Jimi Hendrix

I'm wearing a Jimi Hendrix/Moby Grape/Captain Spped t-shirt today (Target: $9.99). Susan Sandage, my accupuncturist, relayed her images and experience of Master Jimi in Cleveland, shortly before his death. She said he truly brought himself to performance. I said that I believed he was a channel of Divine energy and that he (and Elvis) were beings wih the power to shift, like platelets, existing paradigms surrounding and "protecting" then-current musical theory. God, a lot of people really HATED it. Although I was pre-teen at the time, his influence on me is quite profound. Hendrix was a hero, an icon, for a generation who was sick and tired of the black box their parents lived in. To a generation that detested war to the extent that a draft was put in place, Jimi shook things up with his otherwordly ability to make an electric guitar sing in a voice whose virbational waves are still pushing out into an expanding universe.

Jimi Hendrix was a man, and an icon for social change. He was a prophet with a powerful and specific message to western culture: get outside the four walls your've surrounded yourself with and experience yourself and your mind. The message was to take some risks, on all levels and break forth with a new energy never seen or "experienced before". The 1960's were a time a tremendous tumult and change. Young people said No Way to established morals and morays.

Eric Clapton was defined as God. Time magazine mused, "Is God Dead?" on one of it's covers. We watched the Vietnam War with a candor that no one under 40 can even begin to imagine. The truth and lessons held in those images projected into our homes every night taught us one very true thing: there is nothing more deadly to human spirit than the violence and chaos of war. War is ugly, brutal and deeply disturbing for all involved. It's time to move on and because it is men who have led us into war everytime, and women who have enabled the behavior, it is in fact women who are going to be the solution. I don't know how quite yet, but I've got some ideas and I'll keep you posted, ok?


The teachers of the 60's were artists and a couple of guys from Harvard, Ram Dass and Timothy Leary. Who are the prophets today? What is the message? Who are your teachers?

Namaste`
Connie