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About Dr. Robin Starbuck

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

That thing you do -rjs

THAT THING YOU DO . . .

Do you have that thing you do automatically – oh, I don’t know, scratch, bite, grimace, squint, grunt, sigh, etc, ad nauseum?

Now I’m not trying to criticize, good grief, I’m just saying, isn’t that habit a confirmation of a lie that you’re starting to break down or break up or break out?
You know I wouldn’t mention anything so trivial and or silly if I weren’t leading up to something much more rewarding, right? – namely, that you can nip it in the bud and heal it forever!

You’re not getting older, wearing out, losing stamina coz, well, God isn’t. Everything God is you are; everything God has, you have, every place God is you are, everything God knows you know.

And God don’t grunt!

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Examining our life’s assumptions -rjs

EXAMINING OUR LIFE’S ASSUMPTIONS

Do you think it’s possible that you – with all your good experience, your hard-earned attainments and all you’ve been through … is it possible that you’ve been terribly wrong about the bottom line, namely, what it’s all about?

Have you attracted some of the worst situations, the most unlikely people and some of the strangest choices, all in an effort to make sense out of the pea soup that is your life?

Have you been assuming that you’re just a fraction of what you ought to be, given the great knowledge you’ve amassed? Or, if not those particular twists and turns, is your life a wee bit too unexamined?

Wouldn’t you love to go back and undo a lot of things, redo a lot of others and fix up the rest? The assumption here is that your Soul never had a clue what was needed for you to awaken.

NOW CONSIDER THIS: perhaps you chose aright every step of the way for your own unique foray into full Fourth-dimensional Awareness. Perhaps you haven’t floundered at all, but cherry-picked everything – even your family including parents – that would enable you to fully awaken at last.

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Being ‘in the work’ is not an easy road -rjs

T H I S M I G H T S E E M
D O W N R I G H T C R A Z Y

This might seem downright crazy to you
But this particular lover of God (me)
Is actually, literally, glad about the stuff
She doesn’t have, that would distract her.

Being ‘in the work’ is not an easy road:
The world mind doesn’t relish extinction.
But even that thought just makes me laugh
Coz that which never was ain’t goin’ nowhere!

I don’t want anything bestowed upon me
That would take my single eye off my work!
Oh, what a crazy misnomer is “work”
Coz I, for one, – hands down – love it so!!!

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In the work -rjs

” I N T H E W O R K “

When you’re ‘in the work’
(completely committed) as we are,
the flesh mind starts getting scared:
its days are nearly over!

If we turn on this false ‘mind’ immediately
with protestations of glorious Truth
again and again and again and again,
it will quit, and major victory is ours!

Then we can just repeat
what we’ve already proven
… every day … forever!

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Awakening from an illusion -rjs

AWAKENING FROM AN ILLUSION

Ît is such a h-u-u-u-u-ge temptation to want to tell people the details of our distress.

It’s almost as if – even for a moment – the torment lifts.

Unfortunately for us and everyone else we have just confirmed and magnified the discord,

If we are so sure there’s a power greater than God, we need to be honest with ourself and quit pretending.

But if we know we’re under an hypnotic spell from which we want to awaken, the last thing we’d want is to have anyone join us in our illusion.

Awakening from illusion is what the hypnotized needs to do, no matter what fantastic details the dream may entail.

The choice doesn’t belong to anyone else but the one who is bound by fear and doubt.

Awakening doesn’t happen on a trial, or temporary, basis.

Spirit, God, really is All and it’s to YOUR credit, not mine, for you to choose to wake up.

Here’s a question for you to consider after you’ve completely awakened: aren’t you glad the illusion wasn’t any more tempting than it was?

Now that you’ve awakened can you attest to having wanted part(s) of the illusion removed while you clung to other parts?

Thank God you were finally ready to let go of the last vestiges of the cherished illusion!
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Healing took over -rjs

HEALING TOOK OVER

I can’t tell you how many times – between 1,000 and 1,000,000 times would be accurate – I’ve looked away from a discordant claim (physical, emotional, etc) with such complete absorption in Spirit that I completely forgot the formerly overwhelming problem and healing swooped in and took over! 😀

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Observe yourself from outside -rjs

OBSERVE YOURSELF FROM OUTSIDE

This morning I wanted
To be fully tuned in
Transitioned is the word
I wanted it more than
I’ve ever wanted it before.
Or so I thought.

It was revealed to me
That I wasn’t quite honest
with myself.
That the problem was really
With how much I wanted it.

It was then that a light dawned
And the realization that I
Didn’t really want it
As much as I thought I did
Became overwhelmingly clear.

“Help thou mine unbelief”
I wailed.
The answer I desperately needed
Then flooded my consciousness:

“Observe yourself from outside
And relate what you see.”

I took a look and saw her
Struggling there.
Trying so hard to ‘get it’
In what might be dubbed
A permanent transition.

“Now observe the observer.
Which one is really you?”

That’s me! I am the observer!
Absolutely right.
And what do you think
The observer still needs to do?
Absolutely nothing!
Nothing at all!

The observer is my real Self.
That’s with a capital S.
It’s all that ever was or is.
That’s Awareness Itself
Without an object to see.

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Detach and dismiss -rjs

WHEN LIFE THROWS YOU LEMONS

If you really want to get OUT of that mindset it’s time to realize you’ve never fully tried self-investigation. Add to that a decision to utterly dispense with Attachment.

It wasn’t you but that nasty little mortal mind claiming its hold on you which kept you chasing after things that appear to be doing you in.

For starters all your ATTACHMENTS – each and every one of them – need to be summarily dismissed. They are your unyielding link to a realm you want to see through.

What would life be like if you simply gave up ALL your material attachments including physical wealth, health, popularity – – just gave them all up and surrendered to spiritual awareness instead?

After the initial shock of so much weightiness dropping off you’d begin to rest for the first time ever – rest in a free-breathing trust that clings to nothing at all.

You must, absolutely must, RE-PRIORITIZE. Step out courageously, REFOCUS, and leave your ENTIRE human life behind.

Don’t beat yourself up – you never knew you had a choice to let everything go. Just breathe nice and easy ….. AND NEVER LOOK BACK.

You’ve been so attached to so many “things” that gave you status and applause. Let them go like yesterday’s garbage.

What could you possibly want more than perfect spiritual awareness? For how long? FOREVER !!!

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Aphorisms in other words!

F O R – Y O U R – E D I F I C A T I O N

ORDINARY ENGLISH: People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
MPOMBO: Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting perilous projectiles.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: Twinkle, twinkle, little star
MPOMBO: Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minim.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: All that glitters is not gold.
MPOMBO: All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: Beggars are not choosers
MPOMBO: Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: Dead men tell no tales
MPOMBO: Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: Beginner’s luck
MPOMBO: Neophyte’s serendipity.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: A rolling stone gathers no moss
MPOMBO: A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small, green, biophytic plant.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: Birds of a feather flock together
MPOMBO: Members of an avian species of identical plumage tend to congregate.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: Beauty is only skin deep
MPOMBO: Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: Cleanliness is next to godliness
MPOMBO: Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.

Source unknown

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Was Jesus black?

There were 3 good arguments that Jesus was Black:

  1. He called everyone brother
  2. He liked Gospel
  3. He didn’t get a fair trial
    But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Jewish:
  4. He went into His Father’s business
  5. He lived at home until he was 33
  6. He was sure his Mother was a virgin and his Mother was sure He was God
    But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Italian:
  7. He talked with His hands
  8. He had wine with His meals
  9. He used olive oil
    But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was a Californian:
  10. He never cut His hair
  11. He walked around barefoot all the time
  12. He started a new religion
    But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was an American Indian:
  13. He was at peace with nature
  14. He ate a lot of fish
  15. He talked about the Great Spirit
    But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Irish:
  16. He never got married.
  17. He was always telling stories.
  18. He loved green pastures.
    But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Mexican:
  19. He treated his mama like she was a saint.
  20. He always wore llantas and a serape.
  21. He was a carpenter who could fix anything.
    But the most compelling evidence of all – 3 proofs that Jesus was a woman:
  22. He fed a crowd at a moment’s notice when there was virtually no food
  23. He kept trying to get a message across to a bunch of men who just didn’t get it
  24. And even when He was dead, He had to get up because there was still work to do.

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