Posted by Roberta Grimes • November 27, 2015 • 17 Comments
A recent study of more than a thousand children in six countries shows a strong negative correlation between religious practice and altruism. The study found that family religious identification decreased children’s altruistic behaviors and reduced their empathy and their sensitivity to perceived injustices. Children from religious households also tended to be more judgmental, and harsher... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • November 09, 2015 • 26 Comments
I’ve been telling everyone that sincerely giving your life to God will transform it altogether. Perhaps it isn’t surprising that some people are taking my advice. And I love them for that! But one reader has just reminded me that it isn’t quite that simple. She said in a blog post comment: You write... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • September 12, 2015 • 31 Comments
I have just read the most foolish bit of nonsense that I ever have seen in Scientific American. And given the fact that most issues of my favorite magazine include further examples of the resolute cluelessness to which mainstream science has reduced itself, to call this article perhaps the most epic bit of ignorance ever... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • August 13, 2015 • 25 Comments
Long before I knew that my primary spirit guide had once been Thomas Jefferson, I loved the man. My 1993 Doubleday novel, My Thomas, was written from the adoring viewpoint of his wife. And before I could write so tenderly about someone who had been a slaveholder, I had to do research and satisfy myself... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • August 02, 2015 • 21 Comments
It became clear soon after my last post was made that many readers are not familiar with spirit guides. This is an area where I am not expert, but I’m competent to give you a beginner’s course. Let’s do that now! Your life will be richer and more fulfilling when you have a better sense... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • May 31, 2015 • 5 Comments
Victor and Wendy Zammit produce a wonderful free weekly newsletter that covers the whole range of death and afterlife topics. You can subscribe at VictorZammit.com. The depth and range of the information they share will amaze you! As a break from this heavy but essential discussion of the meaning and the message of Jesus, I... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • May 06, 2015 • 6 Comments
Despite extensive evidence that human consciousness is primary and it pre-exists the universe, mainstream scientists still believe that nothing exists that is not material. They are certain that your mind, your personality, all that you are is generated entirely by your brain, so when you die your mind will blink out like a light. All... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • April 12, 2015 • 11 Comments
Afterlife studies is a genuine science, which means that it has much to tell us beyond the fact that human minds are eternal. One of its most important revelations is the final answer to that age-old question: What is the purpose of human life? Here the dead agree with most major religions. We are here... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • April 03, 2015 • 8 Comments
Last week I was on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. Beginning while the show was still on air, I received a wonderful flood of emails, so many that it took me two days and nights to answer them all. Most were questions or comments, but a few were heartbreaking stories. One of these... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • March 13, 2015 • 13 Comments
Before we are born, we write into the plan for our upcoming lifetime a series of challenges that operate like the machines in a gym to help us to strengthen our spiritual muscles. Things like poverty, cancer, abusive spouses, the deaths of children, and other calamities are pretty obvious spiritual lessons, but believe it or... Read More
