Month: February 2026

Linda Grindel

I’ve written about progressive psychic mediums before. My wife is particularly fond of them, and I find them to be consistently entertaining and insightful. I’ll include a few links to the ones I find that are accurate. However, like most progressives, they tend to embrace an antisemitic worldview, especially in regard to Israel.

The worst one, as far as being blatantly antisemitic, is Linda Grindel.   In practically every podcast she produces (except when she’s a guest with others), she disparages Israel in some way.

In her latest podcast, she found the straw that broke the camel’s back. She stated on the air that her “spirit guides” informed her that Israel participated in the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Linda’s pod cast 2/26/2026

I believe in a lot of things. I believe that we have spiritual advisors that dwell between the worlds that give us insights or advice about things going on in our lives. Other than “spirit guides,” I’m not sure what else you can call them. Some people call them Angels. Celtic-oriented people might refer to them as “faery.” I believe that some people are gifted with the ability to access these entities at will. Psychics, Mediums, Gurus, Shamans, and maybe even some Rabbis are gifted in this way.

I can state here that Linda Grindel’s “guides” did not tell her that Israel, the Mosshav, the IDF, or any other Israelis had anything to do with the assassination of JFK.

Guides do not lie. They are incapable of it. People lie. Politicians lie. Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Adolf Hitler, Tucker Carlson, and many others are pathological liars. (Do you know how to tell when one of them is lying? Their lips move.) 

Progressive Psychic Mediums, such as Linda, claim that they get their information from these spirit guides (or they may call them Angels, ETs, famous people from history, etc,)

But in this case Linda Grindel is either lying, or she is listening to entities that are not benevolent or who do not hold human beings (or Homo sapiens) in high regard or have any respect for them. A third possibility is that Linda is just bat-crap “cray cray.”

Israel has always held the United States and certain of our POTUSs in very high regard. JFK was admired so much that in the hills outside of Bethany there is a perpetual memorial flame that burns in honor of JFK.

 

President Kennedy was very supportive of Israel. Here is a link to some of his remarks at the August 26, 1960 convention of the Zionist Organization of America in New York City.

 

Will I ever meet my grandchildren?

Here is a tribute to my grandchildren that I published here a few months ago. I have never met, nor even had a phone exchange with any of them except for Joshua’s boys:  Isaiah (son of Joshua) when he was about eight or nine. And Jalen (aka, “Jayswirl”) when he was maybe 14.  But I have never met Mia, Poppy or Dorothy (daughters of Jesse) or Cam, Ian and Joy (offspring of Jordan).  It is likely that I never will.

Apparently, the twins entered into a pact with my ex (their mother, Lynne) that unless I take the initiative and travel to Illinois, I would never meet  them, and that prohibition apparently extends to phone calls as well. When I have called to touch base with my boys, they have never offered to let me talk to their children.

The problem I have with that is that between Lynne and Qadisha, (my two ex’s) they pillaged my inheritance and so I have no disposable income, and beings that Ceridwen and I live on Social Security, that’s not likely to change.

There is another, equally unlikely, scenario:  The grandchildren could get together and fly themselves (either all together or individually) out here to the Redwood Coast and meet with me, without their parents.

I’ve made it a point for the last few years to send birthday presents to all of my grandchildren. Do the kids know from whom these “mystery” packages from California originate?  Cam does. His dad has taken pictures with Cam posing with my presents.

During a messenger exchange a few months back (it was still Summer) Jordan did mention something like him having time off coming in November and it sounded like he might have had a plan to come out. But when I talked to him about it in October he said they had some financial set backs and they needed a new dishwasher, so a trip in the fall was not feasible.

The bottom line is that my ever meeting the grandchildren is not very likely. I turned 72 this past November 15th (2025). The life span of Arseneau men seems to average around 75, on the other hand, my plan is to live to see 100.  The Jewish birthday wish is “… may you live to see 120.” Moses was 120 when he died, so I am guessing that is where that tradition comes from.

How to cope?  I’ve recently  joined three FaceBook groups that are supposed to help you deal with your estranged children. If nothing else, maybe I will find some peace concerning this.  I am seeing a therapist, every other week.  I’m not sure what, if any, good is coming of that, but it does give me a neutral ear to kvetch in.

I have thought about throwing caution to the wind and sending each of the twins a copy of one of the mythicism books, such as those written by Richard Carrier.

Waiting is.