Herb Fitch · The Infinite Way

Why Nothing Needs to Get Better: The Spiritual Universe Is Already Perfect

Herb Fitch on Joel Goldsmith's Infinite Way — presented by Mike Spirit Ademola

What if the entire project of trying to improve your life is built on a false premise? Herb Fitch opens this Infinite Way lesson with a challenge: "did Joel die?" — and from that single question he unravels the whole human habit of believing that some things are wrong and need fixing. If this is truly a spiritual universe, he argues, then nothing in it can be broken, because Spirit cannot be divided against itself.

The lesson turns on a true story from Joel Goldsmith's own life — his lost baggage in South Africa — and from it Fitch draws out a principle that dissolves every problem you think you have: the problem was never the thing, it was the belief that you and your good could ever be separated.

The Ultimatum: Human or Christ, There Is No In-Between

Fitch begins by refusing any middle ground. Either you accept yourself as the human, mortal self born to live and die, or you accept yourself as the Christ — the divine image and likeness of God. There is no third option, no compromise where you're partly spiritual and partly material.

"you are either the human not the Divine image and likeness of God or you are the Christ man and there is no in between there is no half and half there is Christ man child of God."

This is the razor at the center of the entire teaching. As long as you regard even one person you know as capable of dying, Fitch says, you are "walking outside the spiritual universe" — and there is no other universe to walk in.

Joel's Lost Baggage: The Principle Behind the Story

The chapter's central illustration is deceptively simple. Joel Goldsmith loses his baggage in South Africa and waits three weeks for it to turn up. When it doesn't, he goes into meditation to find his own mistake — and realizes he had been waiting for a material package, when in truth there is no space where baggage could be lost and no time in which it could be found.

"there's no space where baggage could be lost there's no space that baggage could occupy and there's no time in which it could be lost... and there's no time in which it could be found."

Once Goldsmith released the visible interpretation and accepted the invisible spiritual idea of "baggage" as omnipresent, the item appeared. But Fitch pushes past the anecdote to the deeper half of the principle most people miss:

"that Justice baggage was not matter neither was Joel... there was no physical Joel to receive baggage and there was no physical baggage there was only a spiritual universe."

Both the person and the object were images in the one undivided Spirit. Nothing had to travel anywhere, because nothing was ever truly separated.

The Spiritual Universe Has No Opposite

From here Fitch expands the word "baggage" into a symbol for everything you consider missing, broken, or wrong in your life — health, income, relationships, happiness. Each is only a false sense of a material quantity, separated from you by belief, not by fact.

"our good health is only separated from us because we have accepted a material sense of health our income is separated up from us because we have accepted a material sense of income."

He is equally direct about the emotions that seem to prove a problem is real — fear, doubt, resentment — naming them as denials of Christhood rather than evidence of trouble:

"if I fear I am denying Christ to it if I doubt I am denying Christ to it if I am unhappy I am denying christhood."

Nothing Can Be Added, Nothing Subtracted

Fitch draws on Ecclesiastes to state the teaching's most radical implication: the spiritual universe is already a completed embodiment, so there is nothing left to attain and nothing that can ever be taken from you.

"all that you are and ever will be is already a completed embodiment in the Christ... nothing can be added or subtracted from the spiritual universe."

This reframes the whole idea of spiritual "progress." You are not working toward wholeness — wholeness is already established as your being right now. Trying to become whole, Fitch says plainly, cannot succeed, because it treats as future what is already present fact.

"if you are trying to become whole you cannot if you are trying to attain the fullness of your being you cannot... the wholeness the glory the fullness are all established in your being now."

Re-Establishing Identity Instead of Attacking the Problem

The lesson's most practical instruction concerns method: when a problem appears, the world's approach is to analyze and attack it. The Infinite Way's approach is entirely different — you don't fight the appearance, you re-establish your identity as the child of God and let the "problem" dissolve for lack of a foothold.

"you do not attack the problem you re-establish identity as the child of God."

Fitch calls this "removing the subject" rather than removing the object — since a physical disability can only exist for a physical being, and you were never that in truth. This single reorientation, practiced daily, is what he means by living in a spiritual universe that is already perfect: not a promise of future improvement, but a fact to be recognized now.