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About Dr. Robin Starbuck

Professor of English 1973 M.A., New York University 1989 Ph.D., New York University Linguistics

Super easy focusing exercise -rjs

SUPER EASY FOCUSING EXERCISE

“I am not in this scenario that’s being depicted on tv.”

How do you know specifically?

“I don’t know any of the people there. I don’t know where or when it took place and there’s nothing in it that resonates with me.”

How does this recognition impact your present spiritual journey?

“It’s like a model of what is NOT happening. I can actually feel how clearly and completely and easily it can be for me to withdraw my attachment to the entire realm of the unreal. It’s as simple as waking from a dream.”

Imagine the favorable ramifications of this focusing exercise on anyone hoping to effectively dismiss an unwanted pull away from their cherished goal.

DrRobinStarbuck 12/14/2020

Rupert & Joel -RS, JSG

A P P L I C A T I O N O F R U P E R T S P I R A

A word substitution lends itself greatly to healing in the below quote of Rupert Spira, [brackets, mine]:

“If separation [disease, lack, any problem] were real, we would have to get rid of it. However, separation [disease, lack, any problem] is an illusion.

“Attempting to get rid of an illusion only asserts its apparent reality, thereby strengthening it.”

The bottom line is that all materiality – its ups and downs, sickness, disease, death are unreal in Spirit, therefore unreal. Apply this truth to any ailment – fully and completely – and watch said ailment dissipate (an intransitive verb meaning of its own accord).

Then elsewhere Rupert Spira advises us “At a certain stage, our former interpretation of God or reality changes…as our knowledge is expanded…so that the model or prevailing paradigm can no longer accomodate our expanding knowledge.”

We would do well to keep our language very, very flexible in order that it might accommodate our never ending awakening!

DrRobinStarbuck

Spiritual assertions -rjs

S P I R I T U A L – A S S E R T I O N S

[This is just a spontaneous practice of mine. There is no particular order. Its purpose is to encourage everyone to generate their own personal list.]

• I am Spirit, God.
• Absolutely everyone is Spirit, God.
• Spirit, God, is Perfection.
• I am Perfection.
• I am not one iota smarter, better, healthier, stronger, brighter, than anyone else.
• I am no less guilty than anyone else.
• “That person” is Omnipotence, just like me.
• No bad memory exists.
• That entire horrific world scenario never happened.
• We don’t ignore physical reality: we see through it.
• Nothing has a grip on my consciousness.
• I see everyone as free and as whole as myself.
• I’m not a good, loving mortal: I’m not a mortal at all.
• In Spirit, that devastating event never occurred.
• Spirit is the only reality.
• Not one person has ever exploited me. Ever.
• I am ever-present.
• I was never born into a material body.
• That incident also never occurred.
• It really never happened.
• Everything that seems to have occurred was but a stepping-stone in illusion.
• Not one unloving or loving human being ever existed.
• I do see all of this – and infinitely more – clearly now.
• Nothing is lacking.
• I am in automatic higher consciousness.


DrRobinStarbuck

Get really serious -rjs

READY TO GET REALLY SERIOUS?
Sometimes I kid around to enjoy a bit of levity.
This is not one of those times.
I’m finding I have less and less tolerance for counter-productive, ineffective meditation or prayer.
I say this with great joy because I’m sure everyone would readily agree there’s neither distance nor time in God.
I don’t wish to employ anything outside myself to control my thinking using some quasi-hypnotic methodology being piped in from an outside source.
TAKE SPIRIT ALL THE WAY.
QUIT YOUR BOTTOM – UP (MATTER-BASED) THINKING AND QUESTIONING: IT ONLY RETARDS.
You want to go to the kitchen, to the store, to the beach, to a faraway country, to another planet?
You’re already there: only your so-called body has to catch up.
Spirit, the Matrix, the Field, the Universe, God, Mind, Soul, Life, Love … Where are they? EVERYWHERE !!!
Absolutely everywhere!
When are we mere mortals gonna fess up and realize we’re going about it all wrong when we ask idiotic matter-based questions about Spirit?
Confusion in = confusion out!
JUST TAKE THE SIMPLEST, MOST BASIC TRUTH THAT YOU KNOW. Take it for all it’s worth, and then some.
You could meditate all day long on the ramifications of I Am That I.
I = God = you = God
All day long. Whenever a lesser thought invades, hit it with “God is the ISness that consists of All. Or, simply, God is All.

DrRobinStarbuck

Oh Kitty! -rjs

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, then 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