Hello!
Who am I? Someone that grew up on Michael Jackson’s music, the Bible and a bunch of Anthony Robbins audio tapes.
I read numerous books about the King of Pop, Authorized and unauthorized biographies. I wanted to feel his soul. Only to find out that his soul is captured in the most obvious place, his music.
At a certain time, I got ashamed of my love for Michael since I could not keep up with the bad press narrating allegations, rumours and celebrity bashing. I felt comfortable in openly displaying my respect for Eminem, 2pac and other artists. But I always knew that the gap between my perception of Michael and the reality was due to misinformation. Since I also make music, last year, I had the opportunity of talking about my influences on a canadian television show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmoFW2eWc0g and I mentioned Michael Jackson without hesitation. At that moment in time, I remembered the music.
Now, with his untimely or timely passing I feel like the articles that helped me the most on the web, concerning the re-capture of Michael’s essence, were written by Gotham Chopra, Mallika and their father. When Gotham mentions that Michael dressed up to go out but backed up at the last minute. It makes my heart ache. I can only imagine the amount of other things he wanted but had not the courage of the insanity of doing because of his "prison" or "palace" context. What I find frustrating with such accounts is that they are not seen by the whole world. People prefer what they already know and sometimes our knowledge needs to be updated…
I never read your books, Mr Deepak Chopra. But every quote I heard from you has sounded good to me. Anthony Robbins quoted you. The movie "Revolver" has you, at the end, saying "’In religion, the ego manifests as the devil and of course no one realizes how smart the ego is because it created the devil so you can blame someone else. There is no such thing as an external enemy, no matter what that voice in your head is telling you. All perception of an enemy is a projection of the ego as the enemy". I recently saw an interview of you on the show "Hot Point" by Youtube.
You’re in my collective memory as someone with an enormous amout of credibility, even more than CNN. I was shocked but comforted to know that you knew Michael so well. Shocked because I thought to myself, if you knew him, why didn’t you save him from himself, his isolation, his defense mechanisms? Comforted, because I think that upon knowing people like you, Michael had access to resources. Even though he had childish ways, he was 50 years old, so he was accountable for himself.
Also, I realize that a human being is not one thing. He is not all bad or all wrong. He is not always happy, joyous, violent or generous. I refuse to thing that Obama is always that soft-spoken. He must sometimes be tired… My point here is that Michael had enormous spirituality but he also had self-destructing habits and that is what, I, as a fan, has a lot of difficulty to accept. We tend to categorise people and put them in boxes. "He was an homosexual. No, he was a drug abuser. No, he was a genius." Then we try to establish links between his personal lifestyle and the music. We misinform and deceive ourselves in not accepting the best someone has given us. Mr. Chopra, could you address that?
I think people like you should write a book on Michael Jackson and mix it with spiritual reflexions. What do you think? I think the book should even address his most intimate aspects since they are part of what we are. people spend a lifetime hiding tendencies, imperfection, dependance to something or someone. Was Michael Jackson immune to that? I think that the way you would address such a book would not be in a way to destroy the public persona but to show that all of us has contradicitng forces in ourselves and it is time to take a look at the "Man in the Mirror". It’s an idea.
I totally aggree with Mallika, when she says that "The reality is that Michael’s life and story brings up painful questions about how we see the world, see ourselves and treat others."
People around Michael knew the real-him or a portion of him, his affection for Africa. I’m happy that the Chopra family offered their visions of Michael Joseph Jackson. He was lucky to have you guys in his life because you helped him to "Heal the World".
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