Blog - Understanding Reality

A Lawyer on “Stubborn Skeptics”

Posted by Roberta Grimes • June 21, 2016 • 12 Comments

GUEST POST: Victor and Wendy Zammit are the world’s leading afterlife experts. For decades they have fearlessly battled all who would deny humankind these truths, and they even have posted a million-dollar challenge for anyone who can prove that the afterlife evidence in their wonderful book, A Lawyer Presents the Evidence for the Afterlife, is... Read More

“There is Nothing New to be Discovered”

Posted by Roberta Grimes • May 23, 2016 • 15 Comments

There are times when we encounter willful ignorance so spectacular that we stand in humble awe of it. How is it possible for an adult human being in the year 2016 to remain entirely unaware of every bit of modern afterlife evidence? Incredibly, there is one physicist who claims to be so unaware. According to... Read More

Who Are You?

Posted by Roberta Grimes • April 29, 2016 • 4 Comments

The fundamental question of human existence is this: who and what are human beings? The scientific community is confident that we are only the latest iteration of an evolutionary process that goes back to living cells appearing in primordial soup; while Christians see us as the fallen and inadequate creations of a stern Godhead. Neither... Read More

The Fun of Growing Forever

Posted by Roberta Grimes • April 18, 2016 • 18 Comments

I apologize for the tardiness of this post, but I’ve been finishing my next book and visiting Santa Barbara to form a new friendship. Jack Canfield needs no introduction! His Chicken Soup for the Soul series has sold many millions of books, and Jack in person is engaging and delightful. Here is a video of... Read More

Scientific Shark-Jumping

Posted by Roberta Grimes • March 14, 2016 • 6 Comments

The fact that mainstream science marries dogmas with what is supposed to be an open-minded pursuit of the truth is tying today’s scientists into knots. Groundbreaking research is being hampered; inventions that make no sense are being touted; and, with it all, a vast new source of expert help is being rejected out of hand.... Read More

Transgender Folly

Posted by Roberta Grimes • February 29, 2016 • 24 Comments

One of the things I lately have come to accept is that I don’t have a private life. If any of my personal experiences might help you, and even if it embarrasses me, I no longer have the right to keep it from you. So, okay, here is a big one. I was born transgendered.... Read More

Let’s Get Real

Posted by Roberta Grimes • February 21, 2016 • 14 Comments

I am coming to think that the leading intellectual challenge of our time, and perhaps the foremost barrier to any further human progress, is the insidious notion of dualism in the study of reality. We all take for granted the idea that there is a scientific way of approaching reality, and also a religious point... Read More

Material Consciousness?

Posted by Roberta Grimes • February 09, 2016 • 24 Comments

People tell me that my approach to scientific cluelessness has been too harsh. I’ve got to cut these people more slack! Fair enough. The fact that almost a century has passed as we waited for scientists to realize that the study of matter is a dead-end game may not be reason enough for me to... Read More

Missing Something Big

Posted by Roberta Grimes • January 22, 2016 • 33 Comments

The foolish adherence of mainstream science to the false dogma of materialism is now more than a century old. And materialism has brought us so much pain! It has forced brilliant scientists to waste their careers in pursuing baseless dead-end theories while it continues to keep humankind in unnecessary ignorance and fear. The damage caused... Read More

Watching the World Change

Posted by Roberta Grimes • January 10, 2016 • 16 Comments

To be a student of the greater reality is to be sitting in sunlight at the top of a mountain, talking with all the joyous people who also have managed to make this climb as we look out wistfully over the clouds that keep in darkness the whole world below. We’ve been sitting up here... Read More