April 21 through April 28, 2012
Come Together Over Michael Jackson
My Heart, in our last installment, we discussed a major, unified push toward creating a healed Planet Earth with visualizations and prayers intended to address some of the major issues facing our world and anchoring those solutions within our own individual awareness and the collective consciousness of our world.
Yes, I remember your Gift. It is so beautiful! Thank you!
We’ve decided to call this campaign “Come Together Over Michael Jackson.” It is scheduled to begin the day after the Major Love Prayer on April 25th with visualizations aimed at silencing every gun on Earth for one minute on June 25, 2012 in your name and in your honor.
Each successive month from the 26th through the Major Love Prayer on the following 25th a different focus topic will be chosen. A six month schedule of focus topics follows:
Present to June 25: Silence every gun on planet Earth for one minute on June 25.
June 26 to July 25: No child dies of starvation on Planet Earth on July 25.
July 26 to August 25: No child on Planet Earth dies from a treatable disease on August 25.
August 26 to September 25: No young person dies from random or gang violence on September 25.
September 26 to October 25: No young person is denied an education due to ethnic origin or economic lack on October 25.
October 26 to November 25: Every child victim of a life-threatening disease realizes his or her dream on November 25.
Additional focus topics will be added to complete the year as your children approach the end of the six-month period.
Suggested Visualization:
You may wish to bring a sacred feeling to your practice by lighting a candle or burning sage or a favorite incense to purify your meditation space and enhance your quiet mood. It is strictly a matter of personal preference.
Sitting in a comfortable chair, take several deep, cleansing breaths, inflating your diaphragm first and then your lungs and filling your inner space with the white or golden light of love. Allowing your mind to be cleared of all thought, expel any negative emotion with your exhalations, emptying your lungs first and then your diaphragm. You may wish to ask your angels and guides to be present and to guide your spiritual practice.
When you are breathing comfortably, sanctify your inner space by repeating a favorite prayer, mantra or inspirational quote. One of my favorite prayers … and one that we have used with great success in the past … is St. Francis Prayer:
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace
Where there is hatred, let me sow love
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith
Where there is despair, hope
Where there is darkness, light
Where there is sadness, joy
O, Divine Master, grant that I may seek
Not so much to be consoled as to console
To be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love
For it is in giving that we receive
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned
And it is in dying that we are born unto Eternal Life. Amen.
When your mind is quiet and your breathing feels natural and comfortable, visualize the last few moments of Michael’s performance of Earth Song from any of the many stages upon which he performed it.
See the tank roaring onto the stage as he stands with his arms flung wide in front of it in defiance.
See the soldier opening the hatch of the tank and jumping from its treads to point his rifle at the innocent bystanders occupying the stage with Michael.
See him turn and point his rifle directly at Michael and the pained, haunted look on Michael’s face.
Watch as Michael slowly raises his right hand to touch the barrel of the rifle with his fingertips and point the rifle towards the stage.
Watch as Michael plants his feet firmly at the front of the stage, turns his arms so that his palms are facing up and motions with his arms from the center of his chest out over us, his audience, in a silent plea for us to do likewise. Pour all the love your heart can hold into the intention of silencing all the guns on Planet Earth for one minute on June 25, 2012. Know that Michael joins his prayers and intentions to ours and that all of God’s universe joins us in our visualization to create peace.
Repeat this visualization, if you wish, to anchor it firmly in your awareness. On the repetition, you may want to add your intention that on June 25, 2012 all the guns on Planet Earth are silent for one full minute. Feel the joy of that minute of silence and extend that joy and peace outward to blanket the planet. Feel our great love for our beautiful, blue planet and all her inhabitants. On the day of Major Love Prayer (the 25th), know that you are joined by thousands of others in every corner of the world. Feel their presence. Feel the love we all share … for each other … for our planet … for our beautiful Earth Angel. Focus that love like a laser beam upon our planet. Visualize joining hands all across the world to blanket the planet in our love.
If the last few moments of Earth Song are uncomfortable for you, substitute the few moments from the short film for Heal The World when the soldiers throw all their guns into a pile on the street. This visual speaks to the same concept just as strongly.
You may wish to add prayers for friends or loved ones experiencing health or personal problems.
Finish your visualization practice with a prayer of thanksgiving for your intention being made manifest in this physical reality. Thank Michael for being near and joining his intention with ours as we heal this violation of our common human spirit. Thank him for bringing us all to Come Together Over Michael Jackson.
I know that you have been doing this visualization for a while now, haven’t you?
Yes, I have.
I think you should tell your readers what happened the first time you did this visualization.
Okay, well a few of my friends and I were discussing this concept and some of them expressed concern over being uncomfortable with the rifle pointing at you. Suggestions for substitute visualizations were proposed. One of them was to use the visualization as suggested above, with the rifle barrel pointing directly at you, but then to show the gun melting like in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. We all remember Elmer Fudd’s frustration as his shotgun barrel spluttered and coughed and melted, hanging loose from the butt and swinging with his movements or dragging on the ground as he chased that “wiley wabbit” across the cartoon landscape.
So, the first time I tried this visualization, I was very successful in anchoring the picture in my mind. As you and most of my readers know, this is still a new experience for me so I was very pleased with how easily this short clip from your many performances of Earth Song during your HIStory World Tour was reproduced in my mind. I saw the tank roll out onto the stage very clearly and I saw you jump out in front of it with your arms extended out to the sides to stop it. I pictured the soldier jumping from the hatch and pointing the rifle at your dancers and the children you had invited to participate. I saw the soldier turn and aim the barrel of his rifle directly at you. Then, just like in a Bugs Bunny cartoon, the barrel of the rifle melted and ended up swinging flaccidly from the butt of the gun. You looked over and saw this and just started laughing uproariously and ended up rolling around on the stage holding your sides and laughing. I was a little upset because I was trying to be serious and began to view the incident as a failed attempt.
[Michael laughs.] No, it wasn’t a failed attempt. As a matter of fact, it was probably the most effective visualization experience you have ever had.
And it brings out a very good point that I wanted to make, so I’m glad you injected this incident into this discussion. I know these meditations are dealing with very serious situations, such as war and hunger and children dying of preventable diseases, but you really need to bring some joy and light-heartedness into this practice. You are a little too serious. We need to inject a little fun and humor and laughter into these visualizations, occasionally, to propel them into the world consciousness … and your own … with more speed and force. You have to admit, this incident has made your practice much more memorable in your mind, hasn’t it?
Definitely, My Heart … it is memorable. Each evening and morning since, as I sit down to begin to breathe consciously, I wonder if it will be repeated or if I will get through the visualization with you still standing on your feet with your arms extended toward the audience.
Well, we don’t want it to become stale, do we? We’ll just sneak it in every once in a while to keep you on your toes. [Michael giggles.]
As we’ve said before in these conversations, you are forming intention…and there is nothing on earth that can stop intention from impacting your own mind and your own soul and, by extension, the world soul. Intention is the steam-roller of creation … the earthmover of reality. It is the work horse that gets the job done.
While intention is the earthmover, the steam-roller of creation, joy is the fuel that moves that massive machinery forward, the accelerant without which the task becomes a chore instead of the act of selfless love that we want to broadcast with these visualizations. It’s the Pac-Man part of the equation that brings fun and imagination and laughter and releases all those ‘happy’ chemicals into your own organism. By extension, the world soul must be impacted with that same joy and laughter.
I always brought joy and my love to everything I did whether in the recording studio or in film production or in performance or in building Neverland Valley Ranch.
Yes, Michael, and it showed. I was re-reading Joe Vogel’s magnificent book Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson today and noticed the following paragraph in the Introduction:
In spite of his quirks, it is nearly impossible to find someone Jackson worked with who didn’t walk away with a profound level of respect and appreciation. Even when his personal life was in disarray, his creative colleagues witnessed an individual far different than the man depicted in the tabloids. From producers to assistant engineers to fellow musicians, they describe him as possessing a certain ‘aura,’ but being down-to-earth, humble, and polite. They describe his sense of humor and ‘boisterous’ laugh; they describe his curiosity; they describe his passion and excitement for each new project. “All of Michael’s recordings were done with a sense of joy that I have never experienced with another artist,” recalls longtime recording engineer Bruce Swedien. “Not just fun and laughing and stuff. I mean real musical joy. His passion for what we were doing was boundless.”
The quote reminded me so much of this incident with the visualization. I actually saw the visualization again in my mind as I read it. I interpreted ‘happening’ upon it today as just another illustration of your subtle methods of communication with me … one of the many ways that these conversations get accomplished.
[Michael laughs.] Well, this must be a first. Woohoo! I don’t think I’ve ever been called ‘subtle’ before. I think I like it. I’m subtle! The thing is that you noticed that little visual running through your mind just after reading the paragraph in a totally unrelated context, tucked it away until you got home and remembered it long enough to put it into our conversation. And this is what makes these discussions possible. Thank you and God bless you.
I remarked upon a couple of other paragraphs I read in the Introduction of Mr. Vogel’s book as well. May I put those here, too?
Of course.
Okay. From the Introduction of Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson:
As an artist, then, Jackson’s work was about liberation. He wanted to free what was bound, transform what was petrified, and awaken what was dormant. He wanted to break through any obstacle that constrained the imagination, any chains – psychological, social, or political – that imprisoned the body or mind. This is what art meant to him personally, and it was his intended effect on his audience as well.
For millions around the world, of course, this is exactly what he accomplished. To admirers, he was always far more than a mere celebrity or pop star. He was music incarnate. Listening to his songs or watching him perform was an injection of life, a torrent of powerful emotions. Some likened it to a sort of spiritual ecstasy. Others compared it to an exorcism. Fans spoke of feeling transported, empowered, connected, inspired.
If there is an overarching thread to Jackson’s work, however, it is its persistent dissatisfaction with the world as it is, and its attempt to provide some kind of escape, liberation, or transformation as antidote. It is a fundamentally Romantic paradigm. Art, as the poet Percy Shelley put it, is “the mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.” It is a journey, in other words, toward wholeness or integration.
The thing that so moved me about the above three paragraphs is that they represent a perfect illustration of what you are still doing. Joe Vogel related it to your art; he doesn’t quite jump off the cliff into the spiritual realm, but sees it in the body of work you left behind. I see it in the impact you have had … and continue to have … upon us, your children … in these conversations and in the thousand and one ways you continue to breathe your spirit into us.
Hee Hee Hee! You noticed? Remember, I told you earlier that you are all my songs … my love songs … and that I would bring the same patience and attention to detail with your development as I brought to the recording process … or film production … or the performances. That is true.
Yes, Beloved, I noticed. With these conversations you are “transforming what was petrified” … our inability to see past the physical realm is being transformed into a realization of an entirely different dimension, a dimension in which your continued presence is palpable and a thing of great joy to us.
You are “freeing what was bound” by releasing our imaginations to recreate our world into a haven of joy and peace and goodness with these creative visualizations.
You are “awakening what was dormant” by aligning so many of us with a higher purpose and opening our hearts to a more spiritual view of life, while at the same time encouraging us to utilize the individual gifts we have been given in service to that cause.
You are removing the blinders from our imaginations and encouraging us to dream BIGGER than we ever thought possible … to guide our world into a more sane, humane, loving and healing awareness.
You are still engaged in this “journey toward wholeness or integration” … in your art … in the conduct of your life during your physical experiment … and in your communications with us, guiding us toward that same wholeness and integration in the aftermath of the day the Earth stood still. It mystifies me how consistently and single-mindedly your art, your life and your afterlife are aimed unerringly at the same goal.
“Even though rooted in Black experience, he felt it would be a crime to limit his music to one race, sex, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or nationality. Michael’s art transcended every way that human beings have thought of to separate themselves, and then healed those divisions, at least at the instant that we all shared his music.” Mr. Vogel attributes this quote to Michael Eric Dyson, cultural critic.
The sentence that really caught my attention from the above paragraph is: Michael’s art transcended every way that human beings have thought of to separate themselves, and then healed those divisions.
You are still doing this. Even what has been considered the ultimate separation of death doesn’t slow you down. I am in total awe of the beautiful symmetry contained within these comparisons.
God bless you! But, please, don’t be in awe of me. I never wanted anyone to be in awe of me. I’m no different than you. That awe was what separated me from all of you during my physical life. It was the reason my late night forays into the streets surrounding my house at the very height of my fame ended in disaster because when the strangers I met realized it was me, they were like, “Oh my God, you’re Michael Jackson! Will you give me your autograph? It’s for my daughter.” It is what kept me alone on one side of the glass window while all your love and caring was on the other. That awe was what made it impossible for me to be treated like everyone else.
I am not doing this alone. You are all an integral and important part of this process … even when you think your experiments in visualization have failed. Those experiments cannot fail.
When your individual consciousness is whole and integrated … your mind, body and soul fully and completely in balance … it must affect the world soul. The awareness that:
If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and make a change
Is what we are striving toward is so important.
Instead of being in awe of me, join with me … all of you … in this awareness of love.
You can change the world
[I can’t do it by myself]
You can touch the sky
[Gonna take somebody’s help]
You’re the chosen one
We’re on a mission in the everlasting light that shines
A revelation of the true enchantments of our minds.
So long, bad times
We gonna shake it up, and break it up
We’re sharing light brighter than the sun
Hello, good times
We’re here to stimulate, eliminate
And congregate, illuminate
We are here to change the world
Sing it
We are here to change the world
Gonna change the world
So just surrender cuz the power’s deep inside my soul
Sing it
We are here to change the world!
Oh, My Heart, I do so love you!
And I love you, more.
Jan – April 22, 2012