It was not his teachings, which appeared to me as disorganized and filled with Hindu folklore, with a pervading and underlying emptiness. It was due to his presence.
People love to read Robert's teachings or listen to his voice because they find it comforting.
Personally, I don't like the way Robert "taught." Too many people got lost in a depressive occupation with emptiness which Robert never clearly pointed out was different from nothingness. Emptiness itself is an observable, part of the nature of consciousness, as is time.
People did not awaken around Robert because of his teachings, but because of his presence.
HOWEVER, there are actual teachings that can help you awaken, other than the advice to focus on your own experience.
The first step is to realize you are not your body. You experience and witness your body by means of "your"consciousness.
At some point through the practice of attending to your sense of I Am, and through accepting and loving that I Am, which expands into a sense of presence, at some moment you experience that I Am revealing her nature to you in her full glory as the divine Shakti. Shakti arises in you as pure light and spirit, as an explosion of inner energy, light, and bliss, and you witness your own divinity as Shakti.
Then for months or years you feel her inside you as body, inside you as consciousness as a divine presence, incredibly active and flowing from within and through you into the world. This is realizing yourself as the Manifest Self, as spirit, bliss, consciousness.
This allows you to realize one day that you are not your body, you are consciousness that witnesses your body as one localized "object" within the totality of your total awareness, the totality of your Manifest Consciousness.
You are beginning your freedom from identification with your physical body and now identify with the totality of consciousness.
But carefull observation of that consciousness over the next months or years does something. Even Consciousness no longer appears real. It comes and goes. It alternates between waking, dream, and sleep. Various energies pervade it, alcohol and drugs distort it, and it disappears in deep sleep along with the I Am sensation and your sense of presence when you sleep.
Consciousness is even less stable and mortal than your apparent body. It awakens and dies each day at least once. It is fickle, and after a while, even the bliss and energies become much like brushing your teeth. Something to be endured even if pleasurable.
But something else is happening while this is going on.
You have realized you are not your body, and that your body is just experienced in your consciousness, and in all likelyhood, consciousness has its origin through the life of your body.
You realize that at one time you identified with your body as the entirety of your existence. Then you disidentified with your body, and identified with your consciousness, Shakti, light, energies, bliss and love as your "true" nature. You have a love affair with the divine, your own consciousness with all of its characteristics and traits.
However, all this time you recognize that you are the witness of this whole identification/disidentification process. In fact, you are more and more powerfully aware of yourself as the witness.
But this witness appears to be like a dark void from which consciousness and the Manifest Consciousness arise from each morning. You become aware of yourself as a dark void, a total nothingness without even empty space.
So, you relax into this nothingness, you disappear as body/mind/consciousness into this total nothingness. And, for the first time you recognize that you have come home at last. In this nothingness, no consciousness, no mind, no body, you are in complete peace and happiness being nothing.
At this time you can completely disappear even to yourself, until once again the world and consciousness emerges from within you as witness.
Body and consciousness--neither are you. You are beyond both. Unborn, not understanding, not knowing, have gone entirely beyond existence.