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About Dr. Robin Starbuck

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

God as mother, sometimes father. JSG

Joel Solomon Goldsmith

Conscious Union with God

Chapter 1: The Basis of Spiritual Healing

Pages 16-17

Spiritual healing is brought about through the realization of the Christ in individual consciousness. God, the individual Consciousness of this universe, is the one and only consciousness. However, since God is the consciousness of me and God is the consciousness of you – and, because there is only this one consciousness – truth becomes effective in the consciousness of anyone who tunes in to it. Therefore, any truth that reveals itself within our consciousness instantaneously reveals itself to the person appearing as our patient. Sometimes, people who are not associated with us in any way, either as friends, relatives, students, or patients – someone in a hospital or a prison, someone on a desert island, someone who is reaching out for help to his highest concept of God – may be healed, even though they do not know us and we do not know them; or, even if they do know us, they may not know that we are on this path and, therefore, would not know why they were healed.

There is only one Life, one Consciousness, one Soul; but, that One is the consciousness of you and the consciousness of me. That is why we do not have to try to reach anyone. When we are in this conscious oneness, we become so much a part of one another that what one is thinking about Truth, or God, the other is hearing. But, no transference of thought is involved and should not be so construed. We are not one in our humanhood. We are one in the Christ. And, all that is being imparted is the divine idea flowing in consciousness. For that reason, those who are aware of the principle of one power need never be concerned about suffering from other people’s thoughts. All the suffering on earth, regardless of its form or nature, is a product of the universal belief in two powers; and, therefore, universal harmony will only be restored when God is revealed as Omnipotence. There is only one mind. And, that mind is the instrument of the one Spirit, or God. Human thinking, which is the product of a mind unaware of its proper function as an instrument of God, never rises higher than the person in whose mind it is taking place. For example, if someone were sitting here repeating, “Two times two is five,” our own mathematical sense would be a protection to us. And, we would not accept that incorrect statement. He might say, “You are dead!” But, our own sense of life would be a protection. And, we would not be troubled by such erroneous thinking. In some forms of mental practice, experiments have been conducted which prove that an individual cannot be induced to do

anything which violates his own integrity unless it is by his own conscious choice. No amount of human thinking, consciously directed at a person, can ever make anyone violate his own integrity. And, therefore, when anyone does wrong, it is because he himself is consciously violating his own sense of right. It all lies within one’s own being.

Can’t stop posting!

Awakening

N O P E !! . S O R R Y !!

No can do! I cannot stop posting spiritual thoughts of non-religious encouragement. Way too many people are telling me they’re beyond inspired! I’m seeing new names too – everyday – of people whose very life received such an impetus; so no, discontinuing won’t be happening anytime soon!

With all my love,
DrRobinStarbuck

In the work

Radical healing

T H I S . M I G H T . S E E M . D O W N R I G H T . C R A Z Y

This might seem downright crazy to you
But this particular lover of God (me)
Is actually, literally, glad about the stuff
She doesn’t have, that would distract her.

Being ‘in the work’ is not an easy road:
The world mind doesn’t relish extinction.
But even that thought just makes me laugh
Coz that which never was ain’t goin’ nowhere!

I don’t want anything bestowed upon me
That would take my single eye off my work!
Oh, what a crazy misnomer is “work”
Coz I, for one, – hands down – love it so!!!

DrRobinStarbuck

Flesh mind gets scared

Awakening

” I N . T H E . W O R K “

When you’re ‘in the work’
(completely committed) as we are,
the flesh mind starts getting scared:
its days are nearly over!

If we turn on this false ‘mind’ immediately
with protestations of glorious Truth
again and again and again and again,
it will quit, and major victory is ours!

Then we can just repeat
what we’ve already proven
… every day … forever!

DrRobinStarbuck

Need strong foundation

Foundation

Y O U . M A Y . B E . L A C K I N G
A . S T R O N G . F O U N D A T I O N

If you’re not happy with your growth Spirit-ward, you may need a stronger foundation. The modern trend these days is to be entirely on your own, attempting with various degrees of success to hear and follow an inner guide. Whenever what appears to be a good idea hits, the seeker is off to compare it with everybody else’s input.

Isn’t it starting to seem a little suspect by now? A person with little or no background in healing and regeneration finds themself acting as guide to countless unsuspecting admirers who are then led hopelessly astray. It could take them years and years to find their way back.

Tossing around the latest ‘enlightened’ expressions, not only never having lived them, but worse yet, not realizing they have never lived them, coddling a blithe assumption of knowingness actually falls under the rubric of mental malpractice. The damage can be very great.

Yes, by all means discover the Spirit within you and trust it above all else. But if IT tells you that you need a firm foundation … well, if I were you I’d listen. A smattering of this and a smattering of that does not a foundation lay!

DrRobinStarbuck

ACIM

L I G H T . T O . E N D . O U R . E V I L . D R E A M S

“Father, forgiveness is the light You chose to shine away all conflict and all doubt, and light the way for our return to You. No light but this can end our evil dreams. No light but this can save the world. For this alone will never fail in anything, being Your gift to Your beloved Son.”
A COURSE IN MIRACLES
Lesson 333

This quote shared to me by Grant Barlow, is the perfect answer to a long-standing need of mine. I am beyond grateful! 🥰

DrRobinStarbuck

Make blues an opportunity

Answered Prayer!

F E E L I N G . B L U E ?

Ask yourself this: how many people on the planet have the ability you have – to turn a blue day into a major spiritual unfoldment? How many can appeal to the realm of the real, dismiss the illusion, and say “I’m ready for more, Spirit!”?

Now, mind you, we’re not reveling in having something others don’t. Quite the contrary, we’re shouting from the rooftops that everyone’s got everything: they simply have to real-ize it!

This world, this dying world, is simply not where it’s at! But we’re eternal. That glorious fact serves us precious little if we don’t know it!

We need to know it intimately. A blue day is a shining opportunity. With absolutely zero analysis of the claim, simply reverse it and answer some compelling questions: Why is it that you are entirely exempt from the blues? Why do you say I can utterly dismiss any thought, feeling or belief I may have that doesn’t emanate from Spirit, God? What do you mean you have a spiritual body?

Answer the above questions zealously and with finality and then tell me what color day you’re having.

And, by the way, congrats!

DrRobinStarbuck

Asking for help

Treatment

S O M E O N E . A S K I N G . F O R . H E L P ?

If anyone asks you for healing, tell them you need NO DETAILS WHATSOEVER ! As a matter of fact you don’t even need or want to know the name of the malady.

Then go into your SPIRITUAL BODY and stay there! No disease or other distress can penetrate one’s spiritual body which is where you – and now your friend – dwell.

Nothing evil can receive admission into the kingdom of God: not sickness, loss, poverty nor death itself! Your own spiritual body, being Spirit itself, precludes the slightest hint of it.

It behooves us, as bonafide seekers of Truth, to fully transition to our spiritual bodies through commitment to it, where all healings and miracles reside. The bottom line is that we’re never truly in (aware of) Spirit unless we’re in our spiritual body (it usually takes a minimum of one year) and that’s the only place to be when a friend in need comes to call!

DrRobinStarbuck

Spiritual body: Rumi & Robin & hf

Consciousness

I Am Spirit. I have a spiritual body. In my spiritual body I can only see absolute perfection. Nothing unlike Divine Love touches me or anyone I see with my single eye. I fill all space because I Am instead of space. I’m remembering my spiritual body stretching out beyond the illusion of time. In my spiritual body everyone is healed, happy, whole and gloriously free, as I Am. What safety, what comradery, what pleasure, what love-for-all resides within my spiritual body!

“My Spiritual Body is the only body I have. It can never be sick, it can never age, it can never die. It was never born. It is a continuous expression of the Father. I am always that Spiritual Body. There is no physical power in this entire universe to prevent my being that Spiritual Body unto eternity. I am Divine Existence. Wherever the human mind sees human existence, it is looking only at its own concept, which it has placed higher than the Word of the Father. That hypnosis I am learning to break. The Father’s Word is my authority, not my concepts. Now we’re accepting the Father’s authority, the Father’s Will in us, which says, “Be ye perfect7, All that I have is thine,”8 My Divine Selfhood is thine, My Divine Life is thine, My Divine Body is thine, My Divine Thoughts are thine. All that I am, thou art.”
~ Herb Fitch

De-hypnotize

L E T ‘ S . R E – E X A M I N E . O U R . G O A L

People of a pseudo-psychological leaning tend to judge our best goal(s) in life to be what they deem obvious. If our goal, however, has precious little to do with a so-called healthy, happy, inscrutably ‘wise’ humanly human, maybe we need to unfollow our learned counterparts!

Let’s throw off our obsession with humanity’s baubles and flirtations and ponder life’s most urgent question: how are we demonstrating our eternal life now? Are we even aware of it. For the majority of inhabitants of this planet the prognosis is not good.

Disease and death are unknown in Spirit, God. What good is this knowledge if we don’t intimately realize it? If we’re oblivious of Life which is God, how in the world do we think we can experience it? What’s there to break the illusion of life in a dying body? You certainly don’t think death can be a great enlightener, do you?

At the risk of being repetitive, the only way to awareness is to wake up! Be hands-down willing to roll up your sleeves and get dirty! Or, go back to sleep and we’ll talk again after a few hundred more years!

DrRobinStarbuck