A Questionable Death
Jeff Buckley's music is still fairly obscure. His first album was initially unsuccessful even though it impressed many critics. Jeff had a great effect on the people who heard his music, including bands such as Radiohead and Coldplay. Today his music is beginning to surface and is growing increasingly popular. Jeff reached number one posthumously in 2008 with 'Hallelujah', and a film of his life is expected to be released in 2013.
Jeff Buckley's music is still fairly obscure. His first album was initially unsuccessful even though it impressed many critics. Jeff had a great effect on the people who heard his music, including bands such as Radiohead and Coldplay. Today his music is beginning to surface and is growing increasingly popular. Jeff reached number one posthumously in 2008 with 'Hallelujah', and a film of his life is expected to be released in 2013.
Jeff Buckley died on 29 May 1997 when he drowned in Wolf River, Memphis. He was one of many highly respected, influential musicians who died tragically at a young age.
Jimi Hendix
The verdict was that Hendrix asphyxiated, but the autopsy showed that his lungs were filled with red wine, as if he was drowned. Hendrix's stomach was also full of red wine, but only 20mg of alcohol had been absorbed into his bloodstream, an extremely small amount which does not equate with the large quantity of wine in his body. When Hendrix was found by the paramedics his throat was clear. They said when they picked him up wine gushed out of his mouth, this is not consistent with having choked on his own vomit.
"Wine is connected with blood, sacrifice and altered states." The Language of Symbols, David Fontana (1993)
In the book, 'Rock Roadie', James Wright reveals that Hendrix's manager made a drunken confession that he was involved in the murder of Hendrix:
"Wine is connected with blood, sacrifice and altered states." The Language of Symbols, David Fontana (1993)
In the book, 'Rock Roadie', James Wright reveals that Hendrix's manager made a drunken confession that he was involved in the murder of Hendrix:
Jimi Hendrix was involved in African-American civil rights and had connections with the Black Panthers, a political party with origins in the black power movement. Hendrix had an idea of how he wanted the world to be. In his brief career he was a major influence on youth culture.
"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music." - Hendrix
John Lennon
"Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident" - Lennon
When John Lennon was killed, rumours and speculation emerged because of the odd circumstances of his murder.
Mark Chapman, after shooting Lennon, dropped his gun and calmly leant against a wall reading his copy of 'The Catcher in the Rye'.
Delta (assassination) [programming]
Delta alters --are activated to kill by the following three things:
1. seeing specific clothing,
2. items held in a persons hand, and
3. particular words.
- educate-yourself.org
2. items held in a persons hand, and
3. particular words.
- educate-yourself.org
The same book, 'The Catcher in the Rye', was carried by Robert Bardo when he shot Rebecca Schaeffer in 1989; and it famously featured in the assassination attempt by John Hinckley on Ronald Reagan in 1981.
After shooting Lennon, many escape routes were available to Chapman but instead he waited for the police to arrive. Chapman's first words to the police, which he stated several times, were "I acted alone". Chapman was never brought to trial as he changed his plea to guilty at the last minute. All of this seems peculiar, to say the least. One of the first police officers to interrogate Chapman said that he looked like a mind controlled assassin.
There is a great deal of information elsewhere, so I've only touched upon some of the many suspicious circumstances of this and Jimi Hendrix's case.
Mark David Chapman is something of an enigma. The back story to his assassination of Lennon does not really compute: the trip around the world, the work for the YMCA that is missing from their files, the visit to war torn Beirut, the trips back and forth between New York City and Honolulu, the story about the 'Little People' in his head, his abrupt decision to plead guilty and avoid a trial... all these things put together make him look uncomfortably like your standard political assassin or serial killer. - Sinister Forces, Book 2, Peter Levenda
Kurt Cobain
Kurt is supposed to have shot himself in the head after injecting more than three times the lethal dose of heroin. There are so many flaws in the official story of his death [details on justiceforkurt.com] that alternative theories have proliferated, the most popular being that Courtney Love was behind the murder. But the likelihood is that she is yet another mind-controlled, manipulated victim.
Courtney Love
Kurt Cobain memorial sculpture
A black cube, the dominant feature of Kurt's memorial, is an ancient symbol for Saturn.
“Saturn is an important key to understanding the long heritage this conspiracy has back to antiquity. The city of Rome was originally known as Saturnia or City of Saturn. The Roman Catholic church retains much of the Saturn worship in its ritual. Saturn also relates to Lucifer. In various occult dictionaries Saturn is associated with evil.” - Fritz Springmeier
In Greek mythology, the God Saturn devoured his own children.
Black cube sculptures and monuments feature in many locations around the world.
Apple store, New York City
Australia
California
Denmark
The black cube of Saturn has been worshipped for thousands of years and is evident still in many religions.
Jewish headwear
Mass worship, black cube
The Pope wearing a Cappello Romano or 'Saturno' - a Saturn hat
The first album release after Kurt's death was 'Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York'. A year later the album went on sale on 1st November, a date celebrated as the 'Day of the Dead' in many cultures.
'Nirvana Unplugged' November 1993. Four months later Kurt is 'unplugged'
The MTV concert was highly irregular for Nirvana. The grunge band played an intimate acoustic set and stepped outside of their own stereotype. MTV Unplugged looked and sounded like a memorial concert. The soft acoustic instruments, the lighted candles, the profusion of lilies around the stage... the band could have been playing at a funeral.
Funereal imagery, lilies and candles
Lilies are commonly used in funerals; and the candles were black, hinting at witchcraft and occult rituals.
The concert on DVD and album was released after Kurt's death; it was the first Nirvana album to come out after Kurt died and the concert provided perfect imagery and atmosphere for those circumstances. It wasn't just a staged event prefiguring Kurt's death, but also an event that every fan watched in remembrance of Kurt Cobain.
Kurt MTV Unplugged
"I feel like people want me to die, because it would be the classic rock 'n' roll story" - Kurt Cobain
Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley
"Technically he was the best singer that had appeared probably in... I'm not being too liberal about this... if I say, in two decades" - Jimmi Page
As with previous posts, I've highlighted some lyrics suggesting an underlying message, in this case occult forces and Jeff's approaching death.
Grace - 1994
'Mojo Pin'
Well I'm lying in my bed
The blanket is warm
This body will never be safe from harm
...
Don't wanna weep for you, I don't wanna know
I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow [white horse, occult symbol - the book of revelations]
The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow
Black beauty I love you so
...
Ageless, ageless
'Grace'
There's the moon asking to stay
Long enough for the clouds to fly me away
Well it's my time coming, I'm not afraid to die
My fading voice sings of love,
But she cries to the clicking of time
Wait in the fire...
And she weeps on my arm
Walking to the bright lights in sorrow
Oh drink a bit of wine we both might go tomorrow
...
And the rain is falling and I believe
My time has come
It reminds me of the pain
I might leave
Leave behind
...
And I feel them drown my name
So easy to know and forget with this kiss
I'm not afraid to go but it goes so slow
The lyrics to 'Grace' suggest Jeff was aware of his impending death (Hendrix, Lennon and Cobain also sung or spoke of dying or being killed).
'Last Goodbye'
This is our last goodbye
I hate to feel the love between us die. But it's overJust hear this [...album] and then I'll go
...
Why can't we overcome this wall
...
Was there a voice unkind in the back of your mind
Saying maybe you didn't know him at all
...
Well, the bells out in the church tower chime
Burning clues into this heart of mine
Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and the memories
Offer signs that it's over...
Plato's Allegory of the Cave tells the story of prisoners who are being controlled and monitored, but they believe they're living in enlightenment. The prisoners are in a cave and chained facing a wall. Behind them is a fire which lights up the wall, whilst puppet masters hold up objects projecting shadows which the prisoners think are real.
A prisoner is released, he leaves the cave and sees the real world for the first time. When he goes back into the cave to tell the other prisoners there is life beyond the shadows, they do not listen. The prisoners cannot comprehend anything outside of the cave because they haven't experienced it themselves.
Plato's allegory is a theme throughout the official video of 'Last Goodbye'. Below is an animated adaptation:
Puppeteers / Fire
Prisoners watching the shadows
Released prisoner dazzled by sunlight
Last Goodbye Video:
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| Prisoners watching the shadows |
Liberated prisoner exposed to light
Jeff dazzled by moonlight
Full moon
Ritualistic dancing, circling silhouettes around Jeff's shadow
Familiar shattered glass/shattered mind imagery
Water/waves
There was a thunderstorm the night Jeff died
Puppeteer making devil sign against watery backdrop
Jeff Buckley's precognitive drowning - similarities with the film 'Minority Report'
Minority Report - 'Precog' experiencing drowning of her mother: "Can... You... See?"
Precog seeing a murder
Dead victim - Minority Report
Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
Jeff and band member watch a dancing shadow
Jeff's profile
Jeff's skull
Checking his back
Figure in white following him
Angel in black and white
Masonic moon and stars
End of video: the camera fades out from shimmering water
Jeff's lyrics continue to focus on thoughts of his death:
'Eternal Life'
Eternal Life is now on my trail
Got my red glitter coffin, man, just need one last nail
While all these ugly gentlemen play out their foolish games
there's a flaming red horizon that screams our names
And as your fantasies are broken in two
did you really think this bloody road
would pave the way for you?
...
Racist everyman, what have you done?
Man, you've made a killer of your unborn son...
Crown my fear your king at the point of a gun
All I want to do is love everyone.
...
...
When will I find the strength to bring me release?
...
Man, It sounds to me just like a prison for the walking dead
And I've got a message for you and your twisted hell
You better turn around and blow your kiss goodbye
to life eternal angel...
'Dream Brother'
...
That dark angel he is shuffling in
Watching over them with his black feather wings unfurled
...
Don't be like the one who left behind his name
...
and the world spinning round forever
Asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over.
Jeff's follow-up album, 'Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk', was released unfinished after he died. Whilst writing it in New York City he was reported to be 'going insane'.
"He was finding it hard to cope with his increasingly obsessive fans, and was also stressed out from trying to find a replacement drummer." - 'Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You', BBC Documentary
"He was finding it hard to cope with his increasingly obsessive fans, and was also stressed out from trying to find a replacement drummer." - 'Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You', BBC Documentary
The stress from what? - not finding a replacement drummer?! The BBC and the rest of the media reported that Jeff was increasingly unbalanced in the months before he died. The real reason for his stress is likely to have been more sinister than obsessive fans or trying to find a good drummer.
"I just think that there was just a lot of chaos going on in his life when we were trying to record this record that it just, you know, it just ended up feeling like that and sounding like that" - Parker Kindred, drummer
'Sketches for my Sweetheart, the Drunk' (released 1998); and others
'The Sky is a Landfill'
Circle around the park
Joining hands in silence [ritualistic]
Watch the evil black the sky
The storm has ripped the shelter
Of illusion from our brow
This power is no mystery to us now.
Leave your spirit genocide
The cancer you won't remove
We cast our funeral rose inside
And bury the need to prove
Our mutilation is to gain from the system
...
This way of life is so devised
To snuff out the mind that moves
...
You like to dance to the rolling
Head of the adultress
You sing in praise of suicide
We know you're useless
Like cops at the scene of the crime
With your steroids and your feedbag
And your stable and your trainer [racehorse and handler]
I got a mail bomb for you Mister Strong Arm.
Throw out the stones from all the cemetery homes
For the violence of a nation gone by
Or the politics of weakness
And the garbage dump of souls
That will now black the sky
...
I have no fear of this machine.
'Everybody here wants you'
...
Coffee smell and lilac skin, your flame in me
I'm only here for this moment.
...
Don't you see?
You're just the torch to put the flame to all our guilt and shame
And I'll rise like an ember in your name
...
I've loved so many times and I've drowned them all
...
Stay with me under these waves, tonight
...
Nightmares blind their mind's eye.
'You must be an initiated witch to get a record contract' - John Todd, manager of Zodiac Productions.
In the next song Jeff vividly describes a disturbing scene of witchcraft and ritual.
'Witches' Rave'
It sounds just like a scream
I don't know what you mean
Your witchcraft's all around me
In your ragged pagan scene
You tell me all the ways around my garden that you like
I float just like a bubble
Heading for a spike
All is well between the breasts of passenger and slave
We'll never make it out alive to join
The witches' rave
You'd like to see him suffer
...
Oh I feel the spell that you have cast, hot, pink, nasty
Bubble gum, coming down just like a big red coal.
...
Hey, I try to keep all hidden
When you come around
Oh no, the sight of broomsticks
Sliding on the ground
You're levitating something
'Cause I feel so collectible
We're all lying natural
He's watching from a window up above
I see he loves you, I'll bring you closer
Something in my fate says it's not right for me
Tell me
Am I cursed or am I blessed?
...
'You and I'
....
Ah, the calm below that poisoned river wild,
...
I've walked before, burning holes
...
'I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted To Be)'
...
I am the ghost who comes and goes
And I hope I'll catch you
...
But there's no easy answer, none to blame or forgive
We were two cripples dancing
To the bitter end we live
I'm not with you, but of you.
Would you like to meet the villain somewhere
Underneath the skull of a moon
Fire burned his eyes out 'cause his chains are too long for you
Someone has to pay for the damage done
No-one's gonna love you now
Your whole family's splintered
...
No stars to revolve around
Here, they're fashioning the noose
Sickened by the knell of the graveyard bell
You know it's not long for you
Sick of all the vomit childhood
Not a trampoline of the freaks
...
You're a slave to it all, now.
Happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy. [Ironic, manic]
'Demon John'
...
Slaughter like the daughter of the devil you send me
I have to deal, you called me here
...
You cannot escape the bar-side angel dissector
You undo your life with too much cocoon
...
Past cascades of rage and fear
...
By the light of the sun
Murder comes
Today or tonight
Better get yourself together
And transcend it, a burst of light
...
So, murder by the light of the sun
...
All memories stolen, know this for yourself
...
Please bring us light
You Demon John
Take him with you
When you go.
This next song in particular is unlike the poetical lyrics in Grace:
'Your Flesh is so Nice'
...
She's ass-slappin' pretty
And voluptuous fingers
Wanna let her lick me
Stick the thick of my pussy
...
She looks good enough to eat me
Kitty [Beta sex programming]
Your flesh is nice
...
Let me take a bite
Flesh is so nice
Oh, I take off my belt
...
Oh, kill all the men
Everything's dead to them
You're the only one I follow
Come on and let me give you that 'O'
...
Your flesh is nice
Wanna take a bite
Your flesh is so [x13] [manic repetition]
Your flesh is so nice [x9]
Your flesh is so [x3]
Your flesh is nice
...
Your flesh is nice [x4]
'I Know it's Over' (cover, original by The Smiths)
Oh mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
...
I know it's over still I cling,
I don't know where else I can go,
...
See the sea wants to take me,
The knife wants to slit me,
Do you think you can help me
...
'I Woke up in a Strange Place'
The ghost comes to visit
With my keys in his pocket
Kisses on my mouth
With his eyes rolling out of their socket
Memories crumbling
Under solid steel resistance
I was torn out like pages
From the book of existence
Jeff seems to have had issues with his memory in lyrics such as 'memories crumbling', 'memories stolen' 'mind a blur' - issues familiar in mind controlled victims.
I woke up in a strange place
My mind a blur and some blood on my chin
I made a call for that black death cab
...
Like a fear inside my chest
...
I never wanna see my face in the mirror again
...
This is a song for the dislocated
Who want to love but are doomed to be hated
Because the lies of the spirits possess you
Heading down the rapids
Steady now, keep your aim solid
As your temple turns to kiss the pistol
...
'Satisfied Mind'
...
When my life is over and my time has run out,
My friends and my loved ones, I will leave there's no doubt
But one thing's for certain, when it comes my time,
I'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind
...
Keith Foti, a roadie, was supposedly the only person with Jeff at the time of his death. He said they were both relaxing, playing guitar and listening to the radio, then Jeff walked into the river whilst singing Led Zeppelin's 'Whole Lotta Love'.
My friends and my loved ones, I will leave there's no doubt
But one thing's for certain, when it comes my time,
I'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind
...
'Dink's Song'
...
One of these days and it won't be long
Call my name and I'll be gone
Fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well
...
Mind control symbolism
After Jeff died, his mother released this statement:
"Jeff Buckley's death was not 'mysterious', related to drugs, alcohol or suicide. We have a police report, a medical examiner's report, and an eye witness to prove that it was an accidental drowning, and that Mr Buckley was in a good frame of mind prior to the accident." - Mary Guilbert, Jeff's mother.
Which mother would refer to her son as "Mr Buckley"?
Jimmy Page, who wrote the hypnotic 'Whole Lotta Love', owns one of the world's largest collections of Aleister Crowley books.
Page was commissioned to write the soundtrack for the film 'Lucifer Rising'.
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Like Jeff, Jimi Hendrix seems to have had premonitions of his death. Chuck Wein, a director, stated that two weeks before Hendrix died he said, "The next time I'll be going back to Seattle is in a pine box". Hendrix also told a reporter, "I doubt I'll make it to 28". Several of Hendrix's friends claim they'd heard him say similar things.
Like other musicians, Hendrix expressed that his words and actions sometimes emanated from a source outside of himself:
"He used to always talk about the devil or something was in him, you know. He didn't know what made him act the way he acted and what made him say the things he said, and the songs and different things like that... just came out of him. It seemed to me he was so tormented and just torn apart and like he really was obsessed, you know, with something really evil." - Fayne Pridgon, Hendrix's girlfriend
Jeff Buckley sang, "Well it's my time coming, I'm not afraid to die", the same scenario as Hendrix: Jeff seems to have been prepared for his death.
Jeff drowned in Wolf river, beneath the shadow of a pyramid.
Like other musicians, Hendrix expressed that his words and actions sometimes emanated from a source outside of himself:
"He used to always talk about the devil or something was in him, you know. He didn't know what made him act the way he acted and what made him say the things he said, and the songs and different things like that... just came out of him. It seemed to me he was so tormented and just torn apart and like he really was obsessed, you know, with something really evil." - Fayne Pridgon, Hendrix's girlfriend
Hendrix burning his guitar
Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley sang, "Well it's my time coming, I'm not afraid to die", the same scenario as Hendrix: Jeff seems to have been prepared for his death.
Jeff drowned in Wolf river, beneath the shadow of a pyramid.
Wolf river where Jeff Buckley drowned
Steve Berkowitz, Sony music producer, with Jeff Buckley
"I went immediately to the shores of the river and there was a thunderstorm and there was lightning and there was police boats dredging in the river and it was like I'd gone to the river Styx and there was a great big pyramid there and the whole thing was surreal and horrible" - Steve Berkowitz, 'Jeff Buckley: everybody here wants you'
Memphis pyramid
Illuminati pyramid
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