Elvis - A Lighted Candle

[maia]

The following is excerpted from EIN interview with Larry Geller:

We walk into his bathroom and I expected to see all the Hollywood trappings of salon chairs and everything else but there's nothing! Elvis says "C'mon man, we'll do it right here" and just puts his head in the basin! I start to shampoo his hair and as I'm rinsing the suds off his hair he rears his head up and starts shaking. Water is flying & splattering everywhere, over me, over him. He looks at me with that Elvis smile, that grin, and he says. "Hey man, what the hell! At least it's clean!" When he said that I thought what a down to earth guy Elvis was. I just knew right away that he was real, he wasn't fake.

EIN - So how did Elvis find out about your interests? Did he ask you?

LG - Well it took about 45 minutes to finish his hair and the whole time Elvis didn't say a word, but his eyes would follow every move I made. I was working with people like Warren Beatty & Paul Newman and the most handsome guys of the movies but I can tell you no one looked like Elvis Presley.

Elvis eclipsed them all! He had the face, the voice, the career, the fans, the fame, the money and he had the hair! His hair was unbelievable to work on. Once I'd finished and sprayed it I asked him, "So, what do you think Elvis?" Elvis looks and says, "Yeah, yeah great but I want to ask you a question Larry. What are you really in to? What are you really all about?" I thought to myself, 'Wow, this guy didn't say a word and now he's getting really personal'.

So I tell him the truth about my interests and this was way before The Beatles explosion and the Maharishi stuff became popular. So I told him how I worked as a hairdresser as a living but that more importantly was my search for the truth, for the purpose of life, for God. I said, "I know you're Elvis Presley and the biggest star in the world and what I'm saying probably sounds very corny to you" But Elvis replies, "No, wait a minute. Larry you have no idea how I need to hear what you have to say. Please keep on talking."

So I tell him about my mediation, yoga, my spiritual books, being vegetarian and everything. Right away he wanted to know about the soul, Do we have a soul?, Where do we come from?, Do we survive this life?.. all these things just emerged into this conversation.

EIN - And during all this you are still in Elvis' bathroom?

LG - Well before I know it, it is an hour later and Elvis is talking to me and I look in the mirror and he has tears rolling down his cheeks. He's talking about his Mother and how poor they were and how she slaved her life away. How they didn't have running water in the house, but a well out the back. He talked about his still-born brother Jesse and about growing up in the church. We got into some major, major stuff and we had been talking about 3 hours.

for the full interview:

http://www.elvisinfonet.com/gellar.html


QUESTION FOR LARRY:

Larry, when you were around Elvis physically, did you ever feel as if you had been with his soul before and that somehow, your place with him now (when you were with Elvis) was intended to be...to continue a dharma from the past?

[Larry Geller]

Maia ~

Wonderful Question!

The simple answer is yes. After a period of time I began to realize that, as Elvis would always say, "There's no such thing as a coincidence." Being Elvis hairdresser was quite important, but much more significant was our spiritual bond. Karma? Dharma? Of course. All of our relationships go way beyond the apparent. Some have deep roots that are re-enacted lifetime to lifetime.

Again this is my short answer

Larry

[Rainbow Light]

The interview and question/answer with Maia and Larry is so great and interesting. Loved Larry's books and by having so many addresses of bookshops listed and of course the titles read by Elvis in his last book was of so much help!

Managed to track many down; although perhaps more into some than others they proved very interesting nonetheless and is able to give greater insight into Elvis as a person.

When Elvis was going through what seems a frustrating (as far as his career was going) time for him with the formulaic movies etc, Larry was able to bring his spiritual knowledge and experiences to Elvis, who in turn, certainly had a great thirst for all things spiritual.

It is a great shame that the Colonel, the boys and Priscilla did not see it this way of course and seemed for a little while there to almost have the "upper hand" so to speak. Many sought, usually for their own ulterior motives, to manipulate Elvis, his career and life, for their own benefit.

Deep down though I do believe Elvis realised who were his true friends, the ones who helped him and cared for him as a person, for his wellbeing.

Larry, thanks for providing Elvis with such a great friendship! Even in difficult circumstances when you perhaps didn't feel like you could help him you did so, perhaps more than you, yourself know!!


Bye for now,



Sue/White Swan

[Blue Moon]

Below is a direct link to the Elvis photo gallery on Larry Geller's web site. Included are photos of Elvis (from movies in which Larry styled his hair) his favorite Elvis painting (which also happens to be my favoritie as well), and at the bottom is a picture of the book Elvis was found holding close to his chest when he died - "A Scientific Search For The Face Of Jesus".

http://www.larrygellerauthor.com/photogallery2.html

[Sarena]

Thanks for the link, Laurie!!!! As I saw the book-cover (with the question-mark over Jesus' face) of the book Elvis held when he passed over to the LIGHT, I had the thought that while passing he beheld the REAL face of Jesus......

[Rainbow Light]

Thanks, Sarena for sharing this most beautiful idea and thought with us!

Also to Laurie for providing the text and link in your post above, too!

[Blue Moon]

I had the thought that while passing he beheld the REAL face of Jesus......

Christine-Sarena, I had a similar thought as you. I think it was no accident Elvis was clutching this book when he died.

[MaryInTheMorning]

I had the thought that while passing he beheld the REAL face of Jesus......

Christine-Sarena, I had a similar thought as you. I think it was no accident Elvis was clutching this book when he died.

I too had the same exact thought that both of you ladies had. It most definitely was no accident dear Laurie. Thank you also Laurie for the link you posted for us also. Larry, very special thanks to you also for being the spiritual brother that Elvis needed and for helping to nourish his precious spiritual heart. You were definitely a true friend to him, and as has already been said helped him more than either you or he probably realized at the time.

[Wanda June Hill]

Yes, I think that Larry did more for Elvis than even Elvis could express and that he returned because he was needed, Elvis needed him in those last weeks of his life-and Larry heard the "call" and came. Elvis had all those books, he read parts to me, we talked about them and he told me I'm sure things that Larry had taught him and what he had learned then using that teachings to find for him self. He said he had to hide some of them, or they would "walk out of the room somehow". And he carried a trunk like suitcase full of them with him everywhere he went from home to home, tour to tour and to Vegas as well. This was man seeking a brother to help him, and Larry was there. He missed him alot, he didn't say much but that he was gone, and named off several that were "gone" on other jobs etc:...but Larry was gone from the flock and Elvis couldn't spread his wings over him any more, or as he said once "scratach in the devine dust of wisdom" together. Elvis was one to accept what others did and not question and argue too much, if they wanted to go off on their own. At times he would be hurt and bitter, but he'd get over it and welcome them back with open arms. Larry had only to want to see him and there he was, with open arms... He knew that things had been hard and he was sorry about it, but there again at the time, he had just got married a few months before, things were going sour among the guys and his new wife wanted time along with him-a normal life style with a new married couple etc: and that was Elvis' dream too-but it was a fantasy dream-he knew he couldn't maintain it long-that career was a jealous lover and it was always calling to him and he admitted he was addicted to that feeling, those people, the excitement and all that went with it. No mere mortal could compete-man or woman. I was happy when he very quietly said to me, "Lawarence is back...came to see me." He strung that name out...Law...aren..ce is back and it was said with such tender happines and expectation. Great to hear. wjh

[Sarena]

I was happy when he very quietly said to me, "Lawarence is back...came to see me." He strung that name out...Law...aren..ce is back and it was said with such tender happines and expectation. Great to hear. wjh

What a touching moment!!!!
Thanks Wanda, for sharing this with us!!

[MaryInTheMorning]

Yes I agree dear Sarena! Thank you so much Wanda for sharing such a tender moment with us. I can just imagine how happy Elvis was that "Lawarence" was back again at a time when he so needed him.

[Rainbow Light]

Yes, very great to hear and read about this, many thanks for sharing this wonderful and beautiful moment and memories with us, Wanda!