My Spiritual Beliefs and Michael Jackson
Ignoring your emotions is a recipe for disaster, so I've had to pay them some attention this weekend to try and understand what's going on inside me.
So, why am I mourning Michael Jackson?
First of all, my spiritual belief is that we are all God. That is to say that there is no God that exists outside of us because there is no "out there" or "in here". We are all just one massive creative energy, exploding outwardly and then coming together again, over and over again.
So that means that MJ is God. Much like my thumb is Norio. So is my pinky. It doesn't mean that my thumb governs my body but it is as MUCH a part of me as any other part.
Having said that, each one of his songs that struck a chord with me did so because it was God talking to me. Much like God talks to me through the movie I'm watching on TV, the book I'm reading on the loo & my wife bitching at me for not doing something I said I would do.
It's both profound and simple all at the same time. How can I *not* be God, how can MJ *not* be God if I believe that we are all God.
It's like ignoring a painful sensation in your thumb. That painful sensation is there to let you know that you hurt yourself and need to take care before you get an infection. An infection that, depending on the circumstances, could kill you.
So now you hopefully understand my belief.
Back to MJ. "Man in the Mirror", "Heal the World", "The Earth Song" are all messages from a part of God for us to wake up and smell the roses. Take care of yourself, take care of your earth and, as Ghandi would say, "Be the change you wish to see in the world".
* (See foot notes for my thoughts on his other songs)
So the first reason is that I feel a certain sense of loss that the messenger has died. The message, for me, was "Love and care for one another and the planet you're living on."
And the second reason I feel such a great loss is: because we are all one, Michael Jackson really was (is) my friend. When I was crying, as a child, in my bedroom and not understanding the world (or my parents, or the death of my dog or the death of my grandfather...), the comforting words and voice coming out of my tape player were coming from a friend, far away.
His energy, while he was alive, swept across most (if not all) of the earth. He was trying hard to help people around him even though - or maybe BECAUSE - his own life wasn't perfect.
That energy connected with me and many of my friends. And closure will come to me from realising that the energy is still with us. It's no longer focused in a single, physical place but it's there.
Most of my spiritual beliefs (about 95%) come from the book series "Conversations with God". I don't claim them to be "the way" but they are "my way". Reading those books awakened a truth inside me that made them feel right when other spiritual beliefs didn't. That's my only reason for believing what I do - it feels right. Well, that and it gives me closure :)
So, with that, I'll try and remember that MJ is still around. Still a part of us. He's done his bit in the world and now he has changed form. Diluted but still there.
* The other songs? Well that fits into my belief that we are here to experience ourselves/ourself as the all that is. The only way to do that is by forgetting what we are and experiencing it afresh. So God is (and we are) the love, the hate, the sex, the abstinence, the cheating, the faithfulness, etc.
And the biggest gift we can give ourselves is unconditional love for ourselves, the people around us and the world in which we live. It's not easy but it IS blessed and you feel it, each time you get it right :)
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Theresa - Thursday, 23 Jul 2009
I totally agree with you and hold the same beliefs as you in terms of CWG. The weird thing is that I have never been an MJ fan. I mean I have some of his music for workouts on my ipod but I have never paid any attention to him or his life.
Since he died I have read all sorts of stuff on him and have had an overwhelming amount of grief on a daily basis. The stuff that I have read just shocks me on how he was such a loving kind giving man. Another weird thing is I feel like I know him. Seriously, i have never paid any attention to him and today it feels like I knew and know him....actually we do have a lot in common in regards to a lost childhood, love of children, substance abuser, and his awakening in the last 20 years. But I find it strange that I have been crying everyday and listening to Man In The Mirror a lot and watching his videos. My compassion for him and what he endured his entire life but mostly in the last bunch of years with the molestation accusations is huge.
What has come up for me is the very fact that I lost track of what is so important and that is selfless giving and having love & compassion for everyone. I sort of forgotten that in the last 6 months and have been pretty self absorbed.
Thank you Michael for helping me get back to that Man In The Mirror. I just reenlisted to volunteer at a single mom-low income facility and will continue to do so.
I hope others will look into what MJ did for the world and get the same inspiration I did.
Norio - Thursday, 23 Jul 2009
That sounds great, Theresa :) Thanks for sharing with me here!
Vic - Saturday, 2 Jan 2010
So confounding....I have had these same overwhelming feelings for the last two weeks. Since right before Christmas. I HAVE always liked a good bit of Michael’s music, but I was never able to attend concerts. I saw clips of his Memorial Service, but never dug too deeply, until recent.
I keep having these reoccurring thoughts and feeling that I should listen to some of his mid to late 90s material. I would put it out of my mind and keep going, but it kept nagging me. So now I have spent over a week for days at a time looking and listening and I have to say there are some pieces that have gripped me to the core!! If I really focus on the lyrics and then listen to the music behind it, Michael is saying some powerful things, but, why now and why so strong! Now I do have strong different spiritual beliefs. I would be distraught if I really believed we are God, because I know, that I know, that I know, we cannot be the creation and the creator at the same time. That would be like saying that the art created it's self rather than the artist.
And I know that there are just times when I can't handle life and circumstance myself, and I have to give it to my creator. My father in heaven, and I do believe in Christ Jesus, and the Bible. If there was no true Christ and no True God, then we just need to give it up now, because LOOK at the mess we have made all by ourselves
I believe that is the message Michael is trying to convey to us. We have to decide that we will have to make a change, in what we put our value and self worth in, and how we care for others in this world. If we were indeed God, we would not be on a path to self destruction, with the sheer lack of LOVE for what God has given us.
There is evilness beyond imagination and reason on this earth, and it will be brought down, but not by our power. Michael new of this evil, and I am certain had experienced it up close and personal. He has tried through his music to warn us, and show us of a better way, and to prepare us for what is to come. And for this reason I can't say that I am 100% convinced that Michael has passed. He always said not to believe the media. They feed us only what they want us to know. It is up to us to go in search of the truth. I just think that all the circumstances surrounding his death are so abnormal and the evidence is contradictory.
But I am not going to get into that here. However, I am trying to understand why I walk around with this feeling that I need to know everything about him, now and that if somehow I could have shared my deepest spiritual knowledge with him during his times of sheer pain and grief, things could have been better in his life.
Now I know there are thousands of people that would feel this same way about him, but for me...he is the only one I feel this way about, not thousands, and I just don't know why NOW. Why not at the height of his career, or during the trials. I do know at that time, I felt in my spirit, it all was just an evil attack from the enemy, because he refused to conform. I strongly believe that Michael had a true revelation from God, and that very thing had changed his focus in his music in that direction. Let’s face it, he is the single most influential human being on earth, and has reached more people that anyone in HIStory, in some form or fashion.
So if you take that influence and channel it in a direction that our heavenly Father is leading, I believe it would create a Love Revolution. Unfortunately there are people in this world that KNEW it, and they set on a path to bring Michael down. But guess what? I believe that it just empowered him that much more and EXACTLY through the means that I am experiencing now and many other ways. I know this is a lot to say in one space and I don’t intend to fault anyone for their beliefs, I am just expressing mine. Thanks for reading.
Norio - Monday, 4 Jan 2010
Thanks for sharing :)
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