Blog - Understanding Reality

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

The Hard Problem

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

The Science Delusion

Posted by Roberta Grimes • January 09, 2015 • 0 Comment

One of the few trained scientists making a career in studying the greater reality is Rupert Sheldrake. His curiosity about all the many phenomena that spring from the fact that reality is based in consciousness has greatly enhanced our understanding of oddities ranging from the sense of being stared at and the fact that dogs... Read More

Do We Have Free Will?

Posted by Roberta Grimes • December 23, 2014 • 0 Comment

An amazing debate continues to rage in the scientific community. Do we, or do we not, have free will? Experiments indicate that our brains become active and we start the process of moving our bodies before we make the decision to move, which troubling fact has led many researchers to conclude that our apparent free... Read More