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Penny Kelly, ND and Consciousness

May 5, 2013 By 1 Comment

Penny Kelly addressed the March combined meeting of Austin’s IONS and INACS organizations. We loved what she said! She has had a remarkable journey starting as an Engineer at General Motors and progressing through medical and physics courses and she currently is a powerful witness to what we all need to know about consciousness. Along the way she had the essential Kundalini experience described by Gopi Krishna. (See the two-part interview with Gene Kieffer elsewhere on this site.) This is a remarkable woman with a wealth of material for the advanced seeker.

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Your Life and Death Situation!

March 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment

20120220-_MG_6032Chuck Robison

Palm Sunday is a time of great celebration, at the first observance and also in 2013. The child who grew up to be God was recognized, after all those years, as the one who would save the Jews. Or, so many people thought. In a way, this was the biggest parade ever because it was propelled, not by a donkey, as some saw, but by the expectant hearts of those who believed what others thought impossible: The one who would save them was here at last.

The debate raging in Jerusalem that week continues to rage in Jerusalem and all the world’s capitols today. It also tugs at the hearts of all who are in pain. Pain of a beautiful past lost and the likelihood of a darker future, and no Savior in sight.

Here in Texas, we feel the stirring of spring and the new life we have longed for. We also feel the pain of dreams never realized, dreams that rode into our lives in a parade of hope……..A Savior is coming to alter our future for the better! If only we can find him.

Days later the hope of Palm Sunday was shattered by the execution of the child who grew up to be God. The Savior who was coming was now gone and the people who paraded so hopefully days earlier were locked in the darkness of a tomb with their pain.

We hear tell that Jesus will come again. However, The Christ never left. As promised, He has been right here with us all along, and in his own words, he will be here with us “until the end of the age”. The child Jesus who became God left his body with us on that Friday and used his much larger spiritual body to convince those who believed that he was still right here.

Today, like the participants in the first Palm Sunday, we seek to follow one or anyone who we think can save us from the pain and gloom many feel in sickness and loss and fear of the future.

We are told to work out our own salvation, in many cases with fear and trembling. But whenever God appeared to men in Bible times as an angel, the first word the angel always said was: “Fear Not”.

When we look outside ourselves for a Savior, only to discover he is not there, fear is an understandable reaction. The historic church used that fear to convince us we were sinners who should fear God. Jesus, The Christ, did not concur. In all the gospels, Jesus used “sin”, “sinner”, “sinning” only twenty-two times. Love, forgiveness, our being totally loved by our Creator-Father and our unconditional access to His power are much more common themes than sin. As classically defined, sin is simply missing the mark. Aiming for something and hitting something else.

There was a thief. Perhaps he deserved to die, but according to the Commandments we have received and say we follow, we are to kill no one….guilty or not. And at the last moment, when there were no options left, this thief chose to do something very simple. He changed his mind. Using that change of mind, from the deepest part of his heart, he asked the child who grew up to be God to remember him when he came into his kingdom. And the child who became God, who had always been in his Kingdom, spoke the sweetest words in the entire Bible: “Today you will be with me in paradise.”

With God, there is no wait. Change happens at the speed of thought, (the New Scientists call it Superluminal Speed) which is much faster than the speed of light. The thief worked out his own salvation instantaneously by changing his mind and asking The Christ for it.

Doubt not this can happen to you, right now, today. By changing your mind you can experience the paradise that Jesus, The Christ, promised he came here to give you.

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Notes From the Masters Class (5-20-10)

February 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Chuck in Santa Monica I recorded this three years ago when people were just beginning to discover we were going into the “Crazies”. Even I felt like I did not want to go through this process. Now three years later, we have actually made progress and we can see some light at the end of the tunnel……but there is still a long way to go.

Here is the text of this Note:

“Hi, this is Chuck, and today is Thursday, May the 20th, 2010, and I’m sitting beside the water in Santa Monica, California where I’ve been working all week. I’ve had time to think about some things.

The thing that I thought most about is this change that we know we’re going through. It’s not an elective. It’s a demanded change. It’s part of life. Some of us are approaching it with fear. Some of us are approaching it with excitement, and many of us are approaching it with the knowledge that we are on this planet at this time to be part of this in a special way. Most of those, myself included, don’t know yet what that is.

But something that I’ve learned this week is valid for all of us, and that is this. We’re coming to the end of a culture and a period of time, maybe 5,000 years, that could be called the Warrior Culture, and we’re going into a time that could be called a Cooperation Culture. The Warrior Culture has been dominated by masculinity and a masculine God. The Cooperation Culture is going to be more like feminine divinity and nurture and caring and sharing. We’re seeing the whole concept of borders being challenged. We see the whole concept of how we’re taking care of our world being revealed as not so good. We are seeing the whole concept of understanding how each of us has power beyond what we know at this point.

But there’s one thing that I think I have learned this week, and I believe in it, and that is this. This applies as I understand you as well. I am God in this body, in this world, without limit. We are without limit. There’s not a lot to be afraid of, primarily because each one of us is an entire, complete eternal soul. We’ve been here before. We’ve sat by the ocean before. We’ve walked through the mountains. We’ve been in the deserts. We’ve been in the cities and the poor places and slums. But we’ve been here before, and we’ll be here again. And because of that, we know that whatever comes doesn’t need to be met by fear or anything else other than asking the question, “How can I be of service to others through this time of incredible change?” Join me, won’t you? Just like John Lennon says, “We hope you’ll join us, and we will all live as one.” Thanks.”

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What I Gave Up For Lent

February 23, 2013 By 2 Comments

20120220-_MG_6032Chuck Robison

In two years we will celebrate the 500th anniversary of Luther’s nailing the 95 Theses on the door of The Castle Church in Wittenberg and the beginning of The Protestors Re-Formation of Christianity. There have been many 500-year cycles in History and we use the myth of The Phoenix to remind us of that. And each has ended and been replaced by the next 500 year cycle. But breaking up is so hard to do!

In my religious career, spanning the last forty-five years, the Protestant focus has been and still is…..the past. We tend to judge ourselves, especially our clergy, on how well they profess to believe what used to be true. But that’s History and that was then and this is now. Even so, for many, the past is still more alluring than what is happening right before our very eyes. By that I mean: we are squarely in the middle of the greatest trans-formation of our understanding of our place in the Universe in known History.

Religions seem to change more slowly than anything else we experience. In fact, where religion is concerned, change happens one funeral at a time! Yet, we are all experiencing time speeding up more and more every day. We no longer have the luxury of going slowly with anything, including our historical religions.

One of the great issues during the early part of the Re-Formation was that of Science. The Holy Roman Catholic Church simply refused to allow new science any room in its’ pulpits or its’ pews. But science persisted despite the fact that as recently as last week some of our fellow Christians thought that science was against our spirituality and run by atheists. But the New Science is not against discovering how spiritual truths and scientific realities are completely harmonious with, and a part of, a much larger whole.

Today, as Einstein predicted, science and religion are approaching the top of the mountain where they will shake hands and congratulate each other for having reached the summit, by two separate paths. And strangely enough, the scientists are beginning to discover that Consciousness is the big picture that encompasses objective reality and the world of Spirit. Some religious people are discovering that the restrictive World View of the Re-Formation simply no longer works. The Re-Formation, as important as it was, took place in a world that was flat, where atoms were solid and Earth was the center around which the sun journeyed every day. Five hundred years later, we see ourselves out here on a small planet, in a small solar system on the outskirts of a small galaxy amid billions of other galaxies. Our Hubble telescope allows us to see far, far across this Universe.

I have joined Pierre de Chardin, the brilliant Catholic Theologian and Tom Campbell, the brilliant NASA Physicist, and many others who have experienced our ability to live our lives as eternal spirits having a brief human experience. And herein lies the future.

Our new Re-Formation / Trans-Formation is taking us to heights we could scarce believe even as the last century ended and we were propelled, ready or not, into this 21st century. With the publication of our Astronauts’ picture of Earthrise from the Moon, we clearly left behind the notion of national boundaries, separation by skin color, language and gender and, yes, even religion. Today, we can no longer pretend each of us is an island in the Sun……we are all ONE…….and lo and behold…..we are ONE with the entire Universe. The past, which saw so much separation, is now rapidly being replaced by a global Trans-Formation that sees and celebrates our connectedness to the very end of the Universe. From the circulation of the stars within the largest galaxy to the spinning of the smallest atomic particles in our bodies, it is all one. And one Historical insight is even truer: God is Omnipresent. Welcome Home!

So, for me, right now, this year’s Lenten season is a celebration of our complete unity with God and all of his Creation. There is only one God, to whom we have assigned many different names in many different religions, just as there is only one Humanity, one Universe and one time……NOW! This year I have chosen to sacrifice the past and embrace the future…..and God is as surely in the center of this Trans-Formation into the future as he appeared hidden in the separations of the past.

As a result of working with religions from all over the world at The United Nations, there is one thing I know for sure: we are all longing to discover that God is bigger than any of our false separations or antique beliefs. All 7 billion of us are about to discover that we are spiritual beings traveling all over the Universe free to create and learn the lessons God wants us to experience. And once you discover how easy it is to travel across that Universe and between dimensions, as String Theory begins to explain, you will discover God has not only created you his Child, he has given you an inheritance that bestows upon you the very power of the Universe itself….and you have had that for all eternity.

So this year, I am choosing to give up the Re-Formation, the past and our littleness, in exchange for experiencing the Power and the Glory that God has freely given each of us as his Child.

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Chuck Robison is the former Adjunct Protestant Chaplain at The Church Center of The United Nations in New York. He and his wife Karen now produce a weekly Internet TV show at their website www.whatifitreallyworks.com where they interview students of Consciousness, New Science and Spirituality. Chuck is a graduate of Austin College and Princeton Seminary.

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Notes From the Masters Class (2-20-13)

February 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment

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In October of 1983, I had a remarkable opportunity. I got to spend an hour alone with Pandit Gopi Krishna, who was the only person in the last century to write in the English language about his experience from inside the experience of the awakening and the goal of Kundalini.

He was a most remarkable man, and he was 83 at the time I met him, and he was in New York as part of the United Nations’ October celebration. I spent an hour with him in an apartment on 36th Street and 2nd Avenue, and in that time, I was taking his portrait, which turned out to be his last portrait and was used as the only portrait in his book “Living With Kundalini.”

So after I had spent all the time getting the pictures, I finally asked him the typical American, not very bright person question, “Okay, Gopi Krishna, what do I need to do to be enlightened?” And he looked me right in the eye and he said, “Just this. Every day, just think about God and God will take care of everything else.”

So I packed up my cameras and my lights, and I went back to my home and studio and went into the darkroom and started developing the pictures, and I decided that day that I would follow Gopi Krishna’s advice. Every day, as often as I can, I think about God. I think about what’s God doing today? Where is he? What is he thinking? What is he thinking? How can I reach him?

Every question that I can imagine, and sometimes everything that I can say to God, I do. And I have been doing this now for 30 years, and I can tell you from my own experience that regardless of religion or the doctrine or the mandatory beliefs, God has made it simple for us to get to where he wants us to be. All we have to do is think about God. It couldn’t possibly
be more simple.

Now I can tell you from my own experience that, as a result of that, I’ve reached places I never dreamed I would reach. I have hope that doesn’t cease, and I have a sense that I’m making progress far, far, far greater than I could have done by listening to somebody’s dogma or somebody’s religious requirements or beliefs.

It’s very simple. God wants you to get to where he wants you to get, and if you think about him, he’ll reveal to you, step by step, exactly how to get there with nothing else required.

So I thought I’d share this little note from the Masters Class with you. It’s been a critically important issue in my life, and perhaps when you hear this, you’ll think about, gee, it wouldn’t be so hard to think about God every day, and it isn’t, and it won’t be. So thanks. We’ll see you next time.

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Fear, Itself.

February 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment

One of the nice things about becoming an Elder in our Tribe is knowing that you can probably handle whatever comes your way. “Whatever does not kill you, makes you stronger” is a true statement. The big fear, death itself, seems to be an old friend when you have been asking yourself about it for sixty years. Yes, it is unknown, but it is not an elective. We are all going there.

Fear, however, still seems to be the most powerful force we deal with on a daily basis. Any management consultant will tell you that fear is the big motivator in any business in the world, which appears to be true. Many people have lived their entire lives in fear-full situations. Fear breeds ulcers, distrust and true unhappiness.

In the past few years, something new has been added. When we first logged on to the Internet in the early nineties, we believed this to be the great communication tool we had dreamed about for so long. It was and still is. Now, however, the Internet is filled with fear and we have no idea who is generating it or why.

Everything that happens today seems to be followed within hours, by a comprehensive post about the supposed conspiracy behind the event. Disinformation is the rule of the day and seems to be everywhere. Now we read the Occupy and Anonymous Movements have been co-opted by the National Security Agency for purposes of discrediting what they are trying to accomplish.

Unfortunately, our Fear of Government (FOG) has brought us to this moment of fear of guns and fear of having our guns taken away. What a mess! Remarkably, there are many people who believe their assault weapons and other armaments will protect them from a government take-over. Texans, especially, seem to have forgotten the real lesson of Waco. Our government is forever better armed than any entity in the world, and we are not going to be able to challenge the government with the guns we hoard in our basements. Period.

This coupled with the fact that our government rammed the Patriot Act down our throats after less than thirty days of writing and discussing that 363 page document. Forcing us to willingly give up our Constitutional rights in the name of security, has only added to the problem. We are not safer as a result.

Our forefathers knew they would have to stop the British, but that was the smaller part of their two problems. The bigger problem was creating an entirely new way to govern ourselves effectively in a system exceeding a kings’ power.

Today we face a similar problem. We have to create a new way of governing our lives that works in today’s realities. And it demands to be based on inclusivity, lack of fear, equality and genuine freedom.

Fear causes many of us to seek ever more fear-full means with which to threaten others. First it was 10 megaton nuclear weapons. Now 100 megaton bombs are all the rage………trouble is, no one will survive such a war.

We Texans think of ourselves as God fearing, Bible believing worshippers of the Almighty. However, when we observe how we deal with fear, we negate that belief. We need to remember the spiritual consequences coming to us when we choose to kill or attempt to kill one of our brothers or sisters. If we really trusted in God, we would allow Him to lead us through the various shadowy valleys of death we traverse in this lifetime with the powerful faith that God will always protect us in miraculous ways not possible for those relying on killing machines to protect themselves.

So this is a moment of faith for us all. Either we believe what we say about our faith and our God, or we trust our weapons. Here is the test: which will you take with you when you leave this planet, your guns or your faith? Choose wisely, we’re all playing for keeps!

This article is published in the February 7, 2013 edition of The Hill Country News.

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Falling Apart – Falling Together

November 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment

When I was a little boy, I would go to my grandmother’s house and from time to time she would read me stories from my father’s old McGuffy Reader. My favourite was the story of Chicken Little who wandered through the woods one day and a falling acorn hit her head. She instantly thought the sky was falling and off she went to warn everyone, including Henny Penny and Ducky Lucky and ultimately she wanted to tell the Lion, who would save everyone. When the three fear-full fouls met Foxy Loxy, they asked Foxy how to find the Lion and he tells them he knows the way and they follow him right into his den and were never seen again.

This fable is instructive right now. Seems like everyone has a stake in the sky falling, and the election has bought that thought into the spot light along with Hurricane Sandy. But the fable has more.

What hit Chicken Little on the head was not the falling sky, but an acorn…….a seed of a powerful tree for the future, and it was doing exactly what it was supposed to do by falling to Earth and getting ready to plant itself and evolve into its’ destiny.

So living in fear, started by Chicken Little, resulted in all of those animals losing their lives. Look around you and you will see a Chicken Little on every corner looking for doom and seeking people to lead to doom

If all you see is the sky falling, you will miss the fact that on every corner are acorns that have fallen to earth to begin growing to powerful new trees, or ideas or global movements of advancement.

The temptation to interpret change as something to be feared is natural enough….the unknown is always a challenge. But look out for the foxes! The have their own agenda.

How many churches want you to view what is happening in the world as proof that the end is near and we must huddle together or die. The churches, like so many of our failing institutions, want to control you and that is most easily accomplished through the use of fear……fear of the future. Many have been doing this for at least 2000 years! Are you really more comfortable listening to some old white men telling you God is going to get you, or are you ready to listen to your own heart as it shows you the bright future God is creating, there for the taking?

The facts tell another story. The future shows up in small packages….from tiny acorns grow giant oaks. From tiny babies grow giant leaders of men. From seemingly crazy little ideas, like talking to someone in the next room through wires, grow global communications systems.

But it is true, that for the future to arrive, the past has to recede, or even appear to fall apart. But just when things seem to be falling apart, they in fact are falling together for a new and different future.

Of course, the list of things to fear seems rather long these days. But fear paralyzes, and openness to change allows one to see and participate in the future…..often profitably…….don’t you wish your great-grandfather had invested in AT&T back when ‘them new-fangled phones were a waste of time and the instrument of the devil’?

So when you read this article, there is a possibility we will know the results, at least in part, of our recent elections. Each of us will be faced with the same decision point: Either face the future with fear and anger, or face the future with a faith in the fact that the human race ALWAYS moves forward and together. None of us will be left behind. We are here to evolve and we do that in a field of change and challenge, not by holding on to the past. As the old Protestors Hymn says: “New truths make ancient good uncouth.”

The sky is not falling……the future is falling together right before our eyes!

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I’d love To Teach The World To Sing In Perfect Harmony!

August 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment


Duke Ellington, when asked how he knew if a song was good, said: “If it feels good, it is good!” This quick and easy answer reveals a profound truth about our species. We come hard-wired to experience harmony because it is one of the necessary elements of our ability to evolve to the next level on our eons-long journey to the target, set by God, for the completion of our evolution at the highest level of Cosmic Consciousness. The dictionary definition of harmony is: “the quality of forming a pleasing and consistent whole.”

New Science Biologists are beginning (very, very slowly) to understand that our next evolutionary step is not going to be the addition of more fingers or toes, but a development in our neuro-spinal energy system which will create a heightened ability to receive and act on cosmic spiritual signals which are rarely available to us at our current level of consciousness. This means we are on our way to experiencing a new understanding of our part in the whole of creation. To get there, we will have to cooperate as co-creators with Nature in our own evolution!

Of course, Nature, in her bounty, has provided us with the tools to be co-creators with her. There is a secret. It is the oldest secret. It has been carefully guarded for 50,000 years to prevent it from getting into the wrong hands. Now, we have arrived at the appointed time for that secret to be broadly revealed. The secret is: Each of us has within us the ability to access the trigger of our own evolution. Creating a life of Harmony with all of life is part of the secret, and our best choice is to accept this incredible gift on our journey.

Just to make it more interesting, we are now hearing a New Science word in everyday conversation: Coherence. Even more curious, the definition of coherence, like harmony, is: “the quality of forming a unified whole.”

What this is telling us, both in the old language and the new, is that living together as a conscious whole…..a whole race, a whole world, a whole galaxy, a whole universe…..is the next step in our evolution.

It is also telling us that those things, events, ideas, actions and people that promote other than harmony are to be avoided. That is one of the reasons this political season is so important to us. As we wake up to discover that twenty-five years ago there were 50 media companies and today there are just five, we will understand how these five entities have perfected ways to manipulate us away from our own best interests and harmony……..all the while, selling us factory grown chicken and high-tech horror movies that they convince us we will enjoy!

Coherence is seen in quantum wave forms…….as more waves move together in the same patterns of ups and downs, they gain power and force. If we work to achieve unity we will also experience the power of coherence….the power of moving past the manipulations that seek to divide us into the power that activates the trigger that propels us, as one, into the next step of our evolution.

Over the span of our evolution, we have become routinely able to experience 50,000,000,000 cells in each of our bodies evolving and cooperating to sustain our bodies so we can each experience life on Earth. Now we are being challenged to cooperate into one humanity where almost 8 billion of us can create a world experience that works for each of us.

If our bodies can do this with 50 trillion cells, surely we can do this with 8 billion cells in all of humanity.

As we act on this larger challenge and seek harmony and coherence with all of life, we will discover there is more than enough of everything to go around and space enough for all of us. The song we will sing will be in perfect harmony.

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Anne Beversdorf – Vedic and Western Astrologer

August 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Anne Beversdorf is a Vedia and Western Astrologer and she has spent the past eighteen years researching and writing this powerful new book Vedic Secrets to Happinesswhich provides the reader with logical, simple, affordable steps to take to remedy difficult life situations, all in accord with both Vedic and Western Principles, This is a delightful interview with a woman who really knows her stuff!





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Evelyn Talmadge – Strategic Coach

July 31, 2012 By 1 Comment

Evelyn Talmadge is a Strategic Coach here in Austin who works with people who have a wide variety of roadblocks in their paths to growth. She works in areas and with special modalities that other professional do not have access to. She has a very high success rate characterized by quick recoveries and rapid growth which means the client does not have to keep returning for help over a long period of time.

Evelyn is straightforward, brilliant and has a great sense of humor as this video shows. If you are stuck, we suggest you call Evelyn for an assessment.





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