Dear Friends
So often I have wanted to tell someone who just laughs when I confess my Elvis obsession, "But don't you know??? It's amazing!! If you love him,
HE LOVES YOU BACK!!!" Because that has absolutely been my experience, and it's what I believe. But experience isn't transferable, and most people can't understand it from words alone. They would just laugh or say something to me like my neighbor said when I told her I think Elvis was a mystical, psychic man with the gift of healing: "But...my gosh.... you seemed so NORMAL!"
Someone said, in one of the books I've read about Elvis, that it's so hard to talk about Elvis to people who don't understand
because there is simply no reference point in culture to compare him with. I think that says alot about Elvis' uniqueness and the difficulty that many people, across a broad spectrum, have when they try and communicate about him.
But I'm not surprised that you all know EXACTLY what I meant when I talked about him loving us back! WE KNOW, and we can all speak the same language.
I think even Lamar Fike, who would not be my nominee for the most spiritually-attuned MM member, knows something of this language. He revealed in "Elvis: The Final 24 Hours," which I saw on YouTube, that Elvis actually YELLS to him...."LAMAR!!!"....in his sleep, waking him up in a cold sweat. And he tells his wife, "It was him! It was him!!" (Maybe he needs to get yelled at so he can hear Elvis' attentive voice through all that cynicism. He's going to get love whether he believes in it or not!)
Love,
Trish