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Professor of English 1973 M.A., New York University 1989 Ph.D., New York University Linguistics

Jim Newman • Non-Duality/Vienna June 2018 -JN

Jim Newman EMPTINESS

good volume

They individual things things. The individual makes things out of everything or every thought. Notice the verb form of the noun thing!!

rjs: Being angry happy sick healthy fearful whatever is an experiential perspective that fits in that belief system but it isn’t real.

The basic assumption with the I am approach is that I am real and that is an assumption. It is the dream.

Knowing and understanding what is happening is a huge effort. Good and bad are unreal. They are just part of the story that the individual which is unreal uses to make his story.

LOL: That’s all happening to me and I must be a good person and receive it to show what a good person I am! Lol

Jim Newman Finland June 2 2:52min -JN

Jim Newman EMPTINESS

All appearance is a dream. There is nothing that can be held on to. When the dream stops you can talk about what is real.

RJS QQ: I know as clearly as I know that there is no Santa Claus and that I don’t have The Choice of going back and believing that there is a Santa Claus I know that there is no world including heaven which is supposedly a place that people go to when they die. I know that this is all part of the dream and I’m happy to dispense with it. Gosh I thought I had a question but I think what I have is an answer!

Most are lulled to sleep -rjs

Robin Starbuck

I’ve been so severely smitten by the power and love of God that I want everyone to know some hard, cold facts. While the Truth of God is true across the board, precious few will ever real-ize (make real) it. People have been lulled to sleep by the notion that everything will be alright.

Not in this world!

In this world where you have trees and grass and animals and people … especially people!… you have discord, disease, death. The inevitable nature of people is to put off any serious undertaking until … in most cases … it’s too late. Every person that you see in your mind’s eye is capable of awakening but very few do in their present lifetime; then they have to come back and try again and again – maybe for thousands of years – when all they ever needed was to wake up. I don’t know how to say this more clearly: NO EFFORT IS REQUIRED TO BECOME WHAT YOU ALREADY ARE – THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS (THE SUBSTANCE, LIFE, BE-ING) OF OMNIPRESENT SPIRIT, GOD. BUT FOR MOST PEOPLE A GINORMOUS EFFORT IS NEEDED TO ACTUALLY WANT TO WAKE UP SUFFICIENTLY.

Use your vehicle to advance -rjs

Robin Starbuck

THERE’S A PLETHORA OF LOVELY “HOW TO HAVE A BETTER DAY” APHORISMS OUT THERE.
But I don’t wish anyone a better day or even a better human life!
I wish we would all use our vehicles (our situations in life) to go deeper … much, much deeper … right straight to the heart of God.
When we (seemingly) have a need, our attention has been gotten! Now if we’d only do what we should’ve done in the first place – contact Spirit, God, within and as us – our little day and our little life will fade into perfect, eternal, blissful immortal life to be joyously shared with all whom we love.