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About Dr. Robin Starbuck

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

The same extreme commitment – rjs

Heal Yourself

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.

On Mysticism – RJS

Mysticism

ON MYSTICISM
(Dr Robin Starbuck)
We mustn’t tarry, fret or fear
When our heart’s desire
they cannot hear.
It wasn’t meant for them –
not now. Just listen, for
God will show you how:
“What if I told Mary,
Joe and Sue
things that weren’t
Intended for you?”
So what? Who cares?
We’ve our own way
A mystery generated
On our eternal Day.

Long past time we discover – Frank Johnson

Mysticism

The pursuit of truth will require a change in our life. It may help to take notice of the example of Jesus, remembering that he spent 30 years in preparation before he began is public ministry. It helps to drop all assumptions; in other words, don’t assume that Jesus was on some divine fast-track. Jesus spent countless hours in silent prayer before he went public. Does it take 30 years? No. What we are seeking can happen in an instant.

There is no singular path to truth; but, the introspection necessary will assuredly require the prayerful courage to step out of our religious doctrinal box. You are not looking to affirm your beliefs, you are looking to discover, to experience and realize the truth for yourself. In the past, you simply believed. Now the question becomes “Who am I”? Jesus knew who he was… it’s long past time that we discover that same reality for ourselves.
~Frank Johnson

Discovering the unreality of matter

Matter unreal

When we first get an inkling that there’s another realm – the realm of Spirit – we can’t help but get rather curious about how it could impact our life.
Our thoughts naturally go to “spirits”, demons and things that go bump in the night. But we be wrong!! It’s Spirit (capital S), Infinitude, Eternality — the realm of God. Don’t run away yet – wait till you hear what’s really going on.
We get to choose which to believe: (a) matter is overwhelmingly real, solid, formidable, subject to birth, death and all the ills in between or (b) matter is pure illusion.
When we decide that we really want to “get” the claims of enlightenment (born out by such reputed scientists as Einstein himself) that matter doesn’t of its own accord have a leg to stand on, we find there exists a ‘substance’ (called Spirit), having precious little in common with matter.
The only fine point that we find so difficult to wrap our matter-based, matter-laden brains around is “how in the world is it possible that infinite, perfect, eternal Spirit is right here where matter seems to be?”
When we do start to realize this unspeakable, glorious truth, a whole new world opens up for us. All we have to do now is to realize we’ve just got the first inkling: there’s infinitely more waiting to unfold!

What New Age is and is not – Frank Johnson

Allness

How often have we heard a Christian respond, “That’s New Age thinking”. How many even know what “New Age” means? The foundation of New Age is based on the use of the Mind (the Psyche), not the Spirit. Most Believers are not even aware in the Spirit, but rather, most adhere to a program of beliefs learned in church. Affirmations, for example, have a very positive appeal to many, but in reality they are just the employment of one thought to combat another thought. Here again, this has nothing to do with awakening to our true Nature (as originally revealed by Jesus). This inner awakening, unfortunately, is not even taught in our church communities. So, most Believers live their lives from the thoughts of the natural mind and assume that their church experience is as good as it gets.
~Frank Johnson

How can I get to that perfect spiritual awareness?

Enlightenment

I earnestly believe that the answer you’re looking for is – after all the sincere efforts have been made to get to that ultimate spiritual yearning – to declare within yourself that ABSOLUTELY NOTHING is more important, that you don’t mind doing WHATEVER IT TAKES in your unique case … that the original problem no longer means anything … and all you want is to know that you are in your true identity as “I-Spirit” (God living AS you). It’s a matter of arriving at THIS POINT that God can take over and you literally FEEL the shackles drop off all around you, many of which you didn’t even know you were wearing. Whether it was a lot of stillness, a lot of asking, a lot of reciting mantras or other affirmations, a lot of blocking out the world mind, or multifarious combinations of the above, whether it took minutes or decades or lifetimes << all of that was your unique way of getting 'there'. Don't forget that your whole lifetime has brought you to this unique moment of receptivity where Spirit, your true Self can finally take over.

Rethinking forgiveness

Forgiveness

RETHINKING FORGIVENESS
Haven’t we been taught that forgiveness is such a godly thing to do? That it is the epitome of love in action? Think again in the light of pure Spirit.
As long as we hold a nation or a person in forgiveness we are actually judging them and declaring that there is a place where God isn’t or wasn’t.
Separated beings – him and her, me and you, them and us – don’t exist in Spirit. We are, in fact, all one: ONE indivisible, invisible, infinite whole, called God, who is incapable of errancy of any kind.
I had always thought that forgiveness was so magnanimous and yet I still struggled with it, unaware that my every effort to forgive was really claiming that the hypnosis of belief in separate individuals and issues was real, something other than my thought externalized – like sense-mind forms.
So the challenge I ultimately posed to myself became “Are you going to believe the sense impressions of a matter-based world mind or the omnipresent Oneness of Spirit, God?”

We must control our mind!

Empty Fullness

We absolutely must gain control over our mind. It will never do anything to help us in this endeavor because it by definition is dedicated to the world mentality: it is the carnal mind.
This sham imitation of our mind or consciousness is unreal and that should give us much cause to take heart and even celebrate! We cannot be bullied by our own mind when we finally discover that we do in fact have the mind of Christ.
Whoever told us that we should doubt our oneness with God – our being the same BE-ING as God? There is no other being ‘out there’ to meddle with our perfect thinking and knowing of God’s allness.
Become aware of your triggers: we’re about to send them packing! For now just know that our perfect Mind is God and cannot know anything else.
When we think that we just can’t rise above some unwanted obsessive thoughts, we’re really saying that God is not All, opening the door wide for all kinds of unpleasantness – and worse – to gain a foothold in our life.
Understand that it is the real world of Spirit – right where the lying, hateful, self-destructive world of matter seems to be – that we want to hold uppermost in thought, until we finally know with every fiber of our spiritual being that God, infinite Mind, IS the only reality that there is.
Even with this unlimited, omniscient Mind of God that I have, I’m still at a loss to describe the ineffable freedom and power that accompany such an inestimable awakening.
~Dr. Robin Starbuck

Jesus in my life

Jesus

Robin, I wanted to thank you for writing so beautifully about speaking with Jesus: it is becoming part of my inquiry and meditation practice. Such Peace! Have a wonderful, blessed weekend. Much Love, Light and Gratitude to you. ☀️

Hey Colin! Always know when I don’t respond immediately it’s coz I’m overwhelmed and lack the words to adequately thank you for your kind & encouraging words. I don’t perceive Jesus like religious Christians do, and never have. But I’ll be damned if I’m gonna let them tell me I don’t have a right to everything Jesus came to give. I’ve never imagined myself sitting and chatting with a 33-year old man with sandy-colored hair and blue eyes. But I do relate to him transfigured. You know, Colin, there seems to be a most unfortunate continuum where Bible-thumping, Jesus-in-the-flesh worshiping people are at one end and “don’t-mention-Jesus’-name Hindus, Jews, etc, etc are at the other end. I wish to have this non-vision purged!
I went through a period of suspending judgement and read a lot of Jesus-as-God literature. But to tell the truth I always reserved a Goldsmith-ian “He’s God and so am I and so are you.” But the simplest little prayer-like petitions of “Jesus, help! ” and “Thank you Jesus!” never fail to bring happy results. Go, figure! :p Love ya, Colin!

Miracles happen when you’re refocused

Miracles are divinely natural!

I can’t stress this enough
coz it keeps happening to me:
Want/need a miracle?
Look completely away from
the need, and be so absorbed
in the larger demonstration
that you l-i-t-e-r-a-l-l-y don’t care
at all anymore about the physical
manifestation since a-l-l of your
attention has been permanently
refocused. Your new attitude:
“I don’t even remember the issue
that brought me to my spiritual knees.
They can take it, and so can I. Let this
enable me to hear You (my true Self)
better and I’m already a happy camper!”
Miracles happen! 😀 Timing’s amazing!