A hundred and fifty years after the Civil War, race relations in the United States remain strained. Black Americans have made too little progress. Roberta and her friend, Kelley Glover, have examined our racial problems through the lens of love, and in The Fun of Living Together (https://www.amazon.com/Fun-Living-Together-Roberta-Grimes/dp/0692846697) - We Must Learn to Live Together as Brothers or Perish Together as Fools (MLK) they propose a plan for healing our racial problems in one generation.

Craig Hogan is president of the Afterlife Research and Education Institute, Inc. As part of its educational effort, AREI will be putting on an exciting symposium September 15-17, 2017, in Scottsdale, AZ (go to afterlifestudies.org (http://afterlifestudies.org/)for more information). We expect to be breaking new ground in our understanding of afterlife communication at this symposium, and Craig is always an inspiring guest. Please join us!

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Chuck Swedrock is the head of the International Association for Near-Death Studies chapters in Tucson and in Mesa, Arizona. As is true of many people, his journey out of fundamentalist Christianity and into a closer walk with Spirit was a long one. Now he is an expert on Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) and part of the national leadership of IANDS, and he will share with us both his personal voyage and what he knows about the NDE phenomenon.

Joyce Stewart is a counselor and holistic healer who felt challenged by God to throw away the dogmas of her Christian faith and to trust enough to seek and find the genuine God. Her book, God is Love - a Spiritual Journey from Fear to Love, is a beautiful exposition of the kind of glorious journey from faith to certainty that awaits us all.

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Professor Gary Schwartz of the University of Arizona at Tucson is a rock star in the field of afterlife communication research, and he is a delightful guest. He talks about his interest in supersynchronicities as signs from Spirit, and he tells us more about his soul phone research and how and when direct electronic communication with the dead is going to be broadly available.

An intellectual journey that began with investigating the afterlife led Roberta through seeking to understand the greater reality of which this universe is a part, and then to the amazing revelation that Jesus knew all these truths long ago. Discovering that the Christian dogmas are wrong, but Jesus is entirely right, then led her to a deeper understanding of why we are here and how we can easily make this lifetime our last. And ultimately it led her to a simple understanding that since all of reality is spiritual, there are truly spiritual solutions to be found to what might otherwise be insoluble problems. Her new book, The Fun of Living Together, has been the  first result of this insight.

If Morning Never Comes is the most moving first-hand account of serving in Vietnam that Roberta ever has read. Bill Vandenbush enlisted at eighteen and was severely wounded, but his Near-Death Experience at a time when the phenomenon was unknown helped him to survive, and eventually to build a new life in joyous service to others. His story is an inspiration!

For decades Dr. Jamie Turndorf, author of Love Never Dies (https://www.amazon.com/Love-Never-Dies-Reconnect-Deceased/dp/140194535X), wrote and rewrote with her beloved husband, Jean Pin, an engrossing novel that Jean, now in spirit, has told her it is at last time to publish. The Calling is a colorful murder mystery built around a cover-up that Jean had discovered when he was a Jesuit priest working in the Vatican. And it is an intimate portrayal of the way it feels to be a young priest who wants to serve God but also yearns for the emotional and physical intimacies that his calling bars him from pursuing. Roberta couldn't put this book down!

Dr. R. Craig Hogan is president of the Afterlife Research and Education Institute (AREI), which is a new organization dedicated to supporting afterlife communication research, establishing better methods for easing the dying process, and aiding the spread of the New Spirituality, which the dead tell us is what we all have come here to learn. He will be announcing the AREI's exciting first symposium, September 15-17, 2017, in Scottsdale, Arizona. Please join us!

Roberta and Kelley began soon after this episode was first aired to write The Fun of Living Together, in which they talk about why America's race relations are so horrendous now and they share a plan for how we can altogether end our racial divisions in one generation. Please enjoy again this first conversation in which the idea for Roberta's next book was born!