May 19, 2025 • 17 mins
Guest Host Richard Syrett and Writer Miguel Connor discuss the spirit of Elvis Presley's stillborn twin brother and whether it guided him or haunted him. Miguel also tells stories of Extra-Terrestrial encounters experienced by Elvis.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's a highlight from coast to coast AM on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We're back with Miguel Connor, the occult Elvis. Miguel, you
mentioned how Elvis was born under the shadow of his
stillborn twin brother, Jesse Garn. Did Jesse's ghost guide him
or haunt him?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I would say both. As I write in the book,
there is a condition that now modern psychology is caught
up called a twinless survivor. Obviously, losing your twin is hard.
They are connected in many ways through the soul and
the psyche, but a twinless survivor is a little bit
different because they are born with this terrible survivor's guilt.
(00:46):
They wonder, how come we had the same birth, but
I made it? What's going on? They feel there's a
huge void and they forever are seeking the answers to this.
And I compare him to other figures like Liberaci and
Philip K. Dick, who are also twinless survivors. So in
(01:08):
there are all three other cases. It became the greatest
drive or question in their lives. It really it drove
Elvis through most of his life, and because of his abilities,
Jesse also became sort of a guide, a figure that
it would appear in his dreams and visions, his conscious
(01:30):
that would move him to make the right decisions all
through his life. And what's interesting too, is now we
know through research that twinless survivors tend to be They
tend to be seeker. They want the big questions in life.
You know, why was in that with Elvis? Why was
I born poor? Suddenly I'm rich? Why can we've been rich?
(01:53):
If we'd had him in the hospital, he would have survived.
What happened. What happened, and it drove Elvis and twinless
survivors are speakers. But also there is almost a shadow
site to twinless survivors because of the psychic damage. They
tend to be workaholics, They tend to be self destructive,
(02:13):
they are prone to addiction, and they have problems connecting
with other individuals, especially the opposite sex. So as you
can see with Elvis, between the blue Light and Jesse,
it's almost like he was faded to be Elvis from
the very beginning.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So was his mystical path maybe an attempt to commune
with a missing half of his soul?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I would say so again, that's what really drove him.
I mean even Philip K. Dick talks about losing his
sister Jane and he said, this is the biggest event
of my life. And he says that everything he wrote,
everything from Total re wanted to break down the simulation
of the world and find out why does it happen,
(03:01):
what's the nature of evil and suffering? And it was
the same thing with Elvis. That's why he got into
alternative spirituality because he wanted to know what was going on.
He wanted to find the bigger answers in life and
try to make sure that Jesse's death was not in vain.
And again it drove him all through his life and
(03:24):
it was a huge factor and everything Elvis did.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I want to hear more about Elvis and UFOs. Just
before the Break, you mentioned that he and his father
Vernon had a UFO sighting and your outside in Graceland.
How many how many UFOs sightings did he have? Did
he did he believe that he was abducted? Tell me more.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
It should be noted that Elvis was very sophisticated in
all his views and he was always way ahead of
the curve. Talked about his embracing of Hinduism and other
alternative spiritual modalities was way before the sixties movement, before
the Beatles, and when it came to UFOs, he was
(04:12):
also very sophisticated that he didn't just buy into or
believe that into the sort of combustion engine, little green
men attitude of UFOs in the late fifties early sixties.
He speculated on different theories and wag them all. For example,
(04:32):
he had read Bondanigin's Chariots of the Gods and he said,
you know, maybe the ancient alien theory could be right.
He thought, perhaps the aliens were sort of these ultra
terrestial beings that were using telepathy to stop humanity from
destroying itself. He was sophisticated enough to read, for example,
(04:54):
the Old Testament and the vision of Ezekiel in the
Wheels and think of this looks like alien. So he
didn't like today. He didn't really take one theory after another,
but he speculated a lot of what could be going on.
And he did have three what you might call traditional
(05:16):
extraterrestrial experiences like we mentioned. The one was in Graceland.
This was a traditional flying saucer. And again he and
Vernon saw it going around. That's when Vernon sort of went,
oh my god, the alien blue light in his mansion
in Belair. One time, he's outside with his bodyguards sunny West.
(05:39):
They see a light coming and flooding the area, and
at first they're like, well, maybe it's an airplane. Then
they're like, wow, it's getting so close. Maybe it's a helicopter.
And they're like, oh my god, this is too close.
It's not making a sound, it's flooding the area. They
freak out, this is something else. So Elvis tells Sonny
go inside, get Jerry shilling, my other my friend and
(06:01):
bodyguard goes inside. They come out and Elvis is gone,
and you know, and they're they're like, oh my god,
we had one job. Now our boss has been abducted
by aliens and the lights everywhere. So they're running around
freaking out, screaming for Elvis, and finally they hear his voice,
I'm over here, boys, and Elvis is in the neighbor's
(06:22):
yard looking at the sky, watching this UFO disappear. Then
the third one, he was with Larry Geller and his
entourrs are driving from Memphis to La Remember in the sixties,
there was a point where Elvis would not take airplanes,
so he drove everywhere with his motor homes. And they're
(06:42):
in the desert in Arizona and they see these sort
of zigzagging lights. They get out of their vehicles and
they're just staring at it with their with their mouths open,
and Larry's like, could this be experimental craft? And Elvis
is like, nohow I was in the military. This is
I think our government could have done. And they simply
(07:03):
watched these lights do these incredible movements in the sky
and disappear. And then the Larry and Elvis and the
other time this you know, big metaphysical discussion about what
the aliens want with humanities, they speculated and all that.
So those are the three ones. And again Elvis was
never alone. He was always with other individuals who you
(07:26):
can trust. There I do talk about in the book.
One time he was with his super fan Wanda june Hill,
and he sort of mentioned, you know, I am not
from this world, I am from the ninth moon of Jupiter.
And she claims that his light, that his eyes started
glowing and his hair was fluttering and he looked like
(07:47):
an alien being. So that's a strange one, and Elvis
used to say often I am not of this world
two people, but you could take that as sort of
a Hindu metaphysical like, you know, I am from another
higher plane, of another dimension, and so forth.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So those are.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Again the three major ones. But yes, Elvis was certainly
a big believer and extraterrestrials. He was a big trekkie.
He loved Star Trek. He loved Stanley Curits two thousand
and one at Space Odyssey, So he would have been
right at home today with us in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Did he fear the public ever learning who he really was?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
No, he didn't. I mean, Elvis did what Elvis wanted
to do. He never hit it, but he never but
he never broadcasted. When he became very spiritual, he drove
everybody crazy because he really changed. He was becoming very
detached to the material world. In fact, he almost quit
(08:54):
twice the entertainment business in the mid sixties. Wants to
become a Christian monk, and once he wanted to become
a Hindu monk. He wanted to just join Yoga Nanda's
ashram and just forget about it. But then he was
talked out of it. But he was also but again
he didn't hit it. He would hand out books, he
(09:15):
would have prayer and meditation circles. He would talk to
actors in Hollywood and groupies and just talk about spirituality.
He was so happy about it, but he didn't go
to the press. I mean, Elvis rarely went to the
press or you know, he didn't make it extra public,
(09:37):
if you know what I mean. But he did drive
people crazy, and it did become a threat to his
inner circle. Because even Priscilla and you can watch it
in Sofia Coppola's movie Priscilla. It's all there, Elvis, Larry Geller,
his spirituality. He started to become very detached to Priscilla.
He started to become very hard to get to by people,
(10:03):
and just very yeah, a very different person. So eventually
they put pressure on him to get back to being
the old Elvis. So what he simply did is he
told him yes, he said, okay, I'll finally marry Priscilla.
I'll get back to being an entertainer. But he just
went more underground. He would hide these books in his
(10:24):
Vegas suite or later on meet Larry Geller alone in secret,
just to keep the peace.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
You know, what's interesting what I've learned from you is
that you weren't You didn't start out as an Elvis fan.
You really didn't know much about him. You just kind
of what there was kind of going back to our
first half of the show talking about serendipity, it was
all kind of I don't know, there was kind of
(10:53):
a synchronicity involved in you getting into this research, right, Yes.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
As John and then famously said, life happens when you're
busy making other plans, and most of my life, my life,
my plans had nothing to do with Elvis. I was
always a crowd Beatles person. You know from the famous
scene in pulp fiction. You're either a Beatles person or
an Elvis person. You can like each other, but you
cannot be the same, and who you are says a
(11:21):
lot about you. I was always a Beatles person. I
saw Elvis is simply sort of the uh, the pop
version of Mountain dew or McDonald's. Didn't think much about him.
I had read when I when I was younger, about
his occult interests and abilities, but I sort of wrote it.
(11:42):
I wrote it off like so many people, because I thought,
you know, this is just what rock stars are. They're eccentric,
you know, Hinduism and the Beatles and Salima and Jimmy
Page and Kabbala and David Bowie and astrology and Ronald
Reagan and so forth. So I sort of wrote it off,
and eventually I started respecting him musically. But yeah, it
(12:03):
was a series of strange events. As I like to say,
I became quantum entangled with Elvis. I don't I still
don't consider myself a fan. He's more like a friend
who needed a favor. But all of a sudden, all
these strange events and synchronicities kept putting Elvis in my psyche.
These included meeting people who would bring up Elvis out
(12:26):
of nowhere and them mentioning about is occult powers. I mean, going,
why are they bringing this up? There was a I
did a couple of ayahuasca ceremonies with Sansudai, me a
mystic Amazonian Christian church, and once I did them, suddenly
I couldn't get Elvis out of my hand, out of
my head. And then suddenly this this voice, it was
(12:48):
it was didn't have a sound, it was it was autonomous,
It was separate from me. It was in my head,
and it kept saying, there's a part of my story
that the world has missed, that they've overlooked, And I
want you to go and put it all together because
I want the world to see the Elvis that they
have missed, This spiritual Elvis, this deep finger, this seeker,
(13:12):
and really the very soul of America. I call Elvis
America shaman too. He is the Yeah, he is the
manifestation of the eggrigor the soul of America. And I
contend that in this year, in twenty twenty five, we're
losing the ability to understand what it is to be
in America, and we are fragmenting, we are losing our identity.
(13:35):
And who holds the soul of post war America. Who
is the soul of post war America? It is Elvis.
He is truly a divine being, the image of the
archetype of the American dream. Yeah, I know I'm getting inspired,
but yeah, so I felt I was chosen to sort
of bring this story to people, and I hope it
(13:57):
helps them understand that there is something call America. There
are alternative spiritualities that can make us whole, that can
heal us, and there is something where you can break
your fake and break your fate and make a destiny.
Because it always seemed Elvis was so trapped by fate,
so trapped by fame, by his upbringing, by his trauma,
(14:21):
by everything, but he still always was able to look
for the divine, and he was still always able to
connect with his tribe and help us through so many doorways.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
What was the point that you realize Elvis, the Elvis
soul to us, you know, the devout, the conservative, the
patriotic was just maybe a mask. I mean, was there
a moment that made the illusion crack and revealed the
magician beneath for you? No?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I mean I think he was a patriotic soldier. I
mean he was in the army, he loved, he loved
the soldiers. He was heard broken by the slaughter of
the Vietnam War. But he encompassed so much both the
material even shadowside of what America is, but also the
(15:12):
spiritual and the beautiful side of America. So I can't
say there was ever a moment when this voice came in.
I realized this voice was in, this voice was in pain,
and his voice had gone through so much, and they
simply wanted to tell the story. And the more I
started going down this rabbit hole, the more it was
(15:34):
so heartbreaking. Because he was an abused child, He went
through so much. He went through many challenges, including losing
his mother at a young age and so many other things.
But he kept seeking and he kept trying to make
this beautiful magic, the sound therapy for his audience. He
truly was what a shaman should be. And in the
(15:57):
book I talk about how when you look at you
compare shaman's across the world, Elvis really fits the bill
of what a shaman is. He's America shaman.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
How I mean, how how did he use his music?
I mean, did he did he try to encode his
message into his songs or how was he using his
instrument his voice to heal?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Well, Yeah, that's an interesting one because you're talking about
somebody who so many people, including his music teachers, did
he had an average voice. They always thought, well, he's
a good looking guy, good looking teenager, but he just
he just has an average voice. And he didn't even
know how to read or write music. But there was
a power, there was a magic in his voice. It's
(16:47):
almost like and he knew because Elvis always said, I
know every religious song in the world. He would look
at blues and gospels, and I say, I feel the
pain and the plight of these people that were taken
into this world and now live in a diaspora. I
feel the pain and the struggles of the farmer out there.
(17:08):
And he understood again what it was to be in
America and the suffering, especially those in the South during
the Great Depression, the outsider and the working class. He
understood their pain, and it's almost like he could tap
into it and bring it out. He never wrote any
of his songs, but he chose these songs, and he
(17:28):
had a way of just bringing his own sound therapy
and make it his own and make it almost therapeutic.
And that's you see that by his concerts.
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
We're back with Miguel Connor, the occult Elvis. Miguel, you
mentioned how Elvis was born under the shadow of his
stillborn twin brother, Jesse Garn. Did Jesse's ghost guide him
or haunt him?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I would say both. As I write in the book,
there is a condition that now modern psychology is caught
up called a twinless survivor. Obviously, losing your twin is hard.
They are connected in many ways through the soul and
the psyche, but a twinless survivor is a little bit
different because they are born with this terrible survivor's guilt.
(00:46):
They wonder, how come we had the same birth, but
I made it? What's going on? They feel there's a
huge void and they forever are seeking the answers to this.
And I compare him to other figures like Liberaci and
Philip K. Dick, who are also twinless survivors. So in
(01:08):
there are all three other cases. It became the greatest
drive or question in their lives. It really it drove
Elvis through most of his life, and because of his abilities,
Jesse also became sort of a guide, a figure that
it would appear in his dreams and visions, his conscious
(01:30):
that would move him to make the right decisions all
through his life. And what's interesting too, is now we
know through research that twinless survivors tend to be They
tend to be seeker. They want the big questions in life.
You know, why was in that with Elvis? Why was
I born poor? Suddenly I'm rich? Why can we've been rich?
(01:53):
If we'd had him in the hospital, he would have survived.
What happened. What happened, and it drove Elvis and twinless
survivors are speakers. But also there is almost a shadow
site to twinless survivors because of the psychic damage. They
tend to be workaholics, They tend to be self destructive,
(02:13):
they are prone to addiction, and they have problems connecting
with other individuals, especially the opposite sex. So as you
can see with Elvis, between the blue Light and Jesse,
it's almost like he was faded to be Elvis from
the very beginning.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So was his mystical path maybe an attempt to commune
with a missing half of his soul?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I would say so again, that's what really drove him.
I mean even Philip K. Dick talks about losing his
sister Jane and he said, this is the biggest event
of my life. And he says that everything he wrote,
everything from Total re wanted to break down the simulation
of the world and find out why does it happen,
(03:01):
what's the nature of evil and suffering? And it was
the same thing with Elvis. That's why he got into
alternative spirituality because he wanted to know what was going on.
He wanted to find the bigger answers in life and
try to make sure that Jesse's death was not in vain.
And again it drove him all through his life and
(03:24):
it was a huge factor and everything Elvis did.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I want to hear more about Elvis and UFOs. Just
before the Break, you mentioned that he and his father
Vernon had a UFO sighting and your outside in Graceland.
How many how many UFOs sightings did he have? Did
he did he believe that he was abducted? Tell me more.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
It should be noted that Elvis was very sophisticated in
all his views and he was always way ahead of
the curve. Talked about his embracing of Hinduism and other
alternative spiritual modalities was way before the sixties movement, before
the Beatles, and when it came to UFOs, he was
(04:12):
also very sophisticated that he didn't just buy into or
believe that into the sort of combustion engine, little green
men attitude of UFOs in the late fifties early sixties.
He speculated on different theories and wag them all. For example,
(04:32):
he had read Bondanigin's Chariots of the Gods and he said,
you know, maybe the ancient alien theory could be right.
He thought, perhaps the aliens were sort of these ultra
terrestial beings that were using telepathy to stop humanity from
destroying itself. He was sophisticated enough to read, for example,
(04:54):
the Old Testament and the vision of Ezekiel in the
Wheels and think of this looks like alien. So he
didn't like today. He didn't really take one theory after another,
but he speculated a lot of what could be going on.
And he did have three what you might call traditional
(05:16):
extraterrestrial experiences like we mentioned. The one was in Graceland.
This was a traditional flying saucer. And again he and
Vernon saw it going around. That's when Vernon sort of went,
oh my god, the alien blue light in his mansion
in Belair. One time, he's outside with his bodyguards sunny West.
(05:39):
They see a light coming and flooding the area, and
at first they're like, well, maybe it's an airplane. Then
they're like, wow, it's getting so close. Maybe it's a helicopter.
And they're like, oh my god, this is too close.
It's not making a sound, it's flooding the area. They
freak out, this is something else. So Elvis tells Sonny
go inside, get Jerry shilling, my other my friend and
(06:01):
bodyguard goes inside. They come out and Elvis is gone,
and you know, and they're they're like, oh my god,
we had one job. Now our boss has been abducted
by aliens and the lights everywhere. So they're running around
freaking out, screaming for Elvis, and finally they hear his voice,
I'm over here, boys, and Elvis is in the neighbor's
(06:22):
yard looking at the sky, watching this UFO disappear. Then
the third one, he was with Larry Geller and his
entourrs are driving from Memphis to La Remember in the sixties,
there was a point where Elvis would not take airplanes,
so he drove everywhere with his motor homes. And they're
(06:42):
in the desert in Arizona and they see these sort
of zigzagging lights. They get out of their vehicles and
they're just staring at it with their with their mouths open,
and Larry's like, could this be experimental craft? And Elvis
is like, nohow I was in the military. This is
I think our government could have done. And they simply
(07:03):
watched these lights do these incredible movements in the sky
and disappear. And then the Larry and Elvis and the
other time this you know, big metaphysical discussion about what
the aliens want with humanities, they speculated and all that.
So those are the three ones. And again Elvis was
never alone. He was always with other individuals who you
(07:26):
can trust. There I do talk about in the book.
One time he was with his super fan Wanda june Hill,
and he sort of mentioned, you know, I am not
from this world, I am from the ninth moon of Jupiter.
And she claims that his light, that his eyes started
glowing and his hair was fluttering and he looked like
(07:47):
an alien being. So that's a strange one, and Elvis
used to say often I am not of this world
two people, but you could take that as sort of
a Hindu metaphysical like, you know, I am from another
higher plane, of another dimension, and so forth.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So those are.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Again the three major ones. But yes, Elvis was certainly
a big believer and extraterrestrials. He was a big trekkie.
He loved Star Trek. He loved Stanley Curits two thousand
and one at Space Odyssey, So he would have been
right at home today with us in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Did he fear the public ever learning who he really was?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
No, he didn't. I mean, Elvis did what Elvis wanted
to do. He never hit it, but he never but
he never broadcasted. When he became very spiritual, he drove
everybody crazy because he really changed. He was becoming very
detached to the material world. In fact, he almost quit
(08:54):
twice the entertainment business in the mid sixties. Wants to
become a Christian monk, and once he wanted to become
a Hindu monk. He wanted to just join Yoga Nanda's
ashram and just forget about it. But then he was
talked out of it. But he was also but again
he didn't hit it. He would hand out books, he
(09:15):
would have prayer and meditation circles. He would talk to
actors in Hollywood and groupies and just talk about spirituality.
He was so happy about it, but he didn't go
to the press. I mean, Elvis rarely went to the
press or you know, he didn't make it extra public,
(09:37):
if you know what I mean. But he did drive
people crazy, and it did become a threat to his
inner circle. Because even Priscilla and you can watch it
in Sofia Coppola's movie Priscilla. It's all there, Elvis, Larry Geller,
his spirituality. He started to become very detached to Priscilla.
He started to become very hard to get to by people,
(10:03):
and just very yeah, a very different person. So eventually
they put pressure on him to get back to being
the old Elvis. So what he simply did is he
told him yes, he said, okay, I'll finally marry Priscilla.
I'll get back to being an entertainer. But he just
went more underground. He would hide these books in his
(10:24):
Vegas suite or later on meet Larry Geller alone in secret,
just to keep the peace.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
You know, what's interesting what I've learned from you is
that you weren't You didn't start out as an Elvis fan.
You really didn't know much about him. You just kind
of what there was kind of going back to our
first half of the show talking about serendipity, it was
all kind of I don't know, there was kind of
(10:53):
a synchronicity involved in you getting into this research, right, Yes.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
As John and then famously said, life happens when you're
busy making other plans, and most of my life, my life,
my plans had nothing to do with Elvis. I was
always a crowd Beatles person. You know from the famous
scene in pulp fiction. You're either a Beatles person or
an Elvis person. You can like each other, but you
cannot be the same, and who you are says a
(11:21):
lot about you. I was always a Beatles person. I
saw Elvis is simply sort of the uh, the pop
version of Mountain dew or McDonald's. Didn't think much about him.
I had read when I when I was younger, about
his occult interests and abilities, but I sort of wrote it.
(11:42):
I wrote it off like so many people, because I thought,
you know, this is just what rock stars are. They're eccentric,
you know, Hinduism and the Beatles and Salima and Jimmy
Page and Kabbala and David Bowie and astrology and Ronald
Reagan and so forth. So I sort of wrote it off,
and eventually I started respecting him musically. But yeah, it
(12:03):
was a series of strange events. As I like to say,
I became quantum entangled with Elvis. I don't I still
don't consider myself a fan. He's more like a friend
who needed a favor. But all of a sudden, all
these strange events and synchronicities kept putting Elvis in my psyche.
These included meeting people who would bring up Elvis out
(12:26):
of nowhere and them mentioning about is occult powers. I mean, going,
why are they bringing this up? There was a I
did a couple of ayahuasca ceremonies with Sansudai, me a
mystic Amazonian Christian church, and once I did them, suddenly
I couldn't get Elvis out of my hand, out of
my head. And then suddenly this this voice, it was
(12:48):
it was didn't have a sound, it was it was autonomous,
It was separate from me. It was in my head,
and it kept saying, there's a part of my story
that the world has missed, that they've overlooked, And I
want you to go and put it all together because
I want the world to see the Elvis that they
have missed, This spiritual Elvis, this deep finger, this seeker,
(13:12):
and really the very soul of America. I call Elvis
America shaman too. He is the Yeah, he is the
manifestation of the eggrigor the soul of America. And I
contend that in this year, in twenty twenty five, we're
losing the ability to understand what it is to be
in America, and we are fragmenting, we are losing our identity.
(13:35):
And who holds the soul of post war America. Who
is the soul of post war America? It is Elvis.
He is truly a divine being, the image of the
archetype of the American dream. Yeah, I know I'm getting inspired,
but yeah, so I felt I was chosen to sort
of bring this story to people, and I hope it
(13:57):
helps them understand that there is something call America. There
are alternative spiritualities that can make us whole, that can
heal us, and there is something where you can break
your fake and break your fate and make a destiny.
Because it always seemed Elvis was so trapped by fate,
so trapped by fame, by his upbringing, by his trauma,
(14:21):
by everything, but he still always was able to look
for the divine, and he was still always able to
connect with his tribe and help us through so many doorways.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
What was the point that you realize Elvis, the Elvis
soul to us, you know, the devout, the conservative, the
patriotic was just maybe a mask. I mean, was there
a moment that made the illusion crack and revealed the
magician beneath for you? No?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I mean I think he was a patriotic soldier. I
mean he was in the army, he loved, he loved
the soldiers. He was heard broken by the slaughter of
the Vietnam War. But he encompassed so much both the
material even shadowside of what America is, but also the
(15:12):
spiritual and the beautiful side of America. So I can't
say there was ever a moment when this voice came in.
I realized this voice was in, this voice was in pain,
and his voice had gone through so much, and they
simply wanted to tell the story. And the more I
started going down this rabbit hole, the more it was
(15:34):
so heartbreaking. Because he was an abused child, He went
through so much. He went through many challenges, including losing
his mother at a young age and so many other things.
But he kept seeking and he kept trying to make
this beautiful magic, the sound therapy for his audience. He
truly was what a shaman should be. And in the
(15:57):
book I talk about how when you look at you
compare shaman's across the world, Elvis really fits the bill
of what a shaman is. He's America shaman.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
How I mean, how how did he use his music?
I mean, did he did he try to encode his
message into his songs or how was he using his
instrument his voice to heal?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Well, Yeah, that's an interesting one because you're talking about
somebody who so many people, including his music teachers, did
he had an average voice. They always thought, well, he's
a good looking guy, good looking teenager, but he just
he just has an average voice. And he didn't even
know how to read or write music. But there was
a power, there was a magic in his voice. It's
(16:47):
almost like and he knew because Elvis always said, I
know every religious song in the world. He would look
at blues and gospels, and I say, I feel the
pain and the plight of these people that were taken
into this world and now live in a diaspora. I
feel the pain and the struggles of the farmer out there.
(17:08):
And he understood again what it was to be in
America and the suffering, especially those in the South during
the Great Depression, the outsider and the working class. He
understood their pain, and it's almost like he could tap
into it and bring it out. He never wrote any
of his songs, but he chose these songs, and he
(17:28):
had a way of just bringing his own sound therapy
and make it his own and make it almost therapeutic.
And that's you see that by his concerts.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
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