All posts by Dr. Robin Starbuck

About Dr. Robin Starbuck

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

Finally found your path

Awakening

W H E N . Y O U ‘ V E . F I N A L L Y . F O U N D . Y O U R . P A T H

You’ve kept your eyes so far open for so long you thought they would burst, right? You’ve kept reading and reading and reading and listening and listening and listening and you finally say “I found my way, why do I have to keep searching for it?”

Are you sure you found exactly the right method, means and motive for your final search into the finale of all things? Don’t you think you should read another 50 or 100 books and listen to many, many, many more lectures and seminars and interview every possible person on the planet that has anything to say about anything before you can actually say “I’ve found my way; I’m ready to commit to it and put it into practice”?

Some say thinking is the way to get to the bottom of all things and others say thinking is exactly that which kills the ascertainment of same! What say you? Do you really think you have the right grasp on things here? And if so shouldn’t you be pursuing it with all due passion here and now instead of reading this diatribe on how everybody’s meanderings are not a sign that enlightenment is anywhere near in sight!

When you really find your way you won’t be stumbling in the dark anymore, you won’t be doubting your commitment to what you found anymore. You simply know that you have the pearl of great price. You’ll see others’ advice on how everyone and their uncle should open their eyes, open their ears, open everything, let in everything and there’s just never any end to it. What about putting into practice the things you’ve been learning and weeding out what you don’t need, what’s no longer serving your higher purpose?

WHAT MOST PEOPLE ON THIS PLANET ARE SORELY MISSING IS A SOLID FOUNDATION IN … ANYTHING !! They’ve dug up all their roots anywhere that they had them and they don’t have the slightest inkling what it’s like going forward with a foundation under them! They think it’s cool, it’s smart, it’s the modern way to reject anything and everything that has been tried and proven and solidified by much application!

They think it’s smart to blaze the trails to something newer and newer and newer, never valuing how much smarter it might be if it were added to some kind of a foundation, something dependable, something tangible.

When you find a teaching for example that really says everything for you, why in the world do you think you need to go all the way to the opposite extreme and check it out and re-check it and re-check it, using your Wikipedia and all kinds of encyclopedias to flesh out fancy knowledge – knowledge of all kinds of things that remotely touch on what you really want? Once you’ve found your way, isn’t it time to shore it up, polish it up, apply it and grow from it, grow deeply, grow with roots, grow with sincerity, grow with honesty and appreciation?

DrRobinStarbuck

Reclaim your gain

Advanced spirituality

O N . T H E . A T T A I N M E N T . O F . H I G H E R . C O N S C I O U S N E S S

Have you experienced what felt like
a complete final breakthrough
in which immense spiritual love
pretty nearly overwhelmed you?
Were you quite sure in the face of
such ineffable joy that the cares of
the world had had their last hurrah?

And then, finally, you “needed to”
come back and “face the world”
again at which time you “had to”
assume your “usual place” in it?
And all too swiftly the cherished
position, the pinnacle, evaporated?

I defy you to look again.
Look right at the point you had attained.
You see, it’s still there!!!
It’s gonna need some nurturing now
to bring it fully back and maintain it.
But be sure of this: it is still there.

DrRobinStarbuck

Never alone

Joel Solomon Goldsmith

N E V E R . A L O N E

“On this point hinges a tremendous revelation: we are never alone. Just as we attract to ourselves the companionship we deserve at any given moment, so in our invisible life there is companionship. As Jesus could tabernacle with Moses and Elias whom he looked upon as great teachers and spiritual seers, so do we today have those who are our companions on the spiritual path. You have yours, and I have mine — if so be we awaken to the realization that none of these has died, that our own is with us, and our own teacher is within us. Your teacher may be a man or a woman living in this particular parenthesis, or your teacher may be an invisible Presence and Power. Such is the mystical life.”
The Infinite Way
Joel S. Goldsmith

How precious to know that absolutely everything undergoes a spiritual transformation when we’re ready for it, including our companionship, as we go along on our glorious eternal ride.

DrRobinStarbuck

No vibrations

Matter unreal

N O . V I B R A T I O N S !!

“All motion, all time, all space, all material consciousness is the relationship of one set of vibrations to another set and that is not the world that Christ Jesus walked in. He discovered another world where there is no vibration. My Kingdom is not a world of vibration.”
Herb Fitch

Atomic man can dabble and poke, waft and wane, or simply awaken to the realm of Spirit, God, i.e., One eternal non-vibrating miracle.

DrRobinStarbuck

Thanksgiving

Joel Solomon Goldsmith

T H A N K S G I V I N G

“The life of every Infinite Way student should sing the song of thanksgiving daily and hourly, not merely on one day of the year. The real thanksgiving that rings in our hearts has no earthly trappings of blessing-counting. How limited a concept of this deeply spiritual activity it would be to look at the apparent abundance of our human life and stop there with our gratitude!

“No, our thanksgiving reaches the kingdom of heaven itself and rejoices, not in the loaves and fishes, but in the consciousness of the activity of God as our individual being and as the being of all those with whom we have contact. Thanksgiving is a spiritual experience that springs from inner wells of joy. It is the acknowledged fulfillment of spiritual consciousness that rejoices in its own beauty and bounty.

“We are grateful for the abundance of supply, harmony of relationships, and health of body, but we do not let ourselves stop at that level. We sing our song of thanksgiving out of the heart and soul of our Christ-identity which is our assurance of infinity.”

Joel S. Goldsmith
Spiritual Discernment
Chap 11

How wonderful to have this glorious Day raised to the real dimension in which it resides! May we all rejoice-a-plenty and savor the bounty of pure infinite Love!

DrRobinStarbuck

No details! Malpractice

Mental malpractice

M E N T A L . M A L P R A C T I C E . R E V I S I T E D

There is a good reason for keeping the details of one’s ‘problem’ to oneself: it protects against mental malpractice on the part of spiritually untrained onlookers. Remember if loving thoughts and prayers could have a beneficial effect upon another person or situation, it stands to reason that unloving, judgmental or malevolent thoughts might unwittingly or deliberately visit a deleterious effect upon same.

DrRobinStarbuck

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