Conscious Aging with John Robinson, Ph.D.

As I look back on this evolving blog, I see how much it has become about the Second Secret in The Three Secrets of Aging: "Aging is a Transformation of Self and Consciousness." The reason for this focus is twofold: 1) this process needs to be described for any who wish to explore it, and 2)  Read More 

Happiness, love and freedom for everything to be the way it is (rather than the way we think it is) - that's what we come to as we arrive in this final stage of spiritual growth, because it's all God and we are God too, and all is one. As long as you think  Read More 

A leaf knows it’s a leaf but it doesn't try to be the whole tree or something other than what it is, and what a miracle it is - how the leaf grows, changes color, absorbs the suns energy through photosynthesis, dries up and falls to the ground, to feed the little creatures  Read More 

Over the years, I have felt a little guilty about not doing more for others. Yes, I taught at a large spirituality center, put on men's gatherings, presented at conferences and hospitals, shared by understanding of life in books, worked as a psychotherapist for three decades, but all these forms of service came from  Read More 

The next step in the birth of the divine human is the genuinely felt realization, "I am God." This realization does not refer to the fictional self - my identity, my beliefs, my body, my problems, as if John Robinson were God. No, it refers to the direct experience of thought-free consciousness as everywhere,  Read More 

The blogs on this website have been moving inexorably toward the idea that evolution has shifted from the biological - the slowest, taking millions of years of mutations and natural selection, to the cultural - much faster, accelerating with each generation and its technological advances, allowing the human-computer interface to change the way we think and  Read More 

I haven't blogged a while because I've been busy working on a novel (an earlier version is serialized on the website). One editor calls it "a novel of ideas" because it explores so many facets of the mystical experience through conversations between the main characters, giving me an opportunity to engage the implications of  Read More 

I remember James Hillman, the Jungian writer/analyst, speaking at a Mendocino Men's Gathering about the coming of age. He said that a young man, like a conqueror of old, travels out into the world of man, sending his troops far and wide to conquer vast swaths of life. But an aging man recalls  Read More 

One day you will wake up and realize that it's all been a game and that game was stored in your personality with its architecture of ego, identity, beliefs and problems. One day you get that you can leave the game, walk off the game board, and be free, that it was the game  Read More 

I remember my grandmother sitting alone in the sunny back yard - not lonely but quiet, in touch with something larger than her mind - stillness, silence, consciousness.

I remember my mother sliding into dementia and watching her mind become silent, silent and empty (until childhood abandonment pain would surface from the unlocking compartments  Read More