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“Abundant afterlife evidence tells us that we are here to learn to forgive completely and learn to love others universally.”
― Roberta Grimes, The Fun of Dying

“So while Christians believe in an afterlife, our mental picture of life after death is full of clouds and thrones and hell and fire and the terror of God’s judgment. Even believing that a heaven exists seems to do little to ease our fear of death.”
― Roberta Grimes, The Fun of Dying

“Max Planck won the 1918 Nobel Prize in physics as the father of quantum mechanics. In 1931, 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.” By 1944, he was positing a force that controls the atom. He said, “We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.”
― Roberta Grimes, Liberating Jesus

“My fear is that by the end of this century, traditional Christianity will be in sharp decline, and we must make sure that people won’t throw away our precious Baby with what is apparently bathwater. I still love the Christianity I used to practice. I can sing so many hymns by heart! And the comfort of knowing that just by being the right kind of Christian I was on God’s A-list is something I so fondly remember. But in compensation for my lost faith, I have found a glorious certainty. I have learned that Jesus is more important than I ever in my wildest dreams imagined, and God’s plan for what is possible on earth is more wonderful than the human mind can dream.”
― Roberta Grimes, Liberating Jesus

“To hear a voice in your mind as clearly as you hear spoken words is a remarkable experience. I think it might be something like what communication is on the post-death levels, and I assure you that you can tell the difference between spoken words and your own thoughts. No question.”
― Roberta Grimes, The Fun of Staying in Touch: How Our Loved Ones Contact Us and How We Can Contact Them

“am not writing for scientists. I only note in passing that for scientific gatekeepers to continue to enforce atheism as a fundamental dogma is as counterproductive now as it once was for scientists stuck in Catholic orthodoxy to insist against evidence that the earth was flat. Truth cannot be suppressed forever, so the academic dam is certain to break. And when it does, the revelations soon to follow about who and what and where we are will change all humanity for the better. It isn’t only scientific oxen that we will be goring here, but some religious folks will be incensed. I am sorry about that. If you prefer to believe whatever it is that your own religion teaches, all I ask is that you be open-minded whenever your own death starts to happen. As you will see, one way to give yourself unnecessary grief is to insist on a certain kind of afterlife. But otherwise, the good news is that the afterlife is not a guessing-game. Catholics and Baptists both get into heaven. And Jews and Buddhists. And everybody else.”
― Roberta Grimes, The Fun of Dying

“Matter is not objectively real. Matter is composed of atoms, and atoms are almost entirely empty space. I recall reading once that if the White House were an atomic nucleus, its closest orbiting electron could be as far away as Denver, and there would be literally nothing between them. At one time physicists believed that at least those subatomic particles were solid, but the more closely they studied them, the more physicists realized that subatomic particles are more empty space circumscribed by tinier orbiting particles which themselves are empty space. It begins to look as if the tiniest particles of all are just vortices of energy. Bruce Lipton, quantum biologist and author of The Biology of Belief (2005), tells us that if you could put a subatomic camera inside an atom, there would be nothing for it to photograph because matter is just whirling energy. Nothing is solid. Everything is waves. Of course, observation appears to force each wave to become whatever the observer seeks – either a particle of matter or a wave of energy – but since the tiniest particles are just energy vortices,”
― Roberta Grimes, The Fun of Dying

“Oh wow! Oh wow! Oh wow!” – The last words of Steve Jobs”
― Roberta Grimes, The Fun of Staying in Touch: How Our Loved Ones Contact Us and How We Can Contact Them

“Of course, the other end of the Lord’s crucial command to “Love your neighbor as yourself” (MT 22:39) is self-love, which turns out to be no less important than loving others. My own experience has been that as I have freed myself from religious fears and learned to better love the genuine God of which my mind is a part, I have begun to hold myself in higher esteem. That is likely also to be your experience. As you better internalize the extraordinary extent to which God loves you in particular, you will find yourself standing a little straighter. You will breathe more deeply. It is so much easier to learn to love others when you are doing that from the certain knowledge that you are a powerful eternal being and the best-beloved child of an infinitely powerful God! Learn first to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind” (MT 22:37). Once your love of God is perfected to this extent, then your love of yourself and of every other person on the face of the earth becomes an easier and a natural progression.”
― Roberta Grimes, Liberating Jesus

“And, make no mistake. When you are in what we call the afterlife levels and in active contact with the parts of your mind that you can’t directly access when in a body, you crave spiritual growth like every craving you ever have felt in your life at once. Like food and drink and sex, like a baby in your arms or financial success, you pine for what the dead tell us is the greatest possible thrill: you yearn for more intimate communion with God. So, as much as you are thinking now that you never will choose to go through this again, inevitably you will want another earth-lifetime. Everyone does. Until we reach a level of spiritual fitness that will let us serve others while remaining in the afterlife levels as we continue to work toward our spiritual perfection, we eagerly line up for more time on earth.”
― Roberta Grimes, Liberating Jesus

“Reality is not material, we are not separate, we live eternally, and the greatest pleasures are grounded in Mind.”
― Roberta Grimes, The Fun of Staying in Touch: How Our Loved Ones Contact Us and How We Can Contact Them