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

The trickiest part of healing…

THE TRICKIEST PART about pursuing a healing is to fall so deeply in love with God that the healing no longer matters because you have something even more important than a healing to cherish and pursue. It’s the flipping back and forth from believing that infinite God, good, is ONE and everywhere at once to wondering how the body is coming along. The latter preoccupation flatly denies all the claims that one made re the all-power of Spirit.

Why talk about how to solve problems?

Why oh why does everybody talk about how to solve this issue or that issue?
Yeah, yeah I know, the issues in question are very serious, sometimes life-threatening. But their very approach guarantees failure. Guarantees it!
Who told you you got this issue or that? Did God tell you so? Then if God didn’t tell you so, who did? Your own mind (with your body in tow). You’re under a general world hypnosis and you’ve got plenty of company. But that doesn’t make the lie about your condition true. If you really knew the truth about yourself – that you are the image and likeness of God – if you really, really knew it you’d be sooo happy you could hardly contain yourself!!! You’d forget all about the problem and just bask in the sheer joy of your newfound freedom. You would focus on everything that validates your inherent perfection and smile from ear to ear! You wouldn’t want to hear a single sound but the sound of “I” because you just got it that I is God AND I is you simultaneously.

How exactly does healing work – rjs

How exactly does healing work?
Do people heal other people?
What actually effects a healing?
What impedes it?

Have you noticed that all four questions
are “bottom-up” questions?
They start from vulnerable mortal man
querying about something outside.

Healing is a spiritual issue –
it starts with Spirit and if successful
it stays there.

People don’t heal anyone at all.
Jesus didn’t heal, but the Christ did.
God didn’t heal: God IS the healing.

Mere mortals –
that’s all of us till we awaken –
seek to dis-cover their immortality.

A major awakening takes place as
the patient (oneself, etc) goes through
a transition much akin to rebirth.

His human life keeps shifting & shifting
Things fall in place miraculously
And the original issue long since forgotten.

Approach that guarantees failure

Why oh why does everybody talk about how to solve this issue or that issue?
Yeah, yeah I know, the issues in question are very serious, sometimes life-threatening. But their very approach guarantees failure. Guarantees it!
Who told you you got this issue or that? Did God tell you so? Then if God didn’t tell you so, who did? Your own mind (with your body in tow). You’re under a general world hypnosis and you’ve got plenty of company. But that doesn’t make the lie about your condition true. If you really knew the truth about yourself – that you are the image and likeness of God – if you really, really knew it you’d be sooo happy you could hardly contain yourself!!! You’d forget all about the problem and just bask in the sheer joy of your newfound freedom. You would focus on everything that validates your inherent perfection and smile from ear to ear! You wouldn’t want to hear a single sound but the sound of “I” because you just got it that I is God AND I is you simultaneously.

A friend won’t follow? …

There may be a time
When you have a
Precious revelation
And you think it’s
Just exactly right
For another cool friend
But they don’t respond
At least not how you’d like
You’re disappointed
You’ll try again another way.
Woah! Full stop!
Maybe they’re onto something else
Maybe they’re led differently
Maybe they’re not ready
Or, maybe they’re beyond it.
ISN’T EVERYTHING SUPPOSED
TO BE GOD’S WAY & TIMING ?
Let them off the hook and
Hear God loving you
Sweeter than ever before!
He’s not leading you:
He’s living you!

Is healing passé? I think not! ●○● HF

IS HEALING PASSÉ ? I THINK NOT !!
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“If you look with dead senses you are going to see death. But suppose you look with Life. Suppose you look with that Vision which is of the Spirit. Suppose you first, see the I, of your own Being before you try to find the I of another. And so what stood before this bedside? What stood before this girl that was different than everyone else who stood there looking at her? I stood there looking at her, not a dead physical being, but I the living Spirit of God stood there in a form. A form that appeared to people as Jesus, but it was I, The Christ standing looking at this girl. And what does I, The Christ see, the Immortal I, the Immortal Christ can only behold it’s Self. The Immortal I saw the Immortal I. And she awakened and asked for food. Now this Immortal I in her, awakened by the recognition of It, by one who stood in the Immortal I, now awakened not only that I but that I awakened the dead senses. Now those senses were not being governed by chance. Now those senses were not being murdered by the cosmic or the unconscious mind. Now this girl was not a channel for the lie about Immortality. The Immortal I of her own Being was recognized and It became the law of her Being. And It now animated the senses. It gave her a desire for food. And she was twelve. And so we know that, as Jesus himself speaking in the temple at twelve was able to educate the elders. She had gone through the transition of rebirth, and The Christ in the form of Jesus, and The Christ within her, being one and the same. The Immortal Self now, which had ever been present through centuries of human time was emerging to take dominion over the false human mind. Now before Jesus brought us this resurrection of the girl, he very carefully laid the groundwork to show us that where we see through a glass darkly with a mortal mind, with a mortal consciousness, with mortal senses, there is an invisible Life present which is not mortal, which is not subject to chance, which is not subject to human powers, which is not at the discretion of one individual or a nation or a body of material laws.”
~Herb Fitch
The Infinite Way Book Study
Transcripts of the 1969 Class
from San Francisco

The Infinite Way – last paragraph

I am breaking the sense of limitation for you as an evidence of My presence and of My influence in your experience. I – the I of you – am in the midst of you revealing the harmony and infinity of spiritual existence. I – the I of you – never a personal sense of “I” – never a person – but the I of you – am ever with you. Look up.
~Joel S. Goldsmith
The Infinite Way
(The New Horizon)

Comfortable and complacent?

To those on the way, harmony in human affairs often is a lack of spiritual awakening; and, therefore, when the battle, leading to the overcoming of “this world” is on, the initiate will remain as quiet as possible under the adverse circumstances, endeavoring to refrain from fighting erroneous conditions and insofar as possible “letting” the warfare go on until the moment of transition arrives. When your spiritual study is sincere, the breaking-up of your material world – the desertion of friends, students, or family, a change of health or other outer activity – often ushers in the spiritual transition, or rebirth. This is the attainment of that which you have sought. A tremendous movement is taking place as the initiate discerns the difference between physical harmony and spiritual wholeness. Retire often into the center of Being, my Son. Let divine Love engulf you; be at peace in “My peace.”
JSG-TIW-WISDOMS

That LIFE-saving stumbling block

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SPIRITUAL (MYSTICAL) INTERPRETATION – TO CHANGE OUR LIVES LITERALLY !!
‘As long as there remains concern for personal good – security, health, or peace of mind – there is that which must “die daily” in order that one may be “reborn of the Spirit” into the realization of immortality here and now.’
JSG-TIW-WISDOMS
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Rising in consciousness – jsg

It is a mistake to believe that human desire and prayer will bring God to your side. There must be a rising in consciousness until His presence is attained – and there rest. Here truly is a perennial rest from care, concern, doubt, and fear.
~Joel Solomon Goldsmith
The Infinite Way
(Wisdoms of the Infinite Way)

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O Students! Do not strive or seek for heavenly riches in human consciousness. Wait! Wait! Seek a HIGHER LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS (caps mine): There the Father’s treasures are as free as air. JSG:TIW

Why is religion so despicable? cc

I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing
on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said “Stop!
don’t do it!”
“Why shouldn’t I?” he said.

I said, “Well, there’s so much to live for!”
He said, “Like what?”

I said, “Well…are you religious or atheist?”
He said, “Religious.”

I said, “Me too! Are you christian or buddhist?”
He said,”Christian.”

I said, “Me too! Are you catholic or protestant?”
He said, “Protestant.”

I said, “Me too! Are you episcopalian or baptist?”
He said, “Baptist!”

I said,”Wow! Me too! Are you baptist church of God or baptist church of the Lord?”

He said, “Baptist church of God!”

I said, “Me too! Are you original baptist church of God, or are you reformed baptist church of God?”

He said,”Reformed Baptist church of God!”

I said, “Me too! Are you reformed baptist church of God, reformation of 1879, or reformed baptist church of God, reformation of 1915?”

He said, “Reformed baptist church of God, reformation of 1915!”

I said, “Die, heretic scum”, and pushed him off.

cc posted