posted July 20, 2002 07:19 PM         

Clover, Send me your address and I will give you a copy of Gooberz. It will knock your socks off.

posted July 21, 2002 02:42 AM         

Forgive me if Im wrong, but doesnt mostly every thing Linda learned and taught contradict and chalenge the point of veiws of mostly all practical minded politicians,corperate executatives,lawyers,peaple working in the polticly correct press and media,priest and bible chuckers of almost every organized religion?- Why would any one want to go out of their way to look and make a story that would discredit her.??? I dont know. Im geting a sraining head acke heer trying to figure out who in this world that refuses to see any thing out side of black and white would ever wish to discredit Linda.

Wait,wait I know,I know!!! Im not sure but it is possible that some peaple reading or being told of her findings just might not want to see for them selves if its true or not, because if her techings and reaserch did turn out to be true they would have to take everything that they have spent their whole life thinking was reality-and throw it out the window!!! Then Gods forbid after that they would have to reprogram them selves from scratch. It would be like having to consider your self as an infant chid that knows little to nothing yet, when before you had your whole dillusional reality shaterd you had the sweet ignorance of believing that you knew all their was to know of the univers and the laws of physics.

Man doing that would be a lot of work and learning. For many it could even cause a temporary mental over load. It would be easier to give your self and others some sweet propaganda that would keep you in your nice cumfy shell that you and the mass consouse want to accept as the end all be all of the Uni-Verses reality.

What sweet bliss ignorance can trully be. In all very sereousness, there are many times I {or atlest part of me} wish I could go back now to a few years ago when I didnt know half the things I do now. Cause once I chose to head down the road of finding the TRUTHs to the Uni-Vers, it became to late to go back. The time has past and I can never return{even if I wanted to} to my sweet close minded dilusional reality.

posted July 21, 2002 12:29 PM         

I know it...

posted July 21, 2002 02:04 PM         

Quite honestly, if you really think about it, the journey's this hard because of our refusal to believe that life is incredibly simple. If it's not complicated,if it doesn't need loads of wires or microchips, it can't be true. I mean how can I speak to someone halfway across the world without using a telephone?? Lil ole me? Nah!

The point I'm making is that though life is so uncomplicated, we have drifted so far away from this realisation that it is incredibly difficult to accept how easy it should be! (This makes sense, I promise, if only you would go back and read it again! )

Aren't there days when you feel amazingly empowered and energised and have this feeling of absolute KNOWING that things will turn out the way you want them to - simply because you want them to .......... and then again, aren't there days that you feel like maybe you don't have that sort of power, and self-doubt rears its silly head and you feel terribly alone? That's perfectly normal - (normal, that is, for the world we live in, where we forget how powerful we truly are)but these are exactly the kind of days that take away from our power to manifest what we want because of the lack of KNOWING. That's why it's so important to keep those kind of days to a minimum and focus on increasing the positivity, till we finally get to the point were we don't have off days anymore - whoopee!

Hasn't Linda done enough by simply awakening us to the truth? Isn't it now upto us to use the knowledge she helped us remember as we see fit? Why did she have to live forever to prove it can be done? Why did she have to have one marriage all her life to prove that True Love is ALL? Why do we need to be led all the way? Could it have been that, like any Guru worth her salt, she equipped us with what we needed to know, then stood aside to let us learn for ourselves?
She may have been very wise and knowledgable, but she was still human, working through her own fears, her own trials and her own tests.
I guess, finally, we all have to evaluate what we believe in for ourselves, whether what we read or are told makes sense to us, whether it fits in with what we experience personally and whether that's the way we choose to live our lives.

posted September 29, 2002 08:11 AM         

I will admit I am not an expert on the subject of Linda, and as for GOobers i haven't read it though I intend to. But it seems that so much of her life was devoted to a crazy belief and absolute refusal to admit that endings come sometimes.

SHe thought that R. B. would be back,he wasn't. She wrote the ending of Gooberz as a wishful thinking as opposed to how it actually was.

(Don't get me wrong, she has author license she can write her stories anyway she wants to. and it is certainly nicer to think of the ever after than not meeting in this life).

BUt that in itself seems quite telling. THat she should dedicate her story to the way she wished things were rather than the way they actually were... the ending is about unions, as opposed to getting over the devastating heratbreak in this life.

THe fact that she could not acknowledge her daughter's death/dissapearance and that she thought that the soul of her first love was incarnated into her third.... well one theory says she is right and on the flip side you can argue that she could not come to terms with reality of not seeing the person again. Because even if Sally was alive, she never came back. And even if Brewster was Snyder he left her and did not come back either.

It is extremely difficult to let people go. I refused to believe that my father was dead for close to five years.

But the fact that Linda may or may not have had a screw loose does not invalidate her teachings. I read Sun SIgns, Love Signs and Relationship SIgns... they were detailed, funny, compassionate and illuminating works.
I haven't read Star Signs but I think she was hitting on a lot of true things.

Even if she was not all there it does not mean again that she did not speak truth. Madness and prophecy often go hand in hand anyway because madmen have a characteristic that is necessary in prophets the ability and desire to look beyond the veil of the given and acquire their own interpretation. Ultiately, stick with what rings for you but take everything with a pinch of salt and an eye on the fragility of someone's mental state.

Peace...

posted October 29, 2002 12:36 PM         

Also a woman who shared her esoteric knowledge with us, as it was given to her, which was a fine and wonderful thing to do. I can't imagine what my life might be like, had I never read anything by Linda Goodman. Quite empty with a longing for something "missing," I'm sure.

Nature Spirit

posted November 05, 2002 12:01 PM         

i think its worth mentioning in all of this debate over her sanity (my boyfriend thinks she's absolutlely crazy and planting seeds in my head to be against him. who's crazy?) :

First: all mystics and highly spiritual people have experiences outside what we think are 'normal' and therefore are unfairly judged on such criteria

Second: it is highly possible her experiences were not unique, as most people who have seen/done these things dont write about them, so she only seems unique. not so many people are given the gift of writing... anyone ever read carlos casteneda? he wrote about the yaqui indians' shamanism that will blow your mind because it seems so different, but these were experiences shared by generations of people

third: i believe these higher plane experiences are mostly out of the realm of words, and that words are insufficient to give them justice, they are only a matter of giving the uninitiated an IDEA of them, but cannot convey them fully

fourth: all paths are different. therefore, if what she speaks of seems like nonsense to you, then your path to the source takes a different route, and this is fine. however, this does not mean that we dont all end up at the same place. you must always look within yours-elf

i personally can take much of what she wrote to heart, because i KNOW it in my heart to be true. some things are out of my league, but not so much that i can discount them totally- who's to say? by leaving the possibility open i dont close myself off from having experiences that would prove them right.

posted November 06, 2002 04:31 PM         

I worked for a psychiatrist when I lived in the States and met a lot of "mentally ill" people. However, most were just fragile geniuses with so many gifts but a complete inability to deal with their own lives yet most gave unstintingly to others thereby wearing themselves out. Linda was a genius I believe and far sighted - almost an Aquarian in that she was light years ahead of her time. And so she had problems - there is no such thing as "physician heal thyself". Linda was human like the rest of us.

Just my thoughts, love K.

"The Best Way Out Is Through" HELEN KELLER