A Christian perspective on Jim Morrison and the Doors. One of Two parts. Clip taken from Pastor Joe Schimmel from Rock 'n' Roll Sorcerers of the New Age Revolution
Fight the Good Fight Ministries.
Rock Music and Occultism
Many of the big-time rock stars have been heavily involved not only in the occult but also in overt Satanism. Trying to describe his own inspiration process, [John] Lennon said: It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium.... Of the Beatles, Yoko Ono has said, They were like mediums. They weren't conscious of all they were saying, but it was coming through them... Marc Storace, a vocalist with the heavy-metal band Krokus, told Circus magazine: You can't describe it except to say it's like a mysterious energy that comes from the metaphysical plane and into my body. It's almost like being a medium... Little Richard had similar experiences and identified Satan as the source of his inspiration: I was directed and commanded by another power The power of darkness ... that a lot of people don't believe exists. The power of the devil. Satan. Jim Morrison (of The Doors) called the spirits that at times possessed him the Lords, and wrote a book of poetry about them. Folk rock artist Joni Mitchell's creativity came from her spirit guide 'Aft. So dependent was she upon 'Aft that nothing could detain her when he called.
The prevalence of such spirits among top rock stars seems to go beyond the realm of coincidence. Superstar Jimi Hendrix, called rock's greatest guitarist ... believed he was possessed by some spirit, according to Alan Douglas. Hendrix's former girlfriend, Fayne Pridgon, has said: He used to always talk about some devil or something was in him, you know, and he didn't have any control over it, he didn't know what made him act the way he acted and what made him say the things he said, and songs ... just came out of him. (Dave Hunt, America: The Sorcerers New Apprentice, Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1988, pp. 239-40).
Many other rock stars practice occultism, and their compositions describe their condition in terms of being possessed or in a trance. (Larson, Larson's Book of Rock, pp. 125-35, Hunt, America: The Sorcerers New Apprentice, pp. 245-246). It is now well known that a large number of musicians are discovering an interest in occultism, sorcery and sometimes even satanism. Some names of black metal groups have an association with the occult. For example, Coven, Dark Angel, Demon, Infernal Majesty, Possessed, Satan, Cloven Hoof and others. (Details for Men, July 1991, pp. 100-101).
Ozzy Osbourne noted, I never seem to know exactly what I'm gonna do next. I just like to do what the spirits make me do. That way, I always have someone or something to blame (Faces, Nov. 1983 p. 24). Osbourne, a former lead singer of Black Sabbath triumphantly summoned satan at one of his concerts in Canada. Sometimes I feel like a medium for some outside force... (Tinglehoff, Documentation of Expose, p. 21). Black Sabbath has also made altar calls to Lucifer at some of their concerts. In Master of Reality they sing that he is lord of this world and your confessor now.
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