T H A T D R E A D E D Q U E S T I O N:
If you were to rate your thoughts,
Each and every one,
Assigning plus (+) or minus (-)
With nothing in between,
How would you measure up
At the end of a pensive day?
Scanning the column down
When all your thinking’s done?
DrRobinStarbuck
The natural condition
Of mankind, with his
Wars, his alcohol,
His gambling, ad nauseum,
Is no surprise: it’s what
He’s attracted to –
Unto his own demise.
Or, until he can glimpse that
“Where the Spirit of the Lord is
There is liberty.” (2Cor3:17)
DrRobinStarbuck 2016
I’ll never forget an experience of having my consciousness filled to the brim with God’s love in an elevator (‘lift’ in England) when two young women stepped in and one said to the other “Wow, I feel very good vibes in here!” I looked up and these two strangers were smiling at me!
DrRobinStarbuck 2012
R E A C Q U A I N T IN G
Let’s get REACQUAINTED.
It’s all about identity.
Please don’t put up with
anything less than the real Me
And I’ll do likewise for you.
But who are you?
What do you see?
Actually it’s not what’s out there
that’s important, but
who’s doing the seeing.
Who or what is that
behind your eyes?
Who’s peering out and processing
and calling itself You?
It’s I Am, Self, Õne, God, you.
DrRobinStarbuck
B A C K T O C E N T E R
Get back to your center
And I will too.
Awakening is one by one by one,
starting with me.
Let’s go directly
right snack dab at the Source
and ask ourSelf
Is it well with my Soul?
Deeper and deeper
into that Precious Place
where pain and confusion
were never known.
Go deeper still
Do you see one eternal
All encompassing
immortal You?
Stay here now
Don’t go back.
Do not ever
go back.
DrRobinStarbuck
C O M M U N E W I T H S P I R I T
In order to commune with Spirit –
your real Be-ing –
you must sacrifice the notion
that all is fixed in matter.
There’s a ‘nother whole realm
of pure spirituality and bliss
known only through
Divine apprehension.
Your true selfhood hears
“Be still and know that I am God!”
and immediately drops
whatsoever to the contrary.
DrRobinStarbuck
While God-realization fills your mind, human belief is not there and cannot work its reign of subliminal terror within you.
With human belief absent, human experience
CANNOT TAKE PLACE.
DrRobinStarbuck
As I took another step forward
In my Spiritual journey
And realized that my almost
violent mental reaction
To another’s yet again self-aggrandizement
Was telling me
Sure as we’re sitting here
That I – not he – had some
Unloading to do
Oh My Gosh! I didn’t love it one bit!
Arrogance and fear,
Fear and arrogance,
What, pray tell, is the difference?
DrRobinStarbuck
DrRobinStarbuck
F E E L I N G E N L I G H T E N E D Y E T ?
What happens when you die? That’s quite a leap, but most important as it draws you to the real issue in life: is there anything you can do about it?
The author maintains that there is. The entirely unenlightened masses believe they were born into matter and will pass out of it someday. Such a widespread belief in incarnation begets its sister belief: reincarnation.
Many, many cultures hold that we are fully accountable for all our misdeeds since time was invented although they’d use another term than ‘invented’! To them, taking care of our karma is a fulltime preoccupation.
Then there are those of us who revel in being unborn, ergo, undying. But do we have the slightest inkling what we’re talking about? Do we grasp eternal life at all? Or do we mouth sweet platitudes while inwardly wailing “Help Thou mine unbelief (kjv)”?
One thing is as clear as the nose on my face: eternal life is not for some people and not others.
BUT IT CAN SEEM TO BE SO.
That’s where our enlightenment comes in. If we believe with every fiber of our body that we live, move, and breathe in a material form, it will be so for us. Would you agree with that?
So both schools of thought uphold life before birth and after death. But the notion that when the Grim Reaper visits, we’ll be swept up into a paradisaical sublimity is starting to wear thin. When will I get to the point of what we can do?
Right now. We live out our beliefs, good and bad. But believing is also wearing very, very thin. It behooves us to open our awareness full tilt and allow a deep and abiding foundation to undergird our awakening.
Awakening to what? Eternal life, palpable and absolute: there’s nothing more reliable. That’s curtains for reincarnation and its horrible karma and it puts the kibosh on a dreamy, holier-than-thou meritocracy reuniting in the sky.
WE’RE NOT STRIVING FOR ETERNAL LIFE – THAT’S A GIVEN. WE’RE STRIVING TO TRULY WAKE UP TO IT.
There. That’s it. That’s what needs to be done. By us.
DrRobinStarbuck
