posted November 25, 2007 09:36 AM         

lol....there was a thread under this topic in UC until last night. where did it go??

here's the first post ~

in Matrix Revolutions, the third film of the Matrix series, the Oracle in a conversation with Neo, makes a reference to herself as a walk-in, as LG described in her books. i don't recall what transpired in the second Matrix sequel with the Oracle, but apparently in this film she has a new body, but is the same Oracle from before.

here's their conversation upon her meeting with Neo again ~

Oracle: So, do you recognize me?

Neo: A part of you.

Oracle: Yeah, that's how it works. Some bits you lose. Some bits you keep. I don't yet recognize my face in the mirror, but i still love candy.

now, this is quite interesting and synchronyous with LG in a number of ways. first, that she actually described 'walk-ins' in a similar manner. second, could this be a refrence to LG herself, perhaps being a walk-in? as most people who knew her assert her love of candy, to the extent that she would compromise her health by eating candy, even though she was seriously diabetic.

and third.....the name of the actress who portrays the Oracle in Matrix Revolutions is.....

Mary Alice.
(LG's birth name is Mary Alice Kemery, and she refers to herself thus, as Mary Alice, in Gooberz.)

in fact, wasn't much of Linda's work dircted towards waking us up to the fact that we do indeed exist in a kind of Matrix?

in the first movie of the series, Neo is led to Trinity and Morpheus by an anonymous message telling him to follow the white rabbit, which he does, following a woman with a white rabbit tattoo to a club, where he first encounters Trinity. he then physically traverses a canal (like Alice, travelling down the rabbit hole) and is 're-born' into a world existing outside the Matrix. LG also employs much of the 'Alice in Wonderland' scenery in describing an esoteric 'awakening.'

in a sense, isn't Linda Goodman herself a kind of Oracle? it doesn't seem to me that all this just is pure coincidence.

well, some interesting parallels that occurred to me. probably there are many others...perhaps even discussed here previously.

posted November 25, 2007 09:42 AM         

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to SpiritFriend ~ the matrix trilogy certainly has some thought provoking material. i don't know whether you would actually like it though. if you do see it, would love it if you'd you share your thoughts about it here.

and Bibi posted a note stating that there is another very good dialogue taking place under this same topic in the Linda's Life forum ~

http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000334.html