Herb Fitch · The Infinite Way · Joel Goldsmith's Teaching

The Greatest Secret of the Infinite Way

Herb Fitch reveals Joel Goldsmith's central secret — that there is only one life, the life of God, and no other — presented by Mike Spirit Ademola

Recorded from a 1970s La Jolla class, this Herb Fitch talk opens with a very ordinary complaint of its era — an energy crisis, a shortage of supply — and uses it as the doorway into what he calls the greatest secret Joel Goldsmith ever taught: that there is only one life in all existence, the life of God, and every appearance of shortage, sickness, or separation is simply the human race living as if a second, mortal life existed alongside it. What follows is not abstract philosophy. It is a specific, repeatable realization Fitch asks each listener to make their own.

There Is No Crisis in the Kingdom of God

Fitch begins with the world's energy crisis of the day, but immediately turns it inside out. The crisis, he says, exists only in the world of appearances — never in the kingdom of God itself.

"there is no crisis the father has said son all that i have is thine it is the father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom the kingdom of grace the kingdom of infinite energy... the kingdom of abundance"

He is careful to locate the shortage precisely: not in God, not in the universe, but in a race of people who have "turned away from the father" and are living outside an awareness of the kingdom already given. The crisis, in other words, is a crisis of consciousness, not of supply.

"be assured of this that there is no crisis of energy except in the world of atoms in which the human consciousness lives"

This sets the pattern for the whole talk: every apparent lack — of energy, health, love, or peace — is treated the same way. Not as something to fix in the outer world, but as evidence of forgetting an already-present truth.

Choose Life: The Way of Life and the Way of Death

Fitch turns to Deuteronomy and Jeremiah, where God sets before the people "the way of life and the way of death," and asks them to choose life. He reads this not as a moral choice between good and bad behavior, but as a metaphysical choice between two entirely different senses of existence.

"i call heaven an earth to record this day against you that i have set before you life and death blessing and cursing therefore choose life that both thou and thy seed may live"

His conclusion is startling in its directness: humanity, by and large, has already made its choice, and it was the wrong one.

"it may sound most unusual but the entire human race has chosen death man has chosen mortality"

To Fitch, mortality is not a biological fact but a false belief — the belief that there exists "another life" besides the one life of God, a second life in which shortages, illness, and death are possible. Choosing life means refusing that second life altogether.

"god did not create mortal beings which are you mortal or immortal god created no life beside the life of god"

One Life, Not Four Billion Separate Lives

Perhaps the clearest statement of the "greatest secret" itself comes here, when Fitch contrasts the world's view of countless separate individuals with what he calls the realization of the one who has "accepted oneself."

"mortals look out and they see many lives john mary fred harry each is a different life they are looking at division you are accepting one immortal life and your immortal life and my immortal life are the same immortal life"

He names this directly as the great secret transmitted through the Infinite Way — not a technique, but a shift in what one recognizes as real when looking at any other person.

"looking out among the world of human beings does not see individual lives but rather sees one immortal life... you are being called upon to accept the one immortal life as the only life there is and not four billion separated human lives"

This is why Fitch spends so much time on biblical symbols of unity — the broken bread shared among many, the "one body" of which all are members. Each image, in his reading, points to the same fact: what looks like separate people is, in truth, one life appearing.

"we are all sanctified into one body into one life we are all members of one body and christ is the heaven now"

Putting the Mortal Consciousness on the Cross

Fitch does not pretend this realization comes without resistance. He describes, with unusual honesty, that the old mortal sense of self will fight to preserve itself even as the truth is accepted.

"i am putting my old consciousness on the cross and it will suffer it will suffer so much but i will suffer it to be so i must go through the suffering servant routine i must suffer... but i am going to cross it out i am dying to the mortal consciousness"

The practice he offers is simple to state and demanding to live: refuse to let anything into your consciousness that is unknown to God's consciousness. Sickness, lack, judgment, and division are not to be accepted as facts about you, because they are not facts God knows.

"god is not conscious of an energy shortage i therefore cannot be conscious of an energy shortage god is not conscious of sickness i therefore cannot be conscious of sickness god is not conscious of evil i cannot be conscious of evil"

This is the discipline behind the secret — not a single moment of insight, but a sustained willingness to let the mortal sense of self die daily until, as Fitch puts it, "there is only one consciousness here."

Living as the Consciousness of God Right Where You Are

The talk closes not with a doctrine to memorize but an invitation to directly feel the presence Fitch has been describing — right now, in this moment, wherever the listener happens to be.

"here is god right where you are is the consciousness of god it is your individual immortal consciousness here and now please accept it"

He is explicit that this consciousness cannot be shaken by outer events, because it was never dependent on them in the first place.

"there is a consciousness which is infinite which cannot be influenced by any event in this world unite with that consciousness be one with that consciousness let that consciousness be your consciousness"

And he extends the same recognition outward, to everyone the listener meets — not as a moral instruction to be kind, but as a statement of what is actually true about every person encountered.

"i must see god in every one and everything why because immortal life does that and there is no other"

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the greatest secret of the Infinite Way, according to Herb Fitch?

That there is only one life in existence — the life of God — and it is already your life now. Shortages of supply, health, or love are not real lacks but signs of separation from this truth. Once you stop living as a separate mortal self and accept God's life as your only life, the sense of crisis dissolves, because there is no shortage in the life of God.

Why does Herb Fitch say "choose life" means rejecting mortality itself?

Fitch reads Deuteronomy's charge to "choose life" as a metaphysical choice, not a moral one. Choosing life means recognizing that immortality isn't attained later — it is the only life there ever was. Believing in "another life" besides the life of God is, in his words, a form of living death.

What does it mean to "put the mortal consciousness on the cross"?

It means consciously refusing to accept into your awareness anything unknown to God — sickness, lack, division — even while the old mortal self resists. Fitch calls this a daily dying to the false self so that only the one consciousness of God remains, which he says is the entire difference between being dead and being alive.