G O D,. T H E . G R E A T . I . A M
I had another of those level-clicks yesterday & today. However tentative I may have been on I AM GOD, I’m not anymore. It busts everything w-i-i-ide open. I don’t need to listen, but to be, act and declare what I know! It’s blowing ‘me’ away literally.
When I had needed God’s companionship, approval and guidance, “he” was there. Now it’s a no-step simple “I Am”.
DrRobinStarbuck
I’m not sure if you two are familiar with Joel Goldsmith and Herb Fitch. They, together with acim, harmonize beautifully and say the same thing in the end. The term “create” doesn’t have to be a stumbling block. Language shouldn’t run rampant over an honest investigation. There are other ways of saying things that come out exactly the same in the long run. I studied acim extensively 20 years ago. Both before and after I studied Goldsmith. As a doctor of linguistics I assure you there are various ways of expressing oneself. When I’m in the acim camp i hear create. When I’m talking Goldsmith, people grasp that Absolute Allness implies that what is called create on one level is already done on another level and is no problem.
Herb’s teaching is not something that can possibly be adequately “checked out”. It doesn’t lend itself in any way to a cursory checking as its depth does not jump out at you. As a matter of fact, unless you have pretty good reason to delve deeply into it, my heartfelt advice is that you hold off on it for now.
E A R L Y . R U M B L I N G S
As a lonely little child, I developed a very close, personal and intimate relationship with God – not as a male figure but as an ever-present friend who guided, protected and loved me. I would literally go off by myself just to spend hours alone with God.
For whatever it was worth, I referred to him/her/it as “God”. We effected many, many healings, miracles and other spiritual demonstrations.
Having had such a close connection with God all my life, newer revelation came to me, not so much out of discontent but more as a maturing process. God was a loving companion who had always been very near. Then God moved to the inside of me – wow, that was really close!
More and more, little by little, God would literally do the things that I was supposed to be doing, AS me! Yes, my hands and mind were engaged but it felt like a thrilling and beautiful ride!
Now God, who had never repositioned anywhere, is no longer AS me: God IS me. Truth be told, this “now” commenced some 40 or so years ago. I recall telling my bro, Michael, “You wanna know what God looks like? You’re lookin’ at her!”
DrRobinStarbuck
O H . K I T T Y !!!
He took the poor little kitty by the scruff of the neck and immersed her in the cold, cold river repeatedly!!!
Oh, did I forget to mention that she had fallen into quicksand and was drowning? Simply getting kitty out and leaving her to lick off a complete multi-covering of mud would not have saved her life!
He didn’t pause to think whether kitty would like being dunked in the frigid river. First he got her out and clean and warm and fed.
But we – o lofty mortals – we think we always know the best way for ourselves, don’t we? What feels good to the five senses? What gets us what we want instantaneously? How can we avoid like the plague – or mud – our exertion of a modicum of effort?
Btw, Kitty wound up falling in love with her “captor”. We can learn to do likewise because merely titillating our senses does not translate to happening upon enlightenment.
DrRobinStarbuck
R E I N C A R N A T I O N : . Y E S . O R . N O ?
Why does one teacher, Herb Fitch, vehemently maintain that reincarnation is entirely and categorically unreal and then expend much time, effort and skillfully researched thought on its description, its function and purpose in the very life of mankind?
Here’s why. Reincarnation is part and parcel of the much greater hypnotic sham perpetrated upon the human race. The seemingly insurmountable false belief besieges everyone that it can: such is the function of hypnotism.
We have all bought into the belief of incarnation, haven’t we? We get up in the morning, have our java, brush our teeth, do our chores, get sick, die. Start again and again. And again until we finally wake up.
Herb wants us all to wake up now. We don’t have to keep trying and trying and trying to get it right, only to expire once again. Awakening catapults us out of here! That’s right, we can leave before our number is up. I can’t think of anything more important we could put on the table than our own personal burning desire to finally, once and for all, completely, without equivocation, wake entirely up!
DrRobinStarbuck
I don’t think anyone gets to a really full and complete experience until they have finally chosen one teaching that they can stick with and follow completely including doing the things that are part of the instruction. Two weak points that people have these days is (1) they are looking for the easiest way out and (2) they keep mixing various approaches not even realizing that there’s contradiction within the 2 different approaches. I’m talking about “approaches” in other words preparation. In a full teaching, one step follows another which follows another which follows another but when you flip back-and-forth between all the lovely inspiration from all the famous people well I don’t know. I don’t see the real deep preparation and experience happening. I see people getting inspired and feeling very good for a while. But the kind of thing that keeps them really honest is to buckle down and apply some rigorous teaching.
If you choose to love an awakened woman, understand that you are entering into new, radical and challenging territory.
If you choose to love an awakened woman, you cannot stay asleep.
If you choose to love an awakened woman, every part of your Soul will be aroused, not just your sexual organs or even your heart.
Frankly, if you prefer a normal life, stick with a normal girl.
If you want a tame life, seek only a woman who has allowed herself to be tamed.
If you only want to dip your toe into the flowing waters of Shakti, stay with the safe, tamed woman who has not yet plunged into the wildness of the Sacred Feminine ocean.
It is comfortable to love a woman who has not yet activated her inner sacred powers, because she does not push your buttons.
She will not challenge you.
She will not press you into becoming your highest Self.
She will not awaken the forgotten and numbed-out parts of your Spirit that urge you to remember that there is more to your Life here than this.
She will not look into your weary eyes and send a lightning bolt of Truth through your body, jolting you awake and stirring long-lost desires for Soul Love within you.
A safe, unawakened woman will be wonderfully satisfying and soothing to your ego, heart, and body. She will walk quietly beside you and make you feel needed, responsible, like you are fulfilling your manly role.
If this is enough for you then accept it, love her with all your heart, remain faithful to her and thank her daily for the gift of her mild, unthreatening feminine presence in your life.
If this is not enough for you – if your heart, body and spirit is only craving the ‘other kind of woman’, the Wild One – then know that you are on the cusp of Soul-Shifting transformation.
Know that you are making a serious choice with karmic consequences.
If you choose to step into the aura and body of a woman whose spiritual fires are blazing, you are accepting that you need a certain level of danger and risk in order to grow.
Once you begin to love a woman of this nature, you must accept total responsibility for the life-changes that will then ensue.
Your life will not be sleepily comfortable all the time. Your life will not allow you to stay stuck in old ruts and stagnant routines.
Your life will take on a radically-new flavour and scent. You will be ignited by the presence of the Wild Feminine, and it will begin to send electric shockwaves of spiritual Light through your entire chakra system, attuning you to the Call of the Divine.
Choosing to be sexually and romantically-intimate with an awakened woman takes masculine courage to walk fearlessly into the Unknown. But it will reap rewards beyond your mind’s comprehension.
She will take you into undiscovered worlds of mystery and magic.
She will lead you, mesmerised and half-drunk with love, into the wild forests of sensual ecstasy and wonder.
She will show you sacred skies so full and burning with stars that you will start to wonder if you are still living on the same planet that you were born on.
She will break and tear you open so that your fierce, passionate heart drives you half-mad with longing. You will want to consume and penetrate her on every level so that your Masculine Essence can consume and penetrate the world – illuminating the Universe with your devoted Love.
She will see you like you’ve never been seen before.
She will trust you.
She will appreciate you.
She will acknowledge your efforts to make her happy.
She will value everything good that you do, and everything good that you are.
She will not run from your darkness, because your darkness does not scare her.
She will embrace, kiss, caress and love you back to Life. She will speak words that your Soul understands. She will not punish you for your mistakes.
It is a monumental risk to love an awakened woman, because there is suddenly no place to hide. She sees everything, therefore she can love you with a depth and presence that your heart and body have yearned for so hard, so long, so fiercely…that you wonder whether you have actually been alive for all the time that she has been away.
Loving a woman like this is a choice you make to start living with your Soul on fire.
Your life will never be the same again once you’ve invited her energy in.
Take this risk on yourself, or step back, stay with the normal girl and accept a different, safer, more comfortable and somewhat calmer life.
Just make sure that if you choose the latter, you don’t spend the rest of your days with your eyes looking back over your shoulder, straining to see once again the hazy vision of Feminine Mystery that has now disappeared from view.
She has long gone..spiralling back up to the Stars, the distant Galaxies and the Heavens…from where She came.
~Sophie Bashford
W I T H . A . M O D I C U M . O F . C O U R A G E
With a modicum of courage we can really, really listen to the proverbial other guy’s interpretation of spiritual journey and learn as quantum physics reveals there is an infinitude of paths, ways, means, methods to get into our spiritual bodies and open our spiritual single eye at last.
I wish for everyone who has happened upon this discourse that they stumble into a situation that will lay bare before them the total abject absurdity that they could be ‘right’, to the exclusion of the next person who has been traveling a different road with equal zeal!
The moment you think you’ve got the final answer, you must despair of it. Start over. Start from scratch. See if you don’t find yourself more aware and alert than ever before. You owe it to yourSelf.
DrRobinStarbuck
Meditation:
“If we are satisfied with yesterday’s manna, with yesterday’s understanding, with yesterday’s interpretation, we will not progress, and we must progress. It seems that I never go along more than six months without coming to the realization that I have to start all over again, that what I knew of truth before is no longer true or helpful, and now I have to begin all over and learn from the beginning. That is exactly what happens. I have very blank periods, usually not more than six months apart, in which I get to a point of frustration, during which I know that I am going nowhere and I am getting there very rapidly. The best thing to do in such a predicament is to turn to the Father and ask for fresh manna.”
Joel Goldsmith, “The Only Freedom,” Chapter 4.