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

Mystic = actually encountering the Divine..

A mystic is one who has moved from mere belief “systems” or belonging systems to actual inner experiences.
Without a vital spiritual experience ~ we are left with mere “head knowledge”.
This mystery of transformation involves surrendering ~ a yielding of our selves and all we Think we know..because our preconceived ideas, doctrines & theologies won’t fit into the amazing experiences of actually encountering the Divine..
~Kathleen DesVoigne

Problem with turning to God for healing

THERE IS A PROBLEM with turning to God for healing. The key word is “turning” but permit me to return to that later.
I, personally, am fully invested in God as the Source of all real healing and it’s for a much too simplistic reason: it seems like an open door to invite people to see the realm of Spirit.
Putting God, His Kingdom, realm and Life ABOVE OUR INITIAL PROBLEM has been the theme and purpose of my two books on the topic. I believe in it just that strongly.
So when a person in a dire condition declares “Yes, yes I believe!” it’s nearly impossible for them to be aware of the degree of truth in their protestation and to what extent they’re embarking on trying to convince God of something they don’t even believe.
BEYOND BELIEF must be their new mantra where knowing, being, resting in pure Spirit becomes a WHOLE NEW FOCUS and trying to con God and anyone else becomes moot.
When the problem becomes nothing more than an awakening and Spirit is seen as one’s very life, wonderful changes miraculously take place – the biggest being your own sudden awareness.

Go where God is – hf

You must give up one to get the other. To experience God you must live where God is, and God is only in the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Spirit. If you want to catch a fish you go to water. If you want to experience the power of God you must go where God is. And you will not find God in space or time. You will not find God in the human mind or in human thoughts, and you will not find God if you are a physical human being walking this earth on two physical feet. You must face this. You must read this, every word of it. Write it down, listen to it, study it, until you can accept that you can only find God in the Kingdom of God
~Herb Fitch
La Jolla Series

No one can make you think poison – hf

Now you know no one can make you drink poison. Why should you let anyone make you think poison? Material consciousness is poison. Thinking about matter is poison. Ultimately it must kill you. Every form of human destruction in our world is the same serpent, the only adversary there is.
~Herb Fitch
La Jolla Series

Quit wasting time, precious friends

Please dear precious friends don’t keep doing what I also wasted many years doing.
Quit imagining that mere familiarization with teachings about God, spirituality, healing, etc, etc will DO anything.
When you hug your problems close about you like a wedge between you and your needed awakening, then it’s you that needs to get out of your own way.
Once you’re finally awake, not even the sky itself is the limit!

Heaven & earth: RJS no problem with preterism or futurism, but w/matter

I don’t deny preterism – that the Jewish Temple was destroyed nearly 2000 years ago as predicted: it’s historically undeniable. Nor do I deny futurism’s claims that glorious and shocking things will happen in the future: that’s the way matter recreates and destroys itself. I take issue with the belief that matter has any substance, Life, mind, soul, Spirit or truth at all in the Fourth Dimension – the realm of God.

Historical, literal or spiritual rendition of Bible?

Speaking historically or speaking from the standpoint of mortal man on earth looking up, a literal rendition of the Bible is the best we can hope for. But starting with Spirit, God, as Jesus always did, we can see as Jesus did or does. God is pure Spirit and has so much more to reveal when we’re ready. What “will happen” to mortal man’s limited view is forever in the future. But from God’s standpoint it is and always was done.

After the hissyfit

I’ll tell ya the truth
If I were to find out
That I don’t know God
First I’d have a hissyfit
Then when I got over
My little tantrum I’d
Come to realize it’s
Cause for gratitude.
It means that whereas
I thought I knew God
And this life is kinda “it”
Now I’ve found out I was
Wrong on both counts!
I can start right now to
Really get down to business
And discover Spirit, God,
In my Soul right where
He always was!

Breaking the Mesmerism – JSG

1956 Seattle Closed Class
Joel S. Goldsmith
167B – Breaking the Mesmerism

To be under the law of good and evil […] refers to cosmic law, or karma, that which the Master spoke of as: As ye sow so shall ye reap, or Paul spoke of as: If you sow to the flesh you will reap corruption. If you sow to the Spirit you will reap life everlasting.
As long as you are under the law of cause and effect you are under the Lord God. If you accept an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, if you accept any of these human means of solving life’s problems you are under the law, and you come under grace when that period ends.

Claim the Truth repeatedly in spite of all the protesting from the carnal mind
ALL-OF-A-SUDDEN
you’ll get it – you’ll feel&know it