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About Dr. Robin Starbuck

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

Convo with Spirit

God-centered Life

B R I G H T N E S S


Had a kinda strange convo with Spirit this morning. Without any provocation, I declared that yes I wouldn’t mind being a few degrees happier and I wouldn’t mind having a little tweaking of this and that issues and I wouldn’t mind . . . .
What was my point? I didn’t want to have a single annoyance or discomfort removed or favor granted UNLESS it was to further awaken me to Universal Love, Spirit.
And I meant it. It felt awfully good. I knew I was onto something, but I honestly didn’t know what!
For what it’s worth, what had begun as a kinda nondescript ho-hum, alright – lousy day, brightened up so brilliantly that I confess, I’m bedazzled!
DrRobinStarbuck

Dissolving material ties

Changed

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

“Illumination dissolves all material ties and binds men together with the golden chains of spiritual understanding; it acknowledges only the leadership of the Christ; it has no ritual or rule but the divine, impersonal universal Love; no other worship than the inner Flame that is ever lit at the shrine of Spirit. This union is the free state of spiritual brotherhood. The only restraint is the discipline of Soul; therefore, we know liberty without license; we are a united universe without physical limits; a divine service to God without ceremony or creed. The illumined walk without fear—by Grace.”
Joel S. Goldsmith
THE INFINITE WAY

MIXING your philosophical/theological approach to spiritual awakening with psychological/humanistic opinions is a sure guarantee of failure in the long run.

DrRobinStarbuck

Don’t go to God

God's existence

D O N’ T . G O . T O . G O D = D O N’ T . D I S C O N N E C T

The Omnipresence of God precludes the necessity of going anywhere physically, mentally or spiritually in order to know perfection. We get to call the shots by virtue of the fact that Spirit, Absolute Perfection, simply is. Joel Goldsmith firmly admonishes us:

“Do not go to God for anything, for that would be an indication that you wanted it in the future. Even if you expected it now, the fact that you are declaring that it was not there a moment ago is taking away from the instantaneity and the omnipresence of God. Instead of going to God, remember that God’s kingdom is intact: now are you the son of God, and God’s kingdom is not of this world. Then refuse to take this world to God. Refuse to take the pains of the flesh; refuse to take the lacks of the pocketbook; refuse to take the inharmonies of human relationships to God.

“In doing this, you do not have to wait to sit down and close the eyes; you do not have to wait for a time of prayer. You can “pray without ceasing.” If you happen to be busy with cooking or housekeeping or if you are a businessman out about your business, you do not have to stop for one second, not even to close your eyes or to say a prayer. You can do whatever you are called upon to do and still think, “God’s kingdom is not of this world, and I am not taking this world into God’s kingdom. Therefore, let the tares and the wheat grow together.”

“This can be done twenty times a day, thirty or forty times. No time element enters into this, and no waiting. You will not wait until next Sunday to thank God. You will thank God where you are—in the tub, in the shower, in the bus, or at business, wherever you may be—and bring instantaneity into your experience, so that your life becomes a dedication to gratitude, for gratitude is that form of love which best expresses the qualities of love. And what do you have to be grateful for, if not the truth that God is, that God is now, that God is where you are, and that all of this exists in this glorious minute when now are we the sons of God!

“As you let gratitude flow out from you for this joyous experience of realization, you then find how it is that love is a healer, that love is a way of life, that love is the Source of all life, and that this love best manifests itself through your gratitude. Your gratitude must not be because someone gave you something or because of some external condition: your gratitude must be that there is an infinite, invisible, spiritual kingdom which is intact. Once you separate this world from My kingdom, then this world starves and destroys itself. It becomes a nothingness because of its own nature.”

Joel S. Goldsmith
Living By The Word: Chapter Ten Let the Tares and the Wheat Grow Together
A New Way to Pray Without Ceasing
Kindle 182-183

When we say (notice I said “when” and not “if”) we’ll meditate or pray about something, we’ve inadvertently put it off. Joel’s term “instantaneity” comes to mind. The precise moment we think something’s awry, we must unthink it!

That split second might as well be an eternity if we’re putting off recognizing our absolute perfection Now. It signifies lack of Realization; but we only need to shut “it” down, BE who we are and never look back.

DrRobinStarbuck

What heals us

Heal Yourself

I T . N E V E R . H A P P E N E D !!

When we’re talking about Spirit
we don’t need to be dragged down
to the infernal realm of the flesh-
always churning, turning, burning.
Never learning.

God is in the stillness
In the shining and the knowing.
In the laughing eyes of a little child,
squealing “Mommy, Mommy, the pain’s all gone!”

You see, the spiritual realm of God
knows no sorrow, pain or fear
Every atrocity, disease, even death
in Spirit never happened.
And the conscious awareness of
this most amazing spiritual fact
is what heals us!

DrRobinStarbuck

Enlightenment

F E E L I N G . E N L I G H T E N E D . Y E T ?

What happens when you die? That’s quite a leap, but most important as it draws you to the real issue in life: is there anything you can do about it?

The author maintains that there is. The entirely unenlightened masses believe they were born into matter and will pass out of it someday. Such a widespread belief in incarnation begets its sister belief: reincarnation.

Many, many cultures hold that we are fully accountable for all our misdeeds since time was invented although they’d use another term than ‘invented’! To them, taking care of our karma is a fulltime preoccupation.

Then there are those of us who revel in being unborn, ergo, undying. But do we have the slightest inkling what we’re talking about? Do we grasp eternal life at all? Or do we mouth sweet platitudes while inwardly wailing “Help Thou mine unbelief (kjv)”?

One thing is as clear as the nose on my face: eternal life is not for some people and not others.

BUT IT CAN SEEM TO BE SO.

That’s where our enlightenment comes in. If we believe with every fiber of our body that we live, move, and breathe in a material form, it will be so for us. Would you agree with that?

So both schools of thought uphold life before birth and after death. But the notion that when the Grim Reaper visits, we’ll be swept up into a paradisaical sublimity is starting to wear thin. When will I get to the point of what we can do?

Right now. We live out our beliefs, good and bad. But believing is also wearing very, very thin. It behooves us to open our awareness full tilt and allow a deep and abiding foundation to undergird our awakening.

Awakening to what? Eternal life, palpable and absolute: there’s nothing more reliable. That’s curtains for reincarnation and its horrible karma and it puts the kibosh on a dreamy, holier-than-thou meritocracy reuniting in the sky.

WE’RE NOT STRIVING FOR ETERNAL LIFE – THAT’S A GIVEN. WE’RE STRIVING TO TRULY WAKE UP TO IT.

There. That’s it. That’s what needs to be done. By us.

DrRobinStarbuck

Rate your thoughts

De-hypnotize

THAT DREADED QUESTION:

If you were to rate your thoughts,
Each and every one,
Assigning plus (+) or minus (-)
With nothing in between,

How would you measure up
At the end of a pensive day?
Scanning the column down
When all your thinking’s done?

DrRobinStarbuck

Acim v Joel Goldsmith

ACIM

I N S T A N T A N E O U S . F O R G I V E N E S S

A COURSE IN MIRACLES
where we remove all judgement of what the other person seems to have said or done as well as all judgement from ourself for having thought wrongly about them (acim)

………………. MEETS ………………

JOEL SOLOMON GOLDSMITH
who says “it” never happened so there is not and never had been anything to forgive.

is a perfect example of two very different approaches to dealing with the seemingly never-ending onslaughts of the world mind, played out in everyday life.

DrRobinStarbuck

Don’t know crap

Humor - remember that? LoL

An atheist was seated next to a little girl on an airplane and he turned to her and said, “Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.”

The little girl who had just started to read her book replied to the total stranger, “What would you want to talk about?”

“Oh I don’t know,” said the atheist, “how about why there is no God or no life after death”, as he smiled smugly?

“OK,” she said, “those could be interesting topics but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow and a deer all eat the same stuff, grass, yet the deer excretes little pellets while a cow turns out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?”

The atheist, visibly surprised by the little girl’s intelligence thinks about it and says, “Hmmm, I have no idea.”

To which the little girl replies “do you really feel qualified to discuss why there is no God or life after death when you don’t know crap?”

And then she went back to reading her book.

(source unknown)

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I’m reading a book on anti-gravity…I couldn’t put it down! 😂

Does “God” rub you the wrong way?

God's existence

D O E S . “G O D” . R U B . Y O U . W R O N G ?

If the term “God” rubs you the wrong way
by conjuring up a litany of angry thoughts
and perhaps bad memories as well,
just know you’re not alone.

Think instead about Spirit, Life, Truth, Love, Oneness, Allness, Ever-presence.
Enjoy deep meditations of Stillness and Emptiness
‘See’ spiritually the one who’s doing the seeing (yourself).

The Universe, the Field, the Matrix, the ALL, yes even the Box
all point to a kind of Divine Principle
and are all located within you.
As long as they include Absolutely nothing pertaining to constructs of deity.

The term du jour manages to finally and fully
lay the axe head at the root of duality and separation,
closes the door on religion and attainment and
Blots out all false allegiances forever.

That! That right there, is God.

DrRobinStarbuck

As if – final breakthrough

Advanced spirituality

F I N A L . B R E A K T H R O U G H : . ” A S . I F “

Two little words “as if” – when recognized – can accord you the greatest breakthrough you’ve ever known! For some, a courageous reach in their thinking processes brought healings and miracles beyond their wildest dreams while others are still struggling to grasp this phenomenal spiritual truth:

THE WORLD WE SEE IS AN ILLUSION.

The profoundest of thinkers across the globe want with their whole hearts to mitigate the shock experienced by would-be healers and other scientists and so they make that all-too-popular mistake of watering down the above glorious fact.

Let’s take a good long look at it, shall we? Its bottom line is that matter is entirely non-existent. Quantum physics tells us so, and yet its adherents will dance around that astronomical fact till the cows come home – and then milk them!

That which is at once a wave … and then a particle … is not matter being unreal. Ask Hiroshima. The absolute unreality of matter alone ushers into our Consciousness the realm of pure Spirit from which what translates to healing and other miracles in the so-called physical realm emanate.

How is the world we see an illusion? We see matter: it isn’t there. Now we’re just starting to grapple with the nitty-gritty of a statement that can – and perhaps will – change (heal) the entire world.

When we poke around at matter and squeeze our brains trying to figure out how to lay things out for enormously flawed mortal man to devise an explanation that is palatable to the sheeple, we go further and further down the rabbit’s hole: the answers ain’t there!

MATTER ISN’T.

So, what do I see out there? You see Spirit if your Consciousness has been awakened. You see illusion, if not.

That’s about as close as a discussion of Enlightenment ever approaches matter: to dismiss it. You see Spirit or you see nothing.

THE BOTTOM LINE

You’ve been looking into the Fifth Dimension where matter is entirely unknown. We’re here, talking together, recognizing one another and anyone else we summon. We see “what appears to be” a blind man, a cripple, a dead person, but we’re seeing right through them to spiritual reality. We see the world as it really is.

On terra-firma, instead of seeing Spirit “as if” it were here where grievous suffering seems to be, we see Spirit alone as we see right through every lie of the flesh. Instead of seeing matter “as if’ it were Spirit or imagining Spirit “as if” it were material, for the first time ever

WE REALLY SEE !!

DrRobinStarbuck