All posts by Dr. Robin Starbuck
Turn within vs Layers of Ignorance
“For some strange reason you’ve covered yourself with layers of ignorance. You have become conditioned. You have a covering called a body which appears to you to be the Real McCoy and you go through life trying to appease the body. Trying to make the body happy. Doing things to the body so you’ll be satisfied. Yet with a little investigation you will begin to see that you are not the body.
The body belongs to the I-thought. The body belongs to the ego, to the mind. Consequently you begin to work on yourself by removing the ego, the mind and the I. As you continue to observe this and see this in yourself you begin to realize that the I-thought is the main culprit, for you say I all day long. I love this, I hate this, I feel this, I don’t feel that, you’re always using the first pronoun I. Therefore everything is attached to this I.
Your spiritual sadhana becomes one of removing the I-thought totally and completely. For if you remove the I-thought everything else will go with it and you will be totally free. It’s like trying to take off the layers of cloth on the light. If you take them off one by one it will take a long time but if you go directly to the source, which is the light, the cloth will burn up by itself.
This is what we do here in Advaita Vedanta. We understand I am the light, I am Brahman. I have always been Brahman. I am Shiva, I am Krishna. I am all of the gods and goddesses. I am that. I may appear as the body but I am not the body. There is no mind that controls me at all. For I am the light of the world. I am that. Nothing else exists but that.
You turn within to that. You turn within to the Self. By turning within I always refer to negating the body totally and completely trying to realize even intellectually there never was a body to begin with. There is no body, there is only the light, consciousness, self contained absolute reality that’s what I-am, I-am, I-am.”
~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)
NDEs, OBEs & Afterlife VIDEOS
One woman died in the operating room. She went through the tunnel and found herself no longer bound by the human body at all. She could see beyond her wildest dreams. She had “multiple simultaneous levels of awareness”, could see out of the back of her head, remembered things that happened before and after she was born. She was an attorney and made sure her pertinent information was well documented. Her descriptions of what it was like being entirely free of the body were amazing. The love, the joy, the peace and comradery when she wanted it. Without these bodies we have freedom we never knew was possible. She didn’t want to come back but acquiesced when she realized she could be of great help to those of us who want to know. To me, this points to Brahman the indescribable state of bliss.
Emptiness better than human love -RAdams
“How can emptiness be better than human love or human happiness? Again there are no words to describe it because it’s ineffable. You have to realize what emptiness really means. Emptiness means that no-thing exists in it, no human concept, no human feeling, no human entity.
Where there is total emptiness there is Absolute Reality. And Absolute Reality is total bliss, happiness and joy. And it’s omnipresence. So you not only feel it personally but you have become the whole universe and you see it wherever you look, and you hear it wherever you listen.”
~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)
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“The words that I speak do not mean too much. It is the silence that is eloquent. And the silence is the same with all of us. Silence is the Self. If you rest in silence you become the Self.”
~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)
Finally surrendered & victory! -rjs
Have you ever tried and tried
And tried some more
To get Spirit fully infused
In your conscious awareness
But nothing ever worked until
You hit an emergency situation
Where hope had vanished and
Help was nowhere in sight?
In utter desperation you had an
Epiphany: “Nothing else matters
In this sorry mess of mine
Or anywhere else in the world.
I don’t care anymore, that’s all I know.
God, divine Spirit, I want only You …..
Everything was SUDDENLY HEALED?
You were astonished beyond measure
Sure you were dreaming – how could
It be that you … unworthy for lack
Of insight and perspicacity … you
Could have received such an
Unspeakably amazing miracle
Midst all the sad drama of yesterday?
But now that’s months ago already
And you’re trying, trying, trying
To keep the elation, the astonishment
Alive. You want to bask in it forever
But how? What to do? Should I dare
Recreate an hideous, horrible, Life-
Threatening situation?
Think deeply now: it’s not the situation
But the exact same degree of intense
Critical commitment that you finally
Had in place the last time — moments
Before you SURRENDERED ABSOLUTELY
EVERYTHING – AND WANTED NOTHING
WHATSOEVER except proof that Spirit,
God, was fully in charge.
Robin Starbuck
Obedience to Truth -JSG
Dimensions by Kari! -rjs
Dimensions aren’t places, but are actually levels of consciousness that vibrate at different rates. We’ve been living in the 3rd dimension for a long, long, long time. The 3rd dimension is a very restricting and limiting dimension. Some of you may have felt something similar to this; for years I have felt like I was a caged bird and I felt like I couldn’t move past the boundaries of that cage and just fly. If you felt that too, it’s because we were never meant to be put in such a restricted controlling dimension.
The 3rd dimension is based on rigid beliefs and lots of rules. There is a strong belief in duality, fear and judgement. Thankfully, we are in the process of breaking totally free of this restrictive dimension.
We are journeying through the 4th dimension now, on our way to the 5th dimension. Many of us sense this lighter and much wider and open space. We’re understanding that the past no longer has a hold on us, nor does the future, and we’re getting an understanding of what it means to be and live in the present moment. We’re also experiencing a much deeper understanding of Love, acceptance and gratitude, and through this we’re transitioning to the 5th dimension. The 5th dimension is known as ‘The Dimension of Love’ and that’s why there’s been such an emphasis on clearing our heart center, and centering ourselves in our hearts. We’ve also been seeing the things from our past that are hindering our transition to the 5th dimension such as anger, shame, fear, guilt… cannot go with us into the 5th dimension.
Right now, we are watching the whole structure of earth crumble before our very eyes. It will no longer be business as usual, because we are the new earth and it’s emerging through us. It will be a whole new reality. A reality free from control, chaos, hatred, division, confusion, conditioning… and most importantly duality. There will be no duality in the 5th dimension, because all things are then integrated as ONE.
Do you ever think about how differently we think about things than we did even just yesterday? That’s how fast we are evolving, and ascending. We’re not the same person we were a week ago. Whatever would seek to weigh us down is falling away now at record speed. Beings from other dimensions are assisting us as never before. This is an unprecedented time where Light and Energy are flooding our planet which assist us in releasing old programs and patterns and conditioning and wounds.
What a time to be alive. We have longed for this for thousands of years.
I read a small book a while back by Vidya Frazier; “Awakening to the Fifth Dimension.” Some of this info came from when I read her book. 💞
~Kari Carwile
Addendum: I forgot to include this in my original post. In the 5th dimension there is no lack of anything good. We manifest instantly. That’s truly what it means to live in The Kingdom. ❤️ KC
Self-talk as catalyst -rjs
USING SELF-TALK AS CATALYST FOR SPIRITUAL ADVANCEMENT
Mini conversations with yourself which betray less-than-ideal mindsets can be used as powerful catalysts to upgrade your spiritual awareness.
Generally speaking, simply witnessing flurries of insubstantial thoughts with little or no interest clears the airways but occasionally you can grab ahold of a cluster and ask “To whom are these thought-messages intended? I pay attention with little more than a disinterested nod, but you can keep sparkle-ing on while I watch your 4th of July show with nary the slightest opinion!”
Then when you “observe” an all-too-familiar cluster of recurring fear-mongering claptrap designed to unsettle you, look at it under your love microscope and watch the entire cluster peter out.
Either way your “I” is undisturbed, boundlessly and joyfully caressing the “I” of absolutely everyone in the universe, past, present and beyond!
Dr. Robin Starbuck