Roberta Grimes

Growing Spiritually

Posted by Roberta Grimes • August 09, 2025 • 22 Comments
Afterlife Research, The Teachings of Jesus, Understanding Reality

If I loved you,
Time and again, I would try to say
All I’d want you to know.
If I loved you,
Words wouldn’t come in an easy way.
‘Round in circles I’d go!
Longing to tell you,
But afraid and shy,
I’d let my golden chances
Pass me by.
Soon, you’d leave me.
Off you would go in the mist of day,
Never, never to know
How I loved you!
If I loved you….
– Richard Rodgers (1902-1979), from “If I Loved You” (1945)

There is just one reason why you were born. There is a main reason why people do what they do, why they are as they are, and why this world is as it is, in all its manifold and mysterious complexities. There is one reason why this universe exists, and why it ever has existed at all; and why, against such extremely long odds, you and I as individuals are alive here today. That reason, when viewed from every angle, is always in fact going to be the same reason. And it is, indeed, a very good reason… I will certainly cede to you that fact! But still, wouldn’t you expect to find more than one reason for every conceivable thing that exists, from the smallest microbes to the most distant stars, and even down to each hair on your own very precious and beautiful head? I have spent my life looking for additional reasons, or for something else that also might be going on here, when you really look hard for it. I have searched for some ancillary things that we might point to as also of significant importance in this reality. But, no one else seems to be proposing any other reason for anything to exist; and, you know, at this point, I have largely given up trying to find another reason. Every other proposed reason that I ever have seen is just ancillary to that one primary reason. When it all comes right down to it, at the base of our reality, the deeper we look, the more perfect this singularity of purpose seems to us to be, at least to each sincere and consistent seeker. So, if you might have reached any other conclusion about what actually is going on here, will you please speak up now? A lot of us are all ears!

The one conclusion about what actually is going on that seems to be what everyone on earth has reached is that this universe is designed to be our habitat for rich and rapid spiritual learning. That’s it! And apparently, that also is all. We won’t attempt right now to give a name to the Designer who set up this reality, beyond noting that we are living within what is apparently a grand and remarkable design which is centered upon that singular purpose of humankind’s rapid spiritual learning and growth. And a “Design” does indeed imply a “Designer”.

We should note as well that admitting that obvious fact does put us far ahead of the whole mainstream scientific community. All materialist scientists resolutely remain with eyes squinched shut and fingers in both ears, so they can continue to insist to us that the reality that we perceive to exist around us in fact has no purpose and no design about it, whatsoever. No purpose, so no Design. No Design, so no Designer! Mainstream materialist scientists still insist that the universe just somehow randomly appeared in a Bang! out of nothing one day, and for no reason whatsoever. From there, it randomly developed to its present stage. Somehow and amazingly, but always randomly, it simply rambled toward nowhere, developing always by sheer happenstance to become this remarkably orderly world, even including the complex wonder of you and me, all out of nothing and with no plan. But you and I long ago dismissed their ideas as just the product of their odd religion of atheistic materialism, because the universe is so obviously precisely designed, just as you and I are designed, with this clear purpose of  our rapid spiritual development while we are on earth always somehow behind it all. Anyone who actually studies the evidence without the scientists’ atheistic religious bias can reach no other sensible conclusion.

When you begin your research with parameters predetermined, and with the end result already in mind, then you cannot claim to be doing real and objective science. To this day, scientists still are awkwardly certain that the brain must be the source of consciousness, despite all the evidence they have developed so far against this assumption, and although even to this day they still cannot begin to fathom how that might happen. And they also still assume that life first somehow sprang from lightning hitting some magical primordial goo, although to this day they cannot tell you how that might possibly have happened, either. .After more than a century of devotion to their religion of atheistic materialism, when it comes to explaining why and how matter arose, where consciousness comes from, and how life began, the materialist scientists’ efforts still are sadly going nowhere.

So, my dear ones, at this point we need not continue to wait even a moment longer for the scientific community to eventually get a clue, as it ever more pointlessly flounders on. Like the worshipers of Marduk in the ancient past who threw their firstborn infants into the fires burning in their idols’ bellies, materialist scientists still follow a belief-system that we can see by now is tragically wrongheaded. But meanwhile, we understand that the truth of this beautiful reality around us is in fact so simple! As our great hero, the pioneering quantum physicist Max Planck, discovered more than a century ago, what we experience as consciousness is in fact all that independently exists. Consciousness is an energy-like potentiality, so it vibrates as what we experience as human emotion. Love is at the highest and most powerful consciousness vibration; and fear, anger, and hatred are at the lowest, slowest, and weakest vibration. And since time does not exist in our true home, if you are conscious now, then you are conscious eternally. You are eternal by your very nature. And if what we are summarizing in this paragraph is not already clear to you, simply put the word “consciousness” into the search bar above and to the right, and you will find more than thirty posts that document my own developing awareness over the past few years of the overwhelming fact that Consciousness is all there is. Consciousness is the sculptor as well as the clay. You also will find in those posts some terrific linked articles and videos that helped me to at last achieve these ultimate insights. Please enjoy those prior posts about consciousness, until all of this at last makes sense to you.

So, now we know for certain that our lives are eternal! You and I dwell forever in more beauty and joy than we can possibly imagine with just these little stripped-down aspects of our minds that we are using during these brief earth-lifetimes. Oh, we often do astral-travel at night back home from here while our bodies sleep. And some of us are learning to remember those journeys, because the veil between realities really is thinning at this point. But still, the Luddite scientific community holds an oddly mesmerizing control over most people’s minds. It really is amazing! Think about it. Since the scientific gatekeepers first imposed their nonsensical dogma of atheistic materialism on the whole scientific community more than a century ago, there have been no more fundamental scientific discoveries.  We still don’t know how or why the Big Bang happened, nor what might have come before it; we don’t know what consciousness is, nor where it comes from; nor even how life on earth began. The answers to even these most basic questions still, and seemingly forevermore, must now elude us. And far too many people still overly trust a scientific community which tells us that one day very soon, for no discernible reason, we each will forever blink out like a light. And so, scientists sadly cheat most people now living on earth of the chance to use this lifetime as they came here firmly intending to use it, as a place for wonderfully rapid spiritual growth!

Every person now living on earth, all eight billion or so of us, has chosen to be born on this planet because it provides us with an ideal environment in which to grow spiritually.  Each of us carefully planned these earth-lives with the help of our eternal mentors and our spirit guides for these earth-lifetimes; and we had the help, too, of wonderful eternal friends who now play important roles in our lives. We briefly put aside most of our vast, eternal minds so our active earth-minds were stripped down for rapid learning, and we accepted amnesia about what was going on as we prepared to be born into the earth-lives that we are now living. This material universe, and this earth in particular, is considered to be the toughest, and the best place in all of reality in which to achieve very rapid spiritual growth!

I suppose part of the reason why this is true is that, once you are here, you have no idea why you are here. And now, I’m going to use my own life as a pretty good example. Apparently, I am not actually a spiritual low-life and utter dunce in my real life, but rather I have been working with Thomas and serving Jesus for many centuries; but you never would have known that from my own early earth-life this time around. I was embarrassingly selfish, conceited, and self-absorbed as a child, quite spiritually un-promising. OMG, it embarrasses me now to look back at the whole first half of my life as Roberta! But I did feel driven to do all that afterlife research, and to read the Bible daily, and especially the Gospels, over and over again repeatedly from the age of eleven; and gradually, a more spiritually aware being emerged in me. What seems to be the case is that we all come into these earth-lives as I did, just spiritually stupid and self-obsessed, and our guides direct us in our very early development. And I don’t care how old you are now, it is amazingly easy for you to use the teachings of Jesus to retrain yourself spiritually, and to raise your own consciousness vibration rapidly enough from wherever you are now that you can make this your last necessary earth-lifetime. Once you make spiritual growth your whole focus, it can take almost no time at all! Just a year or two perhaps, if you will put your whole mind to it.  

So, let’s really do this now. It was Thomas who directed me in taking these steps, even before I actually had met him in 2015. I think he probably did it as an experiment with me, and it worked beautifully! Raising your vibration enough to make this your last necessary earth-lifetime turns out to be as easy as One, Two, Three…

• One, Perfect an Attitude of Gratitude. This is so simple! Get a notebook, and write down one new thing each day that you are grateful for. Or perhaps two at first, if you are an over-achiever. Write down what you are grateful for, and briefly why you are grateful for it. Also form the habit of falling asleep counting your blessings every night. When you concentrate on it, Gratitude becomes a wonderfully positive, reflexive, and constant attitude.
• Two, Apply Prevenient Forgiveness to Everything. The “Miracle” in A Course in Miracles is forgiveness, and universal forgiveness is the essential precursor to universal love, so whenever anything or anyone bothers you at all, always forgive it right away! At once and automatically, gather everything that even remotely bothers you into a nice, tight ball, and then push it away from you slowly with both hands as you firmly say aloud, “I love you. I bless you. I forgive. And I release.” Do this even two or three times in succession if necessary, always going through the whole process of gathering whatever bothers you, including all the people, and forming the forgiveness ball and pushing it away while you say the mantra, until all your negative feelings about whatever it was are altogether gone.
• Three, Master Universal Love. You will discover that once your Attitude of Gratitude has become habitual, and your Prevenient Forgiveness habit has largely cleared up all the things in your life that ever used to bother you, then you are going to find yourself liking, and then even loving things, and especially people, that you never would even have noticed before. Perhaps there were things about some of your family members, work associates, neighbors, and friends that used to get on your nerves; but now, oddly, those things bother you less and less. Or there was a house you used to pass on your daily walk where they never properly mowed their lawn, and rather than feeling irked by their laziness, your first thought now is that perhaps you ought to organize a neighborhood fund for people who have trouble affording to pay for lawn mowing.

Mastering these steps in this order is important. You are altogether retraining your pared-down earth-mind! Your attitude of gratitude first captures your mind’s full attention, and it prepares your mind for more intensive learning. Then, your obsessive use of Prevenient Forgiveness, your retraining of your mind with those forgiveness balls, clears away what has been a lifetime of letting your mind run wild with petty selfishness. This is some truly heavy-duty stuff! I spent about six months monitoring my every thought, and stopping and punishing my mind with another forgiveness-balls session whenever I had even the slightest mean or petty notion. And this was back in 2011, so almost fifteen years ago now. And in all the years since, I have never again had the smallest unkind thought about anyone. I have never had to form another forgiveness ball since then. Not even once!

It was sometime in about 2015, soon after Thomas had first come out to me as my primary spirit guide, and soon after we had together written Liberating Jesus, that my dear Thomas announced to me from out of the blue one day that I had now achieved the upper fifth spiritual level. So therefore, this is my last necessary earth-lifetime. I had never asked him this question, but he knew that, wow, I would want to know this, when it happened! And, yes, I did want to know it. I really had mastered my mind and raised my vibration to this extent? I knew that I did feel very different. It had been a long time since I had had any sort of unkind thought at all. I recall that I stood up slowly from my desk when he said this, and I went outside, and I walked around for a bit, just taking it all in. That was more than ten years ago. By now, I am used to this idea. I think that I  have grown even more. But my darling, my dear one, my precious friend, please think about this. If I have done it, Then anyone can do it! You can so easily do it, too!

 

 

(Many photos are from Vecteezy.com)