When confronted with any human problem, instead of laboring for an improved human condition, turn from the picture and realize the presence of the divine Spirit in you. This Spirit dissolves the human seeming and reveals spiritual harmony, though to sight this harmony will appear as improved human health or wealth. When Jesus fed the multitude, it was his spiritual consciousness of abundance that appeared as loaves and fishes. When he healed the sick, it was his feeling of the divine Presence that appeared as health, strength, and harmony. This may all be summed up in Paul’s words: “Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” We are living in a spiritual universe, but the finite sense has set a picture before us of limitation. While thought is on the picture before us – “this world” – we are engaged in the constant effort to improve or change it. As soon as we lift our vision – take thought off what we shall eat and drink and wear – we begin to behold spiritual reality which appears to us as improved beliefs, but which really is more-appearing of reality. This more-appearing reality brings with it joys untold here and now, pleasures beyond our wildest imagination and the love of all with whom we come in contact, even the love of those who do not know the source of the new life we have discovered. “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you.” “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God . . . Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth . . . But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
Joel S. Goldsmith
The Infinite Way
All posts by Dr. Robin Starbuck
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“IN THE BEGINNING was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. . . . And the Word was made flesh.” “The Word was made flesh” – but it still is the Word. By being made flesh it does not change its nature, character, or substance. Cause becomes visible as effect, but the essence or substance is still the Word, Spirit or Consciousness. In this wise, do we understand that there is not a spiritual universe and a material world, but rather that what appears as our world is the Word made flesh, Spirit made visible, or Consciousness expressed as idea. All the error that has existed down the ages is founded on the theory or belief of two worlds, one the heavenly kingdom, or spiritual life, and the other a material world or mortal existence, each separate from the other. In spite of this sense of two worlds, men have always attempted to bring harmony into the discords of human existence through an attempt, by prayer, to contact this other world, or spiritual realm, and to bring Spirit, or God, to act upon the so-called material existence. Let us begin with the understanding that our world is not an erroneous one, but rather that the universe in which we live is the realm of reality about which man entertains a false concept. The work of bringing health and harmony into our experience is not, then, getting rid of, or even changing, a mortal material universe, but correcting the finite concept of our existence.
The Infinite Way
Joel S. Goldsmith
God operates in at least eleven dimensions
IT’S REALLY OKAY TO ASK THE FAR-OUT QUESTIONS
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God’s dimensional advantage over us goes far beyond this one-dimensional difference. He can operate in at least the eleven dimensions established by the space-time theorems and string theory … and beyond. His capacity to maintain close and comprehensive contact with us —despite our incapacity to experience Him physically through our space-bound dimensions —becomes a comprehensible reality. We cannot begin to picture it, except perhaps by analogy, but it does make sense.
Dr. Hugh Ross, Ph.D.
Beyond the Cosmos
Beyond the Cosmos – A helpful hint on Re-Viewing some scriptures
TO . B-E-L-I-E-V-E
. . . IS
ABSOLUTELY
EVERYTHING !!
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If you seek him, he will be found by you.44 Come near to God and he will come near to you.45 The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.46 The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.47 I [the Lord] live in a high and holy place, but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit.48 Anyone who comes to him [God] must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.49
This last verse appears to state necessary conditions for finding Him—believing in His existence and in His desire to reward our search for Him. Another way to look at this verse is to focus on the promise it holds. This promise is that an earnest search for Him will always be rewarded and never disappointed.
Dr. Hugh Ross, Ph.D.
Beyond the Cosmos
Time and timelessness are on our side!
NOT TIMELESSNESS BUT TIME-FULLNESS !!
It’s wonderful to know that God is where we’re ultimately going and we will hang with him through all eternity because in fact we’re ALREADY THERE! SO, when the notion of timelessness becomes part of the deal and begins to sound esoteric, dull and meaningless, we can re-cognize that in God’s multi-dimensional realm, we can enjoy glories heretofore unknown.
And we get to do that forever in what we may now wistfully dub “multiple time dimensions”.
A time-collapsing, mind-boggling miracle!
A BLOW-YOUR-MIND MIRACLE !!
Years ago I had a Bible reading project to do; all the passages were written down, so I went to a library of sorts to get started. The librarian said they were closing in a few minutes – and, sure enough, the clock confirmed it. I was so “into it” that I sat down and began my 30-45 minute reading. Next thing I knew the librarian was ushering me out the door. I thanked her profusely for having kept the place open late just for me. But she insisted that she didn’t and that I should look at the clock. I couldn’t believe my eyes! I had finished the entire reading project in less than five minutes! Time had collapsed – or expanded – in an inexplicable miracle!
Robin J. Starbuck
Jesus was non-local. John 3:13 says no man has seen God at any time except the Son of man which came down from heaven; which also is in heaven.
He was standing on the earth claiming to be in heaven at the same moment. The quantum field is the bridge between realms in the spirit. He also passed right through the crowds thatcwere trying to throw him from the cliff. Did he de-materialize and rematerialize?
Frank Hanks
Someday we’ll look
At our feeble attempts
To describe the infinite
Almighty God,
And smile.
RJS
Extra space dimensions
EXPANDING OUR HORIZONS
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Imagine the disciples’ amazement when Jesus came to them bodily, after being crucified, without opening the locked doors or windows of their hideout. Both Luke and John record the event: On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them. . . . They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate it in their presence.19 The disciples’shock arises not only from their inability to comprehend how Jesus could be alive and present but also from their knowledge that physical objects cannot pass through physical barriers without damage to either the object or the barrier. No wonder they concluded that Jesus must be a ghost! What they saw made no sense to them. Jesus responded to their perplexity by demonstrating His physicality. He invited their touch, confirming that He had the solidity of flesh and bones.20 He ate food from their table, further affirming His physical reality.21 The disciples could not know at that moment they had seen an example of what is possible for someone who has access to extra space dimensions or their equivalent.
~ Dr. Hugh Ross, Ph.D.
Beyond the Cosmos
Beyond the Cosmos
TRULY EXPANDING OUR HORIZONS
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God has the capacity, thus, to move and operate along an infinitely long time line, or along as many time lines, infinite or otherwise, as He chooses. He can operate, if He desires, on a time line parallel to our time line or on one intersecting our time line, but He is not compelled to do either. Thus, God has the capacity to cause effects for infinite time on innumerable time lines that never intersect or touch our time line. As such, we could point to no beginning and no end for Him. Since beginnings only make sense where time is linear in some way, God must be a beginning-less Being. He has always existed and will always remain. He never required a causation, or creation, event.
Dr. Hugh Ross, Ph.D.
Beyond the Cosmos
John 1:3 KJV
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Colossians 1:16-17 KJV
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: [17] And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Beyond the Cosmos
THE DANCING WU LI MASTERS
THE DANCING WU LI MASTERS
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When I tell my friends that I study physics, they move their heads from side to side, they shake their hands at the wrist, and they whistle, “Whew! That’s difficult.”This universal reaction to the word “physics”is a wall that stands between what physicists do and what most people think they do. There is usually a big difference between the two. Physicists themselves are partly to blame for this sad situation. Their shop talk sounds like advanced Greek, unless you are Greek or a physicist. When they are not talking to other physicists, physicists speak English. Ask them what they do, however, and they sound like the natives of Corfu again. On the other hand, part of the blame is ours. Generally speaking, we have given up trying to understand what physicists (and biologists, etc.) really do. In this we do ourselves a disservice. These people are engaged in extremely interesting adventures that are not that difficult to understand. True, how they do what they do sometimes entails a technical explanation which, if you are not an expert, can produce an involuntary deep sleep. What physicists do, however, is actually quite simple. They wonder what the universe is really made of, how it works, what we are doing in it, and where it is going, if it is going anyplace at all.
Dr. Gary Zukav, Ph.D.
The Dancing Wu Li Masters
I’m beginning to think that the insights we’re receiving by daring to expand our concepts of the Infinitude of God in this way ought to reach mankind more easily. Some of the mind-blowing images that we entertain clear the way for Jesus’ miracles to be understood and believed. We don’t need to keep bringing limited half-baked constructs to this limited realm but rather point to a dimension beyond what our mortal eyes and brains can grasp. We’re not explaining miracles a-w-a-y, we’re explaining them to be divinely natural. We’re learning that the realm in which God freely lives and moves is closer to us than our very breathing.
RJS
Imagine impacting something right in front of you just by looking at it!