I was at the Hard Rock in Atlantic CIty for Xmas 2024 (of all places!) and was also struck by this note! I photographed it, but would not have guessed at its inspiration. I've written about our culture's complex relationship to MJ, and I agree, whatever actually happened, his legacy cannot be denied.
Thank you for putting this out there, Mitch. As a childhood trauma survivor, I appreciate MJs manifesto (or as you say - his *selection* to be more than his experience). Books like Allen's have been an anchor for my heart over the decades. To move from trauma to transcendence and from certain aspects of resilience to transformation. I wish more people would write about such truths, so that the majority could be free to live their best lives and selves. Perhaps then, the "mirror gazing" will stop and we will finally *see* one another - with boundless beauty and love and be less separated and polarized. I pray for those moments, in time. /bow
One of my favorite anecdotes about MJ is that if he got a good song idea in the middle of the night, he would call his studio musicians and wake them up to record it immediately, because he believed that if he didn't jump to create the song, God would give the idea to Prince instead.
This line is SO damn good I took a minute to memorize it. One of your all-time best, though you actually even speak this way extemporaneously! -
βPerception and experience are intimate, inseparable, and symmetrical in ways that challenge concepts of reality as an objectively freestanding verity.β
I was at the Hard Rock in Atlantic CIty for Xmas 2024 (of all places!) and was also struck by this note! I photographed it, but would not have guessed at its inspiration. I've written about our culture's complex relationship to MJ, and I agree, whatever actually happened, his legacy cannot be denied.
Thank you for putting this out there, Mitch. As a childhood trauma survivor, I appreciate MJs manifesto (or as you say - his *selection* to be more than his experience). Books like Allen's have been an anchor for my heart over the decades. To move from trauma to transcendence and from certain aspects of resilience to transformation. I wish more people would write about such truths, so that the majority could be free to live their best lives and selves. Perhaps then, the "mirror gazing" will stop and we will finally *see* one another - with boundless beauty and love and be less separated and polarized. I pray for those moments, in time. /bow
One of my favorite anecdotes about MJ is that if he got a good song idea in the middle of the night, he would call his studio musicians and wake them up to record it immediately, because he believed that if he didn't jump to create the song, God would give the idea to Prince instead.
This line is SO damn good I took a minute to memorize it. One of your all-time best, though you actually even speak this way extemporaneously! -
βPerception and experience are intimate, inseparable, and symmetrical in ways that challenge concepts of reality as an objectively freestanding verity.β
Thanks, Mitch. Hope you are feeling better!