Herb Fitch · The Infinite Way

Why Your Senses Are Lying to You: Launching Into the Soul Universe

Herb Fitch, Catalina Island Class Recordings — presented by Mike Spirit Ademola

What did Herb Fitch teach about the deception of the five senses? In this class recording from Catalina Island, Fitch opens with an instruction he says came directly from the Master: launch out into the deep. Not the deep ocean — the deep of your own soul, beyond the shadow, beyond the shallow, beyond every concept your five senses have ever handed you.

What follows is one of Herb Fitch's most direct unfoldings of Joel Goldsmith's central claim: that the physical senses do not simply misjudge reality now and then — they are structurally incapable of perceiving it at all, because they only ever sense mental images, never the spiritual substance those images conceal.

I Am the Only Being: Launching Out Into the Deep

Fitch begins with a month-long practice his class has already been living with: the truth "I am the only being." Now he asks them to go further — to accept that if this is true, then "I need nothing" must also be true, since nothing exists apart from the one being that you are. This is not positive thinking or wishful affirmation. It is, Fitch insists, meant to be lived with certainty rather than hope.

"Outside my being, nothing is. I am the only being. I am spirit — spirit without beginning, spirit without end, spirit without birth or death. The senses have no power to confine me any longer in the lie of matter."

He offers a simple daily practice: rest once a day in the knowledge of being, letting the true self reveal itself through the soul rather than the mind. Practiced faithfully, he says, this becomes the ground from which every other teaching in the lesson unfolds.

The Woman at the Well: "I That Speak Unto Thee Am He"

To make the teaching concrete, Fitch returns to the story of the woman at Jacob's well. He reframes her physical water pot as her material consciousness, and the stranger who meets her as Christ, gently dismantling her assumption that she is looking at a man. "I who speak to thee am he," Fitch has Christ declare — not a man, not flesh and blood, but the one omnipresent spirit that her senses mislabel as a person.

"Your senses, madam, are fooling you... before you stands the invisible light of God, and in your mind's eye you see things, persons, forms, activities, events, history, geography — none of them are there."

Fitch extends this directly to the reader: what your senses report as people, trees, rivers, and mountains is, in truth, the one spirit of God, mislabeled by a mind that has learned to see only images rather than substance.

Outside My Being, Nothing Is

From here, Fitch develops what he calls the most powerful discovery of the lesson: outside your being, nothing exists. A sound you hear, a sunrise you see, a threat you fear — none of it is "out there." It is within the sense mind, never within your actual substance, which remains the perfect, untouched substance of God.

"What is your protection against what threatens? To know the truth. Not to defend, not to react, not to run, not to escape — because what is not there need not be denied."

Fitch grounds this in scripture — the 138th and 139th Psalms, the story of Elisha's servant surrounded by an army who could not see the horses and chariots of fire already present, and Daniel in the lion's den. In each case, he reads the story as a demonstration that the outer threat has no power because it exists only within a sense mind that has mistaken image for substance.

The Six Disciples Within You

Fitch then turns the twelve disciples into a map of inner qualities: human integrity, self-confidence, ambition, love, the desire to serve, and intuition — corresponding, in his reading, to Andrew, Peter, James, John, Philip, and Nathaniel. Christ's call to "follow me," he explains, is a call for each of these very human qualities to be lifted into their spiritual counterpart: integrity into spiritual integrity, ambition into total dedication to spirit, and so on.

"The six water pots here are the same six qualities — they're also the six qualities in you, combined through soul experience to open you to the spiritual realm."

He returns to the woman at the well to show the same pattern: her five husbands and the sixth man she is now speaking with are, in this reading, the same six qualities working within her, culminating in the moment she runs into the city proclaiming she has found the Christ.

A Room With No Floor: Practicing the Soul

The lesson closes with two practical exercises. First, Fitch asks his class to imagine entering a room with no physical floor — not as a mental trick, but as a way of training the mind to stop depending on matter it has already been told God did not create. Second, he asks them to practice moving through the day consciously as "a living soul sending a body image" into the world, rather than as a body that thinks for itself.

"You are a living soul. World mind crossing in front of soul makes you appear as a physical body. Try it — you make up your mind that you are a living, invisible soul of infinite nature, and you are sending a body image out."

He extends this to how we see others: not as bodies, but as living souls — each individual soul one with the single, infinite soul that, in Fitch's teaching, every person shares. "All of the souls in the universe are your souls," he tells his class, "just as all of the cells in your arm are in the one arm."