About

Hi there! This blog is about the idea we can live forever in our physical bodies if we want to. By “live forever” I basically mean overcoming aging and death—I see aging and dying as silly habits we can grow out of, and that hopefully we will grow out of them in the not too distant future.

I think overcoming aging and death is part of the process of moving towards self-realisation, and also that self-realised beings have ongoing choice about which planes and realms they express on. In my opinion, the paradox is that we are only capable of experiencing the full range of wonders found on other planes than the physical one when we love life so much in a physical body that we don’t want to leave.

I also believe that if we find ourselves thinking we don’t want to live forever, for this or that reason, we can be sure those thoughts are the ones holding us back in life.

Here’s one of my favorite quotes on the topic:

You want to stay on Earth because it is the most beautiful spring morning of all your history, and you are in love… in love with the spirit that sings in your heart, in love with the glorious planet that clothes you in her matter.

~ from The Starseed Transmissions (Ken Carey)

and about me…

My name is Robin Birch and I live in Melbourne, Australia with my partner Frank. We run a recording studio and do other bits and pieces to support musicians. We have a website for that here: The Sound Sculptor. I also write books for children on topics such as astronomy, dinosaurs and the weather.

As well I dabble in whipping up websites for people, using RapidWeaver. This site is done with WordPress, which I am learning slowly but surely.

Should anyone be interested, I’ve written a more comprehensive bio further down the page.

It’s very much an adventure to be writing on this topic—it’s not exactly mainstream! If anyone is interested in reading about how I first came across these ideas, my post How I Found Immortality about covers it. And you can find a list of posts that lean towards being about my personal life by clicking here. 

keep well,

Robin

More comprehensive bio

I was born in June 1953.

My main educational qualification is…

B.Sc (Hons Biochem) Dip. Ed., from Monash University, Melbourne.
1971- 1973 Bachelor of Science
1974 Honours in Biochemistry – in a lab that focused mainly on a genetic disease (muscular dystrophy), but my project was on pituitary proteins (neurophysin)
1975 Diploma in Education (Chemistry and Biology methods)

Teaching

I taught high-school science, including chemistry and biology at senior levels, from 1976 to 1982, and then later in 1989-1990, full-time. 

I have also done a considerable amount of casual teaching:
• in high schools
• in institutions that children visited on excursions, where I taught mainly younger children
• taking programs from the above institutions into primary schools (recycling programs, dinosaur programs, science experiments)
• to adult night classes (sound engineering, chemistry for beauty therapists)

Sound engineering

I did a year-long night class in sound engineering in 1981. This resulted in me working in an 8-track tape recording studio, and doing live mixing for bands. I met Frank at the course (he was the naughty boy sitting up the back) but he was married and we didn’t form a partnership till many years later. 

Breathwork

In 1986 I began doing breathwork (called rebirthing in those days) and attending Sondra Ray’s Loving Relationships Trainings and other related events—this included weekend seminars and smaller get-togethers. 

In the following few years I did extensive training to be a breathworker, including a 12-day program with US trainers Peter and Meg Kane, in Melbourne, and an intensive 4-month program with Vince and Yve Betar, in Sydney in 1988. I’ve never hung out my shingle as a breathworker, but I am very grateful that I have acquired the skills, and I continue to use them.

Reiki

I did a level one Reiki course in 1987, in Melbourne. I use Reiki continually.

Astronomy

One of my casual jobs in the early 90s was as an operator and presenter at the Melbourne Planetarium, to the general public on weekends and to school groups when needed. 

From doing this I developed a more in-depth knowledge of astronomy than being a science teacher had provided, which resulted in me writing children’s books about astronomy, running my own astronomy education programs for children, and being a tour guide to adults at the Old Melbourne Observatory (old telescopes).

Book writing

Here’s an outline of the children’s books I’ve had published…

For older children (9-12 yrs):
The Australian Skies, 1999
Australia from the Beginning, 1999

For middle school (8-11 yrs):
Watching the Skies, 1999
Ancient Australia, 1999
Minibeasts Up Close, 2004 – series of 6 books 
The Solar System, 2004 – series of 12 books (second edition, 2007, includes ‘Dwarf Planets’ to replace ‘Pluto’)
Weather and Climate, 2009 – series of 6 books

For very young children (6-8 yrs):
Space, 2001 – series of 6 books
Dinosaur World, 2002 – series of 6 books
Community Workers – series of 6 books

Some of the US versions were altered and I wouldn’t recommend them, should you be looking at them on Amazon.

I also wrote a book on genetic engineering which wasn’t published, but at least I was paid the $1000 advance before the publisher disappeared.

Tour guiding, to adults

• Old Melbourne Observatory – pointing at telescopes and telling stories
• Federation Walk – a walk through the city, to commemorate Australia’s centenary of Federation, in 2001
• Melbourne’s Golden Mile – historic 4 hour walk through the city, telling its story from pastoral origins in 1835, to gold wealth, to the grand 1880s, to Federation, and up to today.

— – — 

I did most of the casual work (including writing the books) to support myself while I was trying to establish myself as a singer and piano player, which I realise now I don’t want to do. But I’m very glad I did these things, as they contribute to who I am now—it’s funny how things come together.

* * *