Roberta Grimes

Getting There

Posted by Roberta Grimes • July 05, 2025 • 2 Comments
Book News, Human Nature, Thomas Jefferson, Understanding Reality

Sing, sing a song.
Sing out loud, sing out strong!
Sing of good things, not bad.
Sing of happy, not sad.

 Sing, sing a song.
Make it simple, to last your whole life long!
Don’t worry that it’s not good enough for anyone else to hear.
Just sing, sing a song.

 Sing, sing a song.
Let the world sing along!
Sing of love there could be.
Sing for you, and for me!
– Joe G. Raposo (1937-1989), from “Sing a Song” (1971)

My dear friends, I had planned to write this week and next about the amazing origin of life, and I had thought my Thomas was on board with our doing that. Of course, we still can write about the origin of life later on! But this weekend, Americans celebrate the 249^th anniversary of the birth of our nation, and that day is especially important to my spirit guide, and to me as well. Because in a previous incarnation, my much-beloved Thomas was the venerable Thomas Jefferson himself, the primary author of the American Declaration of Independence. I should have thought of this sooner, but this morning, as the Fourth of July dawned, I asked my very dear spirit guide if this week he might want us to put aside what we were working on and instead write about this nation’s founding. Or else, you know, I suggested that we should write about whatever he might want us to write about? Did he have a different preference? And what he said that he wanted us to write about instead, surprisingly enough, is how each one of you, the people that he and I both love so much, can best advance spiritually to the end of your need to reincarnate, and do it in this single lifetime!

I might just remark in passing that I consider my writing relationship with Thomas to be a close and very enjoyable collaboration. But of course, it is not remotely an equal one. The simple truth is that I am the one of us who manages this body, while he is far and away both a great deal smarter than I am, and also very much the more gifted writer. In practical fact, between us he is mostly the writer while I am more like just his scribe. Thomas handles this situation between us pretty well, but on occasion I know that it irritates him, in part because there are strict  rules of etiquette, let’s call them, that govern the interactions between spirit guides and the people they guide. Thomas’s spirit guide relationship with me is supposed to be mostly about working to raise my spiritual vibration, and not so much about giving him the fun of writing earthly blog posts. And in our case, we also are working together to serve Jesus. And Jesus wants us to be spreading His spiritual teachings together while I am on earth. So, I gather that Thomas and I have anyway a considerably more complex relationship than what is usual between spirit guides and those they are guiding.

I know from talking with friends that most of their spirit guides operate smoothly and just internally. Those being guided usually don’t hear their guides, while I do very often hear Thomas talking to me. And he cares about our writing together! So, on occasion, when we are working on something and I’m not listening to him as closely as he thinks I should be listening to him, but rather I am off on what he would consider to be “a writing tangent”, he will mutter something sulky about the fact that I “control the hands”. Direct quote! Which is how I know that sometimes he wishes he could just seize my hands and write it all much better by himself, for heaven’s sake.

While we are talking about this, and before we move on to tackle the main topic of this post, Thomas tells me now that he does want to point out to you the fact that he is not Thomas Jefferson. Not at all! This distinction is important to him, but it also gives us an interesting little lesson about the way that reincarnation works. Soon after Thomas first “came out” to me as having once been Jefferson, I asked him about the Sally Hemings story. I had researched it when I first researched and wrote My Thomas, some thirty-five years ago. That is my biography about the wonderful love story that was Thomas Jefferson’s ten-year marriage. And while I thought I knew the truth about the Sally Hemings story, I wanted Thomas to tell me the truth for certain. So my Thomas told me that I ought just to hear the truth from Jefferson directly, and he took me to meet with the venerable Founding Father in the astral plane one night while my body slept. What a fascinating experience that was! There were three of us together there in an eighteenth-century astral room, with my Thomas looking like a sixth-level being, and with Thomas Jefferson himself, OMG, in late-1700s garb. Wow, what an experience, to meet one of my very biggest heroes in person! But I was embarrassed, when it came down to it then, to come right out and bluntly ask him this very personal question. After some pleasantries, though, I did manage to ask it. I said something like, “I haven’t believed the rumors, sir, but I’m sorry, can you please just tell me for certain, were any of the Sally Hemings children your children?”

Thomas Jefferson has the most beautiful soft, southern voice. He said to me, “I could not have been intimate with Sally Hemings, because she was my property so she could not have consented.” Wow. Spoken like a true gentleman!

And what was especially interesting to me about that meeting as a reincarnation lesson was the fact that my Thomas and his earlier incarnation as Jefferson had very similar personal vibrations. As you know, we can distinctly feel people’s individual spiritual vibrations in the afterlife and in the astral plane, and each person’s individual vibration is so unique that we can use their personal vibration to recognize people. And when these two people were in the same room together, their vibrations felt almost identical to me, except that my spirit guide was vibrating at a distinctly higher, lighter, and more rapid rate than was Thomas Jefferson. Oh wow, this is all so fascinating!

But Jefferson’s answer to my question did not surprise me at all. Despite the fact that lazy Mr. Google and everyone else all assume that the Founding Father must have fathered the six Sally Hemings children who carried Jefferson DNA, the evidence is very strong that the true father of that group of Hemings children was instead Thomas Jefferson’s younger brother, Randolph Jefferson. I won’t spend more time here on this issue, but I researched it thoroughly when My Thomas was being republished, almost a decade ago now. I consider the evidence to be determinative that Thomas Jefferson was not the father of the Sally Hemings children, and my own dear Thomas concurs. He tells me that Sally Hemings herself is eager to set the record straight, once better communication between this reality and the one where she is now can be developed. But just for today, if you care about this issue, perhaps those old posts linked above will be helpful to you.

 And my dear Thomas considers a very much more important task for us today to be the summarizing here once again of your main task and mine for this whole earth-lifetime! It does not matter a single fig what you personally might believe or not believe, what your religion is or whether you have no religion at all; how you feel about life, whether you love or hate your circumstances, or really anything at all about your life or mine on earth. Nothing matters but the universal certainty that all of us are here for just one reason!

 This material reality is a school, or perhaps it’s a spiritual gym if you would prefer to use that term.  We have talked about the details of our human task on earth quite a bit in these posts over the past year, but we might just summarize them here. Very briefly:

• Consciousness is all that exists. In 95% of our greater reality, Consciousness is both the sculptor and the clay; and since Consciousness is an energy-like potentiality, it vibrates.
• In only this lowest-vibration, matter-based level of reality, a different, material form of physics exists. It is only in this material five percent or so of the whole greater reality that a material physics based on subatomic particles keeps our very powerful minds from messing with our surroundings, so we will therefore be required to take our earth-life lessons seriously.
• Consciousness is One. All of our minds are part of the same Consciousness as God, just vibrating lower, which is why mental communication, including communication with those who are not currently in material bodies, is so easy! The only reason why it is not extremely easy is that we tend to doubt it, so our own minds too often block it.
• The highest vibration of Consciousness is infinitely powerful; the lowest vibration is essentially powerless. God is, of course, that highest vibration, while at the lowest vibration of which we are aware are various demonish nasties, including Shadow Men and other dark beings that cannot much harm us without our cooperation, but they can lurk in the dark and frighten us and then feed on our fear.
• Consciousness at its highest and most rapid vibration is perfect love; while at its lowest and slowest vibration, Consciousness is fear, anger, hatred, all the ishy emotions. So the irony for scientists is that what we experience as human emotion is what actually governs all the greater reality. Go figure!
• The astral realities, which from here seem to make up most of the greater reality, apparently consist of many different solid-seeming realities, each of which is probably the size of this whole material universe. To the extent that “size” means anything, which is probably not very much. But the easiest way for us to envision all of this is to think of your own mind as a television set. Right now, your mind is tuned to the body that you presently occupy on this material level of reality, so you believe that this is where you are. When the material body that you are using becomes unusable, no problem at all! Eternal loved ones will come and attract your mind to follow them, and you will pick up a new, astral body on a channel in the third astral level, which is the afterlife reception area. It happens just that easily and just that automatically, if you will follow your loved ones who can show you the way!

There are very many, and probably hundreds of vibrational “channels” that your mind can choose in the astral plane that exists right where we are now, but only at higher vibrations. For convenience, early afterlife researchers chose to group those channels into seven master levels, which all are above this material level in vibration: Level One (The Outer Darkness), Level Two (The Recovery Level), Level Three (The Arrival Level), Levels Three Through Five (The Summerland Levels), Level Six (The Causal Level), and Level Seven (The Source Level). Everyone transitioning home after a death on earth is able to achieve and hold Level Three, even if just barely. The afterlife earth-launch and re-entry reception area is there as well, on Level Three, and in fact many people who have extensive near-death experiences in the Level-Three astral plane will approach a place where they are told that they are coming near that afterlife area, so they must turn back! If they continue, their silver cord will break and they will die on earth and be unable to return to their earthly bodies. Death is always a one-way trip!

Each of us comes into each earth-lifetime with a plan to raise our spiritual vibration as much as we can in this lifetime! It is easy to go lower, but almost unbearably painful to go higher than whatever Consciousness vibratory level we have comfortably attained, and we all want to be able to move higher in the glorious astral levels. Things are so much more beautiful, more wonderful, more unimaginably interesting and glorious, the higher in vibration we are able to go! And in fact, your mind is literally formed for spiritual growth. Moving ever higher is your mind’s natural element! The primary enemy of your spiritual growth is your small-self, your ego, your childish gimme. I know. I was there once, too. But my Thomas set out to help me to grow spiritually as fast and as far as possible in this lifetime, and he tells me that I have now achieved the top of Level Five, which is everyone’s major earthly goal. So now he assures me that this is my last necessary earth-lifetime.

 And you, too, can do it in one lifetime, if you put your mind to it! Wow if I can do it, then anyone can.  Here is how: 

• Set your mind for complete happiness. Find the joy and reject the gloom, the anger, the pain in every smallest aspect of your daily life. Make some variation of this post’s simple Sesame Street frame song your own personal theme! And SING IT!
• Develop an attitude of gratitude. Become obsessive about earnestly feeling and expressing daily gratitude for even the tiniest bits of goodness in your daily life.
• Become an expert at prevenient forgiveness. I explain the process in my book, The Fun of Growing Forever. And once you learn prevenient forgiveness completely, and it becomes fully automatic for you, you never will be angry again!
• Love everyone! OMG, once you get to this point, love begins to be more and more just a natural part of who you are, my very dear ones, to your very core and no matter what else might be going on in your lives. The peace and love of God which passes all understanding simple becomes your entire being!

I cannot begin to adequately express to you how much happier doing all of this makes you feel, my darlings, even as your lifetime on earth continues. You will gradually never again feel  unhappy, angry, frustrated, or in any way negative. Your mood will just naturally keep on lifting! And you will start to love everyone you pass on the street! Even before your spirit guide ever breaks in and tells you that, “Hey kid, you really are acing this lifetime! And whether or not that ever happens. My dearly beloved, simply turn your face toward God, and really smile. This is how we all can make our last trip home, together!

Sing, sing a song.
Make it simple, to last your whole life long!
Don’t worry that it’s not good enough for anyone else to hear.
Just sing, sing a song!
– Joe G. Raposo (1937-1989), from “Sing a Song” (1971)

 

 

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