| Words | Words is a collection of short stories, anecdotes and writings accumulated over the last few years.
Some were written for fun; some have a more serious tone. Hopefully some will make you laugh, some will make you cry and others make you angry. | Words: Amazon.co.uk: Goodwin, Opher: 9798358704442: Books |
| The Times and Tales of a Sixties Freak | I wrote this a long time ago. It is a memoir of my early Hippie days back in the sixties when everything was possible. This is a document of those times, the things that happened, the things we believed in and the things that were going on around us. Those were good days. The music was great, friends were brilliant and there was magic in the air. We really felt we could change this juggernaut of a society and make the world a better place. We wanted an alternative to the greedy, shallow, warmongering, selfish and incredibly boring life we saw everyone being channelled into. We created an alternative culture. We wanted fun, meaning, purpose, and some way of life that was more sustainable in the long term. We wanted colour and closeness, love, sex and communion with the natural world. That’s all!! Not much to ask for. Then it burst apart. We were all bought off, sold down the river and consumed. Now we live on the scraps and fight a rearguard action against that monstrous vision of the future. Opher 23.7.2014 PS – I had to remove all the lyrics that I’d illustrated this with. They are copyrighted. You get sued. The music used to be shared! Now it’s owned! | The Times and Tales of a Sixties Freak – (standard size): Amazon.co.uk: Goodwin, Opher: 9781517288709: Books |
| Anecdotes, Weird Science, Writing and Ramblings from Life | This is a peek into various corners of my attic. The memories are piled up in heaps. Have a rummage through. | Anecdotes, Weird Science, Writing and Ramblings from Life.: Amazon.co.uk: Goodwin, Opher: 9781519675637: Books |
| The Teachings of White Eagle | As I understand it, White Eagle was a Native North American Chief who specialised in healing and led a spirit team of healers, including Uncas. He had ‘passed over’ to the spirit world hundreds of years before. He was one of a number of benevolent spirits who worked through my Grandfather. He is quite a renowned spirit teacher and healer. There is an active White Eagle Lodge with branches in the UK, Ireland and worldwide. I presume this is the same White Eagle that my Grandfather ‘worked’ with.These are the teaching of White Eagle as dictated from the spirit world through my grandfather Lewis Fraser Forsyth. | The Teachings of White Eagle: Amazon.co.uk: Forsyth, Lewis Fraser, Goodwin, Opher: 9781790978670: Books |
| Opher’s Art and Outpourings | You only live once. You have to have purpose. Creativity gives me a reason to live. Appreciation of the wondrous world we live in gives me a buzz. Love of friends and family give me a wealth of happiness. Making the world a better place is an ideal. Creating beauty and communicating is a good thing. I started to write and paint in 1971. This book combines the two. This is my philosophy in colour and symbols. | Opher’s Art and outpourings: Amazon.co.uk: Goodwin, Opher: 9781505621334: Books |
| The Universe in Shorts | This book is a collection of my short stories and anecdotes dating from way back in the 1970s. The first section is Maslow’s Stranger, first written circa 1980 as The Stranger. This is followed by a selection of my Sci-fi short stories, then a range of other short stories and finished off with a few anecdotes. I decided it was time to bring them all together in one collection and put them out. I hope you find them interesting. | The Universe in Shorts: Amazon.co.uk: Goodwin, Opher: 9781707573097: Books |
| More Anecdotes, Essays, Beliefs and Flotsam | More anecdotes from the sixties, childhood, college, sex, drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll.
In the mix are beliefs, diatribes and the usual doses of Roy Harper, Jimi Hendrix, Rock Music and the Blues.
There are tales of strange happenings, mechanical prowess, my family and disasters.
If you enjoyed volume one then this is more of the same.
This is Opher revealed, up close and personal. | More Anecdotes, Essays, Beliefs and flotsam. eBook : Goodwin, Opher: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store |
| The Voyage to the End of the World | This is the story of a fabulous voyage to South America in 2016 on a two hulled icebreaker called the Marco Polo. Amusing tales, beauty, observations, social asides, photography, politics and the wonders of nature – it is all there…. And more. Rio De Janeiro, Buenos Aires, The Falkland Islands, the magic of Magellan’s Strait plus a dozen more wondrous destinations. The day of the albatrosses, the boobies, petrels, penguins, skuas and frigate birds; the sea-lions and the whales – all the ingredients of a fabulous voyage. | The voyage to the end of the world: Amazon.co.uk: Goodwin, Opher: 9781532770678: Books |
| Reality Dreams | I started to write this book back in 1971. At the time I thought I was creating something quite revolutionary. I was writing a collage of a story incorporating poems, cartoons, spirituality, biology, physics and philosophy.
I eagerly sent it off to publishers who, for some strange reason, just did not get the weird counterculture entity I had produced. I think they were looking for something that conformed to a more standard format – you know – something with real characters in a real life setting and a story. What I had produced was a psychedelic mind storm. They were not interested. I simply put it down to their lack of ability to understand and went on my way.
Only with the passing of time, many rewrites, and greater objectivity did I realise that the writing was rubbish and the narrative did not carry the reader. They were right to reject it.
So why am I bothering to resurrect it now 46 years later?
Well I ask myself that too. But I am attached to it. It was my first foray into writing and I still find it fascinating. It is a mass of all the ideas going through the head of a twenty year old veteran of the sixties scene. It’s full of weirdness and naivety. Rewriting it is like communing with the person I used to be forty six years ago. It’s like meeting an old friend. It makes me smile.
I am addressing the writing but I can’t do much about the structure. It’s a sixties thing – a hotchpotch. It’s like reality on acid.
So this is Parts 1 and 2. There will be another volume! | Reality Dreams eBook : Goodwin, Opher: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store |
