Author: Roberta Grimes

Is Jesus a Christian? (#1)

Posted on by Roberta Grimes

Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before!
Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe;
Forward into battle, see His banner go.
Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before. 

At the sign of triumph. Satan’s host doth flee.
On then, Christian soldiers; on to victory!
Hell’s foundations quiver at the shout of praise.
Brothers, lift your voices! Loud your anthems raise!
Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before.

 Like a mighty army moves the church of God.
Brothers, we are treading where the saints have trod!
We are not divided, all one body, we!
One in hope and doctrine; one in charity.
Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
– Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924), from “Onward, Christian Soldiers” (1871)

As soon as I began to more deeply understand the details of early Christian history, and that happened when I was a sophomore in college, my religious life began to fall apart. Had no one else ever noticed the fact that Christianity was just one gigantic crisis, and most of it really made no sense at all? My goodness, it was the Roman Emperor Constantine, and not Jesus after all, who actually had created the religion! And a lot of Christianity as we practice it even now, two thousand years after the Lord’s Ascension, was in fact directly contradicted by what Jesus actually had taught when He was here! Did no one actually read the Bible? I had been reading the Bible from cover to cover repeatedly since I was eleven years old, so I already had seen some very big discrepancies between the things that Jesus had said as they were reported to us right there in the Gospels, and the most fundamental things that Christians in their churches were being taught to believe. I still can recall how I felt that spring when I was only twenty years old, as each new difference in dogma separately landed on me, and again set me fretting. I would go out then sometimes to where the other girls might be, perhaps sitting and lying heedlessly on the new-cut grass, and I would try to explain to those who were my closest friends why this was all so upsetting to me.

 But no one much cared. It was springtime in New England, it was the nineteen-sixties, and elsewhere, boys were being drafted and dying for nothing, while people were rioting in America’s cities. And we who were in college and far from what were really very much bigger problems were savoring the fact that we were the lucky ones. As the whole modern world fell apart around us, they thought my fretting about religious errors was just so much utterly irrelevant nonsense.

My much-beloved favorite professor seemed so old to me, when I was so young, that I recall her now as likely having been old enough to have personally attended the Emperor Constantine’s First Council of Nicaea in the year 325 CE. Miss Corwin was the only person I knew back then who cared as much about the drama and tragedy of Christianity’s big errors as I did. She instilled in me a mighty fury at the Roman Emperor Constantine in particular, almost as if she had known him personally! Vividly, and to this day I can recall her tiny office with its bookshelves to the ceiling, and the way she would patiently sit with me and listen and attempt to assist me as I wrestled through my first great Christian disillusionments. Oh, my problems did get worse over the years that followed, and especially since there never has been any attempt made by the Roman Christian church to answer anyone’s issues with it at all. Oh, what? You’ve found a problem or an inconsistency with this or that, or with some other Christian church teaching? Well pound sand, my little apostate friend. Say twelve Hail Marys or go to hell, because that is just the way it is.

I soon personally learned just how very badly Catholicism handled dissension, because I fell in love with a Catholic when I was in my mid-twenties, and the priest who taught me to become a Catholic so we could marry actually put it to me just that way. He briefly tried to teach me pleasantly, but when I began to ask him a few of those tough questions that Miss Corwin and I had wrestled with when I was in college, his pleasantness disappeared at once. He just said to me something like, “Look, either you accept the religion, or you marry someone else. I think you should probably marry someone else.” So, I just crossed my fingers behind my back, where only God could see them, and I thought God didn’t mind, since God already knew that I had all those self-same problems with Protestantism. I became a Catholic so I could marry my Edward. I can recall thinking at the time that eventually, my beloved was going to mellow out and we both could settle on Episcopalianism. But, boy, was I ever wrong about that!

 It was only after I met Thomas as my spirit guide much later on, and then he persuaded me when I was in my early sixties to give the rest of my life to God, that he helped me to realize that there is Someone Else who might be even more bothered about all the conflicts in Roman Christianity than I am. And Thomas thinks it is time for all of us, and really it is long past time for every Christian now living on earth to give Jesus the courtesy of at least wondering what might be His point of view on all of this! My Thomas, my much-beloved spirit guide, is very close to Jesus. He has been close to the Being who became Jesus since they died together in their last shared earth-lifetime, which Thomas believes was lived in what is now Syria about six thousand years ago. Jesus then ascended to the Godhead level, but He remained in touch with the being who had been His older brother, my Thomas, and He asked him to wait while Jesus tried to understand what just had happened to Him. Then eventually, after maybe four thousand years, Jesus not only had figured everything out, but He had persuaded God to allow Him to incarnate from out of the Godhead in order to teach us all how to grow enough spiritually in one lifetime so we will never again need to return to earth. So Thomas’s brother incarnated from out of the Godhead as Jesus. My Thomas then incarnated again on earth as well, and he served Jesus in that lifetime, and forevermore.

 Even now, I have been given to realize, Thomas’s primary role in his eternal life is to serve Jesus, and he has sworn never to further advance spiritually so he always will be able to do just that. The two of them remain extremely close. Thomas meets with Jesus nightly, and since he also is my spirit guide for this lifetime, so by the spirit guide protocols he cannot leave me alone while he astral travels to see Jesus, he has been dragging me along without memory of the event on every night of my earth-lifetime. Good grief. When Thomas took me to visit with Jesus in the summer of 2022 and allowed me to remember those meetings, and he did this what I reckon was eight or nine times while my body slept, I had some glimpses of just how close those two actually are.

My favorite astral memory from that summer is of the two of them sitting close together on Jesus’s riverbank under that many-colored, always-twilight sky and happily chatting in their long-lost last earth-language. They could more easily have talked by mind, but Thomas has told me that sometimes they just enjoy dredging that language up and seeing how much of it they can still remember. I was sitting where I usually sat in these moments, slightly above and maybe twenty feet behind them, on a little hill. Then Jesus glanced to make sure no group of Christians was approaching, He gathered Himself and got ready to stand, and He whispered something to Thomas that was an insult in that old language. Thomas later told me that what Jesus usually would call him was “Bloody General”. Something like that. Then Jesus would stand up and run, and Thomas would chase Him, the pet deer would scatter, and inevitably Thomas would catch Jesus, throw Him to the ground, and, yes, beat Him up. The one time I saw this happen, I was so horrified that I flew up into the air and hovered above them. I distinctly recall the sweet look of Jesus’s face as He calmly looked up at me from under Thomas’s bigger and bulkier body in mild surprise. Then Thomas quickly looked up, too, and the whole thing ended.

No one was supposed to have seen that! But they both had forgotten that I was in “awake” mode.  They discussed it, and at my request they allowed me to remember and report what I had seen. Thomas later told me that this is the most important thing that He uniquely does for Jesus. His cherished Brother is a fully Divine Being, vibrating even higher than this universe’s Godhead level, so no other being ever would even presume to treat Jesus the way that Jesus wants Thomas to treat Him. Indeed, no one else likely could bear Jesus’s very strong personal vibration and get close enough to Him to do it, even if they were willing to try to assist Him in this unique way. But Jesus is eager to retain the last remnant of His human status, to somehow keep His human connection to us, to remain “Fully God and Fully Man”. And it is only Thomas’s regularly tussling with Him like the earthly kid-brother that in fact he once was that enables Jesus to retain the last remnant of His “fully man” status.

So, is Jesus bothered by the basic differences and disconnects between “The Way”, the movement that He began during His lifetime that was born from out of the godhead, His movement that was based upon His teachings alone; and Christianity, the very different human fear- and guilt-based religion that the Roman Emperor Constantine founded for his own purposes three centuries later?

There are now some 48,000 different Christian denominations worldwide, nearly all of which are less than two hundred years old. Worldwide Catholicism counts as a single denomination, while many others are as small as a single church building. The differences in doctrine among Christian denominations are often tiny. And the worst disagreements between Jesus’s original Way and the fear- and guilt-based Christianity that Constantine created, which we might say is typified by today’s frame-verse, are these three:

  • Jesus Died for Our Sins. This awful idea is the very core of the Roman Emperor Constantine’s fear- and guilt-based Christian religion, and it is at the center of virtually every Christian denomination. It is securely rooted in the ancient Hebrew custom of sacrificing unblemished animals as sin-offerings in their temples; so Jesus, God’s sinless Son, became for Christians their ultimate sin-offering. But Jesus says nothing about this in the Gospels! In fact, He instead tells us that neither He nor God ever judges us (see JN 5:22-23 and JN 12:47), so for Him to have died as such a sin-offering would have been unnecessary. In fact, Jesus’s teachings tell us that His coming abolished any need for sin-offerings! Furthermore, this whole idea makes no sense. If that had been why Jesus came, to be a sin-offering, then why did He bother to spend three years teaching us anything? Why didn’t He just appear, jump right up on that cross, and die? Sin-offerings were supposed to stay dead, so His rising made His status as a sin-offering actually flawed. Even more to the point, if God insists that we learn to forgive others when they sin against us, and we know that God certainly does insist that we learn to forgive, then why can’t God forgive us when we sin? Why did God even need Jesus’s sin-sacrifice? This whole bad idea is insulting to God, and it is deeply humiliating to Jesus.
  • God will judge you for your sins, and God can send you to a fiery eternal hell. This is another bad idea that is a hangover from very ancient ideas about gods. Jesus specifically tells us in JN 5:22-23 and JN 12:47 that neither He nor God ever judges us, and while there are some vague Gospel mentions that might have been hell, I believe they were added later. He talks just about the Outer Darkness, the lowest afterlife level, to which we can indeed condemn ourselves for a while if we have trouble forgiving ourselves during our life-review. But when Jesus talks about God, it is only in reference to perfect love! We are to love God, and God loves us. For Jesus, God’s name and His own name are never to be used as a fear-based means of control, as a way to manage an army; but rather and only, He and God are all about infinite and perfect love.
  • God demands that you follow God’s chosen religion, and God will punish you if you guess wrong and follow a different religion. I can remember from my childhood the schoolyard taunts of the Protestants who didn’t go to the local Catholic church, and vice-versa. To this day, I still sometimes get emails from adults, and even from retirement-age people who want to know whether there is some Christian denomination that God actually prefers. And of course there is not, according to the afterlife evidence. I am coming now to suspect that instead, God might be thinking something like, “A pox upon them all.”

The eternal Jesus has in fact expressed some strong opinions about these core Christian beliefs to me personally, and He also has channeled essentially the same thoughts to others.  His feelings about the Roman Christian dogmas do not surprise me at all, and I think that they won’t surprise you, either. What does surprise me a little, perhaps, is that He is choosing this time on earth above some others to make His own ideas so clearly known! We’ll finish this important conversation next week….

 Onward then ye people, join our happy throng!
Blend with ours your voices in the triumph song.
Glory, laud and honor unto Christ the King!
This, thru countless ages, men and angels sing.
Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before.

 Crowns and thrones may perish, kingdoms rise and wane,
But the church of Jesus constant will remain.
Gates of hell can never ‘gainst the church prevail.
We have Christ’s own promise, and that cannot fail!
Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
– Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924), from “Onward, Christian Soldiers” (1871)

 

 

(Many photos are from Vecteezy.com)

Love and Fear

Posted on by Roberta Grimes

Love is but a song we sing!
Fear’s the way we die.
You can make the mountains ring,
Or make the angels cry.
Though the bird is on the wing,
And you may not know why,


Come on people now, smile on your brother!
Everybody get together,
Try to love one another right now.

Some may come and some may go.
We will surely pass,
When the One that left us here
Returns for us at last.
We are but a moment’s sunlight,
Fading in the grass.


Come on people now, smile on your brother!
Everybody get together, try to love one another
Right now. Right now. Right now!
– Chet Powers (1937-1994), from “Get Together” (1967)

There are times when my wish that I could  be a Christian again will unexpectedly overwhelm me with yearning. I have a sister and a cousin who are about my age. We three have been close all our lives, and now we text together when something happens that seems to one of us to be worth sharing. So naturally, when I held my big deer breakfast last Sunday morning, I texted to Lee and Paula a few pictures taken out my office bow window. My daughter had stopped at a Buc-ee’s on her way back from a drive down to Houston on that previous afternoon, and she had bought a big bag of deer-corn with which to entertain our local population. For people who don’t live in Texas, I should add that a Buc-ee’s is a highway-side world too gigantic to be called just a pit-stop, and it sells a lot of eccentric things, including bags of deer-corn. (The fact that those camouflage-colored bags of deer corn have big bull’s-eyes printed on one side of them is something that we can politely ignore.) So, there were a dozen deer in our yard that morning, ranging from bucks wearing half-grown antlers in velvet down to this year’s spotted fawns. All of them were just outside my office bow window, cheerily munching on their Sunday breakfast maybe six feet away but oblivious to me!

I texted a few deer pictures to Lee and Paula, but I didn’t hear back from them for almost an hour. Their tardiness excuse was that they each had just come home from church. One lives in Colorado now, while the other is still  in Massachusetts, and each has of course become a matriarch who dwells, as I do, immersed in the comings and goings of a grown daughter’s nearly-grown family. And, amazingly to me, they both find going to their local Protestant churches on Sundays to be a usual part of their love-filled lives. Now, though, I can too plainly see that horrifying religion for what it is: it’s a fear-based Roman trap that wears Jesus’s beautiful face as a mask while it uses its own dogmas to hold more than two billion people ensnared for life.

But what fills me with raw, inescapable yearning as I read their texts about having just attended their churches is, of course, the sweet New England church of my childhood, where I never heard a single fear-based word. I still receive that church’s weekly emails, to this day. But dear Reverend Turrell has long since transitioned, and that church itself is several days’ drive away from where I live now in Texas. And unlike my sister and my cousin, even though I have pledged my life to serving God, and now I know and I deeply love the genuine, still-living Jesus with everything that is in me, I find that I can no longer be a Christian. For a time, soon after we moved to Texas, I thought the Unity Church might be my answer, since it was down to just singing and studying A Course In Miracles and positive conversations about how to better live the teachings of Jesus. But more recently, Unity has begun to almost semi-deify its late-nineteenth-century founders, the Fillmores and some others, which is the very last thing that poor Charles and Myrtle ever would have wanted.

My problem is that I know far too much! I know that the religion that we call “Christianity” was begun in the year 312 C.E. by the Roman Emperor Constantine, after the Romans had spent the previous two centuries trying to destroy the whole Jesus Movement. Those first centuries of persecution had only served to make the Way of Jesus stronger, but then Constantine had suddenly made a shift and begun to follow Jesus himself, because he thought he had seen a vision of a cross in the clouds, and heard a voice that said, “By this sign you shall conquer.” Which hardly seems to be a great spiritual base on which to build a new religion!

What Jesus had given us was a set of spiritual teachings that He called “The Way”. His body had died on a cross at the end of His earthly life, true enough; but only so He could then miraculously raise it from the dead, and thereby prove to us all that our lives are eternal. Jesus’s Way was immediately powerful, and it grew steadily ever more powerful. It soon had millions of followers, all around the Mediterranean Sea and as far away from its roots as Rome. But then, three hundred years after Jesus’s Resurrection and His Ascension, along came this Roman crazyman Emperor who needed a great fear-based way to unify and energize his armies So he called the First Council of Nicaea in the year 325 CE, and he directed them to create the first Christian Bible, and the fear-based doctrines of the Christine religion that is still being followed worldwide to this day. Christianity is not Jesus’s Way at all; but rather, it is Constantine’s Way.

How do I know all of this with such soul-wrenching certainty? Because Jesus, our beautiful eternal Wayshower and Best Friend Jesus, who came to us truly as God on earth, has personally told me His genuine Eternal Life’s Story. One night in 2022, and with no warning at all that this was about to happen, my Thomas took me to the astral plane to meet with Jesus, and together they allowed me to remember the event. Seriously! I look back at this whole life that I am living now, at my Experience of Light when I was eight years old; and then at discovering that my spirit guide is not a usual sort of spirit guide, but rather he was Thomas Jefferson in his most recent lifetime but one, and he has been what you might call Jesus’s close sidekick for the past two thousand years. You cannot make this up, and I am private by nature, so for sure I never would have chosen any of this! When I first began to put it together, and I started saying, “But, why me?” Thomas would cheekily retort, “Why not you?”

This is my Thomas’s first time working as anyone’s spirit guide, and as I think you can see, he is not yet great at the job (Sorry, Thomas). Everyone who is born on earth has a primary spirit guide for that whole lifetime, and the point of Thomas’s spirit guide role is supposed to be to guide me in raising my base spiritual vibration. So, our relationship should be all about me! But apparently, Thomas and I are very old and close friends, and my usual gender is male, so he treats me with more familiarity, and with much less gentle respect than is usual in the basic spirit guide relationship. And although I have no memory of any of this while I am in this body, I gather now that I also am part of Jesus’s eternal inner circle. So, Thomas and I came into this lifetime that is supposed to be all about ME. But we planned my life mostly around continuing to serve Jesus, as we have been doing ever since the Lord’s Ascension, two thousand years ago. Which, Thomas is now pointing out to me, has been a very effective way for him to help me to further raise my personal spiritual vibration, has it not? So, perhaps he hasn’t done such a poor job at his spirit guide role, after all, wouldn’t you say? And, shouldn’t I be admitting to that, now? Or, so he keeps saying to me. And he is right, of course. Well, in any event, that was the reason why he and Jesus gave me so little explanation of what was going on, when, one night in 2022, Thomas simply took me to meet with Jesus on the Lord’s astral riverbank. And Jesus, without ceremony, simply set about telling me His eternal-life’s Story.

Over time, we are preparing teachingsbyjesus.com at Jesus’s direction, and we eventually will be promoting it for Him. Thomas and I are absolutely not driving this train! And I have no idea about the timing, but I have the vague sense that Jesus is waiting for certain unguessable things to happen on earth before we will be given the word to complete and begin to promote His website. So it may be even decades from now. There is no time where Jesus is. What He told me about Himself in April of 2022 is meant just to be posted on that website, but He said these things to me as we sat together on that astral riverbank, and we fed His fish with grain that simply appeared in our hands beneath that odd astral sky streaked with colors that never are seen on earth. So, I know His truth now, and I cannot un-know it. I had been gradually growing away from Christianity over many years, even as I still loved the religion, because I had been seeing ever more clearly how different it is from the teachings of Jesus, and how based in fear it is, and not based in love, and how it really does not closely follow Jesus’s teachings at all. But I had gone to sleep that night not realizing that now would be my breaking point.

Jesus has a distinctive voice. He speaks softly and gently, and He has a mild, unguessable accent. He told me that He wanted to tell me His story, because it was time for the world to know His story, and He wanted me to tell it on His website. Which I told Him that of course I would do. Jesus lived His last earth-lifetime with the being that I call Thomas very long ago. My Thomas and I have come to reckon that the last earth-lifetime that Jesus ever lived as a usual human being was about six thousand years ago, when He was the middle brother of three princes in a walled city somewhere in the Middle East. His older brother then is now my Thomas, and His younger brother became the Apostle John. Those three long-ago princes died in their late teens and early twenties when their city was conquered by barbarians, and Jesus then rose to become a perfected Being at the Godhead level. And when He saw how unjust this whole system was, that people had to incarnate repeatedly because no one realized what actually was going on, He seems to have spent some four thousand earth-years petitioning God to allow Him to be reborn from out of the Godhead – something never before done, and also never done since – so He could teach humankind how to use the challenges of their earth-lives to grow spiritually, so then they never would have to be reborn on earth again. Well, wow. So Jesus really was once one of us! There was His purpose clearly stated for us, too: He was born from out of the Godhead so He could teach us how to grow spiritually, and it really had happened, just this way!

As He was telling me His story, Jesus had often to leave me briefly, to stand and go to greet and bless groups of newly-dead Christians, and then return and sit down again on His riverbank and return to feeding His fish and telling me His story. He would know when those groups were approaching us, even from a distance and without turning to look for them. And of course, He could read my mind as well, so I didn’t have to ask my most pressing questions. After we had talked about His life story through His teaching phase on earth, He said, “Little One, you wonder about My death on the cross, but you know these answers before I give them to you. My plan had been to give My disciples their charge, and to begin their teaching walk with them. Then one day, I would just walk away and ascend. But the problem was that, no matter what I said, I never could convince the people there is no death! They had all those bone-boxes. They thought they knew better than I did.”

He said those last words as He was standing, yet again. The custom of that time was to lay out the bodies of the newly dead in caves to rot away until only their bones remained. Then their bones would be gathered and placed in bone-boxes, called ossuaries, which would be labeled with each decedent’s name and then put in permanent storage. So, no wonder no one believed Jesus when He told them they were going to live forever! As Jesus sat down again beside me this time, He was saying that He had decided that His only option was to die a public death, a crucifixion, and then to resurrect His body. He had been practicing by resurrecting dead small animals, and that was working, although He couldn’t keep them alive for long. But once He was inside His resurrected corpse, He thought that He could keep it going for long enough to prove His point to the crowds. However, the advanced Beings who were His guidance team for His lifetime as Jesus absolutely forbade His letting Himself be crucified. For Him to debase a divine being to that extent? They refused to even consider allowing it! But Jesus said to me – and I will never forget the look on His face when He said this – that He was going to do it, no matter what they said. Which was why, on the cross, He briefly cried out to God with worry that God was not releasing Him from His body soon enough for Him to escape having the soldiers break His legs at sundown, so His body would die before the Sabbath began; since of course, broken legs would have rendered that body unable to walk once He resurrected it.

 We talked that night about what Jesus could read from my mind was my major concern, which was whether He had died as a sin-sacrifice. That dogma is Constantine’s core Christian teaching, and yet it makes no sense at all, for at least these two reasons:

  • Jesus tells us in the Gospels that neither He nor God ever judges anyone, so no sin-sacrifice ever was needed (See JN 5:22-23 and JN 12:47).
  • If Jesus had died as a sin-sacrifice, then His rising from the dead would have made no sense, since the Temple sin-sacrifices always stayed dead; yet the explanation for Jesus”s rising that He gave to me, that He rose from the dead to prove to the crowds that our lives are eternal, makes perfect sense.

So from the moment when I woke up that next morning, and forever after, I can no longer bear Christianity. I cannot be inside a church. That religion is fear-based Roman lies! No, Jesus did not die as a sin-sacrifice, and to make the Roman instrument of torture that killed His body His symbol now is horrifying! Jesus’s symbol should be light and joy, the beauty and certainty of God’s perfect love. That is what I think, but what I think doesn’t matter. What does our Wayshower and Best Friend think…?

If you hear the song I sing,
You will understand (listen!)
You hold the key to love and fear
All in your trembling hand.
Just one key unlocks them both.
It’s there at your command!

Come on people now, Smile on your brother.
Everybody get together, Try to love one another
Right now, Right now, Right now!
– Chet Powers (1937-1994), From “Get Together” (1967)

 

 

(Many photos are from Vecteezy.com)

Growing Spiritually

Posted on by Roberta Grimes

If I loved you,
Time and again, I would try to say
All I’d want you to know.
If I loved you,
Words wouldn’t come in an easy way.
‘Round in circles I’d go!
Longing to tell you,
But afraid and shy,
I’d let my golden chances
Pass me by.
Soon, you’d leave me.
Off you would go in the mist of day,
Never, never to know
How I loved you!
If I loved you….
– Richard Rodgers (1902-1979), from “If I Loved You” (1945)

There is just one reason why you were born. There is a main reason why people do what they do, why they are as they are, and why this world is as it is, in all its manifold and mysterious complexities. There is one reason why this universe exists, and why it ever has existed at all; and why, against such extremely long odds, you and I as individuals are alive here today. That reason, when viewed from every angle, is always in fact going to be the same reason. And it is, indeed, a very good reason… I will certainly cede to you that fact! But still, wouldn’t you expect to find more than one reason for every conceivable thing that exists, from the smallest microbes to the most distant stars, and even down to each hair on your own very precious and beautiful head? I have spent my life looking for additional reasons, or for something else that also might be going on here, when you really look hard for it. I have searched for some ancillary things that we might point to as also of significant importance in this reality. But, no one else seems to be proposing any other reason for anything to exist; and, you know, at this point, I have largely given up trying to find another reason. Every other proposed reason that I ever have seen is just ancillary to that one primary reason. When it all comes right down to it, at the base of our reality, the deeper we look, the more perfect this singularity of purpose seems to us to be, at least to each sincere and consistent seeker. So, if you might have reached any other conclusion about what actually is going on here, will you please speak up now? A lot of us are all ears!

The one conclusion about what actually is going on that seems to be what everyone on earth has reached is that this universe is designed to be our habitat for rich and rapid spiritual learning. That’s it! And apparently, that also is all. We won’t attempt right now to give a name to the Designer who set up this reality, beyond noting that we are living within what is apparently a grand and remarkable design which is centered upon that singular purpose of humankind’s rapid spiritual learning and growth. And a “Design” does indeed imply a “Designer”.

We should note as well that admitting that obvious fact does put us far ahead of the whole mainstream scientific community. All materialist scientists resolutely remain with eyes squinched shut and fingers in both ears, so they can continue to insist to us that the reality that we perceive to exist around us in fact has no purpose and no design about it, whatsoever. No purpose, so no Design. No Design, so no Designer! Mainstream materialist scientists still insist that the universe just somehow randomly appeared in a Bang! out of nothing one day, and for no reason whatsoever. From there, it randomly developed to its present stage. Somehow and amazingly, but always randomly, it simply rambled toward nowhere, developing always by sheer happenstance to become this remarkably orderly world, even including the complex wonder of you and me, all out of nothing and with no plan. But you and I long ago dismissed their ideas as just the product of their odd religion of atheistic materialism, because the universe is so obviously precisely designed, just as you and I are designed, with this clear purpose of  our rapid spiritual development while we are on earth always somehow behind it all. Anyone who actually studies the evidence without the scientists’ atheistic religious bias can reach no other sensible conclusion.

When you begin your research with parameters predetermined, and with the end result already in mind, then you cannot claim to be doing real and objective science. To this day, scientists still are awkwardly certain that the brain must be the source of consciousness, despite all the evidence they have developed so far against this assumption, and although even to this day they still cannot begin to fathom how that might happen. And they also still assume that life first somehow sprang from lightning hitting some magical primordial goo, although to this day they cannot tell you how that might possibly have happened, either. .After more than a century of devotion to their religion of atheistic materialism, when it comes to explaining why and how matter arose, where consciousness comes from, and how life began, the materialist scientists’ efforts still are sadly going nowhere.

So, my dear ones, at this point we need not continue to wait even a moment longer for the scientific community to eventually get a clue, as it ever more pointlessly flounders on. Like the worshipers of Marduk in the ancient past who threw their firstborn infants into the fires burning in their idols’ bellies, materialist scientists still follow a belief-system that we can see by now is tragically wrongheaded. But meanwhile, we understand that the truth of this beautiful reality around us is in fact so simple! As our great hero, the pioneering quantum physicist Max Planck, discovered more than a century ago, what we experience as consciousness is in fact all that independently exists. Consciousness is an energy-like potentiality, so it vibrates as what we experience as human emotion. Love is at the highest and most powerful consciousness vibration; and fear, anger, and hatred are at the lowest, slowest, and weakest vibration. And since time does not exist in our true home, if you are conscious now, then you are conscious eternally. You are eternal by your very nature. And if what we are summarizing in this paragraph is not already clear to you, simply put the word “consciousness” into the search bar above and to the right, and you will find more than thirty posts that document my own developing awareness over the past few years of the overwhelming fact that Consciousness is all there is. Consciousness is the sculptor as well as the clay. You also will find in those posts some terrific linked articles and videos that helped me to at last achieve these ultimate insights. Please enjoy those prior posts about consciousness, until all of this at last makes sense to you.

So, now we know for certain that our lives are eternal! You and I dwell forever in more beauty and joy than we can possibly imagine with just these little stripped-down aspects of our minds that we are using during these brief earth-lifetimes. Oh, we often do astral-travel at night back home from here while our bodies sleep. And some of us are learning to remember those journeys, because the veil between realities really is thinning at this point. But still, the Luddite scientific community holds an oddly mesmerizing control over most people’s minds. It really is amazing! Think about it. Since the scientific gatekeepers first imposed their nonsensical dogma of atheistic materialism on the whole scientific community more than a century ago, there have been no more fundamental scientific discoveries.  We still don’t know how or why the Big Bang happened, nor what might have come before it; we don’t know what consciousness is, nor where it comes from; nor even how life on earth began. The answers to even these most basic questions still, and seemingly forevermore, must now elude us. And far too many people still overly trust a scientific community which tells us that one day very soon, for no discernible reason, we each will forever blink out like a light. And so, scientists sadly cheat most people now living on earth of the chance to use this lifetime as they came here firmly intending to use it, as a place for wonderfully rapid spiritual growth!

Every person now living on earth, all eight billion or so of us, has chosen to be born on this planet because it provides us with an ideal environment in which to grow spiritually.  Each of us carefully planned these earth-lives with the help of our eternal mentors and our spirit guides for these earth-lifetimes; and we had the help, too, of wonderful eternal friends who now play important roles in our lives. We briefly put aside most of our vast, eternal minds so our active earth-minds were stripped down for rapid learning, and we accepted amnesia about what was going on as we prepared to be born into the earth-lives that we are now living. This material universe, and this earth in particular, is considered to be the toughest, and the best place in all of reality in which to achieve very rapid spiritual growth!

I suppose part of the reason why this is true is that, once you are here, you have no idea why you are here. And now, I’m going to use my own life as a pretty good example. Apparently, I am not actually a spiritual low-life and utter dunce in my real life, but rather I have been working with Thomas and serving Jesus for many centuries; but you never would have known that from my own early earth-life this time around. I was embarrassingly selfish, conceited, and self-absorbed as a child, quite spiritually un-promising. OMG, it embarrasses me now to look back at the whole first half of my life as Roberta! But I did feel driven to do all that afterlife research, and to read the Bible daily, and especially the Gospels, over and over again repeatedly from the age of eleven; and gradually, a more spiritually aware being emerged in me. What seems to be the case is that we all come into these earth-lives as I did, just spiritually stupid and self-obsessed, and our guides direct us in our very early development. And I don’t care how old you are now, it is amazingly easy for you to use the teachings of Jesus to retrain yourself spiritually, and to raise your own consciousness vibration rapidly enough from wherever you are now that you can make this your last necessary earth-lifetime. Once you make spiritual growth your whole focus, it can take almost no time at all! Just a year or two perhaps, if you will put your whole mind to it.  

So, let’s really do this now. It was Thomas who directed me in taking these steps, even before I actually had met him in 2015. I think he probably did it as an experiment with me, and it worked beautifully! Raising your vibration enough to make this your last necessary earth-lifetime turns out to be as easy as One, Two, Three…

  • One, Perfect an Attitude of Gratitude. This is so simple! Get a notebook, and write down one new thing each day that you are grateful for. Or perhaps two at first, if you are an over-achiever. Write down what you are grateful for, and briefly why you are grateful for it. Also form the habit of falling asleep counting your blessings every night. When you concentrate on it, Gratitude becomes a wonderfully positive, reflexive, and constant attitude.
  • Two, Apply Prevenient Forgiveness to Everything. The “Miracle” in A Course in Miracles is forgiveness, and universal forgiveness is the essential precursor to universal love, so whenever anything or anyone bothers you at all, always forgive it right away! At once and automatically, gather everything that even remotely bothers you into a nice, tight ball, and then push it away from you slowly with both hands as you firmly say aloud, “I love you. I bless you. I forgive. And I release.” Do this even two or three times in succession if necessary, always going through the whole process of gathering whatever bothers you, including all the people, and forming the forgiveness ball and pushing it away while you say the mantra, until all your negative feelings about whatever it was are altogether gone.
  • Three, Master Universal Love. You will discover that once your Attitude of Gratitude has become habitual, and your Prevenient Forgiveness habit has largely cleared up all the things in your life that ever used to bother you, then you are going to find yourself liking, and then even loving things, and especially people, that you never would even have noticed before. Perhaps there were things about some of your family members, work associates, neighbors, and friends that used to get on your nerves; but now, oddly, those things bother you less and less. Or there was a house you used to pass on your daily walk where they never properly mowed their lawn, and rather than feeling irked by their laziness, your first thought now is that perhaps you ought to organize a neighborhood fund for people who have trouble affording to pay for lawn mowing.

Mastering these steps in this order is important. You are altogether retraining your pared-down earth-mind! Your attitude of gratitude first captures your mind’s full attention, and it prepares your mind for more intensive learning. Then, your obsessive use of Prevenient Forgiveness, your retraining of your mind with those forgiveness balls, clears away what has been a lifetime of letting your mind run wild with petty selfishness. This is some truly heavy-duty stuff! I spent about six months monitoring my every thought, and stopping and punishing my mind with another forgiveness-balls session whenever I had even the slightest mean or petty notion. And this was back in 2011, so almost fifteen years ago now. And in all the years since, I have never again had the smallest unkind thought about anyone. I have never had to form another forgiveness ball since then. Not even once!

It was sometime in about 2015, soon after Thomas had first come out to me as my primary spirit guide, and soon after we had together written Liberating Jesus, that my dear Thomas announced to me from out of the blue one day that I had now achieved the upper fifth spiritual level. So therefore, this is my last necessary earth-lifetime. I had never asked him this question, but he knew that, wow, I would want to know this, when it happened! And, yes, I did want to know it. I really had mastered my mind and raised my vibration to this extent? I knew that I did feel very different. It had been a long time since I had had any sort of unkind thought at all. I recall that I stood up slowly from my desk when he said this, and I went outside, and I walked around for a bit, just taking it all in. That was more than ten years ago. By now, I am used to this idea. I think that I  have grown even more. But my darling, my dear one, my precious friend, please think about this. If I have done it, Then anyone can do it! You can so easily do it, too!

 

 

(Many photos are from Vecteezy.com)

 

Sin?

Posted on by Roberta Grimes

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His day is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
“As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on.”
Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on.
– Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), from “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” (1862)

On occasion, someone will reach out to me by email, and will ask what I know is an unbearable question for a parent even to contemplate. They will remind me that I keep insisting that there is no hell. But, if someone has done some really bad thing, something awful, what will happen to him? How will God judge him? And sometimes, what follows will be an awful story of someone whose young life has gone terribly wrong, someone’s child has committed a crime perhaps, has killed someone, has killed himself or herself, or has died by a fentanyl overdose; and so on and on. Or it might not even be a child who has been lost. It might be some other loved one who has grieved my correspondent in some terrible way.

To be frank, this is the most hideous aspect of the Roman Emperor Constantine’s  Christianity. Under the highly judgmental version of the Christianity that we have been faithfully practicing since the year 325 C.E., every mistake that you and I make on earth, however petty that mistake might seem to us to be, is immediately labeled a terrible “sin” by the religion. And that mistake, that sin, is reportedly about to subject us to God’s terrible wrath. Isn’t that right? Well, or so the Christian religion insists to us. But I am able to reassure my correspondents that Jesus tells us that nothing of the kind is true!

What does Jesus say to us about God’s judgment? Let’s open our Bibles together now, and ask Jesus that very question. What we find there about sin in actual fact is that Jesus pushes back pretty hard on the notion of any sort of divine judgment. Jesus even goes so far as to tell us that, “Not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son, so that all will honor the Son, even as they honor the Father” (JN 5:22-23). So then, is Jesus telling us that God does not ever actually judge us? So now, is Jesus actually our judge? Is that why Jesus went to the cross for us? Well, no, because Jesus now tells us in the Gospel of John that, “If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world” (JN 12:47). Jesus came to save the world? You came to save the world from what, Jesus? Well, it is clear from everything that Jesus said during His earthly ministry, which was more than three years long, that what Jesus came to save us from was spiritual ignorance. And Jesus seems even to have gone so far as to tell us that there is no universal judgment. He says, “Do not judge so that you will not be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you” (MT 7:1-2).

This idea that, so long as we forgive, then we also will be forgiven is Jesus’s great and very consistent theme, throughout all four canonical Gospels. When Peter, His disciple, asked Him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I must forgive him, up to even seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven” (MT 18:21-23). And Jesus said, “Do not judge, and you will not be judged; and do not condemn and you will not be condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned. Give, and it will be given to you.They will pour into your lap a good measure – pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return (LK 6:37-38). Huh? While Roman Christianity uses the word “sin” as a powerful noun, as a fixed crime that, once you have committed it, now it rigidly exists, so it requires either punishment or some form of atonement; for the Jesus of the Gospels, “sin” is just a trivial and always-flexible verb, so it is easily modified, and even easily forgiven altogether. He says to the woman who was caught in adultery, at whom no one in the crowd has felt sinless enough in front of Jesus to cast the first stone, “I do not condemn you either. Go. From now on, sin no more” (JN 8:11). Wow, look at that! Jesus sees her sin not as a serious and rigid noun, a crime punishable by death. But rather, it is a trifling and flexible verb, a mere piffle that He can entirely dismiss with a word.

My gradually becoming so completely dismissive of the rigid, sin-based teachings of the Catholic Church has been made easy by the simple fact that the afterlife evidence all has sided so completely with the gentle Gospel words of Jesus. There is, in point of fact, no afterlife evidence whatsoever that God ever judges us. None at all! No afterlife evidence for a fiery hell, and nor is there evidence for any place of punishment at all after death beyond “the Outer Darkness, in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth” (MT 8:12) The afterlife evidence tells us that this outer darkness is the very lowest-vibration afterlife level, and it is cold, dark, smelly, and disgusting. Only we, ourselves can ever put ourselves there, and that can happen only if we are unable to forgive ourselves for something that we have done in our earth-lives.

On the much more positive side, the Canonical Gospel teachings of Jesus can be seen now to be perfectly true! God never judges us, and also neither does Jesus. No, our post-death judge is always ourselves. And we don’t call this process judgment, but rather we call it just a life-review, and it happens very soon after our deaths. Each of us, with the assistance and comfort of our spirit guides, and sometimes also with the assistance of others who have been important in our lifetimes, will meet together, and will view all the significant events of our lifetime that just has been completed. We might be seeing all the important events from beginning to end, or else from the end backward to the beginning. But either way, this time we will feel the emotions of that whole lifetime from the points of view of all the people that we have in any way affected, for good or for ill. 

Many of those who have been through these life reviews will tell you that they can be pretty awful experiences! They say they never had remembered some of these life-events; and some of the very worst times, when they had most upset or pained people, were things that they had thought nothing of at the time. On the other hand, some of their most obvious screw-ups, they had apologized for and largely repaired during life, so those events weren’t very big deals in their life-reviews. But, the little girl you shamed in third grade? The boy whose great love you stole when he was twenty-two? The dry cleaner you denied a bank loan, so they went out of business and they couldn’t pay for their daughter’s cancer treatments? Learning complete forgiveness, and especially self-forgiveness while we are alive, really is essential! And not even so much so we can forgive others, but because eventually the day will come when we are going to face the deepest truths about ourselves. As Jesus so abundantly tells us! And on that day, even His “seventy times seven times” may not be enough times for us to need to forgive ourselves.

I have told you before in this space that eventually the impossible contrast between the way the Jesus of the Gospels sees sin, and the way the Roman Catholic Church sees sin, made my eyes cross! For Jesus, sins are only trivial mistakes made in the process of spiritual learning and growth, and always easily forgiven.  While for the religion, each sin is a permanent burden that only the  pure blood of Jesus on the cross can wash away. So eventually, and it was a number of years ago now, I asked Thomas point-blank who God really is. Is God the stern and fear-based God of the Catholic Church, or is God more the loving Father that Jesus taught us to know and to love in return? And does God see sin as a burden that only Jesus’s blood-sacrifice on the cross can remove?

So then, one morning as I was waking up, my Thomas showed me as a clear vision the living room of our first family home, way back when our three children were toddlers. In the early eighties, the carpet was pale blue, and the sofa was striped pale blue and white. The God from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with His long, white beard was sitting on the sofa in that long-ago living room, looking like a Grampa and grinning at a toddler who looked like my blond and curly-haired son at about the age of one. The baby was giggling as he carried a cup of orange juice around the living room. Then, Whoopsie! The cup tipped, and all that orange juice spilled on the pale-blue carpet. The baby started to cry, but God laughed, and He leaned and picked up the baby, just as it toppled; and God cuddled the baby in His arms. That precious child will learn how to carry juice without spilling it, just as you and I will learn how to grow spiritually past our little sins and mistakes. Cod’s love is perfect! And each of us is God’s best-beloved child. All of our sins are nothing worse than spilling orange juice on the carpet.  We can call God our own heavenly Father, and we always can trust our God to keep us from falling. Every time.

 

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on!
Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is Wisdom to the mighty, He is Succour to the brave,
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of Time His slave,
Our God is marching on!
Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on.
– Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), from “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” (1862)

 

 

 

(Many photos are from Vecteezy.com)

 

Gratitude

Posted on by Roberta Grimes

When I’m worried, and I can’t sleep,
I count my blessings instead of sheep,
And I fall asleep counting my blessings.
When my bankroll is getting small,
I think of when I had none at all,
And I fall asleep counting my blessings.

I think about a nursery, and I picture curly heads;
And one by one I count them, as they slumber in their beds.
If you’re worried, and you can’t sleep,
Just count your blessings instead of sheep,
And you’ll fall asleep counting your blessings!
– Irving Berlin (1888-1989), from “Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep” (1954)

My dear ones, I am traveling this week, so I have much less time to devote to blogging than is normally the case. I had thought that, therefore, Thomas and I might talk about our long adventure together as a spirit guide and his charge, which is a tale that some of you have asked us to tell. And actually, I think it’s an enjoyable story. It’s also a story that we can tell quickly and easily, and without the need to pull in links. But, no. Thomas finds the notion of telling our story pretty boring, so he thinks it will bore you, too; and besides, he takes very seriously our charge from the Lord Jesus that we should be at all times teaching you and helping you to grow spiritually. Even these detours that we have lately been taking into talking about scientific matters, the design and functioning of the greater reality, and so on, are meant to assist and further your personal spiritual growth. So, Thomas decided that what he wanted us to talk about this week was the crucial spiritual function, and the great personal strength and growth that comes of ever better learning to feel and express GRATITUDE.

Well, okay then. Let’s give that topic a go. We are born into these lifetimes as spiritually raw beings. In our eternal lives, each one of us is already more advanced spiritually than we appear to be when we first arrive here to begin a new lifetime. We come into these lives with stripped-down versions of our minds – we might call what we have at birth “learner minds” – and we also are born with complete amnesia of who we are, and also of what really is going on. As our wonderful sixth-level friend, Mikey Morgan, describes the process, he says that we put most of our minds in a suitcase before we leave our eternal home, and we pick our whole minds back up again when our material bodies die on earth and we then return to our eternal home. Knowing this fact is crucial! Because you are a much more precious being than you, yourself can conceivably imagine. When I remind you of that fact toward the end of each weekly podcast, I am not just stroking you, my dear one; but rather, I am plainly telling you that you are an aspect of the divine. You have come here, to what Craig Hogan calls “earth school”, to grow spiritually ever closer to your eventual reunion with the divine, which would not be possible if you did not already possess an eternal divine spark. You carry it, my dear one! But it is possible for you to cause your own spark to dim, and even nearly to die, if you do not properly tend it. From our births, each of us is instinctively driven to use the challenges of each earth-life to gain more spiritual growth… or else those challenges might beat us down, spiritually weaken us, and even tempt us to do terrible things.  

Of course, here is where knowing and trusting in Jesus is our ultimate gift! There are other spiritual teachers, but none who teaches the great truths so well as Jesus does, and this is why I spend so much effort on teaching what He taught. He came to earth to teach us what is an amazing path that can empower us to raise our personal spiritual vibrations sufficiently that we can make this our last necessary earth-lifetime. His is a simple and powerful Way of prevenient forgiveness and perfect love:

FORGIVENESS

When His disciple, Peter, asked Jesus, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven” (MT 18:21-23).

And Jesus said, “Do not judge, and you will not be judged; and do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned. Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure—pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you in return” (LK 6:37-38).

 “For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son, so that all will honor the Son, even as they honor the Father” (JN 5:22-23).

 “If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world” (JN 12:47). And it is very clear from everything that Jesus says in the Gospels that what He came to save the world from was spiritual ignorance.

Jesus sums up His teachings on forgiveness by saying, “Do not judge, so that you will not be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you” (MT 7:1-2).

LOVE

 Love is in everything that Jesus talked about! He was always saying things like, “But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful” (LK 6:35-36).

And, “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father, who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Therefore, you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect” (MT 5:43-48).

Jesus routinely said grace before meals, but otherwise the Gospels don’t tell us that He ever talked much about our need to feel or to express gratitude. I think that may have been mostly a factor of the rougher and simpler times in which He lived on earth, two thousand years ago. Back then, He seems to have been concentrating on teaching the two more basic spiritual steps of forgiveness and love. Or perhaps, those listening just focused on the showier virtues of love and forgiveness, and they didn’t think that whatever Jesus may have said about feeling and expressing gratitude was sufficiently important for them to remember it for the few decades that passed after Jesus spoke and before His words were first written down. But we have come to understand now that learning to feel and express deep gratitude is actually a foundational virtue; and once well learned, gratitude can make it easier for you to feel and express the more profound spiritual virtues of forgiveness and love that will enable you to truly make this your final necessary earth-lifetime.

So, how can we best learn to feel and express gratitude? I once had a client who was constantly worried about his business. No matter how well things were going right now, and in fact things usually went pretty well, his business always seemed to be shaky to him. He could tell you all the big problems that were bound to come up next year. My legal practice includes not just the standard documents preparation, conveyancing, and general legal advice; but also, miscellaneous advice of all kinds, based on my decades of experience working with hundreds of businesses. And one day, when I was meeting with this business owner and he was feeling especially mopey about just how bad things were bound to be next year, I asked him to find for me one good thing about his business. Only one. And when he couldn’t find even one thing that he was really enthusiastic about, I proposed a few. Well, for example, there had been seven percent year-over-year growth in his gross revenue since the previous year, as I recalled. He had a great core of longstanding loyal employees. He had bought his business real estate twelve years before, and by now it had just about doubled in value, with the likelihood of a lot more growth in value to come in that neighborhood.

Almost against his will, I saw his spirits lift. It was there, in his face. I said, “Charlie, look, here is what I suggest. Why don’t you, every day for the next three months, give thanks for one different thing about Townshend Heating & Plumbing. Just one. Get a notebook, write each new thing that you’re grateful for in the business, and the date. Then say it aloud. If you don’t want to thank God, then thank the Universe. Just please do this for me? I’ve already given you your first three! And I promise you, even just a month from now, the business will be doing even better.” Bless Charlie, he was skeptical, and he wouldn’t do it for more than a single month, but he did that much for me. And this was all more than three decades ago now. As I recall, doing this classic gratitude exercise, even for only a month, made for a permanent difference in Charlie’s spirits. He still wasn’t Mr. Optimism, but his moping was much reduced. Then recently, he sold his much larger business and its even more valuable business site for enough to give him a great retirement.

This gratitude exercise works just as well in your personal life. You can easily develop an Attitude of Gratitude, and use it to plow your spiritual field, as it were, and to build on it a solid foundation for a much richer and sweeter spiritual life that will transform your daily personal attitude about absolutely everything. Simply buy a little spiral notepad, and every morning for one whole year, first write the date, then write down one thing for which you are grateful, and briefly also write why you are grateful for it. Do this every day for a whole year. The reason to do it for a year is because you want to have to stretch yourself to being grateful for snakes and bread mold! Most people can find something positive to be grateful for, at least for the first couple of months; but eventually, you will be down to rainy days, police stops, and mosquitoes. No duplications!

What you will find is that your whole attitude toward everything, and especially toward other people and toward life in general will soften. When you have spent time every day thinking about and writing about why you are grateful for so many things, and eventually even little and peculiar things, and really solidifying your attitude of gratitude, you will find yourself becoming ever more patient with, and less angry at the whole world in general. Developing an attitude of gratitude softens and gentles you, it civilizes you profoundly, and it lifts your heart! And then, on this far better spiritual base, your real spiritual learning and growth can much better begin….  

 I think about a nursery, and I picture curly heads;
And one by one I count them, as they slumber in their beds.
If you’re worried, and you can’t sleep,
Just count your blessings instead of sheep,
And you’ll fall asleep counting your blessings!
– Irving Berlin (1888-1989), from “Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep” (1954)

 

 

(Many photos are from Vecteezy.com)

 

 

 

Hello Sunshine!

Posted on by Roberta Grimes

Dear One, the world is waiting for the sunrise.
Every rose is covered with dew.
The thrush on high his sleepy mate is calling,
And my heart is calling you. 

Dear Heart, the world is waiting for the sunrise!
Every little rosebud is heavy with dew!
And while the thrush his sleepy mate is calling,
In my heart is calling You!
Gene Lockhart (1891-1957) & Ernest Seitz (1892-1978), from “The World is Waiting for the Sunrise” (1918)

There is a classic magazine cartoon that carries a deep meaning. Two fish are swimming along cheerily, with speech-bubbles over both their heads. One fish is saying to the other fish, “How does the water feel to you this morning?” The second fish says, “What’s water?” And we giggle. Of course! We get it! That second fish cannot perceive that the water even exists, because the fish has never experienced not-water. So, for that second fish, water is the only reality. And in fact, this is precisely the same problem that mainstream materialist scientists of all disciplines are still having with their experience of consciousness. It was the great quantum physicist Max Planck who first discovered the fact that consciousness is the base of our reality, which means that we cannot ever experience not-consciousness. That was what he meant when he said that we cannot “get behind” consciousness. In 1931, he said, “I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness! Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”  What our dear friend Max was telling us was that you and I and everyone else on earth, especially including every scientist, all live our whole lives like the second fish in that classic fish-in-water cartoon. Since consciousness is the water in which we swim, consciousness is our whole reality, and we cannot imagine how it would feel to live in a reality that pre-exists and must somehow first generate consciousness.

And yet, as we demonstrated here last week, cutting-edge science in the year 2025 still is being forced by its foolish materialist dogma that is now more than a century old to search for a source of consciousness inside the human brain. Which is the loony near-equivalent of searching for the source of water, or even of air somewhere inside our human bodies. One pursuit makes as little sense as do the others. And why should consciousness come from only human brains, when it is so obvious that all mammals and even simpler animals also are conscious, and clearly they also are able to think? There is an excellent embedded video at this link that includes five of the current leading thinkers in the field of consciousness research, and it will help you to better sympathize with their long frustration with their wasted careers, all spent in pursuing a source of consciousness inside the human brain. They all know by now that clearly no source of consciousness there is ever going to be found.

Although that video is rather long, it’s a good summary of the current state of materialist play, and you might enjoy it, as I did. And you ought to know that poor Christof Koch, who was featured in the video, recently lost a case of fine wine in a 25-year failed bet over the issue of whether a source of consciousness in the brain might ever be found before some certain date. Although mainstream science does creep closer to the truth, by inches! The materialists’ current theory which comes closest to making sense is panpsychism, which guesses that consciousness must be a property that is inherent in matter. OMG. So close, but still no cigar. Nevertheless, panpsychism seems to be an idea that most traditional materialist scientists love to hate, very sad to say. And that is true, even though it is the materialist scientific theory that seems to come closest to making sense of all the evidence about consciousness that materialist scientists can accept.

The key consciousness evidence that these scientists are not allowed ever to notice, however, reveals a massive area of strongly evidence-based reality that fits closely with the reality that we inhabit. I have been studying what is called afterlife evidence for the past half-century, and I can affirm to you that, by now, we have received a tremendous body of excellent evidence about what is actually going on that has been delivered to us by people that we used to think were dead. This evidence is so amazingly detailed, and so completely consistent across types of evidence and methods of delivery, and even throughout more than a century on earth, that it is impossible for the complex story that it is telling us not to be true.

Furthermore, as we have added all this amazing afterlife evidence to what traditional scientists have developed, we have built an understanding of a much more detailed and completely amazing greater reality. It all fits together like one single gigantic puzzle! And it makes it pretty easy for us now to solve the four big problems posed last week that scientists apparently cannot solve at all.  Namely: Dark Matter/Energy, Death, Life, and Consciousness. With afterlife researchers now allowed to add their insights, let’s you and I consider again those four mysteries, but now in reverse order because consciousness underlies them all. Once we can wrap our minds around consciousness, it will be much easier for us to better understand everything else:

  • Consciousness is the base of all reality, just as Max Plank first said it was. Insofar as we are able to determine, in fact there actually is nothing else. While materialist scientists still flounder uselessly for a best definition for the word “consciousness”, and they mostly still define it as something like “human awareness,” we who study all of reality can produce a definition that actually works! Consciousness is an energy-like potentiality without size or form, alive in the sense that your mind is alive, deeply aware, highly creative, and governed by what we human beings call “emotion”. What we experience in general as love is Consciousness’s highest, strongest, and most rapid vibration; while fear, anger, and hatred in any combination are its lowest, slowest, and weakest vibration. Like mattergy, Consciousness can take both energy and solid forms. Clearly, then, at the highest Consciousness vibration of all is the Godhead. Not any religious god, mind you, since religious gods are human-created. But the fundamental creative Intelligence is at the highest vibration of Consciousness; and all of our minds are part of that same Consciousness, but at lower vibrations, so we are striving to move ever higher, and ever closer to the Godhead level on the Consciousness scale. And in discovering all of this, and also in discovering the fact that Consciousness encompasses all of reality, and nothing else beyond it exists, Max Planck was entirely right.
  • Death. My dear ones, the evidence for the fact that life for our human minds is eternal is consistent, and it is overwhelming. Afterlife evidence is very much like the evidence for dark energy and dark matter, in that the phenomenon’s demonstrated effect on other, better-established and more widely accepted phenomena is primarily how we first discovered it. And in fact, there is much more of this sort of afterlife evidence around than you can imagine! It just is easy to ignore, if your personal belief-system requires you to ignore it. But my dear ones, repeating the words “OMG, what a coincidence!” a million times over as each new jaw-dropper lands on us can take us only so far! We afterlife researchers were able to satisfactorily prove decades ago to anyone with even a half-open mind that the afterlife is of course real, without question. And, far beyond that, we have learned in very great and amazing detail what the afterlife is like!
  • Life. Aside from basic consciousness, the great core question that materialist scientists have been determined to answer for more than a century, so they could settle for certain the need to plug in any sort of “God of the Gaps” idea that might be necessary to add a spark of life, is this: How did life spring from non-living matter? But the need for that spark is really not even their biggest problem. James Tour is the leading critic of all the manifold materialist attempts to make life arise spontaneously from some non-living primordial goo, and he has effectively shown the task to be impossible. You could experiment forever, and still never have anything but mud to show for all your troubles. Here is a longer, more detailed, and up-to-the minute video by James Tour that explains just how completely nowhere materialist scientists still are on discovering the origin of life. Please do watch this video, which is truly enjoyable! And puzzle with physicists over the fact that the physical constants of the universe are, incredibly, so against-all-odds perfect for life.  And, okay, so here trots in Roberta with her proposed answer. After considerable research and a lot of thought, I believe that we are going to find that life is an inherent property of Consciousness itself, as is intelligence (of course).  And therefore, everything is to some extent “living.” All creatures, from single-celled right up to human beings, are particularly disposed to display the properties of life.
  • Dark Matter/Energy. Given the previous four discussions, this fifth one largely writes itself. We now know (1) that Consciousness is all that exists, and it is an energy-like potentiality without size or form, alive in the sense that your mind is alive, intelligent and creative, and governed by what human beings call “emotion”. We also know when we contemplate Death (2) that we have had demonstrated to us conclusively by an abundance of the evidence that human minds, which are inextricably part of that Consciousness, are eternal. Realizing that the origin-of-life scientific community has gotten nowhere with all its theories, we also know (3) that they have narrowed the possibilities down to the likelihood that Life is a primary  property of Consciousness itself. So when we come now to consider Dark Matter and Dark Energy, we know that this dark matter and energy must be crucially useful and important, even by definition, since it is 95% of the universe! Scientists never say that enough, but given the way this universe has buzzed along and governed itself ever since it came into being, the one thing that we know for certain is that nearly all of it IS NOT just a bunch of sludgy particles with no function other than to form the galaxies and then push them wider apart. But when we look at the fact that human life for what might be trillions of people who ever have lived is eternal, so it still is happening right now; and when we consider all that amazing afterlife evidence, which is there for our perusal, and which tells of a truly extraordinary greater reality which exists precisely where you and I are right now; and it teems with eternal human life, then we know exactly what Dark Matter and Dark Energy is. Dark Matter and Dark Energy is the “afterlife”, and also the “beforelife”, from which you and I came to enter these brief earth-lives, and to which we soon will return. It’s all right here, and it is non-material, so of course it doesn’t react with photons of light. Well, EUREKA!

It is unfortunate that you and I are still stuck with this matter-obsessed scientific community that seems to care more about trying to create and then somehow make us believe in matter-based falsehoods, much more than it cares about finding the genuine answers to all these great scientific puzzles. True enough, they might not always like all the right answers. But, whether they like the right answers or not, their day of looking for answers where those answers cannot possibly be is sooner or later going to end. Eventually, the truth always wins. And meanwhile, here is another wonderful discussion of what actually is going on. Let the great and delightful Rupert Sheldrake brighten your day!

Dear Heart, the world is waiting for the sunrise!
Every little rosebud is heavy with dew!
And while the thrush his sleepy mate is calling,
In my heart is calling You!
Gene Lockhart (1891-1957) & Ernest Seitz (1892-1978), from “The World is Waiting for the Sunrise” (1918)

 

 

 

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Hello Darkness!

Posted on by Roberta Grimes

Hello, darkness, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams, I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
‘Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light, I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
– Paul Simon, from “The Sound of Silence” (1964)

Oh my goodness, I just have watched seven of what are supposed to be absolutely cutting-edge videos on dark matter and dark energy, six of them brief, and the seventh a genuine Ted talk that is only three years old. (To see and hear what I just saw and heard, after clicking the word “videos” above, go to the far right and click the pink video link.) That final video of the seven is a genuine Ted talk, mind you! There is no small-x after it. Which means it is a talk that was delivered on a primary Ted stage, so it was given by someone who is prominent in her field, and almost certainly therefore this presenter is an acclaimed theoretical physicist. Tedx stages exist worldwide. Their quality is always respected, but their real value is guaranteed just by the worthies who invite their presenters to speak, and then they stand behind whatever their speakers have said. But a central Ted stage is another matter! In general, only very well-respected speakers are featured there, and what they say must be approved beforehand. So, fasten your seat belts, folks! With a Ted talk beginning, you know that you are about to hear what amounts to up-to-the-year-2022 Scientific Holy Writ on this speaker’s topic of interest. And the title of her big Ted talk is, OMG, “How to Solve the Dark Matter Mystery.” Wow, she claims to be able to solve this whole mystery, which has been eluding even the greatest minds for decades? And her claim must be pretty solid, if the main Ted stage allowed her to use such a sharply definitive title! Our big Ted speaker here surely has the twenty-minute answer to the whole dark-matter problem, solved and ready to be delivered!

And yet, what she says in that Ted talk is a complete embarrassment, not only to herself, but also to all of mainstream science. What is astonishing is not only that any prominent and up-to-the-minute-in-2022 theoretical physicist might have given such a stupid and embarrassing talk on a prominent Ted stage only three years ago, but also that the Ted people would have allowed her to give it there, and especially under such a presumptuous title. I gather from having watched her talk twice that theoretical physicists have whittled down their study of dark matter to the point where they are trying to figure out what kind of tiny and useless particle actually floats around in and makes up twenty-seven percent of the reality of which we know that all the non-dark matter and energy in existence combined makes up only five percent. Our speaker here goes on record as voting for “axions”, whatever that might be. Not that it much matters. Because of their appalling materialist dogma, modern scientists are trained to seriously believe that it is possible for 25% (or 27%, whatever) of reality to have just naturally evolved to consist of nothing but junk particles with no purpose other than to form matter-based galaxies inside that very much more important (to us) five percent into their shapes, and then to push them farther apart, even though there is nothing else in nature that has developed in that very odd way.

As we know, very early in the twentieth century, the advent of quantum mechanics so much alarmed the mainstream science gatekeepers, the university departments and the peer-reviewed scientific journals, that they mandated a new dogma for all of mainstream science. And they called their new dogma “the fundamental scientific dogma of materialism”. Yes, in fact they came right out and said it! They don’t presume to use this term now, but back a hundred and fifteen or more years ago, you actually could find those words in print. This whole situation is frankly astonishing. It is little short of incredible! When ordinary matter makes up barely five percent of what even mainstream scientists themselves know actually exists, these gatekeepers were literally setting out to insist that scientists could not study, and humankind would not be allowed to know anything about, fully ninety-five percent of what even the scientists themselves knew at the time, and still know now, actually does in fact exist! Of course, the result of this nonsensical scientific dogma over the past nearly century and a quarter has been unbounded chaos and confusion.

To govern all the scientific research being done in the many decades since the fundamental dogma of materialist atheism was adopted, close to 125 years ago now, certain core assumptions have been made and consistently enforced by the whole scientific community. These assumptions are silly and arbitrary, are generally by now demonstrably wrong, and have held back scientific research severely! To be frank, there are probably more of such nonsensical assumptions that I cannot recall at the moment off the top of my head, or that I don’t even know about; but dealing just with the ones of which I am aware is a hoot and a half, I can tell you that. How ridiculous! And they still exist, even in the twenty-first century, for heaven’s sake! Mainstream scientists are even to this day still required to assume without question that:  

  • Just five percent of what exists is what physicists call normal matter and energy, while the rest is mere particles whose only purpose is to form and support the space occupied by the material celestial bodies in our material universe. That rest is what physicists refer to as the 27% dark matter, and 68% dark energy which give our universe its shape. And, why is it “dark”, pray tell? Well, of course it’s dark because it won’t interact with photons of light, so we can’t see it. We have difficulty even detecting it. But both dark matter and dark energy do indeed affect non-dark matter and energy, so there is mass and energy there, somehow. And we are told that if it were not there to give shape and direction to our universe’s celestial bodies, and to the universe’s gradual expansion, those bodies would drift and dissipate. It is assumed by scientists that because we can’t see or very well detect it, fully ninety-five percent of this universe is in fact made up of nothing of much worth or value to us. Beyond, of course, its obvious use in forming material heavenly bodies into galaxies, and then pushing them apart.
  • At death, we each will shut off like a light. Traditional scientists are so very determined to somehow make this lie be true! It was much easier, of course, to keep all the afterlife evidence suppressed before Raymond Moody’s seminal book on near-death experiences, Life After Life, first came out in 1975; and now, there is so much evidence that we survive our deaths, and it is so widely available, that more people than ever before have lost their fear of death. Traditional science still won’t support the investigation of death at all; it simply considers the whole topic to be beneath all possible scientific interest. If any practicing scientist is asked about the reams of good afterlife evidence now available, he will just say something like: “All the so-called afterlife evidence has been thoroughly investigated, and it is valueless. All mediums are charlatans.”
  • Life sprang into being from some magical primordial goo. For as long as I have been reading popular science magazines, which is to say for more than half a century, mainstream scientists have been assuming that life sprang into existence when just the right group of chemicals in just the right primordial goo was struck by lightning. Then, Presto! Life! Just simple life at first, which gradually evolved to become ever more complex entities, until very eventually, we had human beings.There are many reasons why this theory doesn’t work, the main one being that even if life got started this way, it couldn’t sustain itself for long enough to form itself into a viable living cell. So more recently, scientists have become fascinated with abiogenesis, or the notion that, even without that lightning strike, just the simple and entirely natural interactions of chemicals in very ancient seas could spontaneously have somehow given rise to simple living cells. That linked video tells us they are trying hard!. So far, however, there is no evidence that any scientific theory for the spontaneous origin of life actually is going to work at all.
  • Consciousness is generated by the human brain. Scientists cannot yet satisfactorily define what “consciousness” even is.  Most dictionary definitions talk about consciousness in terms of human awareness, and they don’t investigate the notion of animal consciousness very much, if at all. Billions of dollars have been spent in trying to figure out how the human brain produces consciousness; and amazingly, here is a cutting-edge, right-up-to-this-minute article about where the best minds working in this field were in April of this very year, 2025, believe it or not. In other words, only three months ago, the very best minds in this field of consciousness studies were still pretty much absolutely nowhere. And be sure to check out the very latest “news” that is at the bottom of the linked page as well!

Dark Matter/Energy, Death, Life, and Consciousness. There you have it, my dear ones! Perhaps there are other big scientific topics that we might talk about as well, but for today, let’s settle on just these four huge ones. These are four fundamental areas of basic scientific research that materialist scientific gatekeepers have so severely burdened during the past century and a quarter with their completely arbitrary and utterly absurd materialist dogma that, even to this day, none of these areas can be freely scientifically investigated. So as a result, in the entire past century and a quarter, no progress has been made by any working materialist scientist in any of these fields. Not, at least, by any credentialed scientist who has any hope of pursuing a mainstream career! Even much worse, there are whole related areas to each of these primary fields that also cannot be investigated.Worst of all, if I am still writing, and you are still reading, a thousand years from now, if that materialist scientific dogma is still in place in the year 3025, we will find in that year that scientists will still have made no further discoveries at all for us to write and read about by then in these four areas than they have made so far, today 

And yet, there were at least three twentieth-century mainstreams scientists who did in fact figure a lot of this out! They did it by ignoring those foolish and clueless scientific gatekeepers, and just by freely sharing information, and then by following it where it honestly led them. Those who have been following these weekly missives are going to know what I am about to say, but let’s summarize it again here:

  • Max Planck won the 1918 Nobel Prize in physics as the father of quantum mechanics. In 1931 he said, “I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness! Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.” In 1944, Dr. Planck said, “As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.”
  • Albert Einstein, who needs no introduction from us, was more reluctant than was Dr. Planck to follow all the implications of open-minded consciousness research. But nevertheless, he did at one point say, “Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.” He also said, “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” And finally, he explained why mainstream science was even in his own later years such a mess. He said, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
  • Nikola Tesla was a polymath so brilliant that Elon Musk chose to name his line of cars after him. And he, too, saw where the truth was heading. He said, “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”

This ridiculous situation would be laughable, if it  were not so tragic! We are talking about the whole modern world, for heaven’s sake! And it has voluntarily handicapped itself this way for more than a century, just because a few scientists long ago were afraid that someone might inadvertently find God? Next week, we will look at our four key areas of forever hopeless twentieth-century materialist research. We will show how all four of them relate directly to consciousness, and also to one another; and therefore, why they never will be solved until we accept that fact. So we will apply the great Dr. Planck’s seminal consciousness insight to solving them. Once we stop treating mainstream science as the holy religion of atheism, and we return at last to allowing scientists to follow the truth fearlessly, wherever it leads, then suddenly everything in science becomes so easy!

And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, “The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence”
– Paul Simon, from “The Sound of Silence” (1964)

 

 

(Many photos are from Vecteezy.com)

 

 

Getting There

Posted on by Roberta Grimes

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 249th 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)

 

 

(Many photos are from Vecteezy.com)

Who and Why?

Posted on by Roberta Grimes

What’s it all about, Alfie?
Is it just for the moment we live?
What’s it all about when you sort it out, Alfie?
Are we meant to take more than we give?

Or are we meant to be kind?And if only fools are kind, Alfie,
Then I guess it is wise to be cruel.
And if life belongs only to the strong, Alfie,
What will you lend on an old golden rule?

 As sure as I believe there’s a heaven above, Alfie,
I know there’s something much more.
Something even non-believers can believe in.
– Burt Bacharach (1928-2023), from “Alfie” (1966)

The greatest evidence for the certain existence of a Perfect Intelligence underlying this reality is the fact that you yourself exist. Well, it’s the fact that anything exists for more than an unstable instant; but you might consider your own existence to be as good evidence of the Intelligence that holds reality stable as any other evidence that we might consider. The more physicists study our material reality, the more they discover that the odds against any of our present reality actually existing right now, and just as it is, for more than even a split-nanosecond, or even an amazing zeptosecond, are astronomical, having been calculated to be something like 1 in 10229. And since much of this reality’s existence at any given zeptosecond (see below) relies upon its maintaining its own self in existence, we must assume that without some way to keep all of its separate components in perfect ongoing balance with all of its other components within necessarily extremely tiny tolerances for at least long enough for me to finish writing this sentence, the odds against its ongoing existence are actually extremely long. So then, the odds against the possibility that you will be able to read on Sunday what I am now writing on the previous Wednesday are very far beyond long indeed! These odds are in fact so long, given how many zeptoseconds we are talking about having to pass here, that they seem to be beyond all calculation.

And so, there you have it, my dear and precious friends. Please try not to spit your coffee as this realization dawns on you, but only know for a certainty that if this material universe has continued to exist in stable form for long enough for me to finish writing this blog post over four whole days of slow earth-time, and for me then eventually to send it to you, so you can have read the sentence that ended the previous paragraph, then you and I have just completed an actual scientific experiment. Omigod, how many zillions upon zillions of zeptoseconds have passed in four whole long days of earth-time? And how is it even conceivable that this entire greater reality has held itself in perfect alignment and not fallen to pieces in all that time? You and I have just proven beyond question that there is a living, aware, and highly attentive Intelligence which is capable at the very least of maintaining this reality’s stability within vanishingly tiny tolerances, and inside each given fraction of every zeptosecond of time as that time was running in this material reality for at least the past four days! And of course, we have proven something else as well. We also have proven that intelligent life exists on planet earth. Okay, not brilliant life, perhaps. (I had to add that qualifier for any actual scientist who ever might read this blog post.) But life here has at least developed to the point where we have evolved people who can read and write. We will tackle next week the additional delight that we can derive from the fact that, amazingly, life has developed on earth and has evolved to this advanced point.

You and I need not give the Supreme Intelligence maintaining this reality that we now have proven must exist any name. And to avoid yanking the materialist scientists’ whiskers, we will not here call that Intelligence “God.” The word “god” is just a word that primitive humans made up in ancient times to call what they were pretty sure must be the Intelligence that had created their reality, and to whose honor they then built their fear-based idols. Their gods, including Moloch, for example, were made in those people’s own image. So all those false gods that people had created then demanded that people do horrible things, like Moloch’s insistence that we throw all our firstborn babies alive into the fires in their gods’ bellies, which was pretty bad indeed. So eventually, even after the genuine Intelligence had at last introduced Itself to the ancient Hebrews, speaking from out of a burning bush that was not consumed to be sure the Intelligence had Moses’s attention, and It tried to give us some loving guidance, some fond parental care and support, but people still thought their gods must surely be as brutal and venal as the people were themselves. Se we expected that our gods must want sacrifices of, if not our children, then at least our cows and sheep, for sure. And then at last, that the God who spoke to Moses must want the sin-sacrifice of God’s Own Firstborn Son? You bet! And will that finally be enough sacrifice from us, God? Will that finally do it? OMG, we human beings are extremely slow learners! And so it was that, long ago, we created our whole litany of fear-based and barbaric religions. We decided that it had to be a good idea to close our minds to the genuine Intelligence’s pure and radical Love for us that always has been offered without any human cost at all, and instead we always have given only blind and fearful worship to this Intelligence that we cannot see.

You and I have just this morning demonstrated that the Intelligence which maintains this complex reality in continuous existence (and therefore likely also created it) still is lovingly caring for it, and also for us, literally in every sub-micro-instant. And knowing that loving Intelligence continuously exists should be, and should always have been, just a natural part of a mainstream science which is free to study everything! Let us say that again, more plainly. Scientists in 1900 could have conducted the same experiment that you and I have conducted this morning, could hace concluded as we just did that there is in fact an underlying Intelligence, and could have set modern mainstream science free to study all of reality, including that Intelligence. But that is not what happened. Mainstream science is not free now, and for the simple reason that thousands of years ago, humankind created “gods”, created mythologies around their gods, and created religions as a fear-based way to deal with their human-made gods and those gods’ fake mythologies. And then, around the year 1900, the modern scientific research gatekeepers, which are the university departments and the peer-reviewed journals, were frankly spooked by the advent of quantum mechanics. The gatekeepers decided that they had to firm up the line between science and human-made religions; and in doing that, they established materialism as science’s “fundamental dogma”. Now, anything with a dogma is a religion, by definition. So what they really did in about the year 1900 was to turn mainstream science into just one more religion. Soon after 1900, mainstream science became what has amounted to the religion of materialistic atheism.      

This decision, which was reflexive, panicky, and probably meant to be temporary, very soon became permanent. We are told that, even now, candidates for Ph.D. degrees in the hard sciences who plan to teach or do research in any field which goes beyond what is strictly prescribed by those scientific gatekeepers are told that they needn’t bother to complete their degrees, since they never will find a job. Dr. Rupert Sheldrake’s famously banned twelve-year-old Tedx talk is a great summation of just how badly mainstream scientific inquiry has been wrecked by that early-twentieth-century dogma! I urge you to watch his whole talk, since it is just eighteen minutes long, and it is brilliant. To understand just how ridiculous modern scientific inquiry has become as a result of that absurd century-old dogma, you need to know nothing more than that, to this day, it is taken as an article of faith in mainstream science that consciousness must be produced by the human brain, There is no other possibility! Billions of dollars are still being wasted trying to find a source of consciousness inside your brain, which at this point, given what now is known and has been proven about consciousness since the great Nobel-Prize-winning and pioneering quantum physicist Max Planck’s  discovery that consciousness is primary, is the equivalent of trying to figure out just how consciousness emanates from inside your eye. Or, for that matter, from inside your left shoe.   

And sadly, I am afraid that I cannot now be nearly as sanguine about the future of mainstream science as Dr. Sheldrake here seems to be! Thanks to the imposition of materialism on all of mainstream science more than a century ago, there now has been a whole century and a quarter of scientific research laid down, and so-called discoveries made, in papers published and in careers spent that all have been tainted by the false and nonsensical dogma of materialism. Simply pause and consider all the genius careers that have been half-wasted, or even wasted altogether. Consider all the possible discoveries that have not been made because the encouraging research leading in their direction has had to be abandoned when the funding was pulled since it seemed to be leading toward (gasp!) a non-material-seeming result! Productive scientific research simply cannot be built upon such a shaky, beliefs-based foundation. To ever move forward at all, at some future point mainstream science as a discipline will have no other choice than to retreat to about the year 1900, and then to get rid of all the materialism-tainted data and begin to build a new and solid foundation from there that is based upon true and open-minded science.

 So then, what IS it all about? I have subscribed to and routinely at least skimmed popular science magazines for the past forty years, so I have watched research scientists go from a gleeful certainty that they were about to make their great breakthroughs at any moment in fields ranging from the origin of life, to a unified theory of everything, to this or that other wonderful discovery. And I have watched those research scientists more recently go through all the various stages of grief, to arrive at their present stage, where some of them actually are faking it now, as even someone who is as clueless as I am can see. Or other practicing scientists are just pathetically going through the motions of being happy about their having discovered one more little bit of triviality somewhere. Oh, over the past century, scientists have produced ever fancier electronics and material stuff. We are grateful for our smartphones and our Teslas! But all the scientific efforts made to better understand how reality actually works have gone nowhere. Twenty years ago, I still could (and did) joke to my husband that Scientific American was a great humor magazine. But science is too pathetic now to even rise to the level of humor anymore.

The smallest unit of time that scientists ever have measured is what they call a zeptosecond. And don’t you just love that word! Oh my goodness, I do. It sounds every bit as fast as it is. A zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second; and specifically, it takes 247 zeptoseconds for a light particle to cross a hydrogen molecule, according to Live Science. This question about time becomes important when we consider the central role that time plays in the ongoing scientific search for a unified theory; even though beyond materiality, in what we call the greater reality, or in other words in the dominant 95% of reality, time simply does not exist as it is experienced in this material universe. Or might geometry  be the secret ticket? Still, time is critically important to those of us who briefly occupy material bodies in this material reality, simply because there are so many aspects of material reality that are required to remain stable within tiny tolerances of time and continuously, with no break in time whatsoever, in order for this material but still living universe to continue to exist. Thank you again so much for still bothering with us, even though we remain so clueless, dear beautiful and perfectly Loving Underlying Intelligence!

One small glimmer of hope is the fact that the attention of physicists has more and more shifted toward  tentatively actually investigating consciousness. Still, though, they achieve frustratingly little  in the way of concrete results, in part because all the mainstream scientific disciplines still are required to take it as an article of dogmatic faith that consciousness is produced by our human brains, rather than being received by them. This makes reading scientific articles about consciousness amusing for those of us who better understand what actually is going on. Another approach that can be taken, of course, is to consider each one of us to be a walking crowd; since, after all, our skin, our gut, every aspect of ourselves is covered in and full of millions, even billions of living beings, and if that were not so, then we could not survive. So, also, our minds, our thoughts, are in some ways invaded. And thus, by what we might call zeptosteps (do you see what I did there?), science marches bit by tiniest bit toward much-belated sanity.

Those of us who have independently studied reality have come to understand that Dr. Max Planck was perfectly right a century ago, and consciousness actually is all that exists. In fact, there really is nothing else. What we experience as consciousness is both the sculptor and the clay. I have talked about this fact in these posts to the point of exhaustion, and in so many different ways, that you  can yourself answer the Who and the Why questions that are this post’s title! The Who is the great, Perfect Love that wants nothing more than your own joy and Bliss as Its own best-beloved Child; and the Why is because that God, the Intelligence, the Great I Am, smiles to seek your ever greater perfection in ever more perfect eternal Love!

   I believe in love, Alfie.
Without true love we just exist, Alfie.
Until you find the love you’ve missed,
you’re nothing, Alfie. 

When you walk, let your heart lead the way,
And you’ll find love any day, Alfie, Alfie!
– Burt Bacharach (1928-2023), from “Alfie” (1966)

 

 

 

(Many photos are from Vecteezy.com)

Going Home (#3)

Posted on by Roberta Grimes

Somewhere over the rainbow,
Way up high,
There’s a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby.

Somewhere over the rainbow,
Skies are blue,
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true.

Someday I’ll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me!
Where troubles melt like lemon drops,
Away above the chimney tops,
That’s where you’ll find me! 
– Yip Harburg (1896-1981), from “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” (1939)

We have talked here of late about dark matter and energy being simply the way that we perceive from here the greater reality, the heaven to which we all return at death. But some people have asked my dear Thomas and me whether we can really be sure about that. Well, actually, it is hard to be sure, when mainstream scientists still so adamantly refuse to study reality from anything but a strictly materialist perspective. They have no clue at all about what ninety-five percent of reality might be, since very clearly it is not material, and we know that fact about it because it will not react with photons of light. Now, photons are material light. So, Oopsie, scientific folks. Finding that ninety-five percent of reality is not material means that nearly all of reality cannot be studied using materialist methods! So perhaps scientists ought to reconsider, and ought to find a new, non-materialist way to study that important ninety-five percent of reality? But, no. Because nearly all of reality is proven not to be composed of their beloved matter, earth-bound scientists have decided that therefore it cannot be more than … just garbage particles?

This scientific attitude really is astonishing. If you view the brief, cute video that is linked in the previous paragraph, you will see their Luddite mentality at work. And they have a similar problem with consciousness, since they always have assumed that consciousness must be generated by the human brain. Even after a century, they still steadfastly ignore the great quantum physicist Max Planck’s discovery that consciousness is primary and pre-existing. All of which means that they continue to be altogether manifestly wrong about both dark matter and dark energy. In fact, this little five-percent material universe is of a different, denser matter and a “stiffer” consciousness energy, if you will, than are the matter and energy that are prevalent in the rest of the gigantic greater reality in which we live our eternal lives. It is all that way so the reduced-strength minds that we bring here  when we enter each lifetime cannot mess with earth-reality in what Craig Hogan appropriately calls this “earth school”. 

But when we put all of what we have learned about reality together, we easily can see how this small five percent of our greater reality that is material fits with the primary ninety-five percent. We know that it all has to fit together, right? And of course, it does fit together perfectly. Scientists posit that the “dark” ninety-five percent is just random garbage particles that exist only to organize our little five-percent universe into galaxies, and to push this universe gradually bigger. But to you and me, to people who live in a reality on earth which is otherwise tidily ordered to a breathtaking degree, such a notion is nonsense on its face! How could a universe like what they describe ever have begun, and then have sustained itself as it developed, for heaven’s sake?

Afterlife researchers have discovered by studying more than a century’s worth of abundant and consistent communications from people that we used to think were dead, that the place where the dead from this earth live on forever is gigantic. It could easily be far greater in relative size than this whole material universe. Much more information about that greater reality comes from astral travelers and from near-death experiencers. Still more information about what the greater reality actually is like comes from our extensive study of consciousness, which confirms that Max Planck’s great insight indeed was right. Meanwhile, though, mainstream science continues to blather meaninglessly on; and there even is a recent theory that information cannot be destroyed, so dark matter might just be information itself. Sadly and frustratingly, mainstream scientists could  likely solve their “dark” matter and energy problem, and could also perhaps come up with a unified theory of everything based in consciousness alone, if they would just drop their foolish materialist dogma altogether!

But we here are not bound by any dogmas at all, so we will solve the scientists’ “dark” problem now. Simply put, dark energy is consciousness energy that is not associated with earth-matter or with its correlate energy. And dark matter is a higher-vibration, non-particle-based, purer form of matter that is a direct correlate of consciousness. Think of living alabaster: you can almost see through it in more intense light. It seems to be the only kind of matter which exists in most of reality, in that ninety-five percent, where everything, including our bodies, is made of it. Higher-vibration beings can think that form of matter into a shimmering existence that then becomes solid; and they also can make it go away when it is no longer wanted. Those higher-vibration realities are right where we are. To scientists, they look to be thoroughly intermixed with “regular” matter.

It is hard for us to realize any of this from where we are now, but those higher-vibration, non-material parts of reality seem actually to be the important parts of reality. They are where we live forever, while this universe is the little five percent where a denser matter and consciousness have been created to keep our powerful minds from messing with the physics here, so we will take our difficult spiritual earth-lessons seriously. This five-percent place is not our real life, but rather that ninety-five percent “dark” place actually is! So, for those couple of folks who have expressed their concerns to us about whether what scientists call “dark” matter could possibly be heaven, our answer is: well, yes, it probably is. Given the relative sizes and all the details, it is very likely indeed that we would be able to detect the higher vibrational planes from here in some fashion, although of course God could cloak them from us; and perhaps God did cloak them in the past. But the proportional sizes are about right, the physics is right, it all fits well, and Thomas tells me that my guess is right. Everything that ever happens in all of reality happens within Consciousness, which means that it happens within the Mind of God.

Now, let’s assume that we are someone who has just safely arrived in the afterlife arrival garden of our former earth home, having left our material body for the final time in a city in North America. As we left our body, we wisely ignored the mourners around our bed, and instead we followed our beloved deathbed visitors, our mother and our teenage best friend who long ago died in Vietnam, and even our childhood dog. All of them are now with us in the North American arrival garden. And this is such an amazing moment! Everything is in fresh and vibrant colors, many of which are never seen on earth, since they are beyond the visible-light spectrum. There is no decay. The plants are human-created, and no plant ever so much as drops a leaf. I think, although I’m not sure about this, that the vegetation there doesn’t grow, but rather it is lush and gorgeous living human-made decoration. There are fountains in the arrival garden and lovely buildings nearby, and people using toy-like, mind-powered vehicles; and in a place with no death and no decay, everything forever looks bright and new.  

Most people will experience a normal transition home. And when that happens, there are certain specific events which are going to happen soon after we arrive back home, although the order of these events will vary and their details might vary considerably, since our spirit guides and our loved ones are eager for us to have the best and the most productive experiences possible. We will here describe those key welcome-home experiences that happen for each of us when we first transition home, although the order of these events may somewhat vary:

Merger Again with Your Greater Mind.

As part of our preparation for entering our infant earth-bodies to begin a new lifetime on earth, each of us will leave perhaps forty percent of our vast, eternal minds behind. Then, as we return home, we merge again with the aspect of our mind that we left behind before birth. This seems to happen for many of us literally as we are returning back home, or it will happen very soon after we get there. Just suddenly, we can remember and we know so much more, and we can think a whole lot better! We remember our most important past lives, and the people from those lives, even from many generations back. I call it forty percent, but it could be as much as half of our eternal mind that is briefly left behind this way.

Life-Review.

With the help and comfort of our guides, we each will be shown all the events of our life just ended, from the perspectives of the other people who were involved in the events of those lives. Many who have been through a life-review have told us that this is the toughest part of going home! They hadn’t realized how much what had seemed to them to have been just some minor event had badly hurt someone’s feelings; or perhaps they had altogether forgotten doing something which had inadvertently damaged someone else’s life. Once our life-review is completed, we are asked to forgive everyone who ever has harmed us in our lives, which usually is very easy for us to do. Prison guard at Auschwitz? You forgive him easily, now that you understand that he was a pawn, he is begging for forgiveness, and your whole family is fine and happy and here beside you. But then we are asked to forgive ourselves, which turns out to be a great deal harder to do, now that you know how some cruel action you had altogether forgotten turns out to have blighted someone else’s whole life. There is a lot of counseling and help available! But if we cannot forgive ourselves for everything we did in our lifetime just ended, our consciousness vibration will start to slow, and we might land in the outer darkness.    

Visiting Jesus.

One very special event that apparently is available to each of us now if we request it is to visit Jesus on His astral riverbank soon after we transition home. When Thomas took me to visit with Jesus several times in the summer of 2022 so the Lord could share with me His personal story, I saw Him repeatedly transform Himself into what He and Thomas referred to as “Church Jesus,” which was a taller, blue-eyed and lighter-skinned version of Himself, with longer, lighter, straighter hair. This change would happen automatically as He was standing up to greet each group of new arrivals as they would respectfully approach Him and form their polite line. Jesus would then speak warmly to each of His visitors in turn, always friendly and smiling, and He would give to each of them His private blessing.  

Big Welcome Home Party.

Most of us will have spent some individual time reuniting with close family members and friends almost right away upon our return; but then at some point early in our arrival period, people will put out the word, and it will be time to really Party Hearty! Many extended families have a multi-generational homestead where these parties happen; for example, my family holds its parties on a big Danish dairy farm by the sea. Famous dead people are often the entertainers; light snacks and drinks are served, since we still are used to eating and drinking, although without internal organs, the food just disappears. And often people we had thought were enemies in this lifetime turn out to be our eternal friends, who only had played those negative roles for us in order to help us to grow spiritually.   

Concerts, Library Research, Explorations, Music Lessons, Classes, and General Playtime.

What follows these events of our arrival-home period is a golden time which can carry on for even earth-centuries in a timeless Now! We had left here through the afterlife’s pre-birth processing area at Level Three to enter that most recent earth-lifetime, and then returned through the same afterlife return area; but now, we are living in the gigantic astral realities at the love-based level that our spiritual growth has achieved for us. There we are continuing to learn and grow, but at a much slower pace; and we are doing more enjoyable things than you can imagine, because night never falls and we never need to either work or sleep. Until you might decide that you want to plan another lifetime of more aggressive spiritual growth on earth, you can spend infinite time with your vast number of beautiful eternal friends in what amounts to a casual, endless joy.

Somewhere over the rainbow,
Bluebirds fly.
Birds fly over the rainbow!
Why, then, oh, why can’t I? 

If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow,
Why, oh, why can’t I?
– Yip Harburg (1896-1981), from “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” (1939)

 

 

 (Many photos are from Vecteezy.com)

 

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