Posted by Roberta Grimes • February 15, 2020 • 49 Comments
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? – W.B. Yeats (1845-1939) from “The Second Coming” Many people have an increasing sense that Western civilization is falling apart. Some of us... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • February 08, 2020 • 48 Comments
“What is man that You should remember him, or the son of man that You should care for him? You have made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor.” – The Apostle Paul (Heb 2:6-7) We enter our earth-lives as beautiful people, loving... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • February 01, 2020 • 48 Comments
“Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.” – Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968) The most powerful force depressing the consciousness vibrations of all of humankind is the fact that every human institution is fear-based. We have seen that this is true... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • January 25, 2020 • 56 Comments
We have by now well established the fact that the religion that bears the name of Jesus does not follow the teachings of Jesus. Everything Christians are taught to believe was introduced in the process of religion-building that began two centuries after the Lord’s death. And all those dogmas are fear-based! The overall Christian message... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • January 18, 2020 • 40 Comments
Rules are meant to give us a structure within which a great many people can live together in reasonable peace and safety. We understand that fact in the civic sense, and we know that until humankind has managed to do a lot more spiritual development there will be a need for civic authorities and their... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • January 11, 2020 • 44 Comments
When Jesus replaced all religious laws with God’s Law of Love, He abolished the notion of rules-based sin and created a whole new world in which right and wrong are based entirely on whether an act is loving or unloving. It is hard for us to get our minds around the magnitude of this change!... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • January 04, 2020 • 47 Comments
Christianity is not based in the teachings of Jesus, and in fact much of modern Christianity is antithetical to the teachings of Jesus. It will therefore be impossible for us to tinker around the edge of Christianity, soften it here and firm it up there, perhaps remove some later accretions, and thereby transform it into... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • December 28, 2019 • 24 Comments
The worst thing about the mainstream scientific gatekeepers’ insistence that all scientific inquiry must be based in materialism is the fact that since even matter is not solid, such a dogma makes it impossible for scientists to seek real answers to our most important questions. These central questions will vary depending on the viewpoint of... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • December 21, 2019 • 49 Comments
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6). Six or seven years ago I started to loathe Christmas. When I was a child it was a... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • December 14, 2019 • 67 Comments
One question that is often asked is whether there are any good mental mediums. People ask the question in various ways, inquiring about honesty or native talent, but what they really want to know is whether we know of a medium who can clearly demonstrate to them that a loved one has survived. Having had... Read More
