About JayDixon Expertise lyrics, instruments, vocal range
Experience Radio jock with 26 years commercial radio experience and radio station music director. Singer myself, poet and lyric writer. Former lead singer of a Doors tribute band. I own instruments, have the same vocal range as Jim had.
Education/Credentials Bachelor of Business - University of Queensland
Awards and Honors Holder of the CRA (Commercial Radio Australia) "25 Year Award" and a couple of other music and radio awards.
Question hello i'll try ask in the best english i can... jim thougth himself like a shaman... and in the movie shows an union between him and the wiccan girl... can we said that he had understand that shaman and witchcraft is basicaly the same? in your personal opinion do you think he really understand what is a shaman and again in your opinion do you think he really know what he wanna show us/ tell us? i hope you can understand the question... thank you
Answer Hi Shankara.
Jim Morrison had a strong belief and felt he had a great affinity with the mystical beliefs of the American Red Indians. By all accounts he was fascinated by their beliefs and felt it was a way of finding out what the future held in store. In 1947, Morrison, then a young child, allegedly witnessed a car accident in the desert, where a family of Native Americans were injured and possibly killed. He referred to this incident in a spoken word performance on the songs "Dawn's Highway" "Peace Frog" and "Ghost Song".
But keep this in mind whenever you are discussing James Douglas Morrison! He was a restless soul who was never content for very long just being on one plane in life, he would explore things, get bored and then seek a higher level, so no one apart from Jim ever really knew what his words or his actions were truly about. I think that is where his fascination with the Indian spiritual side (Shaman) came into play. A Shaman is a spirit mediator and healer essentially, there are both good and bad Shaman’s in many cultures and dates back to either the Mongol or some believe even, the Mancu language. Still found today in various races of people in Africa, Haiti and even here in Australia with the aboriginal people (Kadicha Man) and yes it is a form of witchcraft.
James Douglas Morrison to my knowledge was never a fully initiated Shaman but used to go into a trance like state both on and off stage, so he obviously held his belief in very high esteem. The Wiccan girl you refer to actually was Patricia Kennealy a New York music journalist. She claimed that she and Jim married in the form of a Celtic handfasting ceremony and later changed her legal name to include Morrison in it. The marriage however was never recognized legally by authorities and to this day she remains an outcast and is shunned over her claims when it comes to anything involving the life of Jim Morrison. The closest Jim ever came to being officially married was by common law (de-facto)under Colorado law to Pamela Susan Courson (Dec 22 1946- Apr 25 1974) After Jim’s death his estate was eventually divided between the Morrison and Courson families.
The movie The Doors (Oliver Stone 1991) is somewhat factual but contains a lot of “Hollywood” but doesn’t tell the real story, so keep that in mind when dealing with Jim.
In summary I will paste this for you taken from one source on Jim Morrison I have at hand.
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“Morrison was particularly attracted to the myths and religions of Native American cultures. While he was still in school, his family moved to New Mexico where he got to see some of the places and artifacts important to the Southwest Indigenous cultures. These interests appear to be the source of many references to creatures and places such as lizards, snakes, deserts and "ancient lakes" that appear in his songs and poetry. His interpretation of the practices of a Native American "shaman" were worked into parts of Morrison's stage routine, notably in his interpretation of the Ghost Dance, and a song on his later poetry album, The Ghost Song. The songs "My Wild Love" and "Wild Child" were also inspired by his ideas of Native American rhythm and ritual. He also consumed 8 buttons of peyote and tripped for a week and wrote about seeing the "God of Peyote".
Thanks for your question and I hope I’ve provided you some answers on the matter.
