> I bet you he is still in the heavenly realm, inspiring us from beyond
> and probably even working toward world peace.
>
There are different beliefs about reincarnation by people who believe
in reincarnation. One theory holds that after we pass from life, we
rest in the spiritual realm while we recover from what did us in
before returning to life in a new body. I suppose there could be
something to the idea that what made us physically ill also made us
spiritually ill, so we'd need the down time to get well over there.
Another theory suggests at the moment of our death, we reincarnate
automatically into the next life. I don't know about that one; I think
I'd like a little time between lives to rest and recover and to study
my options for my next life, the things I'd like to do differently
from this life as well as knowing and having my loved ones from this
present life in my next life there as well.
> > Would he lose the gift of creativity
> > over having indulged in the booze and drugs?
>
> I doubt he'd choose that for himself.
One wouldn't have thought he'd have chosen that kind of life for
himself originally. Maybe there is karma to pay for being in the flesh
or a lesson to be learned. But, the problem I have with that is the
lesson was learned already in the life he lived, that he had a
precious gift and the substance abuse took it from him. The lesson
from that life should be to stay away from substance abuse, but is a
lesson learned in the next life if a penalty is given that deprives a
person of the gift they had from the previous life, just because they
gave in to temptation?
> > Or would he be able to
> > reclaim the creativity yet have the clarity and strength to stay away
> > from the things that robbed him when he was Jimi?
>
> Robbed? =EF=BF=BDI don't think a talent like that is destined to be here
> long. =EF=BF=BDHis was a celestial visitation.
Jimi could've lived a very long time but what was it in his brief,
gifted life that made him an unhappy person and thus prone to
substance abuse? Was he afraid that as a musician, he didn't live up
to his reputation, that others had of him? Or did it have anything to
do with not being savvy enough on the business side of the music
business to recognize when others had taken advantage of him and had
him where he couldn't break free of their association?
> > I occasionally have dreams of being in a classroom myself. Think I'm
> > just revisiting myself back in time. The dream which bothers me the
> > most as far as finding a suitable explanation involve being on a one
> > way road that dead ends into a lake or river. You're not allowed to go
> > back the way you came but neither can you move forward as there's no
> > bridge that permits you to cross. That's a repeating dream of mine and
> > there are some variations but always, there's a huge body of water for
> > which I cannot cross.
>
> Do you swim? =EF=BF=BDWater often represents emotions, yes? =EF=BF=BDAre
y=
ou afraid of
> the depth of your feelings?
No, I don't know how to swim. Every year I say I'm going to learn as I
love being in the water but I never seem to be able to find the time.
I had some friends who tried to teach me a few years back but I was
like a rock, literally speaking. I'd get in ten foot of water and if I
wasn't holding on to the side of the pool, I'd have sunk. My body just
wouldn't float.
As for being afraid of the depth of my feelings or emotions, not
really. I can be shy when meeting someone for the first time but after
the ice has broken, I don't hold back from saying what's on my mind
unless there's a good reason not to, such as hurting another person's
feelings.
As a believer in parallel lives being lived on another world at the
same moment I'm here on this world, it may be the problem has
something to do with my other life on that particular world. Maybe who
I am in that world is sending out an S.O.S. to come up with something
to solve the problem there? If so, message to myself there: build a
bridge, dummy!
Another theory to my dream is that it could be meant as spiritual:
life is a one way road that ends one way -- death, and the water
represents crossing from the physical to the spiritual. And it could
be I'm just not ready to cross over just yet. I'm aware of death's
daily presence in our lives (it's always closer than one thinks) yet
I've lately taken to the belief that death will wait us out. It has
the time and may not come in to our presence, even with an invitation.
It may also be forbidden from approaching certain individuals. (Why do
I feel I'm doing a "Conversations with God" book?)
> > That's possible but I believe there are people in this world whose
> > souls have rotted away with no vestiges of goodness remaining within
> > them.
> I know of one.
I don't know any personally but I do have to wonder if a soul can be
permanently extinguished? I couldn't imagine a Jimi Hendrix agreeing
to a short life as a brilliant musician, yet I can't imagine persons
like Hitler or Manson or Idi Amin or Pol Pot (or whatever his name
was), chairman Mao and all other murderers agreeing before birth to
growing up to become the monsters they became. Can they be forgiven
because of the circumstances they lived on their way to their fates?
Or is there a spiritual line to be crossed resulting in a spritual
death penalty?
> In that "If I Did It" book, he said he blanked out and when he came
> to, there was blood everywhere.
But, the premise of his book was if he committed the crime, not an
admission that he did it, just if he did it. It was another bit of
stupidity on his part because many people were taking it as a
confession. Did he think his book would make the real killers
(assuming they exist) jump out of their seats and rush down to the
police station protesting, "No! That's not the way we did it!"
If he didn't commit the crime, he owes it to his children, to Ronald
Goldman's family and most of all to himself, to find the real killers
and bring them to justice. If you're innocent, you want to prove to
others that you were and are; doing nothing, proclaiming your
innocence while you play golf isn't the best way to convince others of
your innocence. O.J. owes it to himself to clear his name as the
police and those who prosecuted the case believed they had their man
and that he got away with it. And as far as they're concerned, the
case is closed.
> > Missionaries are scary people.
>
> They were very nice people, for the 5 minutes I chatted.
They can be nice people. Most of them are much of the time. Still,
I've run into a few smuggers who believed that their religious belief
is the only one that's true and that others are wrong, even if any of
the others are Christian and disagree here and there. Those are the
scary ones. They can be dangerous sometimes, too. They don't know how
to take no for an answer.
> > I think all that's being done with "The Prison" is that the music is
> > being remastered and remixed again while the book is being added to.
>
> That's..."all?" =EF=BF=BDThat's a LOT! =EF=BF=BDThe book is soooo good.
=
=EF=BF=BDHow can he
> add to the book but not have it effect how it accompanies the music?
> Is that where the remixing comes in, or...? =EF=BF=BD{scratches head}
It may be the addition to the book is insignificant to the music and
no additional music is needed. If any addition is being made to the
music, could it be in the form of horns, strings and woodwinds? I
think some of the songs from "The Prison" would work well with
orchestration.
> > I
> > still don't have the first remaster/remix from the 90s, which I think
> > I read had extra instrumentation. So, I gotta get that and yet another
> > remix???? (Psst! Mike! Consider extra instrumentation for "And the
> > Hits Just Keep On Comin'.")
>
> :)
And Mike, if you're reading any of this (which may or may not exist),
in addition to the extra instrumentation for "Hits," what are the
chances for the volume two edition of "Tantamount to Treason," which
was the album RCA didn't want to put out and caused you to create
"Hits?"
> Funny! =EF=BF=BDWe don't have any bald Beatles. =EF=BF=BD(Does Paul wear
a=
toupee?)
Not that I'm aware of but I have to wonder if he colors his hair?
> > I don't know about that one. What about child prodigies?
>
> Children have lives, too. =EF=BF=BDThey also have past lives...
That's where I think they get it from; they remember what they
shouldn't remember when crossing that river of forgetfulness before
returning to life.
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