Chris Bennetts

Listening to Robert Scheinfeld’s Journey to the Infinite has sent me further down the Rabbit hole than ever before.  I am sure not a lot of people will be ready for Robert’s Truth. That’s Truth with a capital T which will challenge to the very core your beliefs about everything you would call reality .

Robert has been involved in the self help arena and the metaphysical ‘industry’ for many years.   In fact Roberts is yet another person that mentions Seth Speaks which I recently reviewed here as one of his early influences but it really does not have any connection with his current teachings.

For some time Robert worked with Tony Robbins,  a self help Guru with teachings based on NLP learnt directly from its co-founder Richard Bandler. Robert explains that he was frustrated by all the self help courses and instructors and spoke of the ‘Suntan Effect,’ where people can experience high states of inspiration and even profound paradigm shifts but the change, like a suntan, wears off in time. Robert was searching for something permanent and discovered Quantum Physics.

There Is NO Law Of Attraction

Many of the new age ideas such as the Law of Attraction claim to be based on the theories of quantum physics but are selective in their interpretation. Robert explored the full ramifications of the quantum physics idea that we are the creators of our own reality and reached the logical conclusion that even concepts like the Law of Attraction are by definition not real.  They are, as Robert would explain, just stories we create with a lot of truth (with a small caps t) in them but they miss the real Truth of our existence.

It’s All A Game

Robert’s conclusion is that you are playing the human game and that everything and everybody you experience is a holographic illusion created by your higher self to form the Amusement park you call reality. You are in fact a being of infinite power that created the human game in order to experience the exact opposite of who you really are.  So you play the game in a world of limitations where you feel relatively powerless and vulnerable.

I have used the term “you” as opposed to we because according to this theory YOU are creating everything including the text you are reading now.  Thus I believe I am writing this for others to read but there are no others so I am really writing it for myself or if I am really part of your hologram then you are the author.

This is where your mind will start to tie itself in knots and the advice of Robert is that you cannot resolve these questions mentally.  At the same time Robert is not advocating something like having faith in his ideas.  It is not necessary that you even fully believe them but if you follow his program using the tools he recommends for drilling through the human illusion (he uses a metaphor of drilling through cloud cover to reveal the sun light of your real self) then the Truth with a capital T will become apparent.

A philosophical riddle you may have encountered is “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”.  The answer according to Robert would simply be that there is no tree or forest unless you are there to create it.  Nothing is real.  We live in a holographic world of our own creation not unlike that depicted in the film ‘The Matrix’.   He actually uses a number of short clips from that movie and others like ‘The 13^th Floor’ in his course material.

Robert refers to others in the game as players but at the same time according to this theory there really are no others in the game.  Thus any others in the game are more like virtual players as you would encounter in a computer game.

Phases Of The Human Game

Robert defines two phases of the Human Game.   In phase 1 you are totally unaware of your true nature, living within the hologram that your greater self has created. In phase 2 you start to get a glimpse of your true nature and your unlimited power as you break through the “cloud cover” with the ultimate goal of regaining your power and reaching your natural state of absolute joy.  Robert also says that you are either fully in phase 1 or phase 2 of the games and once in phase 2 there is no going back nor can you lose ground.

You Can Do No Wrong – You Cannot Make Mistakes.

An aspect of Roberts’ teachings I find very challenging is the proposal that we are in fact totally powerless and that our greater self is fully in charge.  Thus we can do no wrong nor can we make mistakes.  Everything happens as directed by your greater self.

I have spent much of my life in a position of feeling powerless and then ‘discovering’ through various self-development programs and personal study that I do have power, only to be told now that I really don’t and should just live my life in a reactive mode experiencing whatever my greater self decides to manifest into my hologram.   Robert advocates having no goals or plans.  Just do whatever you feel like doing.  Any consequences are determined by how much cloud cover you have removed.

Suspending Judgment

In phase 2 a player learns to suspend all judgment.  There are no longer good and bad, desirable or undesirable – we just learn to appreciate everything for what it is – our creation.   While we might now perceive there are many things we would want to change when we regain our power Robert informs us that when we do reach this state of truly appreciating who and what we are we may not want to change much at all.  We will be able to equally appreciate the ‘bad’ things that happened to us as we do the good.

No Finger Clicking Magic

Robert does not claim that we will suddenly emerge with super powers able to manipulate the hologram at will.   The process of breaking through the cloud cover takes time, perhaps years and Robert suggests that this is by design.  He claims we will experience an increasing number of amazing and inexplicable occurrences and that things will just come to us such as money which he defines as merely an expression of appreciation.

My Feelings

As I said at the start, Robert’s teachings have pushed me further down the Rabbit hole than ever before but at this time I am not really sure how much of his ‘story’ I am buying.   It would be too easy to just dismiss all of it if it were only coming from Robert alone, but much of this is based on real scientific research and while Robert has added his story about there being a human game I think there is more truth to this than not.

The most challenging aspect for me is the idea that others do not exist.   The idea that my children whom I love with my very being are not real but just my own holographic like creations is disturbing to say the least. This is one aspect I really want to reject out of hand but I am just not sure.  How does one ultimately feel about their children if you believe they are not real?

What is then the purpose of life? Just to have new experiences in the theme park!  It seems a little pointless. What would my greater self want to achieve from playing such a game.   Is being in a constant state of absolute joy that boring?

I have long adopted a belief that we are here to learn and somehow evolve and I am very attached to that idea and this new story from Robert is just not as appealing.  Ultimately I don’t think anyone has the Truth and it is something that we must discover for ourselves.  Robert has given me a lot to think about on a deeper level than ever before.  The ideas of quantum physics and the story Robert has attached to it actually create more paradoxes than they provide answers.

I highly recommend Robert Scheinfeld’s ‘Journey to the Infinite’ to anyone interested in the topic and anyone that has read this far would qualify.  As I said I don’t yet know how much of his story I am buying but regardless of how you feel after reading this review I am sure you will find Journey to the infinite rewarding and enlightening.

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