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

They’re very connected.

“Why does she concern herself so much with the origin and underpinnings of the UNI-VERSE?” you may rightfully ask.

In fact, I care very deeply about the rift that has emerged – and is spreading – between different Christian factions. If all Christians would look up – way, way up – they’d dis-cover that eternal, immortal, omnipotent God has the absolutely perfect spiritual answer to every possible question, and infinitely more.

God is, after all, entirely spiritual, perfect and eternal. Issues being debated, on the other hand, aren’t. As a matter of fact, anything less than eternal is as fleeting as a gossamer web.

Redemption is one example of an attribute of the eternal: it cannot be messed with by our multifarious reinterpretations. Given freely to mankind by God, setting up a new covenant, redemption simply is. Salvation can be argued about til the cows come home, but nothing we might do or conclude can contribute one jot or one tittle in the infinite scheme of things.

Jesus acted in a dimension beyond our meager comprehension when he calmed the storm, fed the multitudes, transported himself through locked doors and healed untold millions. Thank God he could and did!

God’s love for us supercedes any victory that may be gleaned by quarreling over scriptures. We treat other ‘Christians’ like pariah because they’re following a different track (albeit temporarily) than ours. But God, in his multi-dimensional existence can smooth everything out in the blink of an eye. We just need to lift our sights high enough.
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COSMIC SYMPHONY
WELCOME TO THE COSMIC PARTY !!
A cosmic symphony! In exquisite harmony! With vibrations pulsating at a perfect frequency – and pitch! It’s pretty hard to wrap our brains around, isn’t it? And yet right where we see a blob of matter, the subatomic music plays on and on and on. This phenomenon is taking place right here with no help from our comprehension or participation! Dr. Ross describes it thus:

“Given what we know from the Scriptures, it is not farfetched to imagine that God continuously sustains each unique vibration of all the various strings that constitute the building blocks of matter. Perhaps there is a different set of “frequencies”that are continuously released from the invisible realm of heaven that sustain each individual note on every string simultaneously? As we have already established, these are not ordinary sound waves as we are accustomed to on earth, because sound waves do not travel outside of earth’s atmosphere. These are supernatural sounds that flow forth from the Spirit of God. Whilst it is purely speculative, it is possible that there indeed is a “cosmic symphony,”(to borrow Brian Greene’s terminology), of musical notes that continuously flow out of the throne of God in order to sustain the entire material universe. When this musical expression of the “song of the Lord”is ultimately withdrawn from creation the elementary particles will literally “melt with intense heat.”
Dr.Hugh Ross, Ph.D.
Beyond the Cosmos

Desire fulfilled

Merely desire to love as God loves – want it with your whole heart, and the most exciting miracle will well up on the inside of you! You’ll love everyone with the compassionate love of Jesus himself. The joy you’ll feel will be inexplicable and you’ll long to give it to absolutely everyone. You’ll no longer crave ascendancy over a single person – past, present or future – because you will have seen the love that IS Jesus.

When you black, you black!

When I was born, I was BLACK
When I grew up, I was BLACK
When I went in the sun, I stayed BLACK
When I got cold, I was BLACK
When I was scared, I was BLACK
When I was sick, I was BLACK
And when I die, I’ll still be BLACK

NOW, you ‘white’ folks . .. .

When you’re born, you’re PINK
When you grow up, you’re WHITE
When you go in the sun, you get RED
When you’re cold, you turn BLUE
When you’re scared, you’re YELLOW
When you get sick, you’re GREEN
When you bruise, you turn PURPLE
And when you die, you look GREY

So why y’all be callin’ us
C O L O R E D Folks?

A Hindu priest, a Jewish rabbi and a Christian evangelist wanted to rent a room in a hotel; but there was only enough room for two of them so the third would have to sleep in the barn. The Hindu priest offered to go, but very shortly came back saying “I can’t sleep there because there’s a cow and that’s against my religion.” Then the rabbi volunteered but soon was back saying that there was a pig out there and that’s simply not kosher. ….. Can anyone tell me what happens next, and who told this story?

HERE’S AN ‘LOL’ FOR YOU:
CAN YOU IMAGINE, AFTER JESUS CURSED THE FIG TREE (BECAUSE IT WASN’T FUNCTIONING AS A FIG TREE) IF HE HAD BEMOANED THE FACT THAT NOTHING HAPPENED. THE FIG TREE JUST STOOD THERE AS IF MOCKING HIM !! WHY WASN’T THE SITUATION HEALED INSTANTANEOUSLY? AFTER ALL HE WAS JESUS !! FAITH WAS THERE. EXPECTATION WAS THERE. WHY NOT INSTANTANEOUS HEALING? WELL, GUESS WHAT !! THAT WAS THERE TOO – RIGHT WHERE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE – IN THE SPIRIT !! WITHIN 24 HOURS THE HEALING FOUND ITS WAY INTO THE PHYSICAL REALM, AND THE DISCIPLES WERE FLABBERGASTED !!

My brain contains a few things I should know and the rest is just song lyrics.

I’m the perfect man if you don’t factor in looks, depth of character, emotional availability, intelligence or financial well being.
Mike Carter

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
~ Albert Einstein

“If, as some people suggest, the ministry of the supernatural ceased with the apostles, how do they explain that the twentieth-centery man, Wigglesworth, ministered with the same power as did the apostles – even to the raising of the dead, the casting out of devils, the healing of the sick, and other creative miracles?”
– Albert Hibbert, Smith Wigglesworth, The Secret Of His Power, pg 61

HOW IN THE WORLD CAN ANY THINKING BEING SAY THAT MIRACLES AND HEALING WERE ONLY FOR JESUS’ TIME ? . DON’T THEY READ ? . DON’T THEY BELIEVE GOD ?

Forgiveness expanded

JUST SO YOU KNOW: When Jesus said from the cross “Father forgive them” it was not an opportunity to bow your heads, sing one more verse, pray a prayer and accept an INVITATION. “Father forgive them” was a unilateral DECLARATION from the Father through the Son in the Spirit of total forgiveness that reached back to the beginning of time and looked forward to all men who would ever live.
Don Keathley

EXPANDING OUR HEARING OF GOD’S VIBRATIONS
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To extend our speculation on the relationship between the Word of God and the sustaining power that it exercises over creation, we would be required to consider a higher level of complexity in the sounds and tones generated by the voice of God in order to vibrate the different strings of energy that constitute the material world. This idea transcends any notion that there is a single “tone” that is generated by the Spirit of God that vibrates all of the strings of energy simultaneously. Rather, it would necessitate a multiplicity of unique “tones” that correspond to the different elementary particles.
~ Phil Mason
Quantum Glory
The Science of Heaven Invading Earth

Quantum Healing

Quantum Healing didn’t set out to cure cancer or Alzheimer’s or any other intractable disease. It set out to see the human body, and human existence in general, through wiser eyes. As a scientist I’m passionate about genes and the brain; as a person I’m totally fascinated by the origins of consciousness. Quantum Healing galvanized my intuition that these areas do not have to be separated. They belong together naturally, and once we feel secure that self-awareness is integral to the healthy workings of the body, it will be integral to existence itself. Beyond that, the possibilities are infinite.
—Rudolph Tanzi, Ph.D., is director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit and vice chair of neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He also serves as the Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.
Forward to
QUANTUM HEALING
by Deepak Chopra

Mind-body connection

Materialism left out the mind-body connection. Mind isn’t material. Yet our thoughts cause our bodies to move, something we take for granted the minute we get out of bed in the morning but which stands as a great mystery. When you break the body down into organs, tissues, and cells, you can’t find the slightest trace of a thought, and yet the mind must be related to the body. How? Reductionism left out the holistic nature of the body. Trillions of cells cooperate to sustain one another, acting to preserve overall balance and health. Up to a quadrillion neural connections in the brain generate a microscopic electrical storm, and yet the result is organized thought, not a jumble of static. As skilled as medical science is at dissecting body and brain, it has little to say about the experience of life as a whole, yet that experience impinges directly on who gets sick and who stays well.
Rudolph Tanzi, Ph.D.
Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit
Vice chair of neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital.
Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy
Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School.

Sometimes numbers matter!

WHAT IF MINISTRY XYZ WENT TO INDIA OR AFRICA OR WHEREVER AND HEALED A MERE 10% AND BROUGHT SALVATION TO ANOTHER 10% AND INTRODUCED 50 – 60% TO JESUS CHRIST FOR THE FIRST TIME. DOING THE MATH? DAY #1 = 500,000, DAY #2 = 600,000, DAY #3 = 700,000. X 10% , X 10% , X 55% . AND THEN THE MINISTRY COMES HOME TO FIND SO MUCH HIDEOUS GOSSIP ABOUT THEM — CRITICIZING THEIR MODE OF TRANSPORTATION, THEIR HOME AND WORST OF ALL THE FACT THAT THESE PEOPLE HAD THE AUDACITY TO HEAL PEOPLE IN GREAT NEED WHO SHARE THE PLANET !!!!!