Remembering Michael Jackson

He brought change to make a better world.  We Are The World! Sending light to make your passage safe. RIP precious one.  If we instinctively revere the great artist, we do so because that artist is not quite an ordinary individual. For he who can truly communicate, “is a higher being who builds new worlds.” But if those higher beings are to flourish and prosper, and so bring forth cultural prosperity, then they must not be subjected to suppression or regimentation, and to work to be spiritually free.
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I was a DJ doing parties and was doing a company event when I saw Susan (my future wife) dancing on the dance floor. I put on a song and went down and danced with her. She did not object so we spent the next 30 to 45 minutes just dancing-we never spoke.

After we did take a break and talked a bit she told me she was a Michael Jackson fan. From then on the party turned into a Michael Jackson party! I played every Jackson song I had. We danced til wee into the morning.

Susan and I will miss him.

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“If you enter this world knowing you are loved, and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”  Michael Jackson

In grace and light… Namaste

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RIP Michael

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He gave us a very precious gift - MUSIC. One of the finest of all times. Thank you.

May he rest in peace.

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You are golden, Michael. Your astral body is perfect. Mainstream media rehashing old controversies cannot stop you from shining. The expression of your life and legacy is one to be celebrated. You are loved, Michael. The child in you is innocent and pure. My heart goes out to your children and your family. May they find peace in their hearts and minds. Shine on.

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Loved Michael's music - you rocked big Michael…..

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I saw about his death on Yahoo, immediately i felt very sorry for him. He is a musician, That part also I like . More than that, he was a visionary too. He cared about the earth, climatic changes, ecology etc. He sang about those too. He contributed towards them. I am honouring him for those too.

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Micheal, thanks for so much good memories of my teenage years. I walked on the moon with you, walked the streets with Billy Jean, after watching Thriller always looked under my bed for vampires and tell them to just Beat it.
We will leave you alone now. The symbol of your memory will be shining each time the moon passes by. May you find rest and peace in the sea of tranquility.

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With his passing, may all the sadness surrounding his life be transmuted into a life of wonder and love for his children.

May the sadness and regret that people feel about his passing transform into a renewed vigor to live life with energy and passion.

As in this song that I first heard today - and see that Sanmugan referred to also- may all that is good in his life live on and inspire all those who come into touch with it.
Sending loving light to the children and his family, friends and all those for whom his passing deeply impacts their own life.

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I hear and share the pain that you are describing and feeling, dear Sunshine. Look forward to knowing when you write the song.

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Remembering the music he wrote and the effect from that on a humanitarian level he generated to change the world.  Thanks nion, sanmugan, Tai, Amazume, Jenny, FastDart, PositivePath, Yancey and Kathy for bringing this to the Power of Light. It truly did make a difference to watch these music videos and read your words. 

“The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.”
- Michael Jackson

Please look at Nell's Blog on this - beautiful truth.
Deepak Chopra says it like it is in terms of the abuse of licensed medicos. 

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Taikunpings Post below Heal The World is Michael jackson's famous Moonwalk
walk the “moonwalk”

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~KES, seeing in your post earlier, the video of Michael Jackson -Gone Too Soon. I had not heard it earlier, and it just tugs at my heart strings. Tears overflow from all the sadness I've been feeling and sensing, and I see this about the song:

“”Gone Too Soon” is a song by the late Michael Jackson. It is the ninth single taken from the album Dangerous. It peaked at #33 on the UK Singles Chart in December 1993.

The song is dedicated to Ryan White, a young victim of AIDS whom Jackson befriended prior to his death. Michael performed this song at the ball for former President Bill Clinton's first inauguration on January 20, 1993, where he highlighted the importance of supporting research for a cure to this disease.

The track was included on the compilation album, Diana Princess of Wales Tribute, released by Sony in December 1997, shortly after the death of Princess Diana.””

It is now a song dedicated to him. I keep feeling the love that's flowing for his children. I'm linking him singing this song at the Clintons' inauguration to highlight the need for the fight for AIDS.

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and here's another post by Deepak Chopra from beliefnet:

http://blog.beliefnet.com/intentchopra/2009/06/a-tribute-to-my-friend-michael.html

Deepak's article brings a lot of reality to this fantasy world
of the celebrity and high achievers
What do we know about Michael?
We all knew he was a musical genuis
What we now know is the price he paid for success

The very dictatorial regime his father imposed on his children
to attain this success
molded him into what he became
successful, in a very artificial and limited way, the public persona
but full of insecurities and terribly unhappy as a human being for most of his life
What matters more?

When so many of those deemed “successful” in this society
are taking dangerous drugs to mask their deep unhappiness
or unleash their desires for excesses
because the normal barriers are removed by material wealth and fame
in what way is that holistically “successful”?

Michael Jackson's tragic death is a canary in the mineshaft
which if looked at through honest, truth seeking eyes
can be a wake up call that can shed light on
the western world's misguided  and distorted preoccupation with “success”
or if it is looked at through the fearful, denial ridden eyes of the status quo
will simply be business-as-usual
ensuring an endless supply of future tragedies to come

I think Michael's life and death
is a good, if tragic lesson for all current and future parents
that one should raise a child with love
rather than force and coercion

He was robbed of his childhood
and he spent the rest of his life trying to get it back

In light of his passing
May we all learn to be better at living and loving others

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Michael Jackson will be remembered, most likely, as a shattered icon, a pop genius who wound up a mutant of fame. That's not who I will remember, however. His mixture of mystery, isolation, indulgence, overwhelming global fame, and personal loneliness was intimately known to me. For twenty years I observed every aspect, and as easy as it was to love Michael – and to want to protect him – his sudden death yesterday seemed almost fated.

Two days previously he had called me in an upbeat, excited mood. The voice message said, “I've got some really good news to share with you.” He was writing a song about the environment, and he wanted me to help informally with the lyrics, as we had done several times before. When I tried to return his call, however, the number was disconnected. (Terminally spooked by his treatment in the press, he changed his phone number often.) So I never got to talk to him, and the music demo he sent me lies on my bedside table as a poignant symbol of an unfinished life.

When we first met, around 1988, I was struck by the combination of charisma and woundedness that surrounded Michael. He would be swarmed by crowds at an airport, perform an exhausting show for three hours, and then sit backstage afterward, as we did one night in Bucharest, drinking bottled water, glancing over some Sufi poetry as I walked into the room, and wanting to meditate.

That person, whom I considered (at the risk of ridicule) very pure, still survived – he was reading the poems of Rabindranath Tagore when we talked the last time, two weeks ago. Michael exemplified the paradox of many famous performers, being essentially shy, an introvert who would come to my house and spend most of the evening sitting by himself in a corner with his small children. I never saw less than a loving father when they were together (and wonder now, as anyone close to him would, what will happen to them in the aftermath).

Michael's reluctance to grow up was another part of the paradox. My children adored him, and in return he responded in a childlike way. He declared often, as former child stars do, that he was robbed of his childhood. Considering the monstrously exaggerated value our society places on celebrity, which was showered on Michael without stint, the public was callous to his very real personal pain. It became another tawdry piece of the tabloid Jacko, pictured as a weird changeling and as something far more sinister.

It's not my place to comment on the troubles Michael fell heir to from the past and then amplified by his misguided choices in life. He was surrounded by enablers, including a shameful plethora of M.D.s in Los Angeles and elsewhere who supplied him with prescription drugs. As many times as he would candidly confess that he had a problem, the conversation always ended with a deflection and denial. As I write this paragraph, the reports of drug abuse are spreading across the cable news channels. The instant I heard of his death this afternoon, I had a sinking feeling that prescription drugs would play a key part.

The closest we ever became, perhaps, was when Michael needed a book to sell primarily as a concert souvenir. It would contain pictures for his fans but there would also be a text consisting of short fables. I sat with him for hours while he dreamily wove Aesop-like tales about animals, mixed with words about music and his love of all things musical. This project became “Dancing the Dream” after I pulled the text together for him, acting strictly as a friend. It was this time together that convinced me of the modus vivendi Michael had devised for himself: to counter the tidal wave of stress that accompanies mega-stardom, he built a private retreat in a fantasy world where pink clouds veiled inner anguish and Peter Pan was a hero, not a pathology.

This compromise with reality gradually became unsustainable. He went to strange lengths to preserve it. Unbounded privilege became another toxic force in his undoing. What began as idiosyncrasy, shyness, and vulnerability was ravaged by obsessions over health, paranoia over security, and an isolation that grew more and more unhealthy. When Michael passed me the music for that last song, the one sitting by my bedside waiting for the right words, the procedure for getting the CD to me rivaled a CIA covert operation in its secrecy.

My memory of Michael Jackson will be as complex and confused as anyone's. His closest friends will close ranks and try to do everything in their power to insure that the good lives after him. Will we be successful in rescuing him after so many years of media distortion? No one can say. I only wanted to put some details on the record in his behalf. My son Gotham traveled with Michael as a roadie on his “Dangerous” tour when he was seventeen. Will it matter that Michael behaved with discipline and impeccable manners around my son? (It sends a shiver to recall something he told Gotham: “I don't want to go out like Marlon Brando. I want to go out like Elvis.” Both icons were obsessions of this icon.)

His children's nanny and surrogate mother, Grace Rwaramba , is like another daughter to me. I introduced her to Michael when she was eighteen, a beautiful, heartwarming girl from Rwanda who is now grown up. She kept an eye on him for me and would call me whenever he was down or running too close to the edge. How heartbreaking for Grace that no one's protective instincts and genuine love could avert this tragic day. An hour ago she was sobbing on the telephone from London. As a result, I couldn't help but write this brief remembrance in sadness. But when the shock subsides and a thousand public voices recount Michael's brilliant, joyous, embattled, enigmatic, bizarre trajectory, I hope the word “joyous” is the one that will rise from the ashes and shine as he once did.

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We are honored to have this tribute to the light of Michael Jackson for Gaia to share expressions.  His music has healing loving powers. As we unfold the new impressions from you, if the post is too difficult to open go ahead and start a thread. ~kes

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“When a notable world figure such as Michael Jackson passes, or you lose someone else very dear to your heart, know that the gifts and love they have given are eternal. You will not lose them.  You lose only the physicality of the one you loved or admired.  That physicality was only a spark of the greater being that they are. ..
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You can learn to tangibly and safely access those realms, and to connect with the spirit of your loved one, if you choose. 
Even if you are not certain how to do this right now, if there is someone you feel great love for, now residing on the other side, you can say prayers that will help them.  
As part of your prayers, you can send your love.  You can pray that this person be free of confusion, and that the spirit within them and around them assist in their achieving enlightenment. You can pray that they recognize their True Self when in the Bardo after death.  You can ask that they be assisted in attaining full realization, with freedom from the cyclic wheel of suffering. ”
~Selacia, Channel for The Council of 12 *Remembering Loved Ones on The Other Side* www.Selacia.com

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“When substantial shifts occur [like during  the solstice] , it can create the departure of souls who have been carrying significant amounts of higher level energy.

Michael Jackson, perhaps the most talented performer of all time, embodied a massive amount of higher level energy. He was extremely connected to a higher level and to “the other side.” He was unmistakably a bridge; bringing this higher level energy into form and then giving it out to the masses. Remembering oh so well what the “other side” was like, he, like others, found it extremely difficult to exist within and understand the strange and many times darker energies that were on the planet while he was here.
So then, he embodied massive amounts of energy relating to the other side and bringing it here. In this way, he suddenly departed precisely around the time we experienced the solstice of June 21, because it was now time to dissipate that energy to the planet. He has now given us this energy to embody ourselves. He no longer needed to hold so much of it himself, as the shift of the solstice created this new connection for the planet to now experience on its own.”


From Massive Shifting, Decisions, and Michael Jackson by Karen Bishop's Emerging Earth Angels, June 30,09

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Continuing to feel light and love flowing towards the children

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Update from Michael Jackson Memorial Service Complete with Full Moon Eclipse on July 7, 2009

Interestingly, in the July 2009 month that the world mourns the loss of Michael Jackson from cardiac arrest on June 25, 2009, there will be a Full Moon and a penumbral lunar eclipse on the day of Michael Jackson's Memorial Service.

If you love astronomy, astrology, philosophy, or just plain weird things, you have to be fascinated by the fact that Michael Jackson was such a rare addition to the human race and that a lunar eclipse and a total solar eclipse happening two weeks apart during our mourning of Jackson is off the charts. A penumbral lunar eclipse is totally invisible to the human eye, yet some fraction of the Sun's rays still reach the most deeply eclipsed parts of the Moon. During Michael Jackson's Memorial Service, like the penumbral lunar eclipse, there will be many sides of Michael Jackson's life that are invisible to the human eye, yet his Sun's rays will reach the world's deeply eclipsed crevices as they did in his life.

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A video from  ”  Magenta Pixie”  who saw Michael in dreamtime.

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There is that special moment in the fourth minute when the children all join in singing Heal the World.

Before that, when they sing We are the world, the images in the background are inspiring.