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Nona asked me to post something about Michael Jackson.
Like many iconic artists he died before he got old — John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Bruce Lee, Janis Joplin, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, James Dean, Andy Kaufman, John Belushi, Elvis, etc, all died before they got old. They will always be remembered as young or middle aged, I am sure there is some reason for that.
This is a link to a website that has high quality versions of his rare videos and short films, if you haven’t seen Captain Eo or Ghosts, I highly recommend them:
http://www.mjtunes.com/modules/smartmedia/folder.php?categoryid=6&folderid=13
Michael’s last live performance with his brothers, and the last time he would perform a full set of songs live, was at an interesting place and time: It was September 10 2001, in New York City, the night before 9-11. Here it is:
This is Michael receiving an award for his humanitarian work and speaking to the audience in Mumbai in 2001 at a Bollywood award show:
A tribute from Jagannath Puri, India
Memorial sand sculpture on the beach in Puri, India, june 26 2009
Remember the Time
click menu to watch in HQ
King of pop became dear to King of heaven(moon walking now in heaven).
Micheal Jackson was a a very sincere muslim.
This is an article I saw today from a muslim writer who shows how the claims that Michael is a muslim were all either fabrications from tabloids or wishful thinking from muslims
http://trueslant.com/alieteraz/2009/06/26/was-michael-jackson-muslim-and-his-islamic-burial/
Also I saw Deepak Chopra on teevee today claim that Michael asked him to teach him how to meditate and that they would often discuss “spirituality”, and that Michael was reading Bengali author Rabindranath Tagore the last time Chopra spoke with Michael not long ago.
I think Jackson’s moonwalk pretty much proves Prabhupada was wrong and that astronauts really did land on the moon.
This is from an interview in 1992 that Michael gave.
I really believe that God chooses people to do certain things, the way Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci or Mozart or Muhammad Ali or Martin Luther King is chosen. And that is their mission to do that thing. And I think that I haven’t scratched the surface yet of what my real purpose is for being here. I’m committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. And I believe that that is the very reason for the existence of art and what I do. And I feel fortunate in being that instrument through which music flows …. Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in its primordial form all of creation is sound and that it’s not just random sound, that it’s music. You’ve heard the expression, music of the spheres? Well, that’s a very literal phrase. In the Gospels, we read, “And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.” That breath of life to me is the music of life and it permeates every fiber of creation. In one of the pieces of the Dangerous album, I say: “Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.” This is a very literal statement, because the same new miracle intervals and biological rhythms that sound out the architecture of my DNA also govern the movement of the stars. The same music governs the rhythm of the seasons, the pulse of our heartbeats, the migration of birds, the ebb and flow of ocean tides, the cycles of growth, evolution and dissolution. It’s music, it’s rhythm. And my goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance. It’s like, my purpose, it’s what I’m here for.