: Right, you can’t measure it. We don’t have the tools to measure it. Like God says in my book, logic is only possible within the finite realm, but then you can’t use logic within the infinite because you can’t wrap your head around it any more than you can fit the ocean into a cup. It’s just impossible!
B: Let’s talk about the Bible as we know it today. Do you feel that the translation of the Bible consisted of many more chapters and books that were intentionally left out because it contradicted man’s need to control?
S: Absolutely and in my book, God does point that out and also in my second book there’s a number of corrections God makes. In particular, the book of Genesis and the story of Adam and Eve was originally passed down through oral tradition. According to God, and for thousands of years, it was passed down by oral tradition and that is why there was kind of remnants in cultures all over the world. But when it was finally written down, this was in a time when three-quarters of the population were slaves and the story of Adam and Eve is the story of free will. It was the moment when Adam and Eve became their own beings that could create as God creates. You can’t create anything new by following the rules, so God set it up specifically that Adam and Eve would disobey so they would achieve free will. But you can’t tell those three-quarters of the population who were slaves that they were born free. They had to take that all out.
B: It would contradict their lot in life, so to speak, and it really had nothing to do with sin whatsoever.
S: Not at all. Not at all! I also have a download of the original story of Adam and Eve. God gave that to me during my year of solitude in 2004 in dictation that also reveals Eve’s purpose; why she was made from Adam’s rib.
You can download this story from http://sondrasneed.com/downloads/the-lost-tale-of-the-adam-and-the-eve
B: So what transpired first, the Adam and Eve story, or your book, What to Do When You Are Dead?
S: Well, in 2004 what happened was I had lost a job and a man that I loved. I was living in New York and suddenly, I found myself totally alone. I was writing and writing and writing – to try to quell the rising emptiness and loneliness. I filled an entire note book with emotional blather, and then I got a new notebook, put a pen on the top line and what came out was; “Unemployed? It is my assertion you are employed by me.” And that was the beginning when I noticed I was no longer talking to the notebook, the notebook was talking to me. So in that year I committed myself to a year of solitude in dialogue with God. I filled up 10 spiral notebooks in dialogue with God. During that time I received the story, Relief to See Her Arrive: The Lost Symbol of the Adam and the Eve, which came through in one evening. It’s taken me years to have the courage to go public. The book What to Do When You’re Dead is the first book, which is a message about the world to the world, from God.
B: I read that part on your web site with the statement from God “you are employed by me” and it just gave me chills because I felt that energy and I resonated with it so well that I knew what was being said was true, that God was employing you and it’s quite interesting that it took you eight years to go public with the fact. Was it just because you are God’s scribe or was it just the book itself?
S: All of it.
B: What were you afraid of?
S: Afraid of people thinking I was crazy, that I could talk to God or that God could talk to me. I lost my Mother when I was two to the Moonies and my family was pretty much destroyed by religion. Early on, I feared that my own family would say “what’s this cockamamie thing she’s got going on now?” Because of my Mother’s reputation of having left the family, I feared a lot of the things about how people would feel about me. And then when I moved to Houston after I met my husband and I got married and settled down into a suburban lifestyle. I kind of buried it and didn’t tell people about it until I met this woman who confided in me that there was a metaphysical community in Houston. That’s when I told her my experience and that I talked to God and slowly she introduced me to the community and I guess I started to feel some kinship that there are other people out there who are, if not like me, are at least interested in my experiences.
B: Yeah, they get you. What a life saver!
S: Yeah, it’s almost as if she was meant to do that. To be that person to kind of help set the stones for me.
B: I used to wonder, why is it that it was common for people during the biblical era to talk to God and yet, it is so unaccepted today? What’s the difference? How can we be so quick to believe that people could communicate with Angels and God easily in the day of the Bible during that era and the many different eras of the writing the Bible, yet we cannot believe that this is possible today?
S: That’s pretty mind blowing how we want to keep it this mysterious event of the past and not bring it into the present.
B: Yes, it’s a means of control and I’ve understood that since I was a child. You know, it’s mans’ way of controlling you and I didn’t like the idea of fear being used to make me behave. I was going to go to hell if I didn’t do this, or act this way, or believe in this way. So yeah, I feel like you’re telling my story in many ways although I’m not a Godscribe. I’m fascinated with your story. So when did you come to realize that your book was to be shared?
S: Once I finally had the audacity to sit down and start writing this book, I really felt God pushing me. Not a controlling kind of push, but a gentle and firm encouragement to maintain the path and to keep going. Because it’s one thing to write the book, and then it’s another to look for a publisher and I’m so grateful I found Bob Friedman who published Neal Donald Walsch’s books.
B: Tell us about your book What to Do When You’re Dead. What is it about?
S: Maybe it will help if I tell a little bit about how the title came about. The first chapter I wrote alongside the book proposal when I went looking for a publisher and in the first chapter God talks mainly about me, telling me the reason, the purpose of me being born, what my mission is. All kinds of wonderful things about me I didn’t know, even after seven years in dialogue with God. I originally titled the book The Year I Fell to Earth. But then when I did find a publisher who wanted the full manuscript, at the end of it I noticed this was a much bigger story. It had to do with the entire world. I was talking to a literary agent and he wanted to know why I felt my book should be published. I said something, something, “and people are going to want to know what to do when they’re dead.” That’s how it happened. But God talks in this book about man’s path of self-destruction that we are on a path of self-destruction. We are burdening nature to such a degree that we are going to off ourselves in the process of not knowing that there is purpose in all things on the Earth. The main issue with that, God says….humans wipe themselves out about every 10,000 years. But this time we’re poisoning our own food supply, and God talks about what is involved in our generating cycles of fake food, which may keep us from being able to – once we wipe ourselves off – that the small band of humans that are usually left may not actually be left next time because of poisoning our food supply. The main reason this is an issue for God is if there are no human beings left on Earth, then there is no one to help those that are left here to bring them back to the Spirit realm and they become trapped attached to the things of Earth and their own past. It is our job, as God said in my book, it’s our job to care for all of life on Earth including the souls of the humans who are trapped.
B: This is going to be another book that will be intriguing enough that it will resonate with those who read it. It’s going to speak to whomever reads it. It’s going to resonate with their higher self. Changes need to be made. Is that what your book is saying-is it asking people to make changes now? Or can we change?
S: You’ll have to start with yourself of course. And if everyone focuses on changing their own self and their own habit, then that change spreads. You know how, for instance, how public opinion can change how a corporation deals with their product? This is a book that will show beyond a shadow of a doubt that there are corporations who are more concerned with the bottom line than the effect that they have on populations.
B: I totally agree!
S: Just as the tobacco industry hid the truth that their product causes cancer, so too are these food companies hiding the truth that what we’re eating is causing cancers. And God does actually talk about what the cause of cancer is in this book as well. I want to share with your readers from the introduction in my book where God talks about why a person who finds this book, is holding this book. “Great change is taking place on the Earth and whether you believe in God or not, there is going to be a change in how you see the world. The world is not an easy place within which to become your greatest nature because you and the rest of the world have forgotten why you exist at all. There is problem with that forgetfulness, the problem is that you cannot find happiness in your life unless you remember the reason you came to Earth. You came here for one reason, you are designed to find the mind of God and to give that mind to every activity you perform. When you learn to open your human mind and capture the great creative force that dwells somewhere above your thinking brain then you will uncover the riches you seek and the abundant life withheld from you. Please understand the only one holding you back from the very thing you wish for is your misunderstanding about the nature of being. Take a moment to build your strength and then turn the page to find where you left off when you left the realm of God to visit the sphere we call Earth which inhabits your soul.
B: I can’t wait to read your book. I think that will be a book I’m going to read more than once.
S: There’s some pretty dense stuff in the book. You know, Neal Donald Walsch’s books were pretty easy reads. I think it’s because Neal’s questions were pretty easy and they needed to be in order to be that introduction, God’s re-introduction into the realm of man.
B: I totally agree. He was on a new path so his questions were going to be basic.
S: Right!
B: Which is because we were on that new path, that’s how it needed to be delivered.
S: Right, but mine are not. My questions and God’s answers are more complex and are definitely going to have that meat that someone who is well studied, as well as somebody who’s not as well studied, I hope, but for sure those who are well studied in spiritual metaphysical content, I think will be really excited to get deeper and deeper into the mind of God through this book.
B: I agree and that’s why I think that, like Spirit said, this will be a book that will need to be read many times because each time we read it we’re going to get something else out of it. You know what they’re liking it too? Spirit is telling me, much like the Bible, this book will need to be read in parts. Do you know what I mean?
S: Yeah!
B: You read it, you pray about it, you think about it, and then you go back and pick it up again. You may have to re-read it again. What an awesome compliment from Spirit that this book will be likened to the Bible.
S: I love that you tune in, man, that’s just too cool. You’re obviously a mature….”psychic” is such a small word.
B: I don’t like that label but people ask “what do you do” and if I tell them I talk to Spirit, I talk to God, they look at you like, ‘REALLY.’ But if you use the term psychic they are more comfortable with that in today’s era.
S: Yeah, but it’s definitely a small word for what you do.
B: Well, thank you!
S: You are tuned in.
B: Yeah and it happens all the time. It’s not like I have to be in a space where I (inhale deeply), it’s kind of there…it’s constant.
S: And it’s really just about attuning your attention.
B: Yes.
S: I’m not fully understanding why people feel, well I do understand, I take that back. In 2004, during my year of solitude, I would go down in the basement and I would do my writing with God. Then I’d put the pen down and I’d go back upstairs and totally forget God. I would just forget about God. And then one day, I go downstairs and it’s raining outside. It’s a very electric kind of stormy day. When I sat down to start writing, God says “I do not end with this pen.” I said, “Ok, You don’t end with the pen.” And God said again, “I do not end with this pen.” I just kind of said –ok- I didn’t get it, but I wasn’t asking any more questions. Then a third time “I DO NOT END WITH THIS PEN,” and then a lightning bolt hit the top of the tree in the back yard and shook the entire house!
B: Wow!
S: Now, it’s one thing to experience God in the privacy of you and your pen, and your notebook. And another to experience God outside of your body and outside in the backyard in the sky, that is an overwhelming experience.
B: How incredible! Is there one thing you would like to leave our readers with about you, about your book? What would be the one thing you would want to present to our readers about your book?
S: I think I would like them to know that this is not a touchy feel good spiritual guide. This is a serious venture into the mind of God.
B: I think people have been waiting for you. They’ve been waiting for someone to answer all their questions. You said it right in your book…Spirit just repeated “You get into the meat of our existence whereas a lot of books on the market today speak about the fluff and the happy, happy, joy, joy and positive thinking.” Although these are important, I feel as though your book is going to be by far much more distinctive than the fluff that is being produced today.
S: That is exactly how I feel about it and I think my publisher also felt that way because I’m the one who wrote in the book proposal that this is not a touchy feel good guide, it is an awakening and he repeated that on the back of the book.
B: That’s exactly what Spirit is making me understand about your book, that it’s not a light read. I think it will be a book that will be used very closely like the Bible. It’s going to be read in part, it’s going to be read in full, it will be one people will come back to again and again because, as they grow, they will get more and more out of it. Or they’re going to understand our purpose here a whole lot better.
S: I even have, after the third time, read something in this book that I didn’t read before and that was that I was born….this is my mission. I thought it was my purpose, the purpose for being born, but as I read it the third time, it was no…wait, this is my mission. It’s completely different than a purpose. A mission is a pretty heavy responsibility, but my faith is so much stronger now, I think I can take that on.
B: I am sure of it. Sondra, you are an amazing person and I am so honored to be able to do this interview with you and to share you with our readers of Bellesprit Magazine. They’re going to get you! I think that they’re going to want to know more. Like I said, once people finish this book they’re going to be like…”where’s the next book, there’s got to be something else, I need more.” You obviously have the second one in the works waiting to be published. You’re going to be busy as I feel there’s going to be a third one to follow this one.
S: I’m looking forward to the second one. The second one is called, The Meaning of Life’s Design, it’s really cool, and if you love science, you’re going to love this one.
B: Finally, what message do you feel God has for us that comes through you? What is the thing He wants us to know?
S: Mainly that the most important thing that God wants us to know through these books is that there is no such thing as death. We have to start seeing ourselves as the formless beings that we are that is holding our molecular structure in suspension that we call a body. The soul that we are is inhabiting this body. The soul is inside the body. We need to start seeing ourselves as the unseen and each other as the unseen instead of as these bodies, and as these genders, as male/female. Stop seeing God as a “He” but God as a system of light that is through all things that are of matter and that are of not matter…that God is in every single cell of the universe. God is contained within us and we within God. I hope that people can begin to see themselves in each other. We often say that no one is perfect but according to God we are perfect, we are perfect exactly the way we are. The reason we say nobody’s perfect is because we have expectations on people to be a certain way. If they don’t meet our expectations then we say they are imperfect. But we’re not seeing them the way they are and the way God made them. We’re seeing them the way we want them to be. So if we start to imagine ourselves and each other as perfect, absolutely perfect, we can see the expansion that is beyond our physical experience.
B: Your book is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Is it also available on your website?
S: It’s not at the moment, but they can click to the Amazon or Barnes & Noble websites from my website.
You can learn more about Sondra Sneed by visiting her web site at www.sondrasneed.com.
Be sure to also visit her Facebook Fan Page – https://www.facebook.com/Godscribe
You can also email her at sondra@sondrasneed.com
I highly recommend Sondra’s book, What To Do When You’re Dead to anyone who is looking to expand on their spirituality and gain a better understanding of God.
Sondra is indeed a Godscribe. I could feel His presence as I spoke with her. She invites a closer relationship with God as we seek to find meaning to this life experience through her book. She is, without question, the real deal.
About the Author:
Belle Salisbury is the owner and Editor of Bellesprit. She has been a Spiritual Counselor for 41 years utilizing Clairvoyance, Clairsentience, and Clairaudience in her sessions bringing you guidance in your daily life. As a medium she is able to see and communicate with your Spirit Guides or departed loved ones bringing you communications of guidance, healing, validation, and closure. For more information or to book a session, visit her website at www.bellesalisbury.com.
