The Story Behind the Magazine
Interview by Terry Church
of Super Consciousness Magazine - July 2007.
Jair Robles, owner and publisher of SuperConsciousness Magazine, talks with the MastersConnection© about bringing this new publication to the world.
Raised in Veracruz, Mexico, Jair is the youngest son of a successful publishing family. His father, Jose Pablo Robles, began as a reporter, moved up, and later bought the newspaper he worked for. Today, he is the owner and publisher of Llave Magazine and Imagen and Diario Del Istmo newspapers. Recently, he created the Imagen del Golfo news agency with 150 reporters. The elder Robles also taught journalism at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Growing up in this media household, Jair participated in many family discussions about politics, news, or social issues, topics that continue to interest him.
He eventually earned a Master’s Degree in public administration from Columbia University and went on to run his father’s newspaper for three years.
During this period he contributed articles and also wrote occasionally for the magazine.
In November, 1999, Jair attended a Ramtha event in Careyes, Mexico. At the retreat, Ramtha warned against worshipping anything from the past, and specifically ancient Mayan culture. Although this was a direct affront to Jair’s tradition, the message was clear and made sense to him. Ramtha’s teachings gave him knowledge, allowing him to consider possibilities different from anything he was previously familiar with.
Jair: Mexican culture and spirituality focus on death. One of the major holidays in Mexican tradition is on November 1st and 2nd. It celebrates our dead ancestors, emphasizing the idea that we are all going to meet that end. Ramtha’s teachings allowed me to let go of the cultural paradigm, to see that death is not inevitable. There are many gods, deities and protocols in Mexican spiritual ceremonies which are beautiful, but Ramtha’s teaching brings the responsibility back to me.
TC: When did you start coming to Yelm?
Jair: I started coming to Yelm for required events, then adding optional events, and began to get a feel for what it was like to live here.
During those years, The Golden Thread glossy magazine was being published, with Ramtha introducing the magazine in his audiences.
I really enjoyed reading the magazine. I liked reading about science that backed up what we were learning in school; that kind of knowledge that helps me to get rid of doubt and satisfies my intellectual arguments.
Also, hearing about other people’s success in using the teachings helped to encourage me.
I began to create my life here. However, one time I overstayed 3 days beyond the limits of my visa, and I was deported. Stuck in Mexico, I wasn’t able to re-enter the U.S. for a little under 2 years.
TC: What happened while you were waiting to regain entry into the US?
Jair: I experienced a deep depression. I spent much time in the mountains, richly surrounding myself with nature. Eventually, even though I spent many days entirely by myself and in contact with nature, I was still depressed. I realized those perceptions were coming from within me, so I asked Ramtha
for help.
At an event in Puebla with JZ and Ramtha, the staff played a teaching from the 2005 Assay that taught about how difficult it is for an initiate to leave his father’s house and the trials they much go through. The initiate must make it through his mediocrity to make it to his master teacher.
Soon after, I got an appointment with a man who would eventually help me to get visa.
TC: When did you know that you would start SuperConsciousness Magazine?
Jair: I came back in April 2006 to the catch-up event. I had decided that I wanted to create a business, to do things right so I could stay in the US without problems. I already had experience in publishing, and I really liked the idea of bringing back the Golden Thread. Also at that time, JZK, Inc. was sending out newsletters from school with scientific findings that were related to some teaching
by Ramtha.
This also was just after the time that “What the Bleep” had become so popular and I realized that many people were interested in learning, reading and getting information about science and spirituality and the human potential. Also, in April, I learned about Danielle Graham’s research.
I then came up with the idea to propose working with the school to bring The Golden Thread out again. I was told, basically, to do this on my own and I really wasn’t sure I wanted to do it.
Then at James’s Birthday party, JZ gave me encouragement to go for it, even though it was not what
I originally imagined the project to be.
TC: So, how has going on your own worked out for you?
Jair: Actually, it has worked out even better. I still have access to the teachings and one of the key elements that inspired me about The Golden Thread was allowing more people to have access to
the teachings, and inspiring people to come and learn at RSE.
Once I decided to do the magazine independently, people, places, things, and events began to emerge to bring it together.
TC: What is your intent for this magazine?
Jair: There was a whole process of defining the intent of the magazine to focus on exploring human potential. We decided that we wanted to bring a new perspective along with scientific findings to illustrate human potential instead of just the technologies that source from it. What do these discoveries say about who we are and what we are capable of?
That became the more important question.
What we are bringing in the magazine is not so much about breakthrough technologies or social issues like the environment or politics, but how these issues relate to us as individuals and the impact we can have on these issues through self-responsibility: The impact we have through action or inaction. We already have had an impact by being indifferent to it.
TC: What is the impact on these issues of being indifferent?
Jair: Our indifference allows very few people to make transcendent decisions. Indifference keeps us from disseminating information, keeps us from wanting to bring out to the world information so that others can become more aware.
The more that people know about themselves and their innate abilities, the more information that is out there about what people of capable of, this knowledge empowers them: This information is supported by science. And it also brings back responsibility to the individual about their own life and the world that they live in.
TC: So in this publication, you are bringing scientific information for awareness. Is there anything about what people can do with this information?
Jair: Yes. Stories of the application of this information – examples of people both historically and presently that are actively broadening the scope of what humans are capable of.
My background has shown me the grand influence that a successful medium can have on society and individual people. And not only because of how many people have access to the medium, but it is also about the kind of people, people who have influence themselves, simply by the role they play in society. When you tie that knowledge of what that medium is capable of, to what we have learned in the school about creating reality, it brings in an entirely new perspective of what a magazine can do
in the world and what the people who read the magazine can do.
The magazine is created with a content that will attract people who have been asking questions that have not been sufficiently addressed by the existing popular mediums. And the design and the layout of the magazine are created to attract people who are not necessarily asking themselves those questions, but will want to check it out. And as they browse through the magazine they might start to ask themselves the questions about who they are. This is a new vehicle to introduce new concepts to a whole new audience.
TC: So one of your intents is to bring this publication to the awareness of people who may have never been exposed to this type of information before?
Jair: To attract the broader spectrum with this type of information, reinforce the knowledge to those who are already familiar with it, and to reinforce it with evidence based science. And to eventually have people ask themselves, where did this information come from and how did the people who produced this magazine develop these concepts, and lead them back to the school where we learned this knowledge. It’s about finding a deeper understanding of knowledge, experience and wisdom.
We decided that the very first issue – the launch of SuperConsciousness Magazine – should feature a really great theme.
What better theme is there to start defining what SuperConsciousness is and where does human potential lie, than to speak about the mind and creative thought and genius? Thus we titled the premiere issue, “Redefining Genius”.
TC: Tell us about the interviews with the scientists, the writers; what are you going to give us in the first issue?
Jair: This led to looking at what is the common understanding of genius, then talking to many people who have made the effort to understand many different aspects of genius. We got a clearer perspective of what being a genius implies from psychology, from neurology, from physics, from art and from teachers from an enlightened perspective, including Ramtha.
TC: In closing is there anything else you would like your future readers to know?
Jair: The creation of this project has been a very profound experience. Our dreams never manifest the way we originally anticipate them becoming. My dream has become much greater than I had originally imagined. And I am sure you will be as pleased and as inspired reading this as we were in creating it.
Our premiere issue will be sent to our early subscribers in the middle of August.
And for those that subscribe before August 1st,
we will also be including with the magazine a beautiful print of Shiva created by the famous Mexican artist, Kuiz Lopez.
To subscribe, please go to www.superconsciousness.com
or call us at 360-400-2383.
