Elvis - A Lighted Candle

[Blue Moon]

Trish, I agree with your reservations re vaccines as well. It is awful the stuff which is put into them.

I just want to clarify in case someone who reads these posts is on mental medication. I am not suggesting there is not a place for taking them, especially if one is suicidal or is so depressed he/she can not funtion in society. I just believe that all too often pills are seen as the only answer, and there is seldom serious invistigation into what the real causes are for depression, suicide, bipolar etc. There could very well be deep trauma and/or unforgiveness in the individual causing one to be unhappy and/or to have difficulty in functioning as an adult. There may be other answers than to simply have the person on medication for the rest of his life, but over reliance on medication appears to have stunted psychiatry's desire to dig deeper into soul issues.

[Wanda June Hill]

Wow! I have learned a lot here today! Thank you all so much for helping me to see clearly about the bipolar issue... I agree that Elvis was not the type person to consider suicide at all! He loved life, he loved his life and he wouldn't do that to all his fans, friends and his family-it would have been out of the question and though he did mention he thought at one time of "giving up" he very quickly realized he couldn't do that- he had too much to live for so he was not one who had that type thinking. I don't know much about bipolar at all, except for what brief comment I read about them being highly stimulated and then falling into depression and being irrational and losing their temper etc:... Elvis was very nervous, had been from birth and had difficulty sleeping etc:...BUT I believe it was due to the fact he was very intelligent, very sensitive and perceptive even as a small child...he was just one of those people who "tuned in" to others and who seemed to "know" what one felt. At that time he had no one around him who understood, or knew what he was-they merely told him to keep quiet about what he felt and thought and thought he saw and heard etc:... and his mother even washed his mouth with soap when she caught him doing "something she thought evil natured-hand signs and chanting" but he was responding to what he "heard" and "saw" as a child. He thought it was "angels" and music from heaven...maybe it was.
Childlren are more tuned to such things when young, it is "lost" by most as they develope and learn the ways of life and living-too much other stuff takes over the brain and what is of the child is shoved to the back-to make way for the new. We need to do that to get along out here. In Elvis' case, he was one who hung on to those memories, who loved hearing the "music of the spheres and heavens" and who had it inside him. Great musicians and artists I think retain that and that is what helps make them stand out and be great at what they do. Anyway, I fear so many won't understand what I was saying about bipolar and Elvis- therefore I am going to just say that Jerry Schilling mentions that he felt Elvis might have had had some symptoms similar to what is now being known as "bipolar" in regard to his being very nervous that made it difficult for him to relax. But he did not fit the bipolar mold and therefore I don't believe that he was anything more than a person under stress and pressure far more than most people ever are and he handled it all very well considering he was the first of his kind to live so fully in the pulbic eye and under the preverbial microscope that type fame brings.
I'll work on the wording but this is the gist of what I will change the two paragraphs I have down to. I say I don't know much about the conditions of bipolar and how the affect people right up front then mention Jerry's comment etc; anyway, and will post what I finally come up with on here. I am not an expert, and did not know just how serious that condition is- I too think it might be related to an early trauma, and they were not given any help or way out, and that it could be a combination of things-many things and all would react differently anyway- Elvis was not irratic in his behaviour...not as I saw it-he was always the same...and I understood his anger-which he controled far more than was good for him...he'd been better off if he yelled, kicked and screamed his head off a few more times than he did, I think. I told him to go out in the desert and scream and yell until he got it all out of his system. He said he did that once and turned around and three coyotes were sitting there looking at him and "drooling"...waiting for him to lay down so they could jump this nut case for dinner. He probably was making more of it than it was as I doubt coytoes would have come "that close" but he might have seen them off at a distance coming to watch "the show". wjh

[Wanda June Hill]

And about his mood swings....he did have them, BUT his entire life was either up or down, any body with any kind of intelligence and rational way of thinking as he had, would be as he put it "jumping like a flea on a dogs back" because things changed so rapidly around him, career wise especially as it dictatated his every move, and sometimes every thought as well. I have never known anyone who had such constant demand on their time and attention-how he handled it I will never be about to understand because he did it so well, almost as if it was easy for him and I know it had to have been a strain but he made it look "natural". At home he probably went to bed and pulled the cover over his head and took a sigh of relief- but then there would come the knock on his door, the blinking of the intercom, or someone calling up to him on it- etc:. He hardly had a minute to himself unless he went up, locked his door and turned off the phones and intercom and played the records he loved to hear-usually the older gospel groups - that I heard over and over and over when I'd call or he'd call and be upstairs in his room. Some of them were really old stuff, some were black quartets, lots of times in later months it was JD and his group-their records...I never heard him play himself-that I can remember- if he did it was so rare I can't recall it.
He once played Ray Charles' "It's Crying Time Again" for days- and then he played the stones, "I can't Get No Satisfaction" over and over and sang it with them like they did-it was funny. I kind of think he would have liked to record it or at least perform it... And then there was another one that was so sad...it was an old Hank Williams song but not "the saddest song I ever heard" one- but a love song...I can't remember what it was but it was to me "depressing" and he was depressed over losing his family life... then he got over that and was back to the gospels the next time. That upstairs was his "home" his "cave" and his "salvation from the world" and he loved it up there even though it looked like some old fancy hotel in decor-I was pretty amazed to see how he'd changed it from the way he said it had been...no more mirrored walls...just that dark look with the gold and heavy drapery... so Elvis- what he was used to really, all those hotel rooms he stayed in... as he put it, "I'm "out there" more than I'm here at home... I love comin' home, it's my home, I belong here." wjh

[Rainbow Light]

Wowee! I sure have learned a lot here today from reading everyone's feedback above and thanks all for sharing!

I couldn't stand to be in his shoes for any period of time. I'm often so amazed to observe the inner strenght needed to be Elvis Presley, the public figure, and at the same time to keep the heart fixed to Love, expresing it through his care for others, his fellows human beings without distinction; to keep his attention to be at their service in so many ways; to keep his deep interest in his spiritual development and other's too; to try to keep himself in shape, again and again... And so much more. A very especial BEING was required to accomplish such a destiny.

AMEN, Amanda!