Disclaimer: The following post could be considered, by some, to be provocative and controversial. Please understand that the opinions expressed are the opinions of the author alone.
July 3 through July 10, 2011
Michael, There is a lot of discussion occurring in various forums … videos and discussion forums and personal blogs all over the internet … that are comparing you to Jesus. One hip-hop artist by the name of Aqualeo has a multi-segment video on YouTube entitled “Michael Jackson was Your Jesus” in which he posits that the foretold ‘Second Coming’ of the Book of Revelations would look much like your life and career. He asks questions like: What would Jesus look like [in the Second Coming?] Wouldn’t He be instantly recognizable all over the world? Wouldn’t he represent black and white, male and female, child and adult? Wouldn’t He appeal to every creed and call for unity and the elimination of all divisions? Many of my friends and myself revere you in much the same way that we revere Jesus. How do you feel about that?
[Michael giggles and covers his mouth.] I am so honored and moved by all your love … and by your wanting me to remain an integral part of your lives in this way. I am humbled by the comparisons because in no way do I compare myself to Jesus. In my physical life, I tried to imitate Jesus … to remain humble and to make a difference in every way I could, but I am not Jesus … nor am I a reincarnation of Jesus. His was the life I modeled mine after. If I achieved any degree of success in that, I am grateful.
So while I am thankful for all your love, I don’t consider myself worthy of your reverence. But, at the same time, I do understand how you have jumped to that conclusion. Human beings are fascinated with labeling things … categorizing them … dissecting them and examining them under a microscope to make them easier to understand intellectually. When you encounter a person or an occurrence, your brain automatically refers to your memory banks and compares that person or occurrence to what it finds stored there. We’ve talked about this before in earlier conversations. The fact that so many of your brains search your memory banks and come up with the same comparison is beyond gratifying to me in ways that I can’t even begin to describe. It brings tears to my eyes because it shows that my striving to attain one-tenth of the love of Jesus and to represent him in a way that all of you understood was not in vain. Thank you for validating all of my efforts.
Well, the correlations and points of comparison are astounding, Beloved. They are hard to avoid.
Both of you were prodigies … ‘old souls’ in little bodies … as so many people who knew you when you were young have testified on numerous occasions. Smokey Robinson called you a ’40-year-old midget’ and Berry Gordy has said that you had a kind of ‘knowingness’ about you even as a very young boy.
Of course, we can only know Jesus’s life from the writings of his followers … and within our own spiritual ‘knowing’ … because he lived so very long ago … and my experience with you since 1992 has taught me to believe very little of what I read of someone. Nonetheless, there is an incident recounted in the New Testament where Jesus is separated from his family during a Passover visit to Jerusalem when he was a young boy and is found by his parents three days later teaching and listening to the learned debates of the priests. From this incident, one can infer that both of you shared this trait of ‘knowingness’ … although in different spheres of influence … beyond your years.
Both of you suffered from a ‘lack of credibility’ … not because of any lack or deceit on your parts … but because the people of your respective times expected something totally different from what you each represented. The Jewish people of Jesus’s time expected their Messiah to be a military ruler … to overcome the Roman ‘heel of oppression’ … a wealthy and mighty king to crush the Romans and restore Israel’s autonomy and sovereignty as a nation. They couldn’t understand a Messiah who came from the common people … from a relative backwater like Nazareth … who was humble and whose main purpose was to bring to his people a new understanding of God and His kingdom. They thought they had God ‘in the bag’ … that their understanding and interpretation of God was sufficient. After all, according to their Scriptures, their God had conquered their enemies in this way before; He had physically expelled invaders and sent them wise and just rulers centuries in their past. They didn’t want a spiritual leader who would exhort them to ‘render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s;’ they wanted a temporal king, one who would dispose of the Romans and free their land from tyranny.
Your lack of credibility stemmed from a similar misinterpretation rather than from any lack or deceit on your part. The people of your time, my Dear One, didn’t expect a ‘rock ‘n roll pop star’ to be profoundly anything … except dissolute. Profoundly loving, compassionate, intelligent and with an unquenchable drive for excellence in everything you touched … this was totally outside our realm of experience. We expected orgies and drugs and alcohol and all the other vices that ensnare others in your fields of endeavor. A soft-spoken, shy young man who loved the innocent pleasures of childhood and saw God in the face of every child he ever met was antithetical to our expectations, totally alien to the stereotype we have set up for a person of your unparalleled fame and position. One who spoke of ‘healing our world’ and ‘respecting the autonomy of our children’ and ‘being the voice of the voiceless’ while remaining humble, gracious and kind to all comers regardless of social status, wealth or position could do nothing but raise suspicion in the small minds of your contemporaries who couldn’t see past the smoke screen of your fame. He was dangerous … unpredictable … unable to be pinned down; such a one had to have ulterior motives for building an amusement park and inviting children to play with his toys. Your non-conformity to our expectations contributed in large part to our mistrust. That along with the boundaries you ignored and eradicated without really trying … racial and cultural and denominational and political … made you a target for all of our angst. We are so very sorry, Beloved.
You need to stop lumping yourself in that category. Many of you understood; many of you saw through those expectations … the smokescreen of my public persona … to the more personal human being who drove it. Many of you knew me and responded with faith and love, supporting me through all the trials and sending me ‘spiritual reinforcements’ at critical times and I am so grateful.
Living up to what others expect of you while ignoring what your soul needs for its nourishment and completion is a sure fire way to a conflicted life. Those things that the world expected of me were not me. I would have been hypocritical to conform to those expectations. Hypocrisy breeds resentment and blocks creativity; my channel had to remain clear for God’s creativity to explode out of me. It required me to nurture that flow of creativity with those things that brought me joy.
The same is true for each of you. The world demands that you conform … and you know this to be true within your own lives. Each of you knows where your heart is at rest; each of you feels instinctively when the ‘planets are lined up’ … when your heart, mind, body and soul are aligned. It’s an unmistakable feeling. You described it in our earlier conversation when you were talking about writing your book. You said you felt like you were being led and the little synchronicities and miracles occurred at more regular intervals. You noticed them and took a second or two to be grateful for them. You were speaking to me in your mind … and I was responding to you in much the same way we are conversing now. You said, “the next decade of my life was the most soulfully-aware, spiritually-conscious, mystically-fulfilling decade I had ever lived. Every day was a new, exciting adventure. I couldn’t wait to discover what miracle was lying in wait for me as the day unfolded. It felt like I was being led … like an angel had his hand on my shoulder and was leading me into a whole new life.” (Conversation – Installment #18 – March 6 through March 12, 2011).
You’ve been taught to depend on your priests and ministers to tell you what is right for you … or to look it up in some book that was written by men who lived centuries in the past … instead of the urgings of your own soul. As a matter of fact, you’ve been told that those ‘hunches’ and ‘feelings’ are suspect and should be ignored. You ignore those hunches and feelings at the risk of living a fragmented life, one that is misaligned and disjointed. When you are aligned … as you were when you were writing your book and as you are now in these conversations … you feel led, powerful, things fall into place easily and lock tightly, you are unobstructed and your desires are made manifest in your reality with an ease and naturalness that is unmistakable.
You’ve been taught that you are ‘imperfect’ and that it is ‘blasphemous’ to aspire to the same kind of spiritual attainment that Jesus embodied. This is not true; it is not blasphemous; this is what you’ve been sent to this planet to achieve. Aspire! Dream! Imagine! Attain! Achieve! It is what you were designed for; and, then, be every bit of what you can be! Don’t be afraid of offending God by aspiring to be like Jesus, for example! God is in the wings applauding every one of your efforts. She is your most appreciative audience.
Your world says the word ‘dreamer’ as if it’s a bad thing. It patronizes the ‘imaginers.’ As we’ve said before, it is the dreamers and imaginers that will move humanity along in spiritual, emotional and physical evolution. It is you … my children … who are changing the world with your love for me … and for each other … and for the planet … and for the children. God bless every one of you!
Your words are so inspirational, Michael, as always. I love you so much and I thank you … I will try … but it is way off topic for this conversation. As you like to say, “Quit distracting me, we are on a roll, here.” [Michael giggles.] Back to our comparison!
Both you and Jesus were clear channels for the unconditional love of God to be made real in the worlds you inhabited. Jesus told his disciples that LOVE was the most important of God’s commandments, that the letter of the law was subservient to the Spirit of the Law and that if a man needed healing on the Sabbath, he should be healed on the Sabbath regardless of the strictures against doing anything on the day of rest. It was one of the criticisms leveled against him … that he encouraged his followers to ignore the letter of the law. He made the law new … and human.
You encouraged your colleagues and co-workers with the words, “God bless you” at every opportunity. You used the words to mean ‘thank you’ or to plead for intercession in a child’s illness. You asked everyone around you to remember that ‘love is important’ and ‘the world should be full of love’ and ‘do it with love … L.O.V.E. … love.’
Jesus encouraged his followers to allow the children to approach him and said that the children of his time were overlooked and neglected just like the children of your time are overlooked and neglected. He told them that the most important among them should be servants and illustrated his point by washing their feet, which, at the time, was the function of a slave in those households that held slaves or the women in those that didn’t. He also taught that if they wanted to be the most exalted they should become as little children for ‘of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.’ And he healed the children, but denied that the healing originated with him; instead, he credited His father in heaven for the healing. He told them that all he had done was ask, with faith and gratitude for his prayers being answered and that with ‘a mustard seed’ of faith, they, too, would do what he did. As a matter of fact, he said, “greater than this shall you also do with faith.”
Both of you spoke in parables … short stories with multiple layers of meaning, each layer containing a germ or moral or point. Jesus’s parables are contained within the New Testament … The Prodigal Son is one of the most famous. Your parables were your songs and short films and performances of those songs. Earth Song is a parable and there are multiple layers at which the meaning can be interpreted … the music and lyrics themselves (which are powerful enough all by themselves) … the settings and concepts of the short films you used to make the moral visible on film … and the props and films you used to convey your message in performance with the added ‘punch’ of your body language to convey your meaning and make them unforgettable. Man in the Mirror is a parable. Heal the World is a parable. All of your short films are the dramatic representations of the parables contained within your music.
I’ve recently read a wonderful book by Dr. Willa Stillwater called M Poetica: Michael Jackson’s Art of Connection and Defiance which makes a genuine attempt to examine your work as a serious artist. The meanings that the author finds in works that have been formerly discounted as “pop music” are manifold and startling and profound. She treats such short films as Beat It, The Way You Make Me Feel, Dirty Diana, Ghosts, Stranger in Moscow, Scream and Blood on the Dance Floor within her treatise and her conclusions are eye-opening and thought-provoking. She posits that with your short films, you introduced us to characters we felt comfortable marginalizing (like the gangs who populated the set for Beat It) and made us see them as human beings very much like ourselves at a time when hip-hop was solidifying its hold on urban culture and she examines your impact on that solidification process. The book is a thoughtful and compassionate look at Michael Jackson, the penultimate artist.
Joe Vogel has also released a 50-page essay (kind of a ‘trailer’ advertising his book which is due out this fall) on the musical importance of Earth Song. He calls Earth Song your ‘Magnum Opus.’
That’ an interesting combination of songs to examine, isn’t it?
Yes, very! And they both do a very good job of dissecting each of them. I was pleasantly surprised as I read M Poetica and Joe Vogel’s essay.
Both you and Jesus were magnetic in ways seldom experienced previously by your audiences. There is magnetism on the level of the magnet and paperclip … and there is ‘off-the-charts,’ ‘out-of-the-ballpark’ magnetism on the level of a black hole gobbling up space debris and planets in its path. Jesus and you shared the black hole level of magnetism. People were … and still are … drawn to you by an almost inescapable pull. Of course, adults fight that kind of ‘drawing’ because they don’t understand it fully and it frightens them; they think there’s something ‘evil’ or ‘cultish’ or ‘hypnotic’ about such unexplainable magnetism … whereas, children just run to it with open arms and embrace it with absolute trust and faith.
I love that … black hole gobbling up space debris and planets in its path … garffgarffgarff [Michael makes a noise like he’s gobbling something and laughs.]
Jesus discouraged his followers from making him the ‘Son of God,’ (advice which they totally ignored after he was gone). He told them that we are all sons and daughters of God and that, with faith, all things are possible. He walked the Earth humbly and never made himself important, always credited God for everything and by doing so, brought God into daily life in a way that his world had never seen before. He forced the people of his times to make a decision about their faith in God.
You, like Jesus, spoke often of God. It seems like you mention Him in every interview. You told reporters that God was responsible for your music and your dance, that you were just a channel through which they came; you always thanked God for the gifts of music and for your talent, refused to take credit for the songs you wrote and described your creative process as ‘stepping into the flow.’ You told Neff-U that melodies and harmonies are ancient, that they have always been ‘up there’ and taught him to just pluck them out of the air. You walked humbly on this Earth and even in times of your greatest extremity were more concerned with other people and their needs than you were with your own anguish or pain.
Tom Mesereau spoke at the Gardner Street Elementary School on June 25, the anniversary of The Day the Earth Stood Still, and I have seen video of his presentation. His speech was brief; he related two anecdotes from his personal experience of you during the trial. The first anecdote related that his sister was diagnosed with terminal cancer during the early days of his association with you and that when she returned from the hospital, she found a huge floral arrangement and personal note from you welcoming her home. The second anecdote was about his struggle with vertigo during the trial and he recounted that you called him to make sure that HE was okay in the midst of the most horrifying and humiliating experience of your life … one in which your life hung in the balance. These are just two examples when you diverted attention from your own situation, which was perilous, at best, to tend to the needs of others. There are dozens of others.
Beloved, you too, brought God into the mainstream of society, a society which prefers to think it has God ‘in the bag’ and to ignore Her except on Sunday morning, one which condemns anyone who doesn’t attend church regularly and spout the accepted doctrine, whichever accepted doctrine that happens to be. When a truly spiritually-attuned human being who has a personal relationship with God stands before it, it doesn’t recognize him.
And the similarities don’t end there. Jesus was brought up on charges that were patently false, remained silent at his trial, was found not guilty (Pilate is reported to have said, “I find no fault in this man.”) Nonetheless, to appease the crowd which had been paid to call for his execution, Pilate had him stripped and beaten in the hopes that the crowd would be satisfied. When it wasn’t, he is reported to have said, “I wash my hands of the fate of this man.” In other words, he was put on trial, exonerated of all wrongdoing, stripped and beaten and then was crucified anyway.
Here the similarities between Jesus and you are glaring … obvious … unable to be ignored, my Dear One. While our world has progressed far enough in two thousand years to no longer exalt in the physical torture and public execution of another human being, our evolution has not precluded us from reveling in the sadistic pleasure of watching while another is psychically, emotionally and spiritually flayed alive while we stand by and do nothing to stop it.
You didn’t stand by and do nothing to stop it; you did everything you could do. You must stop blaming yourself. Your feelings of guilt do no good; they just add to your conflict. Most of all, you sent me spiritual support. You prayed for my deliverance and my strength to bear it all with dignity. Without those prayers … and those of so many others … I doubt I would have been able to find the fortitude to remain strong and resolute.
It wasn’t enough, Beloved. You, too, were stripped and experienced the total humiliation of having your body photographed by ‘impartial’ observers while the man responsible stood by in the next room, listening to your sobs and pleas to ‘stop this.’ I wonder what kind of pleasure he got from this. You, too, were put on trial on trumped-up charges that were patently false. You had the additional torture of having to propel yourself into that courtroom daily and listen to the name you had built so meticulously over a forty-year career dragged through the mud for five months. You, too, were exonerated on all charges. And you, too, were crucified (metaphorically) anyway.
But even that is not the most obvious of the similarities between you; the most glaring and telling of the comparisons … and the one that confirms in no uncertain terms who you are (for me, at least) is the impact your leaving has had … and continues to have … on the planet, the emotional implosion that has been described in these conversations previously as the ‘lightning bolt’ experience and compared to the detonation of a 25 megaton atomic bomb, the ripples radiating out into the cosmos from the pebble thrown into the still pond. One of my Facebook friends has described it in the following words: “We are experiencing a rush of energy, a torrent of love, a powerful resonating in our cells that is impossible to ignore. It is a creative force and we are pulled into it.” (Thank you, Monica.)
Jesus’s departure caused a similar phenomenon. St. Paul describes his ‘lightning bolt’ experience on the Road to Damascus in the Acts of the Apostles. His experience left him blind. The ripple effect from this one event … Jesus’s crucifixion … changed the world of his time … paved the way for the history we know today. The Renaissance and the beautiful works of art that resulted would not have been possible without this event … the rise of the church as a world power would not have been possible without it. Of course, the dogmatically-controlled lives we all live today, too, would not have occurred without it as well. I pray that the human race does a better job of interpreting your life and its impact upon world events than it did in the case of Jesus of Nazareth.
It will be interesting to visit this planet in two or five or eight hundred years from today to see the ripple effect from your life … and your departure from the physical side of it … as they expand throughout the cosmos. I pray we have matured enough in that time to sublimate our need to control our neighbors and allow free-will and free thought to inform our spiritual, physical and emotional lives.
So, what do you think of these comparisons? Are you offended by them? It’s not important what I think of them. What’s important in this discussion is your opinion. How do they make you feel?
My reaction to such discussions is, “bring it on!” I feel absolutely no conflict in comparing you to Jesus of Nazareth. I honor and respect you both in that comparison; feel that neither of you is diminished in any way by it.
Unlike Jesus’s followers, I do not feel a need to deify you, though. If we deify you, we do you an injustice. We kinda take the ‘hardness’ out of it … it’s not hard for God to do what’s right … to be kind and generous even though the world treats him cruelly and brutally … he’s God, after all … and by extension … above all this human CRAP. But it is hard for a human being to do what’s right … to be generous and give everything he is and has to help ease the suffering of the world … even when the same world he is trying to heal turns on him with a vengeance. It’s not hard for God to create a life that is an inspiration for millions of people on a massive scale … he is the Creator, after all. But for a regular guy, especially an African-American regular guy from a working class family … that’s hard! To influence an entire world and change things for the better … eradicate world hunger by half … for God, that’s a snap! For a Rock ‘n Roll pop star … that’s hard! So, we do you an injustice to deify you. We take the significance and beauty of a human being striving for perfection out of the equation, if we make you into a god.
What’s worse, we eliminate your effectiveness because you wanted to show us that we, too, must find the gift that we were created to give our world, and give it joyfully and without counting the cost … but if we make you a God, we blunt our responsibility to do that … because human beings can’t be God, so we can’t follow the example you set for us. Can’t be done, so why even try? That’s the ‘original sin’ concept that you described in an earlier conversation, again. Do you see what I mean? We remove our obligation to strive for the excellence you personified by making you anything other than what you are … a man with all that entails. You had to fight the same demons we all have to fight … as a matter of fact, you had to fight all those plus some that most of us will never have to fight … and you still came out smelling like a rose … instead of being the thorn in the rose’s side!
So, I don’t think our mistake is in deifying you, My Dear One … because I don’t … you are the most remarkable man this world has seen in a long, long time. And I don’t think it’s wrong for us to compare you to Jesus, because the comparisons are glaring … obvious … unable to be ignored! And I don’t think it’s wrong for us to continue to speak to you (pray), now after June 25, 2009 because I think those who lead the way, as you he did, are still concerned about those of us left behind and want to help us achieve some level of spiritual attainment.
I think our mistake is in deifying Jesus! (Heretical thoughts! Oh, well, I always did say I would have been barbecue bait a couple of centuries ago … that hasn’t changed.) By doing so, we lifted him too far above us … so far that even trying to strive to become like him was blasphemous … so far that even mentioning his name in the same sentence as ours (like in the case of John Lennon claiming more popularity than Jesus … or you saying that you tried to ‘imitate Jesus … I’m not saying I am Jesus’) is heretical! People were burned at the stake for less. We separated him from us, made him ‘other’ rather than ‘one of us’ who just happened to do what is right and was crucified for it.
The Christ Consciousness which you and Jesus of Nazareth share, is a universal concept. Buddha shared it. The Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita of the Hindu faith describe it. The Muslim faith shares it. It is not exclusive to one person or faith. It is the model of the fully-realized HUMAN BEING … the human being who has realized his potential and strives to achieve it! There is a psychological term for it … the SELF-ACTUALIZED human being … made famous by some well-recognized psychologist (sorry, can’t remember his name) … Mazlov? I’ll look it up later and let you know. Maslow … that’s it!
Very few humans beings ever attain to that ideal. You did! Jesus did!
It is my firm belief that God has shared his divinity with each of HIS wonderful creations, including mankind. She created us in Her image and likeness and planted that seed of divinity within each one of us and through it … she BREATHES us all. I do not find any contradiction in comparing you to divinity. I believe that … at our core … our spirit or aura or whatever you want to call it … our soul … is divinity in motion in our world. Our mission, should we DECIDE to accept it (HUGE IF), is to allow that inner divinity to inform and influence our thoughts and our actions … to so let our light shine that the world can’t help but notice. You did that! Few do!
I believe that you let that inner beautiful divinity shine so clearly and so magnetically that you lassoed the WHOLE WORLD into your web … and caused the emotional implosion that you caused when you left this physical space. But that is NOT THE END of it … just as it was not the end of Jesus. You continue to reach out to all of us who are paying attention … and I believe that that is one of the most important parts of your message … one of the reasons you came to us at this time and in this way … to allow all of us to know that we are also welcome to share in this divinity and to encourage us to so structure our lives and thoughts as to shine along with you.
God bless you! Yes, it’s your time to shine!
Jan – July 8, 2011
Hi. I wanted to say that I just finished M Poetica by Dr. Stillwater. I don’t know
what I expected but I have to say that many of my preconceptions and ‘in stone’ beliefs about Michael were turned upside down. I had no idea or
consciousness of what the author described. For instance, the plastic surgery.
I am so conditioned to accept that belief that to consider what Dr. Stillwater
posits is difficult. I am stunned at her interpretations of his work and how
intricate they were and are. I wonder, ‘was Michael really that knowing, was
he really that sophisticated and ahead of the bar?” I will be reading it again,
that I know and I’ve recommended it to others without really being able to
explain what I learned. Stunning.
Also want to say that I so look forward to these conversations. This one
was very eye-opening because I did not realize the similarities that you describe; not to that extent. I always take something away from these
entries. I easily fall into accepting Michael as Michael speaking here.
Thank you.
Thank you once again Jan for sharing dear Michael’s words with us. They’re very precious 🙂 God bless you always!
Dear Michael, I love you not only for being such an amazing spirit, full of love, but also for being humble. For being the example of a good christian, doing charity and with no prejudice, hate or greed in your heart.
Humility is a quality from evolved beings and everyone should follow your example. We love you more!
May Lord Jesus bless you, dear Michael, and all the wonderful spirits of light who keep working to make this world a better place. May Lord Jesus bless us all, God’s children, in His love and peace, and lead us to the right path. A path of consciousness and union.
Love to all,
Mayra
I too have noticed the uncanny similarities. And when I pressed Michael about it, in a light-hearted way….saying that just like Clark Kent and Superman were never seen at the same place at the same time (bcse they were the same person), I said that I noticed that he and Jesus (for me) were never seen together in the same place and time. And asked him point-blank, “So, are you Jesus Christ?” He laughed that sheepish, tickled laugh, almost embarassed, and replied “No… far from it.” I lifted one eyebrow….not entirely convinced.
we’ve had funny interchanges when he’s like George Burns and i’m playing a part like Gracie. And I press him again… George Burns… payed the starring role in the movie with John Dever: “God”. LOL So here i am again connecting the dots, and it points back to you being….. ? and he just laughs it off.
I find myself fixed on him like Moses watching the bush that was on fire yet was not consumed. And that fire was…. who? God. LOL He just shakes his head and denies it again.
No — I’m not TRYING to make these comparisons, it’s just that these dots keep connecting and making the same conclusions that leave me going “HMMM!”
But since we started having the major love prayer on the 25th, i HAVE seen Jesus and Michael in the same place together, so there goes that.
At the beginning (after his passing) he was lamenting that he was trying to communicate to certain people but they refused to believe that they were hearing from HIM. He was so frustrated that they wouldn’t believe him. I said, “Baby… you’re in good company. God has the same problem!” LOL “Besides, even when you WERE here, and you’d call someone’s cell phone and say ‘this is michael jackson’ their first response was ‘yeah right….click’. So why should it be any different now?”
Yes there are many similarities (including the repeated crucifixion of him in the public and the media) even as recent as when the verdict came down on the Casey Anthony trial. When she was declared not guilty, people such as Jane Velez Mitchell and Diane Dimond compared it to Michael Jackson’s 2005 verdict. What the….? HUH?! I swear I will never get used to Michael bashing coming out suddenly at the most surprising times and so damning. I find that we his supporters are thrown into wars of words and ideas and reputations all the time. I wonder WHEN will they stop crucifying him. When?
Thanks for being so bold as to share this with us.
Another well-written piece.
Two things…
You are quite correct about Michael reaching out to his ‘audience’ through parables. He also wrote parables in poetry and prose. Those that have been published can be found in his book “Dancing the Dream: Poems and Reflections”.
Prior to June 25, 2009, I had almost no awareness of Michael Jackson. I cannot fathom how this happened, for I was quite aware of the music business and the musicians and groups who influenced, mentored and worked with Michael and his brothers. Everything of any value or relevance that I know about Michael, which is a lot now, I have learned since that dark day. Very soon after I began to learn about Michael, which is to say very soon after I began to understand the heart and purpose of this amazing person, the parallels between the lives of Michael and Jesus started becoming evident to me. At first, I thought I was reading something into the carefully researched data and the unexpected poetry that is supported by my research. ‘Best to keep quiet about these thoughts,’ was my plan for a long while. But, you can’t keep the voice of truth silenced for long, and this is truth. I, too, do not deify Michael. He does not need that. He was consistently vocal about his not being, or claiming to be, Jesus, but rather a human who lives to love and to serve through that love. The world is not fully healed but the possibility of that healing has been offered to us by our gentle, humble, fully human, unconditionally loving brother, Michael. What we are doing, and will continue to do, with and through what we’ve been invited into is going to amaze even those of us who already believe in our blessing and power to heal the world.
First of all, I am not in the least offended by this post. 🙂 I want to bring up some quotes from this post: “Human beings are fascinated with labeling things” – that’s true!! It’s no longer “Who are you?” but “WHAT are you?”, and if you’re slightly different from the mainstream society (gay, trans, ginger haired, black, Down’s Syndrome, whatever!) they pressure you to change until THEY are satisfied. To quote Lady Gaga: “I’m beautiful in my way, ’cause God makes no mistakes – I’m on the right track baby, I was BORN this way!”
It’s true, Michael was not what the world expected. That’s why so many feel guilty now, because he was himself, he knew he had to remain humble to be the creative Artist he was. He wasn’t the stereotypical “celebrity” – and thank goodness for that! 😛
The “garffgarffgarff” had me laughing so hard!!!! 😛
“We are experiencing a rush of energy” – so true!!! I believe that many of the changes in today’s world are thanks to Michael. After he went Home, more people rediscover spirituality and prayer, and I believe that it’s our combined energies (the fans and Michael’s) that is transforming the world.
Jan, I felt the tears coming, emotional, but so comfortable with all that was said in your latest ‘conversation’ with Michael. After his ‘death’ I felt such pain in my heart, and the uncontrollable pull towards all things him, to follow his way, like something had taken me over, sweeping me along. I couldn’t explain it, but it was very strong, something so powerful, I knew it was an unusual rare occurrence. Anyone who said anything against him, I felt compelled to rise up in defence. All this you have heard before. One day I was in a book shop/newsagents looking for or ordering a Michael DVD, and I said to the enquiries/orders assistant, ‘This may be the second coming’, you wait and see.’ She just smiled and looked away. I wonder what she is thinking now! I really agree with, and feel this about, everything you said above. It just may be true! And all these dramatic world changes could be because of his L.O.V.E. and wanting peace. I like to think so. It’s all very exciting. Wow!
Sorry. I’ve just remembered that I told her that in the Bible somewhere, don’t know where, I am sure I read that it says the Second Coming would be a black man!
Another masterpiece, my friend. I LOVE you!!
~ Char
You know how I feel…. we’ve had this conversation. 😉
(forgot to say that)
~ Char
Well Jan, as you likely know… this is near and dear to my heart. I have also asked this question of Michael. I find He is not one for answering directly… I feel that He understands that discovering the answers within ourselves is where the learning happens.. not in being given the answers. It’s like cheating on a test…. I find Michael is more of a ‘hint dropper’. He sure left enough of them for us. When I asked Him the same question regarding His obvious similarities to Jesus… His answer was “yes and no… think bigger”. I thought that was funny, since that was His attitude in life too… lol. I just want to say that what you have written here is so very intelligent, and wonderfully expressed. I truly appreciate you sharing yourself so intimately… I understand the vulnerability in exposing yourself on this level and I admire your strength and conviction.
Bless you. It’s all for Love.
Siren
thank you Jan again,,,,
well this is for you Michael…I follow you during your trial every day,i soffer with you ,cry a lot and support with my prayers….and when you went to heaven ….i said to myself :”Michael remind me Jesus….. for what he went through and for the LOVE message he send to us every moment with his music and his wonderful personality …Michael you are a profeph of love …God send you to us…thank you God fro Michael
I love you Michael more!!!!!!!
I believe Michael is a very highly evolved soul sent to be a messenger of Love, Peace and Healing 🙂 He used his wonderful gifts and talents to impress the world of humanity with his energy of love and healing and yes it’s very easy for people to see similarilities with Jesus 🙂
Thanks Jan for another great post and to Michael for being Michael 😉
BTW.. Awhile ago I read this book by the famous psychic Sylvia Browne. It’s called “The Mystical Life of Jesus” Interesting read!
Light and Love Susanxoxo
Dear Jan, You just spent quite a bit of time and tremendous effort beautifully validating in print what your heart already knows. Like anything spiritual, it’s a KNOWING. We humans always want proof. It’s a KNOWING in each of us regarding this topic. OF COURSE Michael could NEVER come out and say, “Oh you figured me out…..I’m the reincarnation of Jesus Christ….” My God, can you imagine the crucifixion of Michael Jackson all over the internet then?? ALL the Great Ones have come back over and over again to assist this planet with it’s ascension. KNOW THEM by their fruits. That is our proof. Our simple KNOWING. Who else EXPLODED us all onto the journey we are now on? What HAPPENED to us after Michael’s rebirth? That is not the workings of a pop-star with a good heart and humble ways! For Michael to declare ANYTHING controversial like that at this time would take the focus off the Master Plan and there is no time for that. Those spending countless hours gossiping through their social network sights about who Michael is or isn’t would be far more productive doing something else. The days for controvery surrounding Michael Jackson are over. There is tremendous work to be done by all of us. Do not deny what your heart has already figured out, and Michael cannot brazenly declare anything right now. You know, I know, we all know, and that is enough. Also, one of Michael’s primary teachings is to constantly remind us that WE ARE ALL ONE. To separate Jesus and Michael is to promote the damaging untruth of separation. There is only ONE, so in THAT Light, it’s actually impossible for him NOT to be!!! Much love to all.
Just to clarify…….I’m not saying you, Jan, are promoting separation through your above conversation, I’m saying, we are not REMEMBERING THE TEACHING of ALL ONE by controversializing the subject…….
Again–a beautiful effort Jan.
I wonder –will there be a time when Michael is NOT crucified–NOT degraded–NOT subjected to ridicule.
WHY does it seem there are TWO Michael Jackson’s?? The “media” portrayal and the Michael his children and fans know and LOVE.
dAWN
Jan I sent you a PM on fb.
Michael you are just AMAZING!!! The depth of my love for you knows no bounds, and it grows stronger and deeper each and every day. You are more than welcome to read the PM that I sent to Jan as well. ♥
Jan…..thank you so much….I just love being able to sit in on your conversations with Michael…it’s a real privilege…I just hang on every word spoken by the both of you…..and Susan, when I watched the video you posted, Michael’s voice sounds just the same as how I hear Him in his conversations with Jan…..an amazing experience…I find nothing strange about it….no doubts…..no fears….just L.O.V.E….God, I love that man.
One of the many unforgettable aspects of Michael is his voice. When I received the first poem, in the middle of the night of October 1, 2009, I had no idea where it had come from or how or why but, specifically because of the words, I knew within the first three lines that it was Michael. There was no image that I saw, no voice that I listened to as the poetry flowed through my fingertips that hovered over my laptop, but I knew it was Michael. When I read the poetry back, however, there was a voice that I heard speaking this poetry – word after word, line after line – as my eyes read those words and lines on my screen. At that time, I had listened to Michael sing and speak in interviews – all on You Tube, which was my only access to Michael then – but I’d never heard Michael read anything. Nonetheless, I knew it was Michael’s voice I was listening to speaking this poetry. Almost two years later, the poetry continues to arrive, in its own time and way. I have committed to being available. As I hear Michael’s voice while I read this poetry back, I hear both extreme pain and joy, so I myself feel both extreme pain and joy. I cannot wait to be able to share this with all of you. I know it is for you. Much L.O.V.E.
Our mistake is deifying Jesus…. this is how I’ve felt for a long time now. What Jesus did and what Michael did is all the more special and wonderful if we believe they are humans…. and that also gives us the inspiration to aspire to that, because we are all equally divine. Thank you Jan.