Author: Roberta Grimes

Triumphing Over the Tribulation

Posted on by Roberta Grimes

(Before you read this, please read The Tribulation and The Role of Evil in History)

What Jesus says about the coming Tribulation is awful. And since we can see now why He is right, we cannot ignore His warning! Perhaps you think the evil we face is actual demons, or you might prefer to blame some aspect of ourselves for persuading so many people to choose fear-based emotions over love. Whatever it is, let’s call it “the nasties.” Whatever is fighting the raising of this planet’s vibration away from fear and toward love, there is an epic battle brewing. And Jesus tells us its effects on us and on those we love will be horrific:

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death” (MT 10:20-21).

 “For those days will be a time of tribulation such as has not occurred since the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will” (MK 13:19).

But still, you and I have no choice but to fight for the triumph of love over fear. Those at the highest levels tell us the earth is so deeply negative now that wars and disasters will proliferate and humankind may not survive! So they are working through us to turn the tide. As is Jesus:

“These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world” (JN 16:33).

“And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age” (MT 28:20).

We come to earth with amnesia about the fact that we will never die. Our ignorance has helped us take our spiritual lessons seriously, but it also has made it much too easy for people to choose fear, anger, and hatred over love. As a remedy, two hundred years ago those at the highest eternal levels decided to reveal some afterlife truths so we can be confident our lives are eternal. Apparently this new knowledge is going to sharpen our focus on our need to choose love, while still preserving enough negativity to maintain the earth’s usefulness as a spiritual school. In the first part of the nineteenth century, those at the highest levels began to seek ideal ways to reveal to us some important afterlife facts. And their doing this seems to have been treated by the nasties that feed on fear as such a threat to their survival that they rolled out their biggest gun! They had long ago tested their temptation options on the most loving man who ever lived, and they had found one weapon that worked. Jesus vibrated so completely in love that none of the nasties could provoke Him to rage… until eventually one managed to do it:  

 “And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. And He said to them, ‘It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer”; but you are making it a robbers’ den’” (MT 21:12-13).

And thus the nasties long ago learned the disruptive power of righteous indignation. Show a person whose whole life is love an obvious wrong being committed in front of him, and his first impulse is to attack that wrong, even though his doing that would be a fear-based mistake! What Jesus did in the temple that day was counterproductive. He could have sat with the money-changers and pigeon-sellers and patiently taught them in perfect love! Instead, in a fit of righteous indignation He increased the world’s negativity while He taught no one anything.

Righteous indignation is the greatest weapon the nasties can use against spiritually advanced people. I really understand that now! I have been a target of righteous indignation for months, and I have come to see that this exposure to such extreme negativity has been a wonderful gift. If it hadn’t happened, I would not have done the research and come to realize with awe what is beginning to unfold. And without this new awareness, I could not know how essential it is that we forearm as many love-based people as we can!

 I may be the only one living who has extensively studied the afterlife evidence, the Gospel teachings, the history of Christianity, and information derived from mainstream science. If you have shared all my obsessions, please get in touch with me; but insofar as I have been able to tell, mine has been a singular set of hobbies. This means I am one of the few who can see how well evidence from all four of these sources amazingly and in small details fits together! And of course, such extensive correspondences among four different disciplines simply could not arise by chance. What is more, five years of doing Seek Reality has put me in contact with people who are important to the future of this work, and who otherwise might have no easy way to network with one another. I am not important, but I can see now that I am being positioned to become a nexus among people who really are important! So it should not be a surprise to find that I am an early target of the Tribulation. The nasties first target people who are being positioned to be the glue; then with them gone, whatever effort is ongoing tends to fall apart. So I should have been less surprised than I was when negative entities tried to wreck my life.

I have made some cherished friends among the people now working to raise the planet’s vibration. And early this year one beloved friend altogether lost her mind in front of me. Someone whose friendship I treasure switched in a moment from also treasuring my friendship to a fit of righteous indignation because I would not follow her lead in attacking another of my friends. When I would not yield to her demands, she set about trying to destroy as many of my other friendships as she could!

It was only when I saw the connection between what my friend was doing and the Lord’s temple tantrum that I realized it has been righteous indignation that has derailed all the many attempts that were made over the past two centuries to teach us that our minds are eternal. For example:

  • Efforts made to reach us in the nineteenth century were the easiest ones to thwart. The nasties inspired righteous indignation in adherents of fear-based Christianity, and thereby they persuaded the Christian world that these revelations were the Devil’s work.
  • Those not now in bodies then created an amazing flowering of afterlife communications. Around the start of the twentieth century they worked by various means to give us amazing information, and they induced scholars to document their work for study by scientists. Here, of course, all the nasties had to do was to inspire righteous indignation in the scientific gatekeepers by making them believe they were fighting superstitious interference in their work. Again, all this great new information was discredited and ignored.
  • During the twentieth century repeated attempts were made to enlighten us, from Edgar Cayce and Leslie Flint through near-death experiences and A Course in Miracles. But just the nasties inspiring righteous indignation in a few key people was enough to disrupt the work of Spirit and keep these thrilling revelations from enlightening more than just a few.
  • Easy electronic communication with the afterlife will be what will finally bring the truth of our survival to everyone on earth. So in the 1990s the nasties sowed righteous indignation in the most successful groups of researchers in this field, and as a result those groups stumbled. Most broke apart. The forces of evil have by now perfected their horrific shtick!

Righteous indignation has the power to turn good people into agents of the negativity that now threatens the survival of humankind. Even Jesus was not immune to it! Fortunately, though, He saw the risk, and He zealously warned us against it. His teaching that we must never fight back and His teachings on the role of forgiveness are the most essential Gospel words of all, since unless we follow them closely it will be impossible for love to prevail:

“But I say to you, do not resist an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also” (MT 5:39).

Peter asked him, “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).

There are such powerful forces now working to raise the consciousness vibration of this planet that even my spirit guide, although still a realist, has begun to think that love will win. The best spiritual medium I ever have known calls the ascended beings leading this effort “the Unity.” And the more of us who will work with the Unity, the easier it will be for love to prevail. If you have read this far, then perhaps you are being called to help advance this world-saving work! But how can you protect yourself against righteous indignation? Here are a few tips:

  • Raise your own spiritual vibration until you live and breathe only love. And follow the Gospel teachings on forgiveness and turning the other cheek, no matter what!
  • Never forget that love is our only defense against evil. If you actively fight anything, you only will strengthen and empower whatever evil you are trying to fight!
  • Be aware that an attack on you may come from someone you love. The easiest way for nasties to derail the dawning of universal love is to cause a susceptible person in a group of love-based people to feel righteous indignation against someone else in the group. How can you counter that? You can’t. All you can do is to love and bless the one now being controlled by nasties, and withdraw. Let Spirit manage it all.

We will need to know more about righteous indignation if we are to defuse its destructive power, so we’ll continue this discussion next week. Meanwhile, only know that love will win! We will all come together in love as we follow the Unity’s perfect guidance. If well-intentioned people everywhere can just hold true to universal love, the Kingdom of God begins to dawn today.

 

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The Role of Evil in History

Posted on by Roberta Grimes

(Before you read this, please read The Tribulation)

We all see ourselves as fighting evil, but we cannot agree on what evil is or why evil even exists at all. Gather a group of sincere and earnest people – say, a Christian, a Muslim, an atheist, a Democrat, a Republican, and a political Independent. Ask them to come up with a definition for evil and an agreement about why evil exists, and you will soon find they can agree on nothing. Worse, they may well come to blows!

In order for us to fight evil and win, we first must understand what evil is and where it comes from. I am going to give you core definitions for “good” and “evil” that may surprise you now, but as we further explore how reality operates you will come to see why these definitions are the only ones that work. You also will begin to understand why evil is so sadly persistent.

  • Good is perfect love and its related high-vibration emotions.
  • Evil is abject fear and its related low-vibration emotions.

Simple, right? It should be simple! So then, where does evil come from?

The dead give us an answer to this question. First, though, let’s rule out some dead-ends:

  • There can be no powerful evil entity in opposition to God. What we experience as human consciousness is the infinitely creative core energy that continuously manifests everything we perceive to be real, and it exists in a range of vibrations from the lowest (abject fear) to the highest (perfect love). The lower its vibratory rate might be, the less power consciousness possesses, so there cannot be a prince of evil that possesses any power at all.
  • Human nature is perfectly good. All human minds together are intrinsically part of the godhead! As Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is within you” (LK 17:21). There is nothing about you that is evil, but rather your true nature is perfect love.
  • Other people lack the power to make us do evil things. If we know we can’t say “The Devil made me do it,” we might say that a spouse or colleague or even a politician pushed us over the edge and made us do something that we later regret. It is natural to want to excuse our own behavior in this way, but in fact no one else can make you do anything!

So then, where does evil come from? According to those we used to think were dead, evil comes from you and me!

Evil is the result of conscious minds choosing negative emotions over perfect love.

We are eternal minds that experience brief lives on earth as trips to a spiritual gym. We plan our spiritual workouts here because in pushing against the kind of negativity that does not exist in what we call the afterlife, we can rapidly raise our personal vibration toward ever more perfect love. The problem is that in order for us to grow spiritually here, we must have the free will in each instance to choose fear, anger, or hatred instead of love. And many of us face complex choices that might make a negative course seem more appealing, so sometimes good people with the best of intentions will choose to reject the love-based alternative. And thus is more evil born into the world.

Knowing this, we can better understand Jesus! He came to earth to teach us how to always choose love over fear, which would give us the power to vanquish evil and soon bring the Kingdom of God on earth. If only Christianity had not been hijacked by evil as soon as Jesus transitioned, we could have brought the Kingdom of God to earth long ago! I am going to use Christianity as one of two examples of evil working in the world, but first let’s look at some of what Jesus said:

“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).

“But I say to you, do not resist an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. If anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, let him have your coat also. Whoever forces you to go one mile, go with him two” (MT 5:39-41).

“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).

Do you see a pattern here? Whatever the question might be, love is always the only answer!

For most of my life I have ignored the evidence that conscious negative entities exist. I didn’t want even to think about them! But the word “demon” appears at least sixty times across the four canonical Gospels, and Jesus plainly told us that protecting people from demons was important. He often cast them out of those who were susceptible to them, and He taught His disciples to do the same. Modern Christianity mostly ignores the issue of demons, but if you call yourself a follower of Jesus then what was important to Him surely ought to be important to you!

So, what are demons, anyway? Sadly, some people have made such disastrously bad choices during their earth-lives that they have let fear, anger, and hatred take them over altogether. Many of those who have tragically caused such deeply negative transformations in themselves will resist leaving the earth when they lose their bodies, since it is in their natures now to crave more and more of the negativity that does not exist in the afterlife. And since all our minds are inextricably part of the consciousness that continuously manifests this universe, all these self-created demons need to do to produce more evil is to influence susceptible people to choose fear and other low-vibration emotions over love. It’s that simple!

If your personal vibratory rate is low, then core negative emotions like selfishness, pride, greed, envy, anger, and plain old fear will tempt you to turn away from love. And it may not surprise you to know that people who are vibrating in the fear-and-anger range are especially attracted to situations where they can exercise power over others. This is probably because fear-based people desperately need to feel more in control, but it doesn’t really matter why. What matters is that the two institutions that are most susceptible to influence by negative entities are… you guested it… religions and politics.

You can see this ongoing negative influence in both Christianity and the United States, just as you can see it in every other religion and government on earth. Where Christianity is concerned, all the purveyors of evil needed to do was to persuade the Apostle Paul to package the love-based teachings of Jesus in the ancient fear-based concepts of judgment and blood-sacrifice. So almost immediately after His crucifixion, all the genuine teachings of Jesus had been subsumed in the false notion that He had come to die as a sacrifice to God that would redeem us from God’s wrath. At once, the vibration of the infant religion was lowered so severely that the Council of Nicaea in 325 was able to think itself “inspired by God” as it further depressed the vibration of Christianity with additional false and fear-based teachings, from eternal hell to sheep-and-goats to Armageddon. Christianity has been corrupted with evil from its birth, but fortunately the genuine Gospel teachings remain true. And they are all we need! In similar fashion, the American Founding Fathers formed a love-based governmental model designed to foster personal freedom and produce the greatest good for the greatest number. And those who study our founding decades can see that almost immediately the demons of the day were hard at work creating divisions among the very leaders who had invented that form of government! By now we can see that both Christianity and politics in the United States are tied up in fear-based knots, and they produce little more than the divisions among people that are the very root of evil. Pedophilia in Christianity and the hate-filled ravings current in America’s streets are yet more fruit of what have become two extremely poisonous trees.

The battle to raise the consciousness vibration of this planet has been going on for almost two centuries, so by now most of those on earth who are vibrating primarily in love can see and avoid the obvious traps like fear, greed, and hatred. But for people who are more spiritually advanced there is a much more subtle temptation that can wreck even a lifetime of devotion to love.

Let’s call it righteous indignation. If it feels righteous, then it cannot be wrong!  And indignation feels like permissible anger because it makes us believe we are fighting evil rather than contributing to it. Righteous indignation is so seductive that even Jesus was not immune! As I will show you next week, the false lure of righteous indignation has infiltrated and destroyed nearly all the most promising human efforts to work with those at the highest levels of reality to raise the consciousness vibration of this planet. All of us and the planet are at risk unless we learn to see and avoid this danger. Next time I will show you what is happening now, and how you and I can turn the tide….

The Tribulation

Posted on by Roberta Grimes

People ask me when Armageddon will happen, and on this point the evidence is clear: the Biblical Armageddon never will happen. I wrote on this topic two years ago in a post entitled Apocalyptic Nonsense, so I won’t rehash it here; but you might read that post if you are not yet clear about the fact that the notion of an end-times war is the antithesis of everything Jesus came to teach us.

Until recent events in my own life, I believed that all the Apocalyptic nonsense in the Gospels was only later corruptions that we could just ignore; but I realize now that the Christian councils co-opted and embellished a genuine warning from Jesus. Parts of those Apocalyptic Gospel passages do sound like Him! And in light of modern evidence, it is plain to see that what the councils built upon was a genuine warning about the Tribulation that would attend the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth.

Jesus talks about the Kingdom of Heaven thirty times in the Gospel Book of Matthew, and the Kingdom of God as much as fifty times through all four Gospels. At one time I believed these terms meant different things, but I have been given to understand by those that we used to think were dead that they both refer to the rapid elevation of human consciousness on this planet. And we know that elevation is happening now. So the process of bringing the Kingdom of God on earth has begun in our lifetime! And therefore the Tribulation that Jesus told us would herald its birth is soon upon us.

So I feel now a pressing need to share with you some of what you will need to know in order to navigate this difficult time and assist in the arrival of a glorious new world. I resist doing this! I would rather tell you about the afterlife flowers in colors never seen on earth, and the fact that they give off not just a glorious scent but also loving energies that feed our bodies. There is so much that is beyond-belief wonderful about our universal eternal home that the last thing I want to do is tell you what is coming now on earth. But Jesus warned us. And we have lately come to know enough about how reality works to know why He so urgently warned us! He was preparing us to deal with what he called the “birth pangs” that would be attendant to our raising of the consciousness of this planet sufficiently to accomplish our triumph over negativity and the advent of the Kingdom of God on earth.

As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”

And Jesus answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many.  You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes. But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs. 

“Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name. At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another. Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many. Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold.” (MT 24:3-12)

It astonishes me now to realize how accurate Jesus is about this, and ours is the first generation that even could have known what He was talking about. I swear, I am hitting my head as I write this! The Lord won’t need to come again, since of course He never left. And the Gospel teachings went through a two-step translation from Aramaic to Greek and from Greek to English so we have to assume some distortions. But still, this passage is right on the money! Consider:

  • Jesus talks in the Gospels about “the end of the age.” What does He mean by that? Since the Lord’s stated reason for coming was to teach us how to raise this planet’s vibration sufficiently to bring the Kingdom of God on earth, quite obviously it will be that event which will free humankind from this age of grief and torment.
  • There are now more than forty thousand Christian denominations, each of them claiming to hold the true Christ, and all of them corrupted by false doctrines. So it is easy to see what Jesus means when He refers to the many who will claim in His name to be the Christ.
  • As for wars, rumors of wars, and natural disasters, we need only look at the entire history of humankind – and especially at the twentieth century – to see what that is all about. Fear and the other low-vibration emotions have dominated civilization ever since it began.

And as for that last frightening paragraph above, in order for you to understand why the Kingdom of God cannot come on earth without these birth pangs, you will need to know more about what we might call the physics of consciousness. There is a lot more to know about how it works, but this much should let us begin our discussion; and if you want more, I have written about consciousness here, here, here, and here. I apologize for having included some snark, but spending your life waiting for mainstream science to start looking at the non-material truth and coming to realize in old age that it won’t happen in your lifetime does tend to make you somewhat cranky!

Our efforts to understand the greater reality have shown us that the base creative energy which continuously manifests this universe is what you and I experience as human consciousness. And our minds are all part of that infinitely creative and infinitely loving base consciousness! Your own mind is central to the mind of God. As Jesus said, “The Kingdom of God is within you.” (LK 17:21)

Consciousness is a form of energy, so it vibrates. Consciousness exists in a range of vibrations, from the lowest (which is fear, anger, hatred, and the other negative emotions) to the highest (which is perfect love). At its highest vibration consciousness has infinite power, while at its lowest vibration it has no power. We come to earth to raise our personal vibrations away from fear and negativity and toward ever more perfect love, and in order to do that we must exercise free will. The problem is that having free will gives us the ability to choose fear and negativity over love, and because in every generation some people have made that choice, apparently humankind has literally created most of the ambient fear and rage that so grievously oppresses us now.

I don’t know much about the low-vibration pollution that some out-of-body travelers tell us can be seen from the higher dimensions as a visible sludge that now coats this planet. Apparently a lot of it is just people who have made such awful choices that they have transformed themselves into something like evil incarnate; but for our purposes it doesn’t matter what these low-vibration entities are. We only know that they exist, and they have little power but they can nevertheless oppress the minds of people who are not guarding themselves against their influence. Jesus called these troublesome negative entities “demons,” and He often removed them from susceptible people.

Our urgent problem now is the fact that low-vibration entities feed on fear, anger, and hatred, so they must at all costs prevent the raising of humankind’s consciousness vibration toward more perfect love. Until recently, these nasties were able to retard most people’s spiritual growth with laughable ease, since no one even knew what we were fighting! But we are told now that the consciousness vibration of this planet has sunk to the point where very advanced beings must intervene to ensure that the end of the age begins now. Without their help, they predict that we face extinction within the next two centuries. And there won’t be a Biblical Apocalypse, with Jesus returning to begin His thousand-year reign; but instead we will bitterly peter out and leave behind a ruined planet.

This is the first of three planned blog posts. Next week I will help you see the interplay between love and fear in human history, and will demonstrate how that war continues in the world and in all our lives. Then in two weeks I will tell you what little I know about the inter-dimensional rescue effort that is now underway. I will point out some of the efforts being made by nasties to foil it, and will show you how you can protect yourself from their influence.

The choice is yours! You may not be convinced that I am right, but since what I will ask you to do to help to bring the Kingdom of God on earth will be spiritually healthy and enjoyable and will vastly improve your life, you have nothing to lose and a world to save if you are willing to gamble that I might be right. And you do have the power to work wonders! The humanity that urgently needs your help is everyone you love and your grandchildren’s grandchildren.

 

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Seek Reality

Posted on by Roberta Grimes

Five years ago I began an experiment in radio and podcasting that is central to my life in ways more important than the considerable time that it takes. I am only now becoming aware of the extent to which Seek Reality has shaped my life.

  • I have met so many great experts! Some of the authors and researchers I first met when I invited them to be interview guests have become my dear friends and beloved fellow laborers in the field of establishing what is true.
  • I have many friends, too, that I may never meet. Since I encourage communications from listeners, I hear from people every day. Some have questions, some want to add to what a guest has said or to make points based upon their own research, and some simply want to give me a hug and receive a hug in return.
  • My work has broadened to encompass my broadcast name. When Cameron Steele, the head of ctrnetwork.com, asked me what I wanted to call my program, the right name came to mind at once: “Seek Reality.” “What??” He had thought of me as an afterlife researcher! My answer to him felt automatic: “Studying the afterlife is just one part of what we all should be doing, which is trying to understand what is going on.” I heard myself say it. Then I realized that of course it was true, but frankly until that moment it never had occurred to me that seeking to understand reality was my actual mission.

It is imperative now that humankind better understand what actually is going on. Our ongoing ignorance of the nature of reality and the purpose of human life has begun to put the future of life on earth at risk! And until mainstream scientists stop following what is just one more belief-system and begin again to care about understanding a reality that refuses to conform to their materialist beliefs, we are unfortunately stuck as we seek reality with relying on lay researchers like yours truly. Of course, knowing what happens at death is just the beginning of understanding reality, and in the past five years I have made the title of my radio program and podcast my life’s work.

Fortunately, once you clear away all the religious and materialist cobwebs that have kept us from understanding the truth, consistent evidence of what is going on is abundant. And we are seeing a certain softening of the cultural boundaries now. Where once any thought of life after death was consigned to religious beliefs exclusively, now what open-minded researchers are learning is become part of the cultural mainstream. Near-death experiences have led the way, but now even the prevalence of death-bed visitors is becoming unremarkable.

Of course, a mainstream science obsessed with the false god of materialism in a reality that is consciousness-based continues to lead good researchers astray. The “standard model” has become a tyrant now that inhibits further scientific progress. And since for scientists “reality is fundamentally constituted by physical stuff outside and independent of mind… (M)ental states, in turn, should be explainable in terms of the parameters of physical processes in the brain.” What this nonsense means to someone is that Multiple Personality Disorder might be able to explain “Life, the Universe, and Everything.”

Consciousness is the base creative force. Nothing else but consciousness exists! When people like Albert Einstein and Max Planck discovered this to be true close to a hundred years ago, why is science still stuck in 19th-century materialism?

The biggest problem for scientists is that when your core belief is wrong, all the research you might build on it has to be wrong. So more and more, scientific research is giving us less and less. Scientific researchers are too often phoning it in. On the other hand, when lay researchers with no core beliefs or boundaries will objectively study all the evidence with the courage to follow wherever it leads, we can arrive at a perfectly consistent view of reality that answers mankind’s greatest questions. Here are a few:

  • Is there intelligent life in the universe? And if there is, why haven’t we found it? Even lay publications are asking these questions now, in puzzlement and despair, when the answers have long since been known. YES, a universe based in consciousness energy teems with intelligent life. But this planet has become so dangerous for aliens that reportedly their motherships nowadays remain cloaked in other dimensions, and most of their modern explorations are done by organic robots that we call “grays.” Modern aliens are careful to be invisible to us, but that level of caution was not always necessary; as a result, mummified grays and parts of grays will occasionally turn up.
  • Why are we here? It is impossible for scientists whose work is based in materialism to answer this question, and when they even try to ask it they look ridiculous. In the greater reality (which is the only reality) we have abundant evidence that we live many material lives on earth and on other planets as well in what is essentially a spiritual school. Simply put, we come here to grow spiritually, to raise our personal vibrations away from fear and toward more perfect love. This is basic stuff!
  • Where did life come from? What is the actual origin of species? This may be the most basic question of all, and because Darwinian evolution via natural selection is a corollary of the scientific dogma of materialism, the answers that scientists are beginning to get are confounding them. Neither religious theories of miraculous creation nor scientific theories that life arose as a fortunate accident and evolved by natural selection are real, nor are they even possible. All happens within consciousness, so scientists are discovering now that complex life must have had a beginning that was guided by intelligence, and that ninety percent of modern species arose simultaneously less than 200,000 years ago. All of this is so contrary to everything that scientists believe that for awhile these wonderful discoveries will go nowhere.
  • Where does consciousness come from? Here is another question that matter-based scientists never will answer. For them, consciousness must arise from matter, which is like insisting that the evening news must arise from your television set. The sad result of the scientific dogma of materialism is that it even distorts the work of wonderful people like those at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS). Someone there is actually speculating that the brain itself doesn’t generate human consciousness at all, but rather since even one-celled organisms exhibit some level of consciousness, it is more likely that “our human consciousness may be an emergent property that is passed upward as a result of fundamental consciousness characteristics of our body’s individual cells themselves.” It is impossible to be more wrong about anything than that! In fact, what we experience as human consciousness is apparently of the same nature as the consciousness that continuously manifests this universe.

The evidence for the primacy of consciousness is so overwhelming now that the scientific obsession with matter and with their old physics models is finally weakening. It does feel peculiar for lay researchers to be able to answer basic question about which materialists will always be clueless! In fact, more scientists are beginning to accept the limitations of their own hobbled discipline. They sadly recognize that there are some areas that materialist science  cannot address, namely the origins of consciousness, the element of free will, and the fundamental nature of God. Of course, my fellow researchers not bound by dogmas have long since worked out preliminary answers to these three questions which will make it easy for scientists who eventually break free of materialism to make progress on them by leaps and bounds. As the great physicist and polymath Nikola Tesla 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.”

Christianity vs. Spiritual Growth

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Christianity is in a worldwide crisis. European countries are full of empty churches, and the United States is not far behind: studies suggest that barely eighteen percent of Americans regularly go to church. Meanwhile, 27% of Americans say they are “spiritual but not religious,” which is an eight-percentage-point increase in that category in just five years. Clearly something big is happening, and from the perspective of my email in-box the problem with Christianity seems to be that people are hungrier now than ever before for genuine spiritual learning. And the practice of traditional Christianity is an active obstacle to spiritual growth.

For people who grew up as Christians, the notion that Christianity is anti-spiritual seems counterintuitive. Isn’t growing spiritually the point of even being a Christian ? Most Americans see it as a cultural equation: Religious = Spiritual. We cannot conceive of what spirituality without religion even might be.

To help you if you are struggling to square that old equation with your needs as a seeker, here is a new set of definitions that is based in what we have been learning from the wiser and more spiritually-developed people that we used to think were dead:

  • Spirit is a vastly expanded and infinitely more powerful version of what we experience as human consciousness. Essentially, Spirit is consciousness! Every human mind is part of Spirit, and therefore our minds are powerful as well.
  • God, the base creative force, is not a cranky humanoid with thunderbolts and a beard, but rather God is the highest level of consciousness. For a long time I thought of God as “an infinitely powerful and infinitely creative energy-like potentiality without size or form, alive in the sense that your mind is alive, highly emotional and therefore probably self-aware.” Now, though, more and more I am coming to like Mikey Morgan’s definition: “God is a unity of infinite pure love, and all that exists.” That does it!
  • Spiritual energy is the base creative force.  Consciousness is energy, Spirit is energy, and God is energy. All are aspects of the same thing. In fact, matter and everything else that we think is real is energy as well: as Einstein said, “What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses.” Because all of this is true, it turns out that what we experience as human emotion is immensely powerful.
  • Vibration is the way we speak about the hierarchy of energy that is all that exists. Spiritual energy vibrates as what we experience as human emotion, and it exists in a range of vibrations, from the lowest (which is fear, hatred, anger, and all the other ishy emotions) to the highest, which is perfect love. So the genuine God is the highest possible consciousness vibration.
  • Spiritual Growth is simply the process of raising our personal consciousness vibration away from fear and toward more perfect love.

So spiritual growth is a function of what we might call spiritual physics. Whatever we do that raises our personal vibration away from fear and toward more perfect love enables us to grow spiritually, while anything we do that makes us fearful, angry, resentful, selfish, ashamed, or even prideful will lower our vibration and make us more unloving.

And therein lies the problem. Christianity as it was first developed nearly two millennia ago is steeped in fear and guilt and in separations between people. We are taught to fear God, to fear the Devil and hell, and to fear being judged and condemned, even for trivial transgressions; and we are taught that we are “the elect,” that other people are condemned, and that we must separate ourselves from them. Horribly, we even are taught that God loves us so little that God cannot forgive  us unless Jesus dies barbarically in order to redeems us. If there is anything more antithetical to spiritual elevation than that particular belief, I cannot imagine what it might be! We now know from those we used to think were dead that not a single one of these teachings is true. Indeed, we now know that these false teachings all are actively un-spiritual. They work powerfully to lower our spiritual vibrations.

This disaster is not Jesus’s fault! His Gospel teachings are the most perfect method ever given to humankind for achieving spiritual growth by the elevation of our personal consciousness vibrations. My book, The Fun of Growing Forever, shows you how well those teachings work, and how quickly! But Christianity doesn’t emphasize the Gospel teachings. Instead, it concentrates on teaching us fear, submission, and separation. That the spiritually hungry are leaving Christianity in droves is really not surprising.

Many disaffected Christians have turned to eastern religious traditions like meditation and yoga. These practices are said to be spiritually helpful, but they take time and effort to learn and to practice; and that turns out to present another problem. One of the effects of genuine spiritual growth is the gradual reduction of the me-me-me selfishness that rings in people’s minds when they are vibrating more toward fear, shame, and separation. We call it the ego, and the fact that we identify with it is part of its trickery: it is not who we are, but rather it is just a very-low-vibration illusion. A Course in Miracles is a powerful tool for vanquishing the ego altogether, which is why I recommend it so highly. Meditation and yoga might be helpful too, but it turns out that the better we are at these practices, the more they bolster that troublesome ego.

So, where does that leave those of us who are eager for rapid spiritual growth so we can make this incarnation our last necessary trip back to earth-school? As we study the afterlife evidence and the truths about the greater reality that have been given to us by elevated beings, eventually we come to realize that no religion can help people to grow spiritually. Wow, it feels amazing to write those words! I was a zealous Christian into my fifties, so coming at last to see how harmful Christian teachings are to the faithful was the most wrenching experience of my life. If you feel betrayed as I felt betrayed, please know that the essence of Christianity is supposed to be Jesus, and Jesus is the best spiritual teacher of all!

You really don’t need to practice a religion. If spiritual growth is your goal, then all you need is a much closer walk with the genuine Jesus of the Gospels. He confirms for us that all the rigid heaviness of Christianity is the wrong path when He says, Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light” (MT 11:29-30). He promises to give us the truth if we will ask Him for it. He says, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened” (MT 7:7-8). And He gloriously affirms for all time the truth of His Gospel teachings on love and forgiveness. “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (JN 8:31-32).

Softening the Hard Problem

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Scientists call consciousness “the hard problem” because they have no idea where it comes from, and they have trouble even defining what it is. Scientific American has put out a special issue called “Innovations In: The Biggest Questions in Science,” which is a collection of articles on the state of play in modern scientific investigations of things like spacetime, dark matter, consciousness, and how life began. Incredibly, every one of these articles is full of abject nonsense! Scientists still really have no clue about any of these phenomena, and from brief glimpses of their state of play it isn’t hard to see why: in every case, assumptions are made that ground the question at hand in matter, and of course in every case these phenomenon do not arise from matter.

What they have to say about consciousness is typical. You won’t be able to read these sentences without wincing. “What is it about a highly excitable piece of brain matter that gives rise to consciousness? Once we can understand that, we hope to get closer to solving the more fundamental problem… What must happen in your brain for you to experience a toothache, for example? Must some nerve cells vibrate at some magical frequency? Do some special ‘consciousness neurons’ have to be activated? In which brain regions would these cells be located?” The authors slice-and-dice through the spinal cord and then the brain, and eventually they come to deduce that “… the sights, sounds and other sensations of life as we experience it are generated by regions within the posterior cortex. As far as we can tell, almost all conscious experiences have their origin there… Indeed, the abiding mystery is how and why any highly organized piece of active matter gives rise to conscious sensation. After all, the brain is like any other organ, subject to the same physical laws as the heart or the liver. What makes it different? What is it about the biophysics of a chunk of highly excitable brain matter that turns gray goo into the glorious surround sound and Technicolor that is the fabric of everyday experience?”

What, indeed? Well, nothing, actually. There are apparently two scientific theories of how consciousness might arise in the brain, both so absurd as to be not worth even mentioning to you now; although one of them does predict that “… a sophisticated simulation of a human brain running on a digital computer cannot be conscious—even if it can speak in a manner indistinguishable from a human being. Just as simulating the massive gravitational attraction of a black hole does not actually deform spacetime around the computer implementing the astrophysical code, programming for consciousness will never create a conscious computer.” Reading that does give us some small hope that perhaps the light of reason might be dawning; but then the next sentence plunges us back into darkness by adding, “Consciousness cannot be computed: it must be built into the structure of the system.”

Dear friends, none of this is science. It is blather meant to justify whatever salaries these people are being paid, so they can keep the grants coming for a little while longer. They so badly want their work to lead somewhere! But their century-old “fundamental scientific dogma” of materialism has them so hog-tied, even now, that if they are to pursue scientific careers they dare not even attempt to think freely.

The human brain does not generate consciousness. The brain isn’t even the “two-way radio in the head of a meat-robot” that I used to call it when I spoke publicly (that was always a good laugh-line). By now, researchers who consider pursuing the truth to be far more important than preserving that old materialist dogma are coming to realize that consciousness attaches to the entire body, and not just to the brain. Consciousness also is the body! In fact, consciousness is all that exists.

Dr. Max Planck is a very big deal among physicists. He won the 1918 Nobel Prize in physics as the father of quantum mechanics, but his much more important discovery has been entirely ignored for most of a century. As you know, he said in 1931, “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.” All the evidence suggests that he was perfectly right! What we experience as human consciousness is the base creative energy that continuously manifests this universe. Such a profound core insight, so simple, and now so ever more certainly true! But even nearly ninety years later, scientists continue to blunder in every direction but the right one.

Here is some of their recent materialist folly:

* They are trying to read memories from dead brains, thinking their doing that might somehow help them figure out where our memories are stored. In fact, the brain does hold short-term memories, like that number you are about to dial or what your spouse has just asked you to buy; but memories that are meant to be held for a longer term are established by a different process and are maintained in your larger consciousness. Even knowing that someone with a damaged hippocampus can no longer create short-term memories but is able to retrieve past longer-term memories seems to spur no scientific insights.

* They are trying to figure out how brain-chemicals make us human, and are “the origins of our rich cognitive abilities.” In fact, while we are in bodies we have access to as little as five percent of our vast, eternal minds, so we have much richer cognitive abilities without the brain and its chemicals than we have with them!

* They imagine that consciousness is awareness, and that babies might develop it at five months of age; but they also speculate that consciousness probably has to be more than just awareness. After all, so many of the things our bodies do happen pretty much automatically! This article is notable for what feels as you read it to be heartbreakingly close to an actual breakthrough: “Consciousness may never arise—be it in babies, toddlers, children or adults—because it may always be there to begin with. For all we know, what arises is merely a metacognitive configuration of preexisting consciousness. If so, consciousness may be fundamental in nature—an inherent aspect of every mental process, not a property constituted or somehow generated by particular physical arrangements of the brain.” So near, and yet so far!

* The notion that preserving our brains will keep our minds alive past our physical death blunders on. Until recently, these transhumanist articles have been full of hope about how easily possible it soon will be – any minute now! – to make people immortal by preserving their brains in jars or uploading their minds into computers. These efforts seem less optimistic lately, but there are some very wealthy people funding the necessary studies. And scientists need to make a living! So even though now we begin to find articles about how horrifying it would be to spend eternity as an aware brain in a bottle on a shelf, these scientists continue to go through the motions.

Actually, Da Vinci Code novelist Dan Brown is closer to the truth than any scientist! He speculates that in the future “some form of global consciousness that we perceive and that becomes our divine” is going to become a satisfactory substitute for all our outmoded notions of God. He says, “Our need for that exterior god, that sits up there and judges us … will diminish and eventually disappear.” And he is almost right! What he and all the scientists still miss is the glorious fact that the “global consciousness” he imagines does indeed already exist, it always has existed, and it always will exist.

Eureka! It turns out the genuine God is still patiently waiting in the last place we’ll look….

The Wood Wide Web

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The most transformational book I ever have read is The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. I first read it in 1973, and I didn’t realize until much later the way that book formed a basis for my later afterlife research. It opened my eyes to a deeper awareness that nothing is as it seems; it primed me to later accept the evidence that what we experience as human consciousness is primary; and the fact that something so fundamental has been steadfastly ignored by mainstream scientists because it doesn’t fit their narrative was my first clue that the mainstream science emperor is indeed buck nekkid!

That book’s core insight from my perspective was that plants are conscious, and they can communicate. What a revelation! Consider only the workSample Blog Image of Cleve Backster, then America’s foremost expert on lie detectors, who one morning in 1966 decided to use his office plant as an experimental subject. He attached to one of its leaves a galvanometer, the part of a polygraph machine which registers human emotions, and he found that the plant was reacting very much as a person would react who was having transient thoughts. He soon found that the most extreme reactions in the plant were produced when he decided to burn one of its leaves; the reaction was less if he only imagined burning the leaf, or even if he actually burned it. His plant would react, too, if other living things in the room were credibly threatened with harm; and Backster and other researchers later demonstrated that these reactions are present even in living fragments of plants. My goodness, plants can read the minds of their keepers from a distance of miles away! There is so much more to Backster’s work that mainstream science still ignores. These amazing revelations are more than fifty years old, and they are all by themselves sufficient reason for you to read one of the most amazing and most unjustly ignored books in history.  

This discovery that plants are in some way conscious still fills me with wonder. It formed a basis for my growing, research-based awareness that what we experience as consciousness must be primary. There is no other explanation that fits all the evidence! So when in 2011 I read the ultimate quantum-physics-for-dummies book, Quantum Enigma by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner, and I found that the greatest of all quantum physicists had decades before reached the same conclusion, I had a joyous eureka moment. As quantum physicist Max Planck famously 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.”

All of this came to mind again when I was reading last month’s Smithsonian magazine, and I came across an amazing article called “Do Trees Talk to Each other?”   Well, of course they do! Peter Wohlleben is a German researcher now popularly known as the “Tree Whisperer” whose book, The Hidden Life of Trees,  is available in English. Please read the article, since I cannot here conceivably do it justice. I only can tell you that after you have read it, you will forever after see each forest as a thriving community of sentient individuals in communication with one another, caring for their young, even caring for their old and for the stumps of those felled by people; caring, too, for other benevolent creatures, and fighting off the ones that mean to do them harm. You will never look at any plant of any size in the same way again!

What we experience as human consciousness is the base creative force. It is all that objectively exists! So it shouldn’t really surprise us to find that every living thing is conscious; and in fact, that may be true of even what we consider to be non-living things. If consciousness is the base creative force, then perhaps even rocks might somehow be conscious? One of the things we generally do when we first return to our eternal home is sightseeing, even on other planets. I recall reading an account by someone who had been enjoying doing his post-death touring, and he talked about a planet where the life was not carbon-based, but instead was silica-based. That entire planet teemed with life! But you didn’t realize that at first, because it all moved ve-e-e-ry sl-o-o-o-wly. You know, come to think of it, the rocks on this planet are moving pretty slowly, too….

More and more, it is becoming clear that accepting Max Planck’s genius insight that consciousness is primary is going to be essential if scientists are ever to end their century-long materialist muddle and again begin to do productive research. A Nobel Prize awaits the first open-minded physicist who is brave enough to finally and forever remove his own materialist chains!

Stumbling Toward a Theory of Everything

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Stephen Hawking’s death yesterday felt especially sad to me. We saw him as trapped in a crippled body, but how much more tragic was the fact that such a great mind was for his entire life forlornly trapped in a crippled science! The simple explanation of his “theory of everything” is a tautology – gravity explains where gravity came from – and his saying that “M-theory is the only possible theory of everything” is a sadly defeatist statement from someone so bright. Sadly, too, like nearly all scientists, he was unnecessarily battling ancient Christian theories about God that are fully as nonsensical and altogether bogus as is the scientists’ century-long obsession with the dogma of materialism.

In fact, there still is no Theory of Everything beyond Stephen Hawking’s dogma-hobbled mind. Honest scientists now admit that the more they learn, the more puzzling mysteries they find! And the most honest ones of all are coming clean to us late in life with the fact that, essentially, modern theoretical physics is a con game. Amit Goswami is one of very few physicists who – like the father of quantum mechanics, Max Planck – now accept the notion that consciousness is primary; so people still battling for materialism may want to challenge him as a serious physicist. But what he says about the dogma-impaired work of physicists today is no less to be believed because he has managed to free himself from it! No one has more authority to speak to us about the utter falsity of any belief-system than someone who once was its devout preacher. “I found out a long time ago that everything can be proven with a mathematical equation. Now, I mean everything; from unicorns, fire-breathing dragons, God and even the G-spot. None of it is true. Me and the handful that know the truth have been riding the Quantum Physicist celebrity wave for quite some time now, but it must end – before someone gets hurt” is a late-in-life confession with the resounding ring of a revelation!

Modern mainstream scientists’ obsession with matter continues to lead them into ever greater silliness. Matter is composed of particles, and even though these scientists full well know that every particle is a vortex of energy and in reality nothing is solid, when they want to explain anything new that they find it must always be explained in terms of particles. So when they discover that more than a quarter of what exists is what they call “dark matter,” they are certain dark matter has to be just more particles! Dark matter is called “dark” only because it doesn’t give off or reflect photons of material light, which suggests to those of us who think logically that maybe – you know – it isn’t the usual kind of matter? But scientists are undaunted. If it is not in some way material, then according to the century-old dogma of materialism it cannot affect this material universe.

We have known ever since Max Planck gave us his core insight – the greatest discovery of the twentieth century! – that what we experience as consciousness is primary. It is the source of all matter! He said in 1931, “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.” And later research by people like Dr. Goswami who have managed to free themselves from the dogma of materialism have proven Dr. Planck’s insight to be exactly right.

Our minds are eternally part of the base creative force that continuously manifests this universe. That is the only Theory of Everything that ever will be proven to be true in fact.

But mainstream scientists still stuck in materialism give the material brain full credit for being the sole source of our minds, which is the equivalent of giving your television full credit for being the sole source of the evening news. So when people with brains that are partially missing are actually able to function normally, scientists are speechless. And this seems to happen more often than we realize, since usually the condition is discovered only when adults have a problem that makes a brain scan necessary. Perhaps most of my skull is filled with liquid, too. Who knows? And more importantly, who cares? Mainstream scientists still have no clue after diligent research as to what human awareness is or where it comes from; but whatever it is, it had better turn out to be material!

We have abundant evidence now that the scientific dogma of  materialism is pure garbage. But still, after more than a century, the university departments and the peer-reviewed journals continue to insist that only research that is based in the dogma of materialism can be done in elite universities and published in approved ways. They enforce a plainly false dogma to this day! And so it is that a brilliant man whose life was so physically impaired that his only possible course was the life of the mind still sadly spouted nonsense to his dying day.

At last, Stephen Hawking knows the truth! He has a young and healthy body now, and a much greater mind than he could have imagined. We won’t say to him something silly like, “Rest in Peace.” Instead we will sing to him now, “Work in Joy forevermore, dear brother Stephen!” Other great scientists who went before you are working hard to create easy electronic communication between where they are now and the material universe you at last have left. And we can’t wait to see what you are going to contribute!

 

Creating God in Man’s Image

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One of the creepiest things I have read in awhile is an article about someone who intends to create a powerful artificial intelligence and build a new religion around it. Good grief, what would be the point of that? It’s as if science has at last achieved a religious singularity! The fact that human religions create their own gods – and it never happens the other way around – is now being not only acknowledged, but celebrated.

Of course, this foolishness is just a logical extension of a current scientific pursuit. The search for ways to make human beings physically immortal is The Next Big Thing! Although it’s hard to see why anyone would want to be immortal now, when before long every human being is going to be a slave to conscious killer robots. It turns out, too, that even what seems to you and me to be genuine love is just a matter-based illusion that human beings evolved to experience because it enhances reproductive success. And perhaps worst of all, this scientific obsession with believing that the brain must generate consciousness is tying people in knots with the fear that advances in artificial intelligence are drawing us closer to the day when a machine configured to mimic a human being inevitably will develop consciousness, and soon thereafter our species will end at the hands of a smarter and stronger robot army.

Every one of these scenarios is nonsense. The human brain does not generate consciousness. Instead, consciousness is the source of all matter, including what makes up your physical brain! This obvious truth seems at last to be dawning on a few more open-minded scientists, but their problem is that a century’s research has been based on the absolute certainty that the brain must somehow generate consciousness. By now, scientists are trying hard not to discover the truth about consciousness, since sadly that truth might threaten their careers. They are hoping not to rock the scientific boat until at least the day their own kids finish college.

So since the scientific stonewalling continues, it is time for us to say this bluntly. Mainstream science has allowed its materialist dogma to destroy whatever was left of the whole field of scientific inquiry. Not a single major scientific discovery will be possible, ever again, until the scientific community accepts two facts:

  • Any discipline that is based on a “dogma” is really just one more religion. It is no longer the pursuit of any kind of truth.
  • The scientific insistence that consciousness cannot exist apart from the brain is an idiocy that by now has distorted every aspect of scientific inquiry.

That second insight is a gift from one of the best living scientific minds, the irrepressible Alex Tsakiris of Skeptiko.com. Alex is something of a legend in the field of consciousness research. He is a free-thinker who has spent the past decade in an open-minded search for the truth, interviewing eminent scientists and NDE experiencers and pretty much everyone in between. Like me, Alex began with a broader quest to understand what actually is going on, and his research has led him to where mine has led me: to the realization that Max Planck was right. Alex’s book, Why Science is Wrong… About Almost Everything, nails it!

Dr. Planck, the winner of the 1918 Nobel Prize in physics and the revered father of quantum mechanics, left us with the gigantic insight that consciousness underlies everything. He said in 1931, “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.”

But as Alex and I have independently realized, the core problem with mainstream science is that it is stuck with the fallacious notion that reality is only material. It is as if for the entire past century we have been telling scientists that they can investigate the riddle of how this water-puddle keeps reappearing on the floor. Have at it! Study the floor and the walls, but it is against protocols for you to look at the ceiling.

This need to avoid understanding consciousness while assuming it must be generated by the brain has by now built major false assumptions into every aspect of scientific inquiry. As Alex Tsakiris says in his groundbreaking book, “the problem science has with consciousness has an impact on every aspect of science-as-we-know-it.”

           And Alex shares with us a gigantic insight that seems to be dawning on scientists now, too – the fact that the whole notion of achieving scientific proof of anything is in itself a myth. All that we ever can find is evidence that this or that theory is on the right track, but even the theory of gravity has to be seen to be still just a theory. The authors of the article linked above point out that “No matter how good our measurements and observations are, there’s a limit to how good they are. We also can’t observe or measure everything. Even if the Universe weren’t subject to the fundamental quantum rules that govern it, along with all its inherent uncertainty, it wouldn’t be possible to measure every state of every particle under every condition all the time.” And of course, the added fact that consciousness is fundamental adds a factor of uncertainty to the results of every bit of scientific research, since the basic consciousness that Dr. Planck discovered really can at any time alter anything. So in fact, scientists are about to discover that no definitive measurements are possible! Even worse, Dr. Planck tweaked the stubborn materialist scientists of his day by adding that “We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.” You can almost hear him chortling as he wrote those words!

The problem with modern mainstream science is that it is sadly in its death-throes. Its adherence to materialism keeps it even now from realizing that the scientific method is going to need a complete redesign if further progress is ever to be made. Oddly, scientists seem to feel to this day that they are battling just religious dogmas, when in fact modern mainstream religions are as much in the clueless weeds as is mainstream science. Tragically, all that mainstream science is battling in the twenty-first century is humanity’s need to stop clinging to dogmas and begin to seek and find some objective truths.

Rearing Spiritually Healthy Children

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After a supernatural experience at the age of eight I have spent most of my leisure time in two parallel pursuits: exhaustively studying the afterlife evidence, and reading the Christian Bible repeatedly. This is such an odd combination of interests that I may be the only person on earth with the knowledge and experience to compare what the dead have to say about God, reality, death, the afterlife, and the meaning and purpose of human life with the actual Gospel words of Jesus.

And the greatest discovery of my life has been the fact that the dead agree with Jesus! In amazing detail. How wonderful is that? We can demonstrate now that Jesus is real, and that He must have come directly from God because He knew things two thousand years ago that He never could have known otherwise. Wow.

Those that we used to think were dead have a lot to say about Christianity too, and here the news is not supportive. These are some of the many things that we learn from people now in a position to know:

  • There is no anthropomorphic God. In fact, the only thing that actually exists is what you and I experience as consciousness, which is what Jesus called the Holy Spirit. This genuine God never takes human form, and it has no human failings of the sort that Christians feel the need to ascribe to their God.
  • There is no Satan. What we are coming to understand about the physics of consciousness is that the less loving a being is, the weaker it is. So if a deeply evil being existed in opposition to God, it would have no power at all.
  • There is no judgment by God. Jesus in the Gospels says this plainly! The only judge that we face after death is ourselves, which is another thing that Jesus tells us.
  • The death of Jesus on the cross has never made an afterlife difference for a single human being. It was only when I knew the dead were sure about this that it dawned on me that if God is loving, then of course it cannot be otherwise! What kind of a petty and barbaric God would refuse to forgive our human failings unless he first gets to enjoy the murder of his beloved Son? That many Christians still see this core Christian belief as speaking well of their God now confounds me. The genuine God is perfect love!

So Jesus is real, but Christianity is not. In fact, modern Christianity is nothing more than a first-century Jewish sect, with its fear-based Old Testament teachings hardly tempered at all by the Lord’s Gospel words. I have never known a devout Christian in all my years of Christian worship who sought to follow the teachings of Jesus first of all, above the dictates of religion, but that is precisely what the Lord commands! He says, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.  Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (JN 8:31-32) And He tells us repeatedly in various ways not to package his teachings in Judaism, but rather to keep them separate (His followers called His teachings “the Way”). He says, “And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.” (MK 2:22)

The Gospel teachings of Jesus are the surest route to rapid spiritual growth. That certainly has been true for me, and I am convinced now these teachings work for everyone as I hear from more and more delighted people!

But the fact that Christianity as it is practiced has nothing to do with the genuine Jesus presents a problem for those of us who want to teach the Lord’s truths to our children and grandchildren. I have been learning from readers of Liberating Jesus that every children’s book about Jesus they can find is full of fear-based religious teachings. So then we’ll just have to write our own books! The Fun of Meeting Jesus is the first in a series of read-aloud and early-reader picture-books based exclusively in the genuine Gospels. It was published just in time for Christmas, and early reports are that children love it. Parents are enjoying it too! There is a section for parents, so these books can be used to teach children the simple steps toward healthy spiritual growth devoid of fear that are what Jesus came to give us.

He said, “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” (LK 11: 9-10) The greatest gift we can give to our children is a comfortable relationship with the genuine Jesus. Following those simple Gospel lessons is the key to comfortable spiritual growth that truly can make their whole lives joyous!

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