Posted by Roberta Grimes • June 08, 2014 • 0 Comment
My journey away from mainstream Christianity and toward following the teachings of Jesus has been lifelong. Having had two experiences of light in childhood, I was always certain that God is real. But Christianity troubled me more and more as I read communications from the dead and came to understand ever more clearly that the... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • May 26, 2014 • 0 Comment
Michael Tymn is a venerable light in the field of afterlife research, a meticulous and fearless scholar whose blog is a must-read for me. Michael is an expert on nineteenth-century deep-trance and physical mediums, and his books are informative and beautifully written. In his current blog post he talks about Adin Ballou, his new candidate... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • May 10, 2014 • 0 Comment
I have heard from a number of people about my blog post entitled Physics in Crisis, including someone who asked a question that has been on my mind for awhile. How is it that in the year 2014 nearly everyone pursuing a career in science still insists on building that career on core beliefs that... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • May 05, 2014 • 2 Comments
One of my vices is popular science magazines, and I especially love Scientific American. It’s full of articles that are candy for the mind, luscious insights you might never use but you feel better equipped for life by knowing them. I began reading my favorite magazine a decade ago, as I was trying to puzzle... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • April 19, 2014 • 0 Comment
One of the questions that the afterlife evidence answers for us has long been a stumper. Why do bad things happen to good people? Atheists sometimes use the question as proof that there can be no loving God, while even those who are very religious will sometimes fret and question their beliefs as they try... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • April 05, 2014 • 0 Comment
Christopher Columbus once ordered the simultaneous burning alive of a hundred Native American tribal leaders. The historian who mentioned this in a History Channel program awhile back tried to soften the shock of it by noting that “the fifteenth century was a barbaric age.” There was a time when I would have shuddered and changed... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • March 31, 2014 • 2 Comments
Part of the fun of doing afterlife research is the fact that as you put together many hundreds of afterlife communications received over nearly two centuries, you find that the dead are telling us remarkable things about the structure of reality itself. The dead tell us that reality is energy-based. There is pretty strong evidence... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • March 08, 2014 • 1 Comment
One of the best things about my adventures in afterlife research has been the extraordinary people I have met. There is a small group of brilliant folks worldwide who have devoted themselves to trying to understand death, the afterlife, and the nature of reality, and my joy since publishing The Fun of Dying has been... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • February 26, 2014 • 0 Comment
Having mentioned William Stainton Moses last week, I can’t resist sharing with you some thoughts about Imperator, who was the leading spirit to communicate with Moses and the core author of an extraordinary nineteenth-century book called Spirit Teachings. In general, the century from about 1840 until 1940 was a heyday of frequent, comprehensive, and often... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • December 29, 2013 • 2 Comments
In decades of studying nearly 200 years of abundant and consistent communications from the dead, I have been able to find no evidence at all for a vengeful Old Testament Jehovah-God. Instead, that version of God appears to have been a last synthesis of the pantheisms which gave ancient peoples lots of people-like gods: ... Read More
