Blog - Understanding Reality

Stumbling Toward Consciousness

Posted by Roberta Grimes • June 19, 2015 • 6 Comments

A frustrating but still amusing hobby is watching scientists who are bound by a “fundamental dogma” of atheistic materialism continue to stumble toward a consciousness-based understanding of reality… by exhausting every other possible theory. Some readers of this blog have reproached me for being too hard on mainstream science. How is it possible that universities... Read More

Is There Life After Birth?

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

Consciousness Does Not Compute

Posted by Roberta Grimes • May 15, 2015 • 10 Comments

What is consciousness? Where does it come from? What does it do? Even a decade and a half into the twenty-first century, mainstream scientists still insist that consciousness has to come from the brain.  But your consciousness is not generated by your brain. We have discussed elsewhere the many reasons why you can be certain... Read More

Uploading Your Mind

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

Ending the Great Stagnation

Posted by Roberta Grimes • April 22, 2015 • 2 Comments

Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warns us that science is in a period of what he calls the “Great Stagnation.” He frets that we are stuck in what he sees as a “culture of conformity” because “innovation depends on individuals who are willing to pursue unconventional, or even controversial, ideas.” Mr. Thiel, you are exactly right.... Read More

When a Child Dies

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

Welcome!

Posted by Roberta Grimes • March 28, 2015 • 10 Comments

If you have been a member of this website for awhile, I hope you know how much I appreciate your friendship. If we have recently met on the wonderful George Noory’s Coast to Coast AM, I want to welcome you to our shared adventure! For the first time in human history, we are beginning to... Read More

Race and Gender

Posted by Roberta Grimes • March 05, 2015 • 8 Comments

Recently I received an email from the granddaughter of an American slave who asked a distressing question. She said that people of her race are too often thwarted in life, and she asked me whether racial differences are “a joke from God.” She especially wanted to know whether in the afterlife everyone would be equal.... Read More

Physicists Unchained

Posted by Roberta Grimes • February 17, 2015 • 4 Comments

To be a physicist in the early twenty-first century looks like the most frustrating job in the universe. I say this because being even a devoted physics groupie reading popular-science versions of what physicists are up to now feels mind-shriveling. I will give you some quick examples from the recent press: Apparently the Big Bang,... Read More

Editing the Bible

Posted by Roberta Grimes • January 23, 2015 • 8 Comments

In the wake of recent terrorist attacks that seem to have been inspired by holy writ, certain helpful folks have suggested that the Koran may need editing. Well, a certain other book could use a bit of editing as well. My primary objection to mainstream Christianity is that it does not follow Jesus. It follows... Read More