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

Doesn’t take long to cave…

De-hypnotize

HOW BADLY DO YOU WANT CHRIST?

You’re probably one of the most astute
Followers of Christ known to man
But it’s not getting you much at all.
You’ve done more, surrendered more
Kept on the straight and narrow.

After many, many hours of receiving
And communing you’re finally ready
To take a break, put on TV and kick back.
Amazing how quickly you’re sucked into
Dramas of sex, booze & snide remarks!

Since when was it okay for you to side
With the criminal who gets the girl?
How is it suddenly congenial to see all
Those people as beyond hope or care?
Where did you disappear to in a flash?

You’re taking in a lot of poison
But hey that’s okay it’s only temporary
You’ll be back on track shortly
Pick up where you left off, adamantly
Denying aforementioned intruders….

Hah!! Ever wondered how it was
They fit so snugly into the huge gaping
Wide open arena you once called
Your intimate conscious awareness of
All things connected, perfect and free?

Free of downward drag of matter, no more incarnations

Herb Fitch

NOT SUBSERVIENT TO THE WORLD MIND OR EVEN THE HUMAN MIND ANY MORE. WALK BACK INTO THE LIGHT:
Isaiah 26:19-21
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. [20] Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. [21] For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

IN FOURTH DIMENSIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS, NEW JERUSALEM.
Matthew 27:52-53
and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. [53] They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.

STEP OUT OF THE WORLD AND LET IT GO BY. STAND IN THE ETERNAL NOW. THE ETERNAL “I”.
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. [10] Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. [11] No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.
Ecclesiastes 1:9-11
I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him. [15] Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account.
Ecclesiastes 3:14-15


Five cats healed*

Heal Yourself

YOU PROLLY WON’T BELIEVE THIS BUT
Some years ago I received a frantic call from my brother telling me that all 5 of his cats were deathly ill and had been sick for several days. He was choking back tears because he said there were signs that death was imminent such as their staying in their litter boxes. He had to leave for work shortly, but would I look in on the cats? Of course I said I would and after calming myself down enough to pray, I went down to his apartment (same building as mine) to visit the kitties. I went from one cat to the next and found that my brother was NOT exaggerating. I laid hands on them – one by one, addressed them by name and told them in no uncertain terms that God had created them perfect and that matter had no power over them – or something like that. Finally, I left to go about my own business, knowing that the little darlings were in God’s hands. In the evening, my brother called to tell me that I had “left (my) mark” I asked if I had left my jacket there. He said, “You left your mark on every one of the cats’ faces. They are completely healed.” I’m ashamed to say I couldn’t believe it and had to run down and check them myself. …Every …single …cat …was …completely …healed!!!!

Mysticism vs. religion

Mysticism

MYSTICISM VS. RELIGION
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When we speak of mysticism we speak of experiential knowledge of God, not just a left brain mental belief system. A mystical experience is a grasp of the whole by the whole. That’s what makes it so transformative. God is another name for the heart or center of everything and it’s sole source of connectedness. When you say you love God, you are saying you love everything. Immature religion, fundamentalism, is an excuse for not loving a whole bunch of things and reveals you have not had an authentic God experience. An authentic God experience produces two things at its core: quiet confidence as opposed to argumentative confidence, and joyous gratitude. That’s why mystics can love their enemies. They don’t make the distinctions that low-level religion makes. Low-level religion is mostly just tribal belief systems which hold the group together. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad place as we all need a tribal container to hold us in place long enough to discover the real questions and struggle with them. It’s this struggle that leads us out. Unless we realize bondage we don’t have a desire for freedom. Organized religion never answers the real questions the soul is asking. In fact organized religion wants to silence the questions unless they are on its list of acceptable questions, to which It holds the infallible answer that needs no further questioning.
~Stan Tyra

Abba, speak in Divine wordlessness*

Prayer vs Affirming

When I ponder
God’s Omnipresence
Omniscience and Omnipotence
There are times my mind is Instantaneously freed to soar
And sing of His glories.
Other times, not so much.

Times I need to feel
His closeness, gently speaking
To the child of me,
Until I once again see:
The Christ in me
IS me
And I am He.

Abba, Papa, God in me
Speak in Divine wordlessness.
Calmly bring to remembrance
Your infinitude, Life and Love
Oneness, Allness, Is-ness,
I Am, Spirit and Soul,
The world knows not of.

Pure knowing – Rupert

Mysticism

PURE KNOWING

In the world
I am the seen
In the seen
I am the seer
In the seer
I am the seeing
In the seeing
I am pure Knowing

As pure Knowing
I become the seeing
in the seeing
I become
the seer
as the seer
I see the seen
as the seen
I appear
as the world

~Rupert Spira