Happy Birthday, Elvis !
from PRISONERS OF FAME… http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006O09HF4
From Scratch, May 29, 2001
… EP: —No one will believe what I am doing. I am singing do, re, mi, fa, sol. It makes Europeans who have to do the same crazy, but I kind of enjoy this crazy bore. Yes I do, both by singing my gamut straight and by chord scales up and down — all in no-time! I tease them while singing by putting three or four half-tones between “do” and “re,” My teacher and I have a great time!
T: —Who is your teacher?
EP: —Oh there are many teachers. They all are Italians. They long for their food, women and wine. I am like an American kid among these old country bosses. They are more important than I ever was! They are so … formal and cold. I try to warm them up a little bit. They bottle me up and tell me where there should be a proper time-space for my emotions. They try to teach me to sing the right way. They tell me there will be no time for me on earth to play a schoolboy role. I will meet a teacher who will recognize me and push me on stage right away. I will finish my formal schooling as I am singing and being a star.
My Papageno, June 29, 2001
EP: — Yes, Papageno1, you heard me right. Mozart worked with me. He yelled at me saying I’m a heavy American. He performed Papageno for me, making me follow his rhythm. It was terrific! Then there were more old, forgotten and incredible operas. I sang them all and we sang together. I have to adjust my voice and likeness to sing everything there is. I also did Violetta’s part and we had fun with her dying aria. If you watch it closely enough there is reason for a good laugh, … Wake up, my dear, you are slower than a snail today.
EP: —Let’s talk about my Greek incarnation. I was close to becoming a star, but I preferred not to proceed… I lived in Florina and my name was… Who was I? A drunkard or a singer or a poet?
T: — Will you sing the Leporello aria as well?
EP: — Of course. A good visual medium will find all these images. Mozart and me —put us on the cover together. I want the pictures of my future…
1 Papageno, a bird hunter, is a character in the opera “Magic Flute” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Shiny Boots, July 4, 2001
T: — What were your happiest moments on earth?
EP: —I was happy with Pricilla. Her book 1 tells it all and it is written fairly. Also I was happy at an early concert … I was wearing the short black leather jacket and I had shiny boots… The shiny boots were brand new; this was all I could afford. I was 18 years old, and I sang a couple of songs. People started to applaud and they did not let me go. But backstage there were others who were waiting their turn and I had to leave the stage. The audience clapped rhythmically and whistled and stomped their feet. They wanted more. I was told to sing some more. The sun was setting and the light was strange… It happened in Memphis. It has been described in detail in some books about me. Only they don’t mention I was wearing new, shiny boots.
When I heard the applause, I knew I blended with the audience. I knew I was good. I knew I would master control over my audience. The audience melt-in took place; the blend occurred. I could taste the audience.
It was like arriving home. The stage was my home in past lives and it will be again in my next lifetime. Every man knows what he has to do on earth but many cannot fit in or find their niche. People feel a conflict between their knowledge of what they are supposed to do and their accountability. They feel guilty knowing that they betray themselves and God but they cannot help it. They roam around blindly because they cannot see or hear it, cannot reach out for it, and they cannot blend in. They fail to find their true place, true love, family, friends, their dog, horse, their true house, and life… and they drift from place to place. They try to settle in but nothing feels right, because what they do is not what they are supposed to do….
I was lucky to know what my role on earth was and to be doing it at age 18. I felt I was already flying high! I got my wings and I was moving towards my first recordings and my first conflicts. I knew I was where I was supposed to be but others still didn’t see it that way. There were many who considered me to be a crazy, self-obsessed, egocentric, who only wanted to sing… They thought that the first upheaval of the crowd brought on by my singing was an unhappy accident that would pass. But it didn’t pass and I had to look for some representation – a person who would book more appearances for me… The first such a person was… Dewey. 2 He was the first to air “That’s All Right, Mama,” playing it 14 times.
T: Because of the audience’s enthusiastic response, Phillips interviewed Elvis on the air the same night, making Presley’s first radio interview happen.
EP: —Then there were many other promoters until I found Tom Parker, or he found me. He was the first to stretch a helping hand when I arrived on the national stage and was lost, lonely, and didn’t know what to do. That was when he started to build a glass wall around me but I turned a blind eye to it. Together we made our first money and both of us were out of the pit and suddenly rich… I needed money. My folks needed money. We all needed money and I was blinded by money. I did not want to look further. I did not think about tomorrow. I was breathing in my success and happiness. I didn’t see that ethereal
“baggage” was already piling up around my feet.
1 Elvis and Me, 1985, a biography by Priscilla Presley and ghostwriter Sandra Harmon
2 “Daddy-O” Dewey Phillips (1926 – 1968) was one of rock ‘n’ roll’s pioneering disk jockeys and Memphis’ leading radio personality. In 1954 he was the first to broadcast the young Elvis Presley’s debut record “That’s All Right/Blue Moon Of Kentucky”.
The Class of History of Music, August 10, 2001
EP: — Firstly, Stravinsky, Mahler, and European contemporary music sounded strange to me! When I was on earth I knew nothing about it. But lately, while spending much time working in the library for my history of music class, I found something that may be good for the book. I have to learn so much more than just Mozart… I have to learn about ancient heavenly church music such as Russian church music based on the human voice instead of the organ. It is perfect music because it is alive. It sounds like choruses of angels. There is Indian and African music for healing… They used certain sounds for certain healing, for cleansing certain charkas. There is a beautiful sound for cleansing heart chakra. Listening to that sound I feel sweet pain in my heart chakra and it brings back memories of childhood, the good moments in my relationship with my mother. Or, there are sounds of drops — and you see how spring waters are falling from the snowy roof. This is for healing throat chakra: there is white and blue sky, a lot of blue freshness and in silence you hear how drops are falling quietly on a glassy surface.
The sound for the third eye is a guttural “aum.” It is pronounced “ouuuuuuuuum,” as if trying to turn around something in your head. It goes to the center of your head as a prayer. You start with the prayer, choosing your most sacred prayer, like “Our Father” in Russian. After the prayer comes the orchestra. It produces a quiet, collective sound, like a wave of sighing — ah-hhh-ahhhhahhoaeiu. It is important to calm down. It calms a person down, it creates a full silence and you let the gold — the golden light come to you…
But you do not begin your study by experiencing silence. There are also loud drums, all the rock and contemporary metal and whatever. There is also sexual chakra music — a loud, rhythmic sound that works on the first two chakras that grants the physical survival of humanity.
Next, the third chakra says, “Give me my way. I am an individual and I want to stand out from the crowd! I am!” The “I am” movement came from the third chakra vibration. Its power is used for individualization rather than for integrating an individual back into humanity.
Development starts from the work with the fourth heart chakra. A person with an open fourth chakra takes in the world’s pain. He is ready for compassion and dialogue with the world and loved ones.
The correct use of the fifth chakra’s energy is to learn to listen… You can speak, if you understand what you say. And you know what to say when you listen to what is in the heart of the other person, people, a collective, nation, humanity, God… People think that the fifth chakra is about talking. No, it is about silence and listening, taking in other peoples wishes, passions, thoughts, goals and ambitions… In other words, getting in touch with the world and developing a dialogue.
Your life is an example of how the fifth chakra energy works in silence. You learned to listen to other artists, while writing reviews about them, practically without any pay for a long time. When they stopped you, it cleansed you…
Every music has its epoch, its culture.
The first chakra music — drums and drumming belongs to Africa.
The second chakra music — rock-‘n-roll, heavy metal, rap belongs to America.
The third chakra music was expressed by Western culture through composers such as Shubert and Bach. This music says, “God, I am here, and I am your servant. God, take me, make me your servant. I am an individual. I am a European.” This is music of Hamlet’s culture.
The fourth chakra music is a rare find. It can be found in few monasteries in Europe and Asia Minor. …Some mothers sing it spontaneously while putting their child to sleep and while passionately trying to understand what their baby needs. The fourth chakra sounds appear in Ave Maria and some opera arias. But really, there is not much of it …
The fifth chakra music is complex. Only Tibetan monks master it. A genius has to be born to express the silence of the fifth chakra in music. That is quite a task!
The six chakra vibes can be engaged only through prayer and the sound “aum.” The music for that chakra isn’t born yet.
The seventh chakra! A mix! It is strange, but modern symphonic music attempts to synthesize the sounds and music of different chakras and cultures together.
I Will Do It Differently, October 11, 2001
EP: —I was amazed by Bergman’s production of “Magic Flute” and the sweetness of the music… I will do Papageno first, at the beginning of my singing career and it will open doors for me. Later I will do all of Mozart’s remaining operas and much more. I will do them differently — I will try not to be so tough and righteous. On the contrary, I will try to express humanness in music. Papageno… I like the jingle bell part. It can be expanded, as can the story that goes with Papagena… Of course, other parts of that opera are considered more important but I think the jingles have a place through all the parts…
T:—Will the Papageno role do for you in Europe what “It’s All Right Mama” did for you in the United States?
EP: —I never saw it that way. But, yes indeed! It will be my ticket to the international stage. I will travel a lot, much more comfortably… I will not push a car with a dead engine up the hill as we once did during my career in Memphis, Tennessee. I’ll stay in great, old-fashioned hotels.
T:—Let me ask you about some Estonian singers, like Georg Ots?
EP: —Georg Ots? …My God! He would choose the career of a priest, a monk… He is ready to deny his voice and what a voice. Why? He did Gershwin and other American music in the Soviet Union! I am going to talk to him… No, no! Thank you for pointing it out. We will talk later. No, no, I will find out. It’s my duty to take care of this kind of people and talents…Talk to you later…
(Later, Elvis Presley said that his helper Lilian made this meeting to happen. Georg Ots met them with open arms, but did not change his decision to become a monk in a European Christian monastery. He said he will not deny his voice and sing church music. He needs a monk lifetime for cleansing the sticky Soviet stuff off his mental body. He will prepare for a musician career on international level that he was deprived from… not by the Soviet regime only. The soul heaviness from previous very successful lifetimes made him to be born as an Estonian singer in times of the Soviet rule. Elvis concluded: “We wished him good luck and parted as friends. I know we will meet again, and maybe sing together one duet or two!”)
Difference in Opinions Between Mozart and Presley, November 3, 2001
T: While I was cleaning my kitchen a new sound overrode the noise of tap water. I turned off the faucet. Music from The Magic Flute filled the air. With my third eye I saw Elvis Presley, pale and tense, with a huge stack of disks under his arms, adding them to an even bigger pile on a table in that room. He was explaining to someone, probably Mozart, that by calling Papagena into his life, he did not need that stupid pennywhistle’s viuh and vauh. He kept repeating, “My God, he is calling love into his life…. Here is what birds do!” And Presley pointed to the mountain of disks on the table. “I found these disks with bird love songs in library. I can sing them; I can do it with my voice instead of that whistle.”
The bird recordings were played and Elvis Presley imitated them with his voice. “I need more space for them. They are beautiful! A whistle is too metallic, too formal, and too cold! If a human tries to reach out to another human, he uses his voice, not a whistle!”
Mozart did not know what to say…
Elvis Presley put more pressure on the great European composer, “I can take turns for all of them, from Papageno to Saratustra, from Papageno to Tamino. Everybody is low and high, vulgar and fine, comedian and serious. Papagena also can stand for Pamina, and it would be much more interesting…
A Birthday Gift, January 8, 2002,
T:— Congratulation, I heard about the success of your concert on the other side. Tell me about this concert! Was it the first one? Why did I see you barefooted?
EP:— I did Papageno, as I wanted to do it — barefooted, as a bird hunter. The audience went crazy. Mozart hated it and loved it He did not know what to say. Finally he said, “Okay. I hate you, but okay, go ahead…” Instead of a “vuih-vauh” that we hear at any production of Papageno, I did a nightingale’s long, sweat trill, topping that with more variations. John Lennon jumped on the stage and cried and the audience went absolutely gaga. I was a winner again and everybody saw that it wasn’t my time to become a surgeon in my next round on earth. I will sing again… I am a music student now, and no one doubts my future any more.
Shortly afterwards, I received a message from Mozart. I am passing it on to you as I remember it:
“That American Buffalo is my liberator. He cannot wait to ruin my operas by changing them. But maybe it is time to ruin them and let me go from this plane to the higher one. Constance and I, we will go together to the next level and, finally, I will be free to move on…”
The answer from Elvis was quick to come: “An Austrian Gazelle wouldn’t survive in my shoes a single day during my stay in America.”
T: Probably they met for a reason that can be fully understood much later, when the cosmic entity that we knew under the name Elvis Presley will be done with his opera singer career during his next time on earth.
Arriving Home! May 18,2002
EP: —They finally got me. I am a serious student in a conservatory. Mozart, who hates me because of my luck with women — whatever he says doesn’t matter, as I know it to be true — found me a teacher who can relate to me and whom I can understand. I know what the teacher wants from me! This guy didn’t want to incarnate any more but he will sacrifice his freedom and come down for me. It will be very difficult for him. Strangely enough, his name was, and will be again, Giovanni. In real life he will be a total opposite of the Giovanni whom we automatically think of when we hear the name. Giovanni will be a sickly, well groomed, spiritually advanced but weak in body guy. He will not stay long on earth. He will teach me on earth for a short time — our time will be short on earth, so I have to have to learn here. On earth I will only have time to recall the stuff that has been learned here. We will be friends, real friends on earth.
T:— Multidimensional existence of a human soul? How do you describe it?
EP:— Level number one is the ethereal level or the lower astral level. It is a very foggy place. A lot of gray, non-transparent fog is there. It looks like the schlep of smog from an unattended old car on the road. The schlep can be black, thick and totally nontransparent. During the healing session you saw this fog. My legs were freed from their attachment to that thick dark-gray fog that held me down, made me walk the earth and caused those bizarre Elvis “sightings” all over the country.
The second level that I am aware of is the astral level of communication. I am talking to you from that level right now. Here I have my human image. This is the level where I healed other drug addicts. I met thousand of sick souls and cut their dark images. During my healing session with Albert, we cut some of your dark images as well, but not all. There are some still left, and you will continue with him, and I will help. I became so skillful in cutting unwanted images out of sinners’ auras that I can help you while Albert will be trying to bring you to the higher level of forgiveness. This level is much closer to the Source, and it has more light and beauty. The talents and geniuses are walking around you and you become one of them, because you “brief in” the same energy. Now I am free to walk whatever level I want and I can visit this level whenever I like.
On that level I am home, finally!
However, there is still a higher level — the mission level. I am connected to that level as well. But I cannot consciously comprehend it. I am manipulated, guided, told what to do through my participation on that level. However, I have no knowledge about what I am doing there or what has been done to me. Probably, there are more levels that I don’t know about. Nevertheless, I know something about the functions of these levels. I know that there is a level of planning and a place for cosmic travels that may send you to another planet, or another galaxy. It happens to more advanced souls. I don’t belong to explorers but I was good with the fulfillment. What is important is attitude or intention and devotion to your mission. I did my best with my vocals on earth, and I did my best with the drug addicts on the middle level, earning my promotion on this side of the veil. Whatever you do, do it as well as you can. While working with the difficult souls I learned to help them most effectively. New York, Rome, and all the great European capitals supplied us with a constant flow of lost souls to work with. Actually it is a very sad picture. Russia already became the second thereby lowering Columbia and other Latino countries to third place.
T:—What is your attitude toward Mozart today?
EP: —I love his music dearly. However, I still want to do Papageno my way, it will be my passport to the International stage. Mozart was a genius, and he is a genius, and he doesn’t want to return on earth because of the hell that his countrymen created for him. He is more music angel than human. Probably, he will also return home, his HOME on some distant planet far away from earth!