There was a man on this earth, no longer visible, a very remarkable man. And one of the most remarkable statements ever made by this remarkable man has not been heard by most people in this world; I’d like to read it to you. He said, “The distinction between past, present, and future, is an illusion, and a very stubborn illusion.” Perhaps you’ve heard this remark by this remarkable man, perhaps not. It’s very certain that the world has chosen not to hear and not to follow, and yet, the world owes this man a debt which can never be repaid. He has been admired internationally. He has been respected as one of the great geniuses of all time. His scientific ideas have changed the course of civilization. In a large measure, the space age and our work in outer space today is partly due to this man’s brilliance. Our atomic age, great theories in science models and applications of those theories by industry. A man of world wide unblemished stature, who’s every word the world hangs upon and says, “Give us more.” That statement was not made by a metaphysician or what the world calls a mystic; it was made by Albert Einstein.
1979 Avilla Beach: Beyond Time Seminar – Herb Fitch
Class One: The Mystical Ocean of Time
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If it is true
I F . I T . I S . T R U E
If it is true that Spirit, God, is all as Quantum Physics’ “non-existence of matter” implies, then doesn’t it behoove us to dig a little deeper spiritually? Wouldn’t you like to know what really is going on and how much more its awareness can impact your life?
Let’s revisit the illusion now since that’s where we walk everyday. Like it or not, our awakening is gradual – not necessarily slow – but graded. We need to eat and sleep, work and play. But as we learn just how illusory it all is we can embark on the most exciting journey of our life: our exit from this world.
Going deeper into the illusion, we come face to face with the issue of death and reincarnation. How is that not the destiny of all material so-called life? And what’s the deal with karma? It also makes perfect sense for any unenlightened mortal!
Am I whetting your appetite for something better? It’s all about awakening. To your consciousness. Which is what you are! Imagine yourself expanding: you contain the room, the building, the country, the world. That’s what being Spirit means.
But what about reality? Baby, that is reality! – the only reality! It’s everybody’s present and permanent reality but most people won’t awaken in this lifetime.
How about you?
DrRobinStarbuck
Necessary rhythm of God HF
There is a signature of thought in all things if you’re looking for it. When we say we want to follow the will of God, it isn’t a cold will, a factual will; do this, do that, do the other thing, it’s a rhythm, and that rhythm contains the signature. There is a rhythm in God very different than just obeying a command, and if you are not capturing the rhythm and responding to it, then you are not walking in the will, because the will is expressed in the rhythm. This rhythm of God says to you certain things that are conveyed by instinct and intuition. It wants you to do certain things and when you do not respond to that rhythm, you do not do those things, you stop at a human level. You say, “This is my horizon,” and you forget about God’s unlimited horizon, and then you’re out of the rhythm.
1979 Avilla Beach Beyond Time Seminar – Herb Fitch
Class Eight: The Signature of God
No shift
N O . S H I F T !!
In meditation I was bombarded by thoughts, thoughts and more thoughts until finally I beseeched Christ-consciousness to take over. I was quiet and expectant. And then in the space of a few moments something emerged that kind of startled me. It was the absence of a shifting out of the mind and into Consciousness.
There was no shifting! For a nanosecond I felt a letdown – just for a nanosecond – and then came the full realization that there was no mortal mind that had to go! There was nothing that had to come in and take its place.
Realization means just that! You finally realize that you were always right there! No bugles blowing, no fanfare, no nothing! Just the unspeakable, most humbling realization that what I am IS consciousness.
DrRobinStarbuck
How healing happens
H O W . H E A L I N G . H A P P E N S
“Now, let’s say your tooth is putting up a heroic and dramatic role of telling you that unless that tooth is taken care of this minute, you’re practically going to die. Or, let us say a new pain has appeared. Or, let us say someone called this morning from down the peninsula, someone whose doctor told him three months ago he couldn’t make it and he’s got a cancer in the lower intestine. Let’s say that these things come up in our lives, in ourselves, in our friends, in our relatives, and people who know us. What are we going to do about it? I want everyone to know what to do.
“And now the first principle is: Ask yourself about God; only about God! Forget you, forget the person, forget how it hurts you, forget how it hurts the person, forget all of that. Go right to asking yourself questions about God, and ask yourself these questions: Where is God right now? I don’t care what your problem is; ask yourself where is God right now. And you know what the answer has to be or you’re not in truth. If you can’t accept, without quibbling, that God is there and here, that God is where you are, where your house is, where your friends are, where your children are, where your parents are, that it doesn’t matter where the problem’s coming from, God is there, right there.
“That’s your first question; where is God? And then ask yourself, what is God doing? And your answer would have to be, well, God’s doing what God should do. God is being God. God is functioning. Then ask yourself, does God see this error, this problem, this evil, this terrible thing? It’s always about God. Does God see that my business is down this month, that I haven’t reached my sales quota? Does God see that my husband and I are on the rocks? Does God see that something new has developed in my physical system which is very disturbing? Ask yourself if God sees this. And then answer it, and be sure to be honest that you know God does not see this. God is here, and God is there. God is being God. God does not see this. Why does not God see this ? Why doesn’t God see that my business is down, that my marriage is going on the rocks? Why doesn’t God see that I’ve got a great, terrible catastrophe going on in my body? And then your answer must be, because God only sees reality.
“Before you get to your ninth or tenth question, you’ve got all the answers you see. But, keep on asking new questions about God until you come to a place within yourself where you understand so well that God isn’t seeing this; God is being God! And God isn’t changing this, and God is here, and God has the power to do everything.
“Finally, it becomes clear to you that if God isn’t going to do something about this now, there must be a reason. And the reason becomes fascinating to know and finally to believe, God only knows that there is a perfect universe everywhere. God only knows that I am perfect. God only knows that everything about me must be perfect, because I am His Child. And the more you continue asking yourself about God, the more you will expose the falsity of your belief. Your business isn’t down; your marriage isn’t going on the rocks. You don’t have a catastrophe in your body. Who are you talking about? All you’re talking was about someone other than you. You were living in a false sense of self. God doesn’t see your false sense of self. God doesn’t improve your false sense of self. Who are you? And that is where you finally come.
“After you’ve finished asking your self about all that God is, and what God is doing, don’t stop at the four or five questions that I have asked; ask more, and more, and more, always confining yourself to God. Is God capable of permitting any imperfection in His universe? Is God closing one eye to let evil happen? Is God ever forsaking His Child?
“Now, let’s get to you. After you’ve found out that God is running a perfect universe, and is here doing that, you may begin to suspect that there is no you in this dire trouble you have considered yourself to be. That wasn’t you, that was this temporary world creature you have been willing to call you. You’re not going into higher worlds with that fellow.
“Now, ask yourself a few questions about you. And one is, who are you? Are you willing to answer that to yourself, who are you? Then ask yourself if you are the Christ. Ask yourself if God is your Father? Ask yourself if the Christ is perfect? Ask yourself if you are perfect? Who are you? Are you the Child of God? Are you the Christ? Is Christ perfect? Are you perfect? If you answer each question correctly, you come to the clear-cut realization that I am the child of God called Christ who is perfect, and therefore, I am perfect. If you are perfect, what is going on the rocks? How did you lose money this month in your business? How can you have a malfunction in your body? Aren’t these your statement that you are not the Christ? You see the duality?
“Now then, the foundation we must end up with is: I am the Christ, the Child of God, perfect in every way. This is not something to be attained; this is the fact of life. And only that Consciousness will stand there in the Garden of Gethsemane, or any other garden, and turn to the one whose ear is cut off, and watch it come back into place, because the Christ of God is always perfect and must appear in that perfection.”
Skiles, Bill (2013-09-26). Herb Fitch 1972 The Special Seven Series: Class Six; Christ Consciousness (Kindle Locations 2264-2302). Kindle Edition.
THAT /\ /\ /\ up there!!! That’s the truth! We don’t make it true by believing it. We don’t even make it happen by applying it. It’s already 100% Truth inviolable.
We do have the right to remind ourselves every 5 minutes until all the noise fizzles out! (Reminding ourselves every 5 minutes, until it takes hold, is far better than flipping back and forth.) Hint: the flesh-mind will give up. Nothing real will change, and THAT’s the awakening, the healing!
DrRobinStarbuck
Linguistic usage
Why is it now okay to say “see from a higher perspective” but horrible to say “level,” “dimension,” “realm,” “height,” “depth”?
“Egotism!” is the catch phrase du jour for any linguistic usage that unsettles one’s present complacency.
DrRobinStarbuck
Ego vs higher level
E G O . V S . “H I G H E R . L E V E L”
“Once you say ‘higher level’ (regarding one’s level of spirituality), you appeal to the ego, and all the wrong instincts in people.”
-Fr. Richard Rohr
• • • • • • • • HOWEVER • • • • • • • •
Another example of egotism as relates to the pursuit of greater awareness is that of a person who just discovered that it was a lucrative and very popular topic which could bring financial benefit to anyone who claims to be a way-shower (without knowing squat). If he exudes much charisma and amasses a following, wouldn’t it be good to hold him accountable for how much he DOESN’T know and how much he HASN’T experienced (and probably never will)? And if so, wouldn’t we need some kind of language that can also serve as a kind of measure?
Does God ever scold you?
D O E S . G O D . E V E R .
S C O L D . Y O U
— I mean in a really affectionate and good way?
After listening and recording my findings most of the night I found myself “preparing” to do a formal meditation when Spirit pointed out that “the most important thing is to listen” and that I’ve been listening close to 20/7 (I don’t require much sleep!) so a further ritualistic step would be superfluous at best! I was let off the hook.
Spiritual complacency
S P I R I T U A L . C O M P L A C E N C Y
Some people seem to coast along spiritually – never having any problems they can’t easily handle. They’re not like the rest of us who combat serious issues at every turn. I’ll return to this dichotomy in a little while, but first I’d like to revisit a rather flamboyant – and powerfully effective healer.
Kathryn Kuhlman was an amazing speaker, teacher and healer who kept her huge audiences spellbound as she floated across the stage in gorgeous evening gowns! She healed thousands (millions in total) of people in very advanced stages of crippling diseases every night of her stay all over the country.
I totally ‘get’ why she dressed so theatrically: it was a persona that she was slipping into and helped her immensely in keeping her focus. People were rightfully ecstatic when they saw their loved ones healed. Who wouldn’t be?
But, alas, the story goes, a large percentage of the healings soon reversed. I was not the least bit surprised with that crushing development: the newly-healed people needed to do their part AFTER THE FACT. They needed a spiritual mentality that was on the same level as they had risen to.
People seeking healing from Kathryn Kuhlman were entirely focused on their desperate physical need with precious little concern for the sudden shift in their entire life situation. They simply couldn’t maintain their healings. Their god was physicality from start to finish.
The complacency issue alluded to above ran unchecked with Kuhlman’s followers as it does with people who never seem to have much of a problem these days. They never want to upset the apple-cart and go on to a higher level of living. As I ponder this mesmeric situation, I’m tempted to feel more grateful than ever before that I have had unspeakably trying problems which – when healed – catapulted me to a level I had never anticipated before but for which I had been very well prepared.
DrRobinStarbuck