Roberta Grimes

Hello Sunshine!

Posted by Roberta Grimes • July 19, 2025 • 6 Comments
Afterlife Research, Human Nature, Quantum Physics, The Source, Understanding Reality

Dear One, the world is waiting for the sunrise.
Every rose is covered with dew.
The thrush on high his sleepy mate is calling,
And my heart is calling you. 

Dear Heart, the world is waiting for the sunrise!
Every little rosebud is heavy with dew!
And while the thrush his sleepy mate is calling,
In my heart is calling You!
Gene Lockhart (1891-1957) & Ernest Seitz (1892-1978), from “The World is Waiting for the Sunrise” (1918)

There is a classic magazine cartoon that carries a deep meaning. Two fish are swimming along cheerily, with speech-bubbles over both their heads. One fish is saying to the other fish, “How does the water feel to you this morning?” The second fish says, “What’s water?” And we giggle. Of course! We get it! That second fish cannot perceive that the water even exists, because the fish has never experienced not-water. So, for that second fish, water is the only reality. And in fact, this is precisely the same problem that mainstream materialist scientists of all disciplines are still having with their experience of consciousness. It was the great quantum physicist Max Planck who first discovered the fact that consciousness is the base of our reality, which means that we cannot ever experience not-consciousness. That was what he meant when he said that we cannot “get behind” consciousness. In 1931, he said, “I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness! Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”  What our dear friend Max was telling us was that you and I and everyone else on earth, especially including every scientist, all live our whole lives like the second fish in that classic fish-in-water cartoon. Since consciousness is the water in which we swim, consciousness is our whole reality, and we cannot imagine how it would feel to live in a reality that pre-exists and must somehow first generate consciousness.

And yet, as we demonstrated here last week, cutting-edge science in the year 2025 still is being forced by its foolish materialist dogma that is now more than a century old to search for a source of consciousness inside the human brain. Which is the loony near-equivalent of searching for the source of water, or even of air somewhere inside our human bodies. One pursuit makes as little sense as do the others. And why should consciousness come from only human brains, when it is so obvious that all mammals and even simpler animals also are conscious, and clearly they also are able to think? There is an excellent embedded video at this link that includes five of the current leading thinkers in the field of consciousness research, and it will help you to better sympathize with their long frustration with their wasted careers, all spent in pursuing a source of consciousness inside the human brain. They all know by now that clearly no source of consciousness there is ever going to be found.

Although that video is rather long, it’s a good summary of the current state of materialist play, and you might enjoy it, as I did. And you ought to know that poor Christof Koch, who was featured in the video, recently lost a case of fine wine in a 25-year failed bet over the issue of whether a source of consciousness in the brain might ever be found before some certain date. Although mainstream science does creep closer to the truth, by inches! The materialists’ current theory which comes closest to making sense is panpsychism, which guesses that consciousness must be a property that is inherent in matter. OMG. So close, but still no cigar. Nevertheless, panpsychism seems to be an idea that most traditional materialist scientists love to hate, very sad to say. And that is true, even though it is the materialist scientific theory that seems to come closest to making sense of all the evidence about consciousness that materialist scientists can accept.

The key consciousness evidence that these scientists are not allowed ever to notice, however, reveals a massive area of strongly evidence-based reality that fits closely with the reality that we inhabit. I have been studying what is called afterlife evidence for the past half-century, and I can affirm to you that, by now, we have received a tremendous body of excellent evidence about what is actually going on that has been delivered to us by people that we used to think were dead. This evidence is so amazingly detailed, and so completely consistent across types of evidence and methods of delivery, and even throughout more than a century on earth, that it is impossible for the complex story that it is telling us not to be true.

Furthermore, as we have added all this amazing afterlife evidence to what traditional scientists have developed, we have built an understanding of a much more detailed and completely amazing greater reality. It all fits together like one single gigantic puzzle! And it makes it pretty easy for us now to solve the four big problems posed last week that scientists apparently cannot solve at all.  Namely: Dark Matter/Energy, Death, Life, and Consciousness. With afterlife researchers now allowed to add their insights, let’s you and I consider again those four mysteries, but now in reverse order because consciousness underlies them all. Once we can wrap our minds around consciousness, it will be much easier for us to better understand everything else:

• Consciousness is the base of all reality, just as Max Plank first said it was. Insofar as we are able to determine, in fact there actually is nothing else. While materialist scientists still flounder uselessly for a best definition for the word “consciousness”, and they mostly still define it as something like “human awareness,” we who study all of reality can produce a definition that actually works! Consciousness is an energy-like potentiality without size or form, alive in the sense that your mind is alive, deeply aware, highly creative, and governed by what we human beings call “emotion”. What we experience in general as love is Consciousness’s highest, strongest, and most rapid vibration; while fear, anger, and hatred in any combination are its lowest, slowest, and weakest vibration. Like mattergy, Consciousness can take both energy and solid forms. Clearly, then, at the highest Consciousness vibration of all is the Godhead. Not any religious god, mind you, since religious gods are human-created. But the fundamental creative Intelligence is at the highest vibration of Consciousness; and all of our minds are part of that same Consciousness, but at lower vibrations, so we are striving to move ever higher, and ever closer to the Godhead level on the Consciousness scale. And in discovering all of this, and also in discovering the fact that Consciousness encompasses all of reality, and nothing else beyond it exists, Max Planck was entirely right.
• Death. My dear ones, the evidence for the fact that life for our human minds is eternal is consistent, and it is overwhelming. Afterlife evidence is very much like the evidence for dark energy and dark matter, in that the phenomenon’s demonstrated effect on other, better-established and more widely accepted phenomena is primarily how we first discovered it. And in fact, there is much more of this sort of afterlife evidence around than you can imagine! It just is easy to ignore, if your personal belief-system requires you to ignore it. But my dear ones, repeating the words “OMG, what a coincidence!” a million times over as each new jaw-dropper lands on us can take us only so far! We afterlife researchers were able to satisfactorily prove decades ago to anyone with even a half-open mind that the afterlife is of course real, without question. And, far beyond that, we have learned in very great and amazing detail what the afterlife is like!
• Life. Aside from basic consciousness, the great core question that materialist scientists have been determined to answer for more than a century, so they could settle for certain the need to plug in any sort of “God of the Gaps” idea that might be necessary to add a spark of life, is this: How did life spring from non-living matter? But the need for that spark is really not even their biggest problem. James Tour is the leading critic of all the manifold materialist attempts to make life arise spontaneously from some non-living primordial goo, and he has effectively shown the task to be impossible. You could experiment forever, and still never have anything but mud to show for all your troubles. Here is a longer, more detailed, and up-to-the minute video by James Tour that explains just how completely nowhere materialist scientists still are on discovering the origin of life. Please do watch this video, which is truly enjoyable! And puzzle with physicists over the fact that the physical constants of the universe are, incredibly, so against-all-odds perfect for life.  And, okay, so here trots in Roberta with her proposed answer. After considerable research and a lot of thought, I believe that we are going to find that life is an inherent property of Consciousness itself, as is intelligence (of course).  And therefore, everything is to some extent “living.” All creatures, from single-celled right up to human beings, are particularly disposed to display the properties of life.
• Dark Matter/Energy. Given the previous four discussions, this fifth one largely writes itself. We now know (1) that Consciousness is all that exists, and it is an energy-like potentiality without size or form, alive in the sense that your mind is alive, intelligent and creative, and governed by what human beings call “emotion”. We also know when we contemplate Death (2) that we have had demonstrated to us conclusively by an abundance of the evidence that human minds, which are inextricably part of that Consciousness, are eternal. Realizing that the origin-of-life scientific community has gotten nowhere with all its theories, we also know (3) that they have narrowed the possibilities down to the likelihood that Life is a primary  property of Consciousness itself. So when we come now to consider Dark Matter and Dark Energy, we know that this dark matter and energy must be crucially useful and important, even by definition, since it is 95% of the universe! Scientists never say that enough, but given the way this universe has buzzed along and governed itself ever since it came into being, the one thing that we know for certain is that nearly all of it IS NOT just a bunch of sludgy particles with no function other than to form the galaxies and then push them wider apart. But when we look at the fact that human life for what might be trillions of people who ever have lived is eternal, so it still is happening right now; and when we consider all that amazing afterlife evidence, which is there for our perusal, and which tells of a truly extraordinary greater reality which exists precisely where you and I are right now; and it teems with eternal human life, then we know exactly what Dark Matter and Dark Energy is. Dark Matter and Dark Energy is the “afterlife”, and also the “beforelife”, from which you and I came to enter these brief earth-lives, and to which we soon will return. It’s all right here, and it is non-material, so of course it doesn’t react with photons of light. Well, EUREKA!

It is unfortunate that you and I are still stuck with this matter-obsessed scientific community that seems to care more about trying to create and then somehow make us believe in matter-based falsehoods, much more than it cares about finding the genuine answers to all these great scientific puzzles. True enough, they might not always like all the right answers. But, whether they like the right answers or not, their day of looking for answers where those answers cannot possibly be is sooner or later going to end. Eventually, the truth always wins. And meanwhile, here is another wonderful discussion of what actually is going on. Let the great and delightful Rupert Sheldrake brighten your day!

Dear Heart, the world is waiting for the sunrise!
Every little rosebud is heavy with dew!
And while the thrush his sleepy mate is calling,
In my heart is calling You!
Gene Lockhart (1891-1957) & Ernest Seitz (1892-1978), from “The World is Waiting for the Sunrise” (1918)

 

 

 

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