It is 7:30 AM on Monday, 6 February 1012.
I am writing to you from my sister Sandra’s house in Los Angeles, and I am truly happy to announce that in two days, on Wednesday, 8 February 2012, I will move into my new apartment. On this day, I will welcome the delivery and installation of furniture and utilities, and will begin living in the Greatness of Being OPEN HOUSE.
What exactly is this?
I’ve uploaded a new section of my website to tell you what it is and what it means to me. PLEASE take a few minutes to visit the Authenticity Accelerator website — scroll down the home page as you watch the left hand menu selections. When you get to OPEN HOUSE, just begin clicking on the sub-page items:
Each of these sections will present some aspect of the Open House, the most important being my invitation to you to connect and participate with me in discovering how we can meet unexpected visitations in life (in my case, lung cancer) with a response that calls forth true greatness of being.
Reality is waiting to be painted on the blank canvas of creative possibility. Let’s find out just how big our painting can be, just how vibrant our palette of colors, just how deep and vulnerable and intimate our connections can become, just how truthful our sharing. My “operational code name” for this Open House way of living is the NO HIDING ZONE.
No more hiding from our true inner greatness.
Please read through the new Open House section of my website. Please visit and subscribe to my Blog. Please visit the You Tube channel, on which I will begin uploading daily clips from life in the Open House. I continue to offer all my digital products for free at the new Free E-books page (the old download page has been auto-forwarded to this new one). For those in a position to financially contribute to my ongoing medical and holistic treatment expenses, thank you with all my heart.
I am happy to accept interview requests and Southern California-based talks, workshops, programs, personal appearances — to share how I am using the 5 Principles of Authentic Living as a response to “lung cancer” and to share the insights, experiences, and PEOPLE that come into my life now. I’ll be speaking with Kate James on Thursday, who will post our interview shortly after that on her new Blog at The Change Project. Check my Blog for an announcement. I have several other interviews being scheduled now, which will occur over the next few months.
I will soon be announcing details of a 6-part Teleseminar, co-produced by two Australian friends, Margaret Gill and Lara Bianco. We will explore the 5 Principles of Authentic living as they relate to meeting life’s unexpected challenges and how to meet these challenges with our inherent greatness of being.
I am continuing to offer Authenticity Accelerator and Speak Truthfully programs in formats that my physical condition permits. I have begun working with people indiviually, both in Los Angeles, and via phone and Skype.
- Greatness of Being OPEN HOUSE
- 6115 Glen Tower, Los Angeles CA 90068
- cell phone: +1 323-803-9070
Just over a month ago, my life was met with one of those Bermuda Triangle moments in which everything STOPS, and life is never the same. I’d say my first one occurred when I was 11 years old, my first “spiritual awakening.” Another was shaktipat initiation from Swami Muktananda. Another was you have stage 4 lung cancer.
My response to this last STOP is contained within the OPEN HOUSE. But the OPEN HOUSE could not be possible without all of YOU. I have been the lucky recipient of so much love and so many blessings and acts of kindness and generosity — is there a richer man than me in the world? I don’t think so. I am able to move into my apartment and begin living this new chapter of life because of YOU. It is one of the ironies of my situation that at the precise time of my greatest financial and material need, I had the least.
But that was in the world of appearances. It turns out that what I have is a growing circle of people whose hearts and souls have been forged in those STOP moments, whose inner greatness of being is already ignited and on fire and blazing in this world. And the heat of their — YOUR — greatness and beauty has reached and touched me, and it has enabled me to do what I could not do on my own. Your contributions to me, your blessings and your gifts and your donations, have enabled me to do what I could not do on my own.
You have responded to my world of appearances in such a way as to create a different reality for me, with me. And this is what I intend to do with my diagnosis of cancer. I intend to respond from the same place of greatness you have responded to me, in order to create a reality different from the surface appearance. I did not have the means a short while ago to rent an apartment, nor to live in it. Now, I can start. I can start to evaluate and consider and choose medical and holistic treatments to further reduce the active cancer tumors in my body. Thank you.
I have received and continue to receive energy healings, product suggestions, meal plans, and other support the for the holistic and energy side of the healing equation. I am leaning strongly towards including chemotherapy as a next step treatment, proving I can secure funding for this.
Thank you.
I wonder what we are capable of when we truly and fully unlock and set free the enormous spirit and inherent greatness of being that are within us, and that extend in all directions without limit. Greatness of Being.
I was told by Swami Muktananda to say, “I am holding the space for cancer to visit me temporarily.” I dedicate this temporary visitor to greatness of being and to the myriad ways in which we all can express this. I hold my medical diagnosis as an “appearance,” not an immutable reality. I do not say this glibly. I say this because I believe that within each of us, within my own self, we have a greatness beyond what we can say. Whether I live for another six months or 25 years is not important. What matters is whether I finally realize the truth of something I heard many years ago, a truth that I recognize, a truth that now needs to be embodied: God Dwells Within You, As You.
Thank you with all my heart, and, yes, I do have tears in my eyes as I write these lines.
… speaking to you straight and live from the Open House …
Robert
