Posted by Roberta Grimes • January 16, 2015 • 0 Comment
As a follow up to last week’s post about the wonderful Rupert Sheldrake and his pioneering work in studying aspects of consciousness, I’m going to offer you another great TED talk that was delivered by Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist David Chalmers in 2014. Chalmers shares with us here some extraordinary insights about consciousness. And... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • December 15, 2014 • 2 Comments
Edward O. Wilson, a world-renowned expert on ants, is the idol of a certain intellectual class that holds to a version of the scientific dogma of atheistic materialism that is softened by lofty and optimistic ideas. Human beings are alone in a clockwork universe, just the random products of evolution, but nevertheless we are unique... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • December 07, 2014 • 0 Comment
This year I have published seven books. Three are reissues of books in print, but four are newly out this year. It seems an insane achievement, like the time when I was terrified of heights but still I climbed on an open staircase to the top of St. Paul’s Cathedral dome. I really loved St.... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • November 27, 2014 • 2 Comments
There are many glorious fruits to come from finally understanding what we are, but to my mind the greatest benefit is that it frees you from fear altogether. Fear is pervasive in the modern world. We fear natural disasters and terrorism, cancer and accidents and nuclear war, alien invasions, our loved ones’ deaths, job loss,... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • November 11, 2014 • 4 Comments
Two weeks ago I had a wonderful time with Bobby Pickles and his sidekick, Matthew Piazza, doing an interview in freezing weather in a nineteenth-century graveyard near my childhood home. It was so cold! But I loved being there with my two young friends. And when Bobby told me about his devoted care of his... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • October 28, 2014 • 8 Comments
One thing about doing afterlife research and better understanding our greater reality is that what you learn helps you to establish evidence-based opinions on a great many things. At one time, I had little concern about capital punishment. So long as we executed only the guilty, what was the harm? To read of the despicable... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • October 21, 2014 • 11 Comments
One of the questions I am asked when I speak about The Fun of Dying and The Fun of Staying in Touch is whether we can have post-death sex. After all, the whole area of sexual relations is so important to our earthly lives. Isn’t it central to who we are? I think it’s... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • September 30, 2014 • 0 Comment
The question of future human evolution has been faddish among popular-science types. Some argue that human evolution is at an end because our culture and our ease of travel make further natural selection impossible. Others, though, see us likely evolving in ways that will radically extend our earth-lives, including perhaps fertility into our eighties, interfacing... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • September 08, 2014 • 4 Comments
After two experiences of light in childhood, naturally I was an ardent Christian. Having married a Catholic, I was a Catholic Christian, a Catechism teacher, a Lector, and such a devoted daily reader of the Bible that I have read it cover-to-cover at least a dozen times. Each time I got to the final page... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • September 01, 2014 • 4 Comments
One of the things that is most certain about the afterlife evidence is what it tells us is the reason why we even are alive at all. Why are we here? What is human life for? The very fact that there exists such an exquisite and gloriously planned afterlife for each of the seven billion... Read More
