Roberta Grimes

Knowing God

Posted by Roberta Grimes • March 21, 2026 • 2 Comments
Afterlife Research, The Source, Understanding Reality

He can turn the tides and calm the angry sea
He alone decides who writes a symphony
He lights every star that makes the darkness bright
He keeps watch all through each long and lonely night

He still finds the time to hear a child’s first prayer
Saint or sinner calls and always finds him there
Though it makes him sad to see the way we live,
He’ll always say “I forgive”.
– Jack Richards (1925-2011) & Richard Mullan, from “He” (1955)

Not even the most closed-minded scientist disputes anymore the fact that the universe that we can perceive all around us actually exists. So clearly, something must have brought it into being! But scientists still refuse to take seriously what seems to be the next big question. When pressed to identify the Uncaused Cause that brought forth this universe out of nothing, scientists’ answers more or less boil down to “Nobody knows and shut up.” Or, as the great Rupert Sheldrake sums up the attitude of scientists toward the Uncaused Cause, “Give us one free miracle and we’ll explain the rest.” But something brought this universe into being! And we are closer than ever now to understanding what that Something is.

Human beings always have more or less believed in some kind of force that was greater than ourselves. In association with some of the earliest stone tools are works of art created by people who were living on the edge of survival. What else but a mix of fear and awe could have inspired so many primitive people to expend the vast time and energy that must have been needed to make this art? Then, perhaps twelve thousand years ago, an amazing temple was built at Gobekli Tepe, in what is now Turkey. For me, the most extraordinary thing about Gobekli Tepe is the fact that stone-age people built this amazing place, and then one day they buried it. Our relationship with the gods of our own uneasy creation always has been tempestuous!

The best afterlife research that was conducted for the most part during the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries has demonstrated that each of us is densely connected with Spirit. Each person has the constant help of beings who are not now in bodies, and we can assume that this spiritual aspect of the human experience goes back to our earliest beginnings. As the Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” Surely this spiritual connection must be why we always have had the sense that there must be an unseen force! Our impulse toward God may be the central fact of the entire human experience.

Every version of a “god” created by human beings, even down to the modern day, has been as human-made and bogus as was all that art created by stone-age primitives. None of our present human-created gods can factually address our deepest questions, so our yearning to know the real God remains. I have often talked about God here  as I have tried to better tease out from the afterlife evidence what more we can learn about the Uncaused Cause that is the genuine God. And it is impossible for us to understand God unless we have some sense of the reality in which God operates. The greater reality is not only stranger than what we have been imagining, but it is stranger than anything that we can imagine! I can give you in this limited space only what I hope will be sufficient highlights to provide a frame in which we can deepen our search for that miraculous genuine God.

This greater reality, the totality of the reality in which researchers have been able to determine that God moves, may be some twenty times the size of the known material universe, with the reality beyond the material universe consisting of what we know as the astral planes. And the astral planes may be some twenty or more times the size of this material universe, although both time and space do not exist as constant factors in most of reality so we are talking only relative sizes. And the whole of the greater reality, the material plus the astral realities together, is composed of what we experience to a limited extent as human consciousness. And in fact, what we are calling consciousness turns out to be the base creative force that manifests everything that exists.

So what we experience as consciousness is the substance, and also it is the source of the entire greater reality. For a long time, materialist scientists assumed that our brains must produce consciousness, and they searched endlessly and ultimately fruitlessly for a source of consciousness there. No dice. What is by now obvious is the fact that all of Consciousness is the Uncaused Cause! Open-minded researchers have long since come to accept this fact, and even some scientists are beginning to accept it as well. Many of us are now starting to capitalize the word Consciousness, or we simplify it and refer to the Uncaused Cause with words like Source or Mind. Do you have a sense now of having reality beginning to dawn on you as well?

The Consciousness which is all that exists is a kind of energy. So, like other forms of energy, it vibrates. Its vibratory rate ranges from the lowest and weakest, which is fear, anger, and hatred, to the highest and most powerful, which is perfect love. So, what we experience in a limited way as emotion is the essences of that base creative force! God is the highest vibration of a consciousness that includes us all; and since there is no objective time, you and I are eternal by definition. Getting rid of that cranky Christian God has been such a relief for me that it has taken me years to realize why even this better understanding of God still feels so unsatisfying. God is perfect eternal love! We live in God forevermore! But Consciousness-as-God still somehow feels as inert and impersonal as a plush puppy. And knowing that Consciousness is the base creative force allows us to explain how the universe is created, but it still doesn’t tell us why.

 The Creator is the created. Consciousness is all that is or was or ever will be. This material universe is a subset of consciousness, which means that consciousness creates time and space so it cannot be affected by either. I have been working for years to try to ferret out the implications of a greater reality in which objective time does not exist! For our friends who have transitioned to the next stage of life, time is optional, and learning how they view time has confirmed our supposition that in reality, time does not exist at all; and t implications of this fact are boggling! If anything now exists, the it always exists. The past might change as easily as the future. So creation didn’t happen “long ago,” but instead creation is happening in each micro-instant. The great physicist Max Planck said, “We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.” As always, he is exactly right.

Researchers have found bits of evidence that creation is a continuous process, and once scientists take an interest, I am sure that they are going to find many more. For one example, we are told that the universe’s stability depends on a number of forces remaining constant, and scientists assume that therefore these constants must be forever constant. But Rupert Sheldrake, who is a meticulous and a very open-minded researcher, has discovered that some of these so-called constants are in fact adjusting minutely. So the universe exists and is stable because Consciousness (or Mind, or God) manifests it freshly in each micro-instant. What we see as the material universe is in the nature of a thought.

The Bible and ascended Beings suggest that the Genuine God is a Collective of merged perfected Minds. Much of what the Bible says about God refers to the human-made religious God, but we notice some hints here and there that the genuine God might be a Collective. For example:

“Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness’” (Gen 1:26).

“Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I. Send me!’” (Isaiah 6:6)

This would not mean much, except for the fact that we know that advanced beings generally work in collectives. One of their number will speak for them, but that spokesman never acts alone; instead, he represents hundreds or thousands of beings who have become so spiritually advanced that they can think and act as one. Even my primary guide, Thomas, when he met with me through a medium so he could badger me into writing Liberating Jesus, made it plain that he was working with beings who included Mary Magdalene and Mother Mary. So I find it arresting to find Jesus saying things like, “The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works” (JN 14:10). So in fact, Jesus plainly told us that He was a spokesman? He often referred to God as “the Father,” perhaps to soften his primitive listeners’ fear of their religion’s cranky God; and of course, He never could have told them He was representing a Collective because they could not then have conceived of the kind of God that I will suggest to you now. Jesus tells us repeatedly that “God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth” (JN 4:24). But “God is spirit” is like “God is Consciousness,” is it not? It feels vague and impersonal. And we know that God is neither vague nor impersonal, but rather God dwells in every human heart. God is Consciousness.

Mikey Morgan is a sixth-level being who last lived on earth in the 1600s. He took a brief additional lifetime that ended in 2007 so he could speak to us in modern terms with the assistance of his mother, Carol Morgan, who has never studied any of this. It took me awhile to accept the fact that Mikey is genuine. But I have seen him rapidly answer hundreds of questions much better than I could have done, and he never has made a single mistake. At this point, he is almost the only person I still trust to help me answer the biggest questions. When I asked Mikey for his definition of God for his book, Flying High in Spirit, and he said, “God is the unity of pure love and all that exists,” that planted a seed in my mind. He and I had not discussed God in the intervening three years, but I asked him the question again this week. Here is what he said, word for word: “God is the Unity of Absolute Pure Love which is Infinite. The Collective or Source of all that exists.”

Very early in my afterlife research, I began to encounter statements from upper-level collectives that told us the seventh level is the Source level, where God is. Eventually there was a belief among researchers that entering the seventh level would be optional, and it would mean personal extinction and merger with the Source. We even called it “the second death.” When that notion began to freak me out – why try to advance, if it would mean my extinction? – my primary guide said to me, “You will never lose awareness. You will have God’s awareness.” Thanks to other communicators and to beautiful Mikey, we now know that what Thomas said is true: the awareness you are experiencing now is eternal. We also know from Mikey and others that the Source level is by no means the top of what you and I can aspire to achieve. Mikey tells me our spiritual growth is “infinite.” Consider my mind to be officially boggled!

I am now convinced that the genuine God is in the nature of a Collective of very spiritually advanced Beings. I have asked my Thomas, my dear spirit guide, to take this notion away, but instead he has reinforced it. And since this idea first occurred to me, I have found so much evidence for it that I have been slapping my head repeatedly. For just one example, we have been told by some of those not in bodies that Jesus is “from the highest aspect of the Godhead.” What else could that mean? My dear friends, I now suspect that the Uncaused Cause, the Source of all, and the only eternal God is an infinitely powerful Collective of those who have achieved the highest spiritual vibration.

He can touch a tree and turn the leaves to gold
He knows every lie that you and I have told
Though it makes him sad to see the way we live
He’ll always say “I forgive”.
– Jack Richards (1925-2011) & Richard Mullan, from “He” (1955)