Elvis - A Lighted Candle

[Blue Moon]

Here’s my Elvis experience which I’ve finally gotten the courage to post. Sorry it’s long, but to nutshell it wouldn’t do it justice. As it is, not sure anyone will really understand what I went through.

While I was in the middle of watching a made-for-TV Elvis movie, there is a part where Elvis is shown having a spiritual search & then ends in a forced book burning. (Keep in mind I knew almost nothing about Elvis at this time except the common knowledge stuff; I was not an avid fan then.) So during the book burning scene I asked God why He did not send someone to help Elvis. The instant I asked God this question, it was like a finger from heaven zapped me with such intense emotional pain, pain like I have never felt.
I cried straight for hours and could sleep no more than 2 hours. When I woke up the next morning, the crying started again. But it is so hard to describe because there was sharp pain it. It was like nothing I have ever felt. That same morning, I could feel the heavy presence of God upon me & what was imparted to me was that Elvis had a heart like King David in the Bible. Prior to this I knew nothing of Elvis’ spiritual nature except what little there was in the movie.

For the next week and ½ I cried half of the waking hours, even during work, so there I was crying silently, hoping no one would notice. I kept asking God why are you putting me through this, it hurt so bad. Finally, I was shown in the Spirit a rose with thorns. This rose represented love, and in order to grow I had have this rose of love implanted in my heart, but I had to take the thorns as well. And the thorns would hurt.

Over the next 2 and ½ months this pain gradually subsided, but I had many relapses along the way. Don’t know how I kept it together actually. During this time I felt compelled to read up on anything about Elvis that I could get my hands on, especially spiritually related which wasn’t much, but I read the secular stuff as well. Even if what I read was not flattering, I knew by then that Elvis had a beautiful soul. Later, I found out a lot of the negative stuff was just trash, thanks especially for the ELC web site & then the forum.

The kind of intense sorrow I went through was not due to feeling sad over the awful stuff done to Elvis. There was some of that mixed in, but mostly the pain I went thru was placed upon me. It was not depression. So who placed it upon me – God, an angel, Elvis????? To this day, I’m not sure. Maybe all three had something to do with it!

What happened to me spiritually due to this experience was that the importance of love was imparted to me. This doesn’t mean I turned into Mother Theresa. It means that I have an awareness I didn’t have before. Some of the old self died. I was 42 at the time; no coincidence I think, as that is the age of Elvis’ death.

I still don't understand it all but maybe time will tell. As I'm typing this, I'm picking up on more information which I will put in another post.

[Rainbow Light]

Many, many thanks for having the courage to share this with us, Laurie!! - so much appreciated and your personal experience is so very beautiful and touching - guessed you must have copied it already to put back in under your name but I was pretty nervous about deleting this post just in case we accidentally lost it but can see all ok now!

It's so very personal to you I can see that but is so very special am pleased you felt you wanted to share this with us!

God Bless, Sue

[Blue Moon]

Thanks Sue for taking care of the "deleting". Yes, I had it written down in a Word doc so was easy to copy and paste. I didn't want to keep a doc this long under "guest" because no doubt I will find spelling errors etc. to go back and fix.

[Amanda Viola]

Dear Laurie,

Thank you for sharing. I was really moved for it all.

I got gooseflesh when you came to King David and Elvis'soul. When I get that reaction it always means that there is a truth. So I searched in Internet to look for details about King David's life. Here are some excerpts:

He was a sheperd. David's victory over Goliath (that I remembered). Many times survived attemps of killing him. Cried over the death of his principals enemies. Was betrayed by his trusted counselor. Conquered Jerusalem and made it the capital of his kingdom: "the city of David". Brought there the Ark of the Covenant. Inside the Ark there were:
1. the two stone tablets of the Law
2. Aaron's rod that budded
3. the golden pot of "hidden"manna

In reward for his piety the promise was made that God would build him a house and establish his kingdom forever. Commited sins but his contrition was so sincere that God pardoned him though announcing severe penalties. The spirit in which David accepted these penalties has made him for all time model of penitents. He had skills in songs and music. He was not merely king and ruler, he was also a prophet. His qualities and his very name are attributed to the Messias. Both were born in Bethlehem.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathem/04642b.htm

Do you see similarities? I do!

[Amanda Viola]

Laurie, I have been thinking/feeling about your experience and it suggest me this:

When you asked God why he could not send somebody to help Elvis, in that moment you connected with COMPASSION, opened wide to it. Compassion is a quality of LOVE and it means: "to feel with the other". Whether you connected from this moment on with Elvis suffering or world's, I can't tell. Maybe both.

So, being open to Love, we are open to Compassion too and to feel the pain of other people or of the world. That is expressed by the rose and the thorns.

I feel like you reached to Elvis' pain, because I am dreaming every night -the last weeks- with his troubles and risky situations with his entourage. Those are not absolutely the kind of dreams I usually have, not its codes, expression, or anything alike. It is like HIM dreaming. When I awake I keep memory for a little, little time, then disappear. I can recall only one.

It is not the first time that I "connect" with something that happened a lot of time ago. So, maybe you too...

[Barbara Lea]

LAURIE AND AMANDA I KNOW WHAT YOU BOTH ARE SAYING, IT IS LIKE WHEN I HEAR A CERTAIN SONG ELVIS IS SINGING, I START TO FEEL IN MY HEART, MIND, AND BODY FIRST A SADNESS THEN PAIN, THEN COMPASSION. IT IS LIKE I'M FEELING THESE EMOTIONS BECAUSE THAT IS THE EMOTIONS ELVIS WENT THROUGH, FIRST SADNESS BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE HE TRUSTED AND LOVED DIDN'T UNDERSTAND HIM, THEN THE PAIN EITHER OR BOTH PHYSICAL, AND SIRITUALLLY. BUT THEN AS HE READ IN HIS BIBLE ABOUT ALL THAT KING DAVID AND JESUS WENT THROUGH, ELVIS STILL HAD COMPASSION, LOVE, AND FORGIVENESS. SO THANK YOU BOTH FOR HELPING ME IN LEARNING WHY I GET THIS WAY, I'M SO THANKFUL FOR THIS FORUM. BARB!

[maia]

Laurie, your experience I feel, exemplifies the role Elvis served and continues to serve for the planet.

Amanda, when you say:

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When you asked God why he could not send somebody to help Elvis, in that moment you connected with COMPASSION, opened wide to it. Compassion is a quality of LOVE and it means: "to feel with the other". Whether you connected from this moment on with Elvis suffering or world's, I can't tell. Maybe both.

So, being open to Love, we are open to Compassion too and to feel the pain of other people or of the world. That is expressed by the rose and the thorns.

ABSOLUTELY! I couldn't have put it better, so won't try!

[Blue Moon]

Thanks Barb, Amanda, Sue & Maia for your comments. I was a little afraid to post this because I thought people are going to think I'm nuts.

So, being open to Love, we are open to Compassion too and to feel the pain of other people or of the world. That is expressed by the rose and the thorns.

Amanda, what you said is so beautifully put and fits with something else which came to me last night as I was trying to post this. I was so immersed in it because I kept trying to reword it, make it shorter etc that I had a mini vision. I kept hearing "the well of sorrows" over & over again in my head & then I was shown sitting inside a large bucket at the top of a well & then was lowered to the bottom where all the sorrows were. So, it's like as you say I picked up on the sorrow of others. Exactly whose, I'm not sure. Elvis' maybe, or maybe the sorrow from his fans? Not sure.

[maia]

Beautiful vision, Laurie!

It is my feeling that humanity is attempting at this time to transform the "Well of Sorrows" into a Field of Roses. In other words, where we see/feel sorrow, know that it is only LOVE seeking expression, lost from the bosom of it's own source of being. All who are in pain of emotions or physical, chose on the soul level to experience this for ALL OF US. The Bible says that Jesus died for our sins. I interpret this is that he became our Bodhisattva (http://www.spiritmythos.org/misc/defs/bodhisattva.htm)Jesus said to us that he was the SON OF MAN. We, too, in certain incarnations can assume a Bodihisattva postion in life (all of us do it a degree...but some souls incarnate it more than others).

I believe Elvis did assume this role very strongly. See my "Rex Mundi" article on Spirit Mythos.

http://www.spiritmythos.org/TM/solar-lunar/rexmundi.htm

[Blue Moon]

Well of Sorrows" into a Field of Roses

Interesting what you say Maia. I will definitely check out the links you provided. But I was also struck by your above comment because the two revelations I received re my experience had to do with a rose & something which represented many sorrows (in my case a well). So similar symbology was used! There must be some significance going on here.

[Amanda Viola]

Laurie, how beautiful!

Only four words to describe such an enormous concept. That's pure poetry, that explains with an image concepts that are so difficult to express with plain words.

Yes, the pain comes in our everyday life. Now, what do we do with it?

This is the way I try to handle it: Pain and suffering are emotions intended to SIGNAL SOMETHING to us, something we must pay attention to. Something must be changed, put into action or revised. Or whatever.
IF we don't, it grows, keep signaling, bigger and bigger. Until emotion invades our whole system, flooding it and making us unable to handle any situation.

When we are so messed up, the better is to put all that emotional energy into action, whatever little or big action, like walking, cleaning our car, or taking out our pet. Then the flood lessens, energy starts flowing and then it is time for reflexion and/or meditation. Never forgetting that emotion is one thing and WE ARE ANOTHER, LIKE AN INNER BEING FULL OF LIGHT.

Again, I feel that Elvis was a good example for that.

[maia]

Never forgetting that emotion is one thing and WE ARE ANOTHER, LIKE AN INNER BEING FULL OF LIGHT.

Yes, as my husband says, "never forget that you are not your emotions."

[Blue Moon]

Thank you, Amanda. Love what you say here:

WE ARE ANOTHER, LIKE AN INNER BEING FULL OF LIGHT.

If the world recognized when we hurt one, we hurt all, then maybe all the wars would stop & we would start loving each other more.

Back to King David. He & Elvis had so much in common --heart wise. David, the youngest of several children & only 17, was the least likely to be annointed for future kingship & yet he was. Elvis was poor & came from the wrong side of the tracks; probably few thought he would amount to anything. David knew who he was and was therefore not a conformist.
He didn't need or want armor to kill Goliath. And he danced in his undergarments in front of the Arc of the Covenent -- to the embarassment of others. He didn't care. Elvis did his natural dance movements to the horror of the uptight 50's establishment. As Elvis said, "Them people ain't going change me none"--hope I quoted that right.

The Bible speaks of the, "sure mercies of David". So David was a very forgiving person; and Elvis was this too. It's why God forgave David after he sinned -- big time with adultery & having the wife's husband killed. David still paid a price with his son trying to kill him. Elvis had weakness as well but his loving & forgiving heart far outweighed them. Elvis seems to have paid a price for surrounding himself with less than quality people.

And David had such a heart for God. He would sing to God with such love in his heart. You can sure tell this similarity when you hear Elvis sing his gospel songs. Both were musically gifted. When King Saul, who was emotionally unstable, was having one of his fits, David (before David was king) would play his harp & sing to him, calming Saul down. How many songs has Elvis song which have touched the heart of many, blessed them, or brought them closer to God?

[Amanda Viola]

Three days ago, I heard Elvis' voice inside me, saying sofly, profoundly:

"LOVE IS WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT".

[Rainbow Light]

Thank you, everybody for the above posts and what you brought through to us, Laurie, has touched on each of our spirits here. Looking and reading back through what you posted I didn't feel that yesterday my words were able to do true justice to what you said, just so beautifully worded! Thanks again, Laurie for bringing this to ELC Forum!

Can for sure understand the link between King David and Elvis and it has been very interesting in reading all what you, Amanda and Maia have related here.