My spiritual exercises
ponedjeljak, 18.09.2017.
„THIN WHITE DUKE“ WAS REALLY A DUKE (IN HIS PAST LIFE)
David Bowie was really a strange kind of man, going from one extreme to the other, during his long career. As we are concerning here mostly about the theme ‘reincarnation’, I will not judge his artistic abilities, which were no doubt, considerable. I would just concentrate on subject of his past life incarnation, that is, his life as a Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster. So, he was a prominent member of the English nobility of the 14th century, and also a brave soldier.
He became one of Edward III's [incarnation Silvester Stallone] most outstanding commanders, in the early phase of Hundred Years war with France, and distinguished himself with victories on the battlefields. He was a founding member and second Knight of the Order of the Garter and in 1351 created a duke. (The title of duke was of relatively new origin in England; only one other ducal title existed previously.) He was self-educated and was the author of the book Livre de seyntz medicines, a highly personal devotional treatise.
Lancaster was married to Isabella, daughter of Henry, Lord Beaumont, in 1330. (She could be past incarnation of one of two Bowie’s wives, but owing to the lack of Isabella's portraits it's impossible to say who of them was incarnation of his wife.) They had two daughters, Maude and Blanche [incarnation Beverly D’Angelo]. This latter married John of Gaunt [incarnation Al Pacino], who became father of the first Lancaster king, Henry IV [incarnation Henry Fonda]. As in my 15th century incarnation I was king Henry VI, then Henry of Grosmont was my – great-great grandfather. (There's also one woman in Croatia, who in her past incarnation was descendent of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster - the TV host Marija Selak, who was their daughter, as Philippa of England. So, she was also granddaughter of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, in that incarnation. As she was sister of Henry IV, she was also – my grandaunt.)
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Somewhere in 1976, after the album “From Station to Station”, David Bowie styled himself “Thin White Duke”; that introduced a change in his musical style. (As a teenager, I had this record, and I remember the ominous lyrics “The European battle is near...” of the title song.) During that period, Bowie was heavily possessed by drug addiction. When he was interviewed for the London Weekend Television, he refused to relinquish the satellite booking, to allow the Spanish Government, to publish the news of Franco’s [i.e. incarnation of Oliver Cromwell] death. Instead, he just went on with his interview, which showed in public his insanity and incoherent thoughts, owing to cocaine addiction. On several occasions, in interviews, he gave positive comments on Hitler and Nazism. Afterward, he moved to Berlin and there recorded three albums inspired by Kraftwerk and so called Kraut-rock (Also, he collaborated on two albums with Iggy Pop, rocker of Jewish ancestry.) It is quite probable that he has had another incarnation (or more of them), in Germany, I think.
In my opinion, in that period he must have been heavily influenced by some kind of Satanism, or thing of a sort. It is well known that Satanists do attack psychically those people of feeble constitution and weak mind, depressive, drug and alcohol addicts, first and foremost. David Bowie later tried to justify his “racist” phase with his addictions and the character of the Thin White Duke - with these words:”I was out of my mind, totally crazed. The main thing I was functioning on was mythology ... that whole thing about Hitler and Rightism ... I'd discovered King Arthur.“
A little digression. This reminds me of researches of unconscious by transpersonal psychologist Stan Grof. He discovered, by using LSD, that by expanding the consciousness over normal limits, it is possible to come to deeper levels of unconscious – to the realm of not only early childhood, infancy and natal experiences, but outright to transpersonal experiences, like past-lives, contacts with archetypal personalities, and visits of mythological realms...
During the rest of his career, however, Bowie was on friendly terms with black artists, recorded whole range of songs with them, collaborated with Nile Rogers, sang a duet with Tina Turner, and finally, married black fashion model Imam, of Somalian origin.
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