<< 1 >>
Rating: 
Summary: Bridging the Gap
Review: "Across the Universe with John Lennon" is a down-to-earth and humorous story as well as a highly developed and positive spiritual message---just what I would expect from John himself. Linda's story bridges a gap---the gap between the sadness of John's death and the vague suspicion that our spirit friends are indeed trying to help us at this juncture in history around the new millenium. If ever there as a person who would try to communicate with us from beyond the grave, wouldn't John Lennon be among the first to sign up for the job? Anyone who understood him at all during his life must agree that John was a humanitarian who believed in love and peace and did not shy away from unconventional ways to get his message across---first through rock-n-roll and then through bed-ins. He was also deeply spiritual and experienced much psychic phenomena himself. It would not be difficult to accept the notion that John would still be around to help us, to finish the job he started during his life. He loves us. In all his unconventionality, he wants to show us that life still goes on after the death of the body and that many lessons are still being learned, even for him. He is showing us how it really is. God is not an old guy with a beard, and people do not immediately get wings and harps when they die. Whether you are a Beatle fan who loved John Lennon and would like to hear how he's doing and what he has to say, or just someone interested in the spirit world, this book is extremely enjoyable and beneficial to your individual spiritual growth.
Rating:
Summary: A touching story
Review: Despite what the previous reviewer wrote, this story truly touched me and made me think about the afterlife. Is it possible to communicate with those who have passed on before us? I have never done so myself but that does not make it NOT possible! I applaud Linda Keen for her courage to write this book. The death of John Lennon was tramatic for those who loved and admired him. Why not believe Linda's accounts? What do you have to lose? Maybe that part of you that has secretly mourned the death John for almost 20 years. If you believe in the theory of reincarnation, you can believe John "agreed" to have his life end the way it did so he could learn"life lesson" from that. Everything Linda wrote made complete sense to me. From spirit guides to Hell, Linda's style of writing is very clear and flowing.Open your minds! Just because you cannot channel a spirit does not mean someone else can't. If you are a fan of John Lennon, you will be happy to know John is truly at peace.
Rating: 
Summary: Paperback writer with an identity crisis
Review: I approached this book with an open mind, believing that it is entirely possible to communicate with those who have passed on. But not long after the first few chapters, it becomes painfully obvious that this book is mostly about Linda Keen, not John Lennon. First we find out that not only was she his sister in a past life, but also a spirit guardian, first violin during his Mozart incarnation, his mother, a slave owner who adored her nanny Gracie/John, a son, a daughter, a soulmate, a twin soul, a lover, and on and on. If so connected, why wasn't Keen a member of a certain rock n' roll band from Liverpool during his last incarnation, of which she readily dismisses in her book with nary a mention of Paul, Ringo, or George. In fact, when it's her time to attend a fan function on his 50th birthday, she insists the fans themselves are intruding on her own private Idaho with John, as she is forced to heal him of all those annoying projections that keep getting in their way. The most appalling moment in this book occurs when "John" states he visits his murderer Mark David Chapman in jail, loving and forgiving him and claiming that the two of them fit together like hand and glove. Pleeze. I don't think even the great JL is godlike enough to come to this unthinkable conclusion. When all is said and done, Keen's dialogue is most likely a lively and spirited conversation with herself, the character of John Lennon merely a manafestation of some aspect of her own spiritual yearnings or connections that take the form of JL. If she had only taken a less literal tack to the story, it would have been a delightful read with interesting, enlightening and witty insights. Instead, it flounders in a sea of self promotion.
Rating: 
Summary: Unbelievable waste of time and money
Review: I found this book to be primarily an exercise in self-delusion that was also disrespectful to the late John Lennon. Lennon, we are told, was also Robert Browning as well as Mozart in previous lives which certainly seems like a bit of overkill fame-wise. The dialogue is terribly corny, and the constructed experiences seem to often come out the author's children's book imagination. I believe there is a difference between a genuine psychic channeling experience and just taking a funny, mental trip. I couldn't possibly reccomend it, and honestly felt the purchase was a waste of money.
Rating:
Summary: Magical Journey
Review: I have watched the progression of this book and its author for ten years. I first encountered it in a very synchronistic way in a bookshop in San Francisco: it fell off the shelf at my friend not a day after we had been discussing John Lennon having been Mozart in a past life. I was compelled by this astonishing occurence to write to Linda as a fellow writer and long-time student of philosophy. I found her to be a very straightforward and down to earth person, not in the least a Beatlefan of the typical mould. Having some fifteen years' experiece at that time studying psychical phenomena, I was convinced that what she had experienced was quite genuine, as it fit exactly with what I had heard from other people who also had contact with John in other dimensions. Whatever certain reviewers here may think, based on what they think they know of the private Lennon, John was a deeply spiritual man, and one of his abiding concerns was to open up people's minds to the fact that there is more to us than the everyday workaday world would admit. As many people asked in early Beatle days 'Why was a man who could write the like of "Tomorrow Never Knows" jumping around on the stages of the world singing "Twist and Shout"?' I found this book deeply moving the first time I read it ten years ago and every time since; it is, I believe, a gift to us from John, a loving remnder that life is not meaningless, crass and stupid, that we do go on, and that loving each other and learning is what we're about. For those who are sceptical, or enquiring, or just beginning on a spiritual path this book is a good friend; it explains much commonly accepted basic information in a way that is palatable and not stuffy, by a pair of guides (John and Linda) who are unafraid to stand up and reveal themselves for what they are. There are no social masks, and, on Linda's part, no grandiosity.
Rating:
Summary: Truth is Stranger than Fiction
Review: I read the original edition of this book about four years ago and it was recently brought to my mind because I was describing to a friend a very unusual set of circumstances that happened while I was reading the book. Like several of the other reviewers, while initially getting into the book, I had some difficulty accepting that Linda Keen was actually communicating with John Lennon. It happened that I was reading the book at Thanksgiving time and, that Thanksgiving night, I was talking with a friend of mine in another state while I was holding and discussing the book (telling her I was having a difficult time believing it), which was closed on my lap. While we talked, I flipped open the book and just as I did, she said the words "red clouds." I looked down at the book and saw that the title of the chapter was "Red Clouds" and then asked her why she said those words. She said she didn't know. I told her about the title of the chapter that I had flipped open to and we both were rather awed. The next morning I was getting ready for work and still carrying on a conversation with myself about whether the book was "real" or not. The previous night I had read about John's song "Mother" and I vaguely remembered it from high school days. I finally told myself that if I heard the song "Mother" before the end of the day, then I would believe Linda Keen's story. I had the radio on all day at work and never heard "Mother." I drove home and was station surfing all the way. No "Mother." As I pulled up to my house, I switched stations one more time and there it was... John Lennon screaming "Mother don't leave me... Mother don't go." I just started shaking and crying. I have never heard that song on the radio since. It was a powerful moment and is one I'll never forget. The book is a real story about John and where he went after he died, of that I'm certain.
Rating: 
Summary: MR. WISHIWASHERE
Review: MR.LENNON WROTE SONGS , VIA LIFE EXPERIENCES OR FANTASCY . JOHN WAS A GREAT STORY " REFLECTOR " !HE HAD AN INSIGHT ABOVE AND BEYOND ANY " ENTERTAINER " OF HIS TIME AND WAS ABLE TO WRITE HIS IMAGES OF LIFE INTO SONG AND PROS . IT WAS AND STILL IS SAD TO THINK THAT SOMEONE SO IN-TUNE TO REALITY, WAS CUT SHORT OF A LIFE JUST BEGINNING TO BLOOM ! JOHN WAS A CULTURAL HERO OF HIS TIME , AND I DO THINK THAT YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY SHOULD TAKE TIME TO INDULGE SOME ENERGY TO ABSORB A LITTLE " LENNON " INTO THEIR OWN SPACE AND TIME . COULD YOU , " IMAGINE " A WORLD TODAY WITH JOHN.....WISH-HE WAS HERE !
Rating: 
Summary: Keeping an Open Mind
Review: Ok, I figure I'll be labelled a New Age wacko for giving this book four stars, but that's ok. Things aren't always what they seem, is my opinion. Linda Keen gives us her experience of dialogue with the late, great Mr. Lennon, and the workings of the afterlife. I've never been a particularly religious person, but choose to take from many spiritual systems, Hinduism, Theosophy, Buddhism, Paganism, etc. I found that many of the things Keen says, through John, relate to ideas I've always had about the afterlife, that we go there to learn things, work through problems in our previous lives, and hopefully learn something in the process. And that there is no fame there, and people have the same bodies just once in many lifetimes. My ideal of the afterlife would be to be able to walk up to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Van Gogh, Charles Chaplin or any other of my idols and have a good chit-chat. Supposedly, this is true. Then again, Keen could just have been spouting her ideas from reading them from esoteric texts. However, these ideas are what strike me most about the book, not necessarily the writing, which isn't all that great, and Keen spends too much time focusing on her own life, and how it related, supposedly, to John. Kinda brings back an old quote from the movie 'Bull Durham', when Kevin Costner says something to the effect of 'Why does everyone have these famous past lives, like 'I used to be Queen Elizabeth'? Why couldn't they just have been Joe Schmo?'
The idea of John having been Mozart in a past life doesn't seem quite as far fetched as at first glance (and believe me, I was thinking, what a crock!). Think about it, from what I know, Mozart died a pauper, dismissed as a crazy man with little talent, who is now considered the greatest composer of all time. Why wouldn't John come back, to be more wildly famous than virtually anyone up to that point? Karmic, if you ask me.
He was getting back what was due him; but he also had to pay a lot for it. I am not sure I disagree when Keen divulges that John almost inititated his own death. This was a man with many demons, and John himself did foray into spiritual matters, like astrology, in his secluded years, as if searching for an answer to overcome those demons.
I'd only recommend this book to those with an open mind toward spiritual ideas. The text may be a bit cloudy and not have all the answers, but I feel it's a worthwhile read for those who are curious and can deal with contradictions. Who knows what exists in the universe?!
Rating:
Summary: Across The Universe With John Lennon
Review: This book is the best of all books about the afterlife because it deals with someone we all know (John Lennon) in a way that we all understand it. I'm sure that once in our lives a dead relative or friend has contacted us, whether we believe it or not. This is further proof that even though the people we love are dead, they are not unactive! It is a comforting thought. 'Across The Universe With John Lennon' is so real that one wishes they could be there right along side with Linda and John, and often feel as though you are.
<< 1 >>
|
