It's unusual for me to get the opportunity to actually
interview an author. But that's what I got to do with Roberta Grimes. Roberta Grimes is currently
on a book tour, promoting her book called "The Fun of Staying in
Touch" and I had a chance to interview her about it and how it came to be. She's not a medium, but she's a researcher who compiled all the ways people communicate from the other side.
The book was
really well written and I found it very enjoyable. You would never know she
wasn't a medium. Everyone should read this. It's a great overview and
introduction to spirit communications. It will offer everyone comfort!
Here are the
questions and answers.
You can find her book on AMAZON.COM at:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Fun-Staying-Touch-Contact-ebook/dp/B00N9IYIDA
Her website is: http://robertagrimes.com/
1) I'd like to give readers an idea of the person that is Roberta Grimes.
Tell me about yourself, where you grew up, what you wanted to do for a career...
I grew up in Massachusetts, always expecting to be an attorney, and my career has been in advising small businesses. Nevertheless, when I was eight and again at the age of twenty I had extraordinary experiences of light which started me on a search to understand reality. It has been a consuming hobby! While I have had a conventional life as a wife (of 42 years), a mother (of 3), and a grandmother (of 5), I have spent my every spare minute researching, writing, and speaking about the glorious greater reality of which this universe is a part, and the beyond-wonderful certainty that our minds are eternal.
2) Do you have an ability to get messages from those who passed?
I'm not a medium, but rather I am a serious researcher - I have spent decades reading nearly 200 years of abundant and consistent communications from the dead, most of them received before 1950. When combined with quantum physics and consciousness research, they tell a compelling and amazingly consistent story!
3) What do you do for a full-time job?
I
still practice business law, but I spend much of my time writing and
speaking about what I have learned about death and the afterlife.
I
have been surprised to find that most people have no idea about the
signs that the dead send to us of their survival, and no notion of how
much good work is being done in the area of afterlife communication! The Fun of Staying in Touch is
an easily read and highly accessible summary of both areas, and it
includes an annotated bibliography so people can discover these truths
for themselves.
The Fun of Staying in Touch includes
a section on signs from the dead, and a section on how we can initiate
communication, including what seems to be coming next. It is complete,
but at the same time it's a quick and enjoyable read.
My first book on this subject was The Fun of Dying - Find Out What Really Happens Next,
which was first published in 2010 and has lately been reissued. For me
then to talk about communication in a second book was a natural segue.
My third book, completing this trilogy, will be The Fun of Growing Forever,
due in 2017. I also have published five novels, the first two in 1992
and 1993 and then a trilogy that starts a seven-novel saga.
The Fun of Staying in Touch talks
about some wonderful communications from pets, including an
extraordinary communication dream that I received from my horse after
his death.
The
communications that I have read include an astonishing range of people.
We remain ourselves after we have transitioned - just the act of dying
doesn't bring enlightenment - and I can tell some amusing (and some sad)
stories of these people's efforts to adjust to their new situations.
I
did major in religion in college, but my research is entirely
fact-based. The problem with religions is that, while they often express
aspects of what appears to be the truth, they have devolved into
belief-systems. I don't want to believe; I want to KNOW!
No
- my work is entirely scientific. In fact, this is the grounding for a
whole new wave of physics that will become the prevailing mode of
physics by the end of this century; I call it "the third wave."
I
don't do readings, but I do communicate often with people by email and
even by phone who are undertaking their own research, and I speak
occasionally at various venues. I love to help people on their voyages
of discovery!
I
hope to inform and enlighten the curious, comfort the grieving, and
start as many people as possible on the same voyage of discovery that
has been my own really wonderful hobby!
4) What inspired you to write the book?
5) Tell me about the book. What kinds of things would someone find in it?
6) What inspired you to write the book? Is it your first?
7) Are there messages from pets as well as people in the book?
8) What different types of personalities do you write about from the other side?
9) I understand that you studied religion or religions. Does that play into your book or is it more spiritual?
10) Do you combine science with spiritualism to explain communications and the afterlife?
11) Do you provide messages to people on a daily basis or offer a service for readings?
12) What do you hope that people will come away with after reading your book?
