Roberta Grimes

Scientific Stumbles

Posted by Roberta Grimes • February 21, 2026 • 3 Comments
Quantum Physics, Understanding Reality

What’s it all about, Alfie?
Is it just for the moment we live?
What’s it all about when you sort it out, Alfie?
Are we meant to take more than we give?
Or are we meant to be kind?

And if only fools are kind, Alfie,
Then I guess it is wise to be cruel.
And if life belongs only to the strong, Alfie,
What will you lend on an old golden rule?

As sure as I believe there’s a heaven above, Alfie,
I know there’s something much more.
Something even non-believers can believe in.
– Burt Bacharach (1928-2023) & Hal David (1921-2012), from “Alfie” (1966)

My Thomas and I keep telling each other that it is past time for us to shift back to discussing the spiritual matters which are supposed to be the core of our ruminations here! But then I read more articles in the popular science magazines that I  have always loved; and there I come across yet more of the frank brutalizing that the materialist scientific community continues to do to itself. This inability of mainstream science to make any kind of sense of reality is a self-inflicted disaster on a nearly cosmic level, and yet it still goes unremarked in the popular press. That materialist dogma is just as silly, of course, as if scientists were being required to study only whatever rhymes with “time”, perhaps, or to do something else that was equally unhinged. And the sad fact that mainstream science still to this day so foolishly limits itself, does seem to be something that we ought to be documenting for all the world to see! Oh my goodness, my dear ones. Over the whole past century and a quarter, ever since it stupidly handicapped itself with the pointless dogma of materialism in the first place, mainstream science has been unable to find good answers to at least the following three essential and fundamental scientific questions: (1) how did matter originate? (2) how did life on earth begin? (3) What is consciousness, and where does it come from?

There are other basic questions, too, that mainstream science also now cannot answer because of its arbitrary materialist self-limitation that began more than a century ago. But even just these three self-limitations are the most frustrating for serious scientists. And it embarrasses them for us to be aware that for beyond the past hundred and twenty-five years, materialist mainstream science has been still trying hard to figure out:

(1) how matter originated,

(2) how life began,  and

(3) the actual definition and the true source of consciousness.

In all three cases, my efforts to Google of course came up with some kinds of answers, but for (1) and (2) the answers given just above were prominent. Now, the fact that question (1), even today, is best answered when your internet search finds the old Forbes article linked above; and question (2) is answered with a silly YouTube that comes right out and tells you that there is as yet no scientific answer to your question; and I will tell you below that question (3) can be very well answered, but not by materialist scientists, shows you just how badly materialist science has failed us all. More on consciousness in a moment.

For my whole life, I have been expecting the mainstream scientific community at any moment to at last simply discard their nonsensical dogma of materialism. Scientific inquiry must be free of all dogmas! And that dogma was first adopted soon after the dawn of the twentieth century. The reason for it, believe it or not, seems to have been a kind of primal panic in the senior scientific community of the day that an unfettered quantum mechanics community, and especially one being led by Max Planck himself, might just inadvertently discover the genuine God. But we find that now, after more than a century during which the mainstream scientific community has become thoroughly used to living within and accommodating itself to its materialist dogma, rather than discarding that dogma as outmoded and useless, instead, the scientific community now simply and pointlessly dances around it. For example:

• Mainstream Science Now Simply Continues to Assume Whatever the Dogma Has Required it to Posit, and Then Just Adds to It.  So now it lives with, rather than anymore much challenging, the Big Bang theory for our universe’s origin. I can recall when, even fairly recently, a younger and friskier twenty-first-century scientific community used to treat the Big Bang theory as only a theory, mind you, and scientists frequently and usefully challenged it, trying to find a more robust and fully explanatory alternative theory for the origin of the universe. Nowadays, though, that seldom happens, but instead they simply work around that old Big Bang Theory idea.  
• More and More, Scientists are Content with Conducting Ever-Punier Experiments. What, now we are trying to teach tiny molecules how to think? Because if they can think, that will tell us something interesting about our entire minds? Oh, come on! And what is to me truly astonishing about the fact that scientists would try to conduct such puny experiments is that their doing it, and then their finding that their single molecules might in fact be able to cogitate on some level, apparently doesn’t give those scientists even the slightest dawning awareness that perhaps their molecules’ thinking abilities might come from the simple fact that consciousness is universal. Consciousness is the very water in which they (and we) swim.
• An RNA Strand That Can “Almost Self-Replicate” “May Be” A Key to Life’s Origins. When we are doing what I think of as the “mini-version of materialist science” of the twenty-first century, of course we cannot raise our ambitions too high, so we generally do things like finding an RNA strand that can “almost self-replicate”. And we call that some sort of mini-achievement.
• Can a Strange State of Matter Explain What Life Is, and How it Began? These many odd modern twenty-first-century tiny experiments are often funny, in their little ways, sometimes involving the scientists’ creating odd forms of matter, and then putting that new kind of matter through some laboratory-contrived paces. The scientists themselves nearly always seem to be unaware that many of the paces they set inadvertently use the ambient consciousness that Max Planck discovered in the course of his developing quantum physics, early in the twentieth century. For example, way back in 1931, which was nearly a century ago now, Dr. Planck 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.” Exactly so!
• Scientists Think Asteroids May Have Provided the Ingredients for Life on Earth. For the very modern young scientists of today, stymied as they still are here on earth by that longstanding materialist dogma, there is a kind of romanticism in looking to the heavens, and to the universe far beyond the blue, for the true solutions to those three longstanding scientific puzzles that we named at the start of this post. So, it’s asteroids now? Well, why not?
• The Daring Idea That Time Is An Illusion, And How We Could Prove It. Well, of course time is an illusion! It belongs for certain just to this material reality, and it exists as we know it only tenuously beyond this planetary system, and not at all in the other astral levels that, together with these planets, make up our great eternal home. Some who have recently died talk with amazement about the difference of returning through the afterlife portal and re-entering timelessness.
• The Primacy of Consciousness. I have shown you a variety of videos over the years by various consciousness researchers, in an effort to give you their various perspectives. Here, for example, is Peter Russell, a British researcher, who gives an enjoyable performance that I think is pretty close to right! In fact, Consciousness is all there is, both here and in the astral to which we will one day return. Consciousness is the Sculptor, and also the Clay. And all of our minds are part of that glorious one great Mind of God which is All There Is. 

My beloved friends, the fact that materialist science has gone so altogether off-track in the past century and a quarter is not our culture’s fault!  And nor, perhaps, is it really the scientific community’s fault entirely. Scientists still can study diseases and seek their cures, even with that old materialist dogma in their way; and they can invent electronics, of course. What they simply cannot do at all is to make sense of the natural history of the earth, and of its universe, and of reality as it has naturally developed within Consciousness and with God’s guiding Hand. Nope. Materialist scientists cannot ever make sense of any of that, until they free themselves from all dogmas. Until then, their confusion is, of course, because Consciousness is a core aspect and a base aspect of all reality. And we all live within Consciousness, including every scientist, every single day, and like it or not. We live within Consciousness. And Consciousness, as we experience it unavoidably, puts each one of us within the pure Heart of God.

I believe in love, Alfie.
Without true love we just exist, Alfie.
Until you find the love you’ve missed, you’re nothing, Alfie.

When you walk, let your heart lead the way,
And you’ll find love any day, Alfie, Alfie
Burt Bacharach (1928-2023) & Hal David (1921-2012), from “Alfie” (1966)

 

 

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