An excerpt from a letter from Screwtape to Wormwood…
“We must picture hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives with the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.” C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
D O . Y O U . H A V E . T O . W O R K . H A R D ?
Do you have to strive harder than most people to awaken in awareness?
If so, have you ever thought it might be a good thing?
Perhaps your roots are wending their way down much, much deeper.
Haven’t you declared – in one form or another – that you want to become fully conscious?
Of course you’re willing to acknowledge that life itself is a journey of discovery.
But that’s not what you were talking about.
You want to finally attain a high level of spiritual awareness from which you’ll no longer wander.
From that position you’d like to do all the journeying, discovering and further awakening that you encounter.
However, for now you just want a higher level to start from.
Are you beginning to see that the rougher time you may be having is giving you exactly what your heart craves?
Refuse to take a lackadaisical approach anymore: start right now from the standpoint of “finished”
and see the evidence start pouring in.
DrRobinStarbuck
T H E . L A R G E R . S T E P
Not everyone is ready for this step and yet Joel is very definite about its significance. He writes:
“Unless you can keep yourself separate from the world, you, yourself, will be a part of this world hypnotism. You cannot permit yourself to indulge in world-hypnotism and at the same time claim it is not there. The day will come when you will decide to live your life separate and apart from people, except that you go among them to reveal this truth, but not to live in their lives.”
Joel S. Goldsmith
A Message for the Ages
Chapter 9
It only seems unbearably austere to persons with little more than a mild curiosity about the realm of pure Spirit. They’ve been told to “simply rest” without knowing what to do when resting rings hollow. My advice? Reread Joel’s stern denunciation of lackadaisical dealing with world hypnotism (above)!
DrRobinStarbuck
P A C E – P R A Y
Early on in my practice of discovering Spirit as my very BE-ing, I did this thing I called “pace-pray”. It’s quite self-evident except that “pray” for me has always been Spiritual affirmations – lots of them!
Joel Goldsmith pulls it together very nicely with this reminder from “The Only Freedom”, Ch 8:
“Then, when we have thought and voiced all the truth that is within range of our immediate awareness, we sit and let the Father in and that completes the demonstration.”
I believe that Joel intended for us to sit in pure undisturbed SILENCE for a few minutes to allow everything to seal itself in our Consciousness.
DrRobinStarbuck
S T I L L . W A N T I N G . S I L E N C E ?
When I want to be sure that I am functioning from my Soul and not my body, I get very, very quiet and realize that I truly am not a sentient human being but am Spirit itself. If I stay with this and continue to bring things that I know into my experience – and REALLY STAY WITH IT – sometimes there’s a little ‘pop’ where reminding myself is no longer necessary or desirable. Words themselves get clunky and fade away. Then I realize that a heavenly COMPLETE SILENCE has swept over me!
I don’t obsess over it anymore, but perhaps that’s coz it’s actually happening – – sometimes! 🥰
DrRobinStarbuck
E V E R . F E E L . L I K E . C R Y I N G ?
Not sure if this is helpful – hope so! I’m striving very hard to stay aware of myself as a Spirit being, and when I succeed I’m so gosh-darned happy that I’m on the verge of tears all the time!
DrRobinStarbuck
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Emily Dickinson, 1830 – 1886
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog
Emily Dickenson
The moment that we become fully aware of the presence of God, that presence of God takes over! May I say it again, that presence of God takes over! BOOM !!
W H O . A M . I . T A L K I N G . T O ?
Hello? Hello?
Who am I talking to?
You?
Or, your mind?
( Your mind is that which
keeps getting in your way! )
You cannot KNOW home:
You can only BE home.
Being is what we’re trying
(in vain) to locate.
But we know it’s right here.
I feel blah blah blah
I think blah blah blah
I want blah blah blah
” I ” is the only significant
thing we want to address.
DrRobinStarbuck
Y O U ‘R E . B E Y O N D . A M A Z I N G !!
You are like a great big balloon.
You’re expanding and expanding.
By now you’re filling up the whole room.
Expanding more and more and more,
You now contain the whole building.
The city, the country … now you’re
as big as the world and beyond –
Way, way beyond, when a little prick
pierces your container, leaving only you.
DrRobinStarbuck