El sueño roto de Neverland

Anjelica Huston recuerda a Michael: "Un niño sincero y frágil"
Esta entrevista, de junio de 2009, forma parte de un artículo escrito por Barbara Kaufmann en su página Inner Michael. Junto a la entrevista, he traducido un resumen del artículo por el interés de la información que aporta.


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“Le vi hace un mes (la entrevista es de junio de 2009), me dijo que le habían robado un sueño. Murió con el corazón roto. Michael era como un chamán capaz de penetrar en tus sueños. Un ser humano único.”

Eso dijo Anjelica Huston, quien en 1986 trabajó con Michael Jackson en el corto Capitán Eo, en 3-D, dirigido por Francis Ford Coppola y producido para Disneyland y Disney World. Una película en la cual Huston interpretaba a una bruja contra quien Jackson, el héroe que da título a la película, luchaba para salvar a la humanidad. La actriz, hija del legendario director John Huston, había empezado a recobrarse de la pérdida de su esposo, en el pasado diciembre, el escultor Robert Graham, cuando supo del fallecimiento de Jackson. “Otra terrible pena, sentía especial afecto por él.”




Sra. Huston, ¿cómo recuerda a Michael Jackson en el tiempo en que filmaban Capitán Eo?
Recuerdo la primera vez que llegué al rodaje, a las cinco de la mañana, él ya estaba vestido y maquillado, guapo, un poco andrógino y vagamente extraño. Yo estaba asombrada.

¿Le conocía ya?
No, sólo le había visto en la prensa o en televisión. Pero en persona era diferente. Era preocupante, en sentido positivo, quiero decir. El modo en que trabajaba, su profesionalidad, el perfeccionismo con el cual estudiaba e interpretaba cada canción y coreografía era admirable. Después de dos horas de maquillaje cada día, yo siempre me sentía impaciente, él ni parpadeaba. Solía cogerme la mano y me calmaba inmediatamente.

En ese tiempo, Michael era una mega-superstar. ¿Se notaba?
¡Por supuesto! En el plató tenía un enorme tráiler y era seguido por su abogado, los managers y guardaespaldas. Tenía un chef personal, como un jeque. Cada día recibía visitas de alguna estrella: el primer día de rodaje llegó Sofía Loren, después Elizabeth Taylor y más tarde casi todas las más grandes estrellas de aquellos años.

¿Se hicieron amigos?
Sí, era muy dulce y tímido. Me invitaba a comer en su tráiler, en donde solía entretenerse viendo dibujos animados en la tv. De alguna manera era, de hecho, como un niño, solo creció físicamente, un verdadero Peter Pan, introvertido pero algo excéntrico, electrizante, se crecía increíblemente frente al público.

¿Era bueno actuando?
Al principio le resultaba difícil expresar sentimientos de ira, como si ese gen no existiera en su ADN. En su lugar, podía expresar dolor y ternura. Recuerdo una mañana en que, después de una semana frente a las cámaras, tuvimos que rodar sus escenas, y estaba irritada porque él pidió que yo debía darle la réplica toda vestida como la bruja, con todo el maquillaje, aunque a mí no me tenían que filmar. A pesar de todo, cuando se subió a la plataforma y empezó a cantar y a bailar, mi corazón empezó a dar saltos, yo estaba temblando. Era hechizante, una fuerza de la naturaleza. Una actuación de puro talento como nunca he visto antes.

¿Le ha visto recientemente?
Después de Capitán Eo le vi en raras ocasiones… Pero, irónicamente, le vi hace aproximadamente un mes, por casualidad, en la consulta de nuestro dermatólogo, Arnie Klein. Nos dimos un abrazo y esperamos en una habitación charlando un par de horas. Hablamos sobre cómo se sintió humillado por las acusaciones de abuso y sobre la amargura por la pérdida de Neverland, donde vivió muchos años.

¿Qué le dijo?
Recuerdo sus palabras: “Arruinaron mi sueño. Tenía ese sueño, quizás infantil y tonto, un lugar diseñado para celebrar la inocencia de la infancia que nunca tuve, y me lo arrebataron. Amo a los niños, nunca podría hacerles daño. He pasado mi vida amándoles y tratando de hacer cosas buenas por ellos. La calumnia de haber causado daño a un niño me rompió el corazón. Es un dolor insoportable, esas acusaciones son injustas y terribles…” Mientras decía estas cosas, empezó a llorar. Le abracé… estaba tan delgado y frágil…

¿Le mencionó proyectos futuros?
Me dijo que estaba preparando los conciertos de Londres. Le dije, “te aconsejo que no canceles ni un solo concierto, o te matarán” Él dijo: “Lo sé, por eso estoy preparándome lo mejor posible, porque de lo contrario nunca más tendré esperanzas de ser amado de nuevo”. Estaba delgado y pálido, pero con todo el maquillaje que llevaba, incluso yendo a la consulta del dermatólogo, no podría decir cómo era bajo el mismo. Una cosa puedo decir, podía sentir mucho dolor en él por el pasado y mucha ansiedad e incertidumbre por el futuro.

¿Qué cree que en realidad mató a Michael Jackson?
Michael tenía el corazón roto. Por eso murió. Por supuesto, la autopsia encontrará muchas cosas, medicamentos y cosas así. Pero la verdad es que le rompieron el corazón.

¿Cuál es su legado?
Michael cambió el mundo. Lo cambió todo en las vidas de los afroamericanos, demostrando que no hay barreras entre blancos y negros. Él era realmente ambas cosas, blanco y negro. Ha habido otros como Elvis Presley, pero nunca como Michael Jackson. Él tenía algo extraño que nadie tenía, ni nadie jamás tendrá.

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Resumen del artículo, El Sueño de Neverland.
por Barbara Kaufmann. InnerMichael

Inner Michael » Heartbreak and Neverland’s Dream







Neverland era el sueño de Michael. Cuando lo compró en 1988, ya tenía ese sueño. Vio en él un lugar donde los niños y él, y cualquiera con el corazón de un niño, pudieran recuperar al niño que habita en nuestro interior. Neverland fue ese lugar soñado.

Pero había otro sueño para Neverland que no pudo hacer realidad. David Nordahl estaba en Chicago hace un año en un convención de fans en la que habló sobre el trabajo artístico que Michael le encargó. Pero no todo eran retratos. A menudo le pedía que dibujara los sueños que tomaban forma en su mente creativa. Uno de esos sueños era construir un hogar para niños enfermos y terminales en Neverland.






Todos esos que aún dos años después continúan mintiendo y perpetuando ideas falsas tienen una responsabilidad. Si tuvieran que aceptar la verdad de que Michael Jackson era un hombre inocente tratando de navegar por este cínico mundo, tendrían que enfrentarse a sus propias sombras. Tendrían que aceptar su complicidad en la muerte de un hombre inocente.

Es imposible de aceptar por esa misma gente que Michael Jackson tenía magnetismo por quién era, no por lo que hacía. Nunca le vieron de cerca, nunca le escucharon ni leyeron las letras de sus canciones, ni le entendieron. Miraban a Michael y veían su propio criterio, el reflejo de sí mismos y lo que ellos eran en este mundo.

Era la energía y el aura de Michael las que hablaban bien alto a la gente, no el modo en que se vendía a sí mismo. Esa clase de cosas no se pueden falsear. No puedes crear una calidad así si no existe ya. No puedes esperar que la gente reconozca amor incondicional hacia alguien si no tienen una referencia en sus propias vidas para experimentarlo. Es lo que Michael siempre decía: “Lo que les pasa es que necesitan más amor.”

Pero es muy difícil mirar al espejo y ver al propio monstruo tenebroso reflejado en él. Si te aproximas a esta gente con ira y acusación, solo consigues de ellos una negativa. Hacer que se miren al espejo es como sujetarles la cabeza dentro del agua. Necesitan imperiosamente un soplo de aire.

David Nordahl entregó a Michael los bocetos que le había pedido sobre el sueño de Neverland. Consistía en una serie de residencias que se asemejaban a nidos en un inmenso árbol. Cada residencia tenía una ventana al exterior con una despejada vista de Neverland, con teatro al aire libre mirando al paisaje. Estarían amuebladas con camas y equipamiento hospitalario. Las camas estarían emplazadas frente a la ventana para que los ocupantes pudieran ver claramente la pantalla de cine del teatro.






Algunas personas que describieron Neverland recuerdan la pantalla exterior de cine y cómo exhibía extrañamente dibujos animados a una audiencia invisible y lo fantasmagórico que eso parecía. Lo que no conocían era la mente y el corazón de Michael Jackson: La razón de esas residencias era hospedar, gratuitamente, a niños gravemente enfermos y terminales junto con sus padres en Neverland.

Michael tuvo mucha experiencia alojando a niños en Neverland y fue testigo de primera mano de cómo eso podía ser una experiencia que cambiaba sus vidas. Enseñó a muchos niños acerca de cómo usar afirmaciones (declaraciones escritas y repetidas) y a usar la meditación en forma de visualizaciones para crear una nueva realidad y derrotar a la enfermedad. También observó cómo con la música apropiada que salía de los altavoces de Neverland, las flores crecían mejor y más bonitas y el césped era más verde y exuberante.

Sabía que la risa es la mejor medicina, que el humor cura, que las emociones negativas hacen daño, mientras que las positivas curan el cuerpo. Es bastante posible que supiera del efecto de los iones negativos en el estado de ánimo. Neverland tenía fuentes por todas partes. Las cascadas producen iones negativos; esa es la razón por la que estar cerca de un manantial nos hace sentir bien.

La pantalla de cine estaba programada para reproducir dibujos animados día y noche, continuamente. Michael sabía que los niños que están enfermos se despiertan a menudo por la noche asustados y eso niños tendrían algo divertido que ver y así poder olvidar sus problemas. Michael enseñó todos esos métodos de visualización y meditación a muchos niños, incluido aquel que acabó acusándole. Michael no hizo daño a los niños; Michael fue un sanador.

¿Quién sabe qué avances en la medicina habrían surgido a raíz de este proyecto? Las investigaciones no tuvieron lugar porque este experimento no tuvo lugar. Gracias a los actos egoístas de unas cuantas almas oscuras y arrogantes centradas solo en sí mismas y que destruyeron el sueño de Neverland, los niños no pudieron curarse.

Aquellos que no conocen toda la historia se rien. Muchos se burlan del hombre que sabía más de lo que ellos podrían jamás imaginarse sobre la curación y alternativas de tecnología punta que trabajan en la remisión y la curación de las enfermedades. Tecnologías que se usan en la mayoría de los hospitales hoy día. Michael Jackson las estaba introduciendo a finales de los ochenta y principios de los noventa.

El centro curativo planeado en Neverland nunca fue construido por el egoísmo de un hombre que quiso utilizar a Michael Jackson para su lucro personal y fue en contra de él en venganza por no conseguir lo que quería. Quería la bancarrota de Michael, destruirle a él y a su carrera y Michael sospechó que estaba siendo utilizado y se negó.

David Nordahl dijo que Sony iba a financiar la clínica planeada. Dijo que cierto individuo esperaba ser socio en el negocio y cuando eso no sucedió, se enfureció y fue en contra de Michael con el más sucio de los abogados.

El dinero que iba a financiar el sueño de Neverland sirvió para pagar un acuerdo fuera de los tribunales. Después, el niño que acusó a Michael con la ayuda de otros contratados por su padre, demandó y obtuvo la emancipación de sus padres. Ese padre atacó a su hijo y se convirtió en un extraño para él, contrajo una enfermedad y se suicidó poco después de la muerte de Michael.

Hay quienes se ríen todavía a expensas de Michael. Piensan que el sueño de Michael de “Salvar al mundo” “Salvar a los niños” era el sueño de una excéntrica estrella del pop. Son los mismos que olvidan que en 1985, el proyecto “We Are the World” liderado por Michael Jackson, alimentó a la mayoría del África hambrienta, y más adelante, a la mitad del mundo.


Los mismos que olvidan que Michael inició la tendencia de las estrellas del rock hacia los logros humanitarios. Los mismos que no saben que los conciertos de Michael Jackson and Friends recaudaron millones para causas sociales.

Esos deben ser los que se olvidan, los detractores, los que odian, los que leen los tabloides y los creen, y los que evitan mirarse al espejo y preguntarse silenciosamente frente a él: ¿Y quién eres tú en este mundo?

Las referencias a Neverland, las acusaciones y el dinero pagado continúan rondando el legado de este hombre. Pero eso no cambia la verdad: el dinero pagado en el caso de 1993 estaba destinado a pagar un centro curativo para niños gravemente enfermos y terminales, era un regalo para ellos, para sus padres y para el mundo, de parte de Michael Jackson. Era el sueño de Neverland.




ENGLISH:

Heartbreak and Neverland’s Dream

 Michael Jackson’s Neverland was a dream– twenty eight hundred acres of rolling hills and verdant valley that was once home to the Chumash Indians– already a sacred land. When Michael Jackson bought Neverland in 1988, he already had a dream. Because of who he was, he needed a sanctuary away from the prying eyes of the world. An animal lover, he wanted a place to shelter and interact with beings of other species. And he envisioned a place where he, the children and the child in everyone, could recapture the child within. Neverland was that dream place.

But there was another dream Michael had for Neverland that he couldn’t make come true. David Nordahl was in Chicago a year ago at a fan-vention near Gary, Indiana where he spoke about Michael and the artwork Michael commissioned from him. Not all of David’s artwork was portrait work. Michael often commissioned him for sketches of the dreams that took shape in his creative mind. One of those dreams was to build a hospice-type complex for sick and dying children at Neverland.

There are those who still insist on perpetuating the meme that Michael Jackson harmed children. And it continues two years beyond his death. Despite his exoneration in a court of law, the court records which clearly show the sieve that was the prosecutor’s case,  the attorneys who worked with and for Michael Jackson and all the friends and colleagues who have come forward to speak about Michael, his character, his humanitarian work and relationships with children, some want to continue the dark caricature about Michael’s conduct and life.

Those who continue the lie have an investment in perpetuating it. If they were to accept the truth that Michael Jackson was an innocent man who was trying to navigate through a cynical world, they would come face to face with their own shadow. Anyone who could not bring themselves to believe he could be genuine and genuinely love children with an agape form of love and not a sexual love would first have to confront the cynicism that lives in the world, and that is not easy. They would have to look at their own capacity for infusing darkness into a circumstance that was unusual but completely innocent. They would have to admit their complicity in the slaughter of a true innocent and their own inability to hold space for innocence because their own innocence was long ago stolen or destroyed.

Michael Jackson appears so sophisticated in his on stage performances and his rise to stardom that the cynical assume much of it was calculated and itself cynically designed to catapult him through all kinds of obstacles and resistance to superstar status. While some of that brand strategy and marketing genius is true and admired in most business circles, it is seen as dark and manipulative when silhouetted against Michael Jackson as a brand.

It is impossible for those same people to believe that Michael Jackson was a magnet because of who he was being, not what he was doing. They never looked closely. They never really heard or read the lyrics and they don’t understand them. They looked at their own cynical belief filters instead of looking at him. They looked at Michael and saw their own judgments, the mirror of themselves and who they were being in the world. Their conclusions have nothing to do with Michael Jackson or who he was as a person or in his heart; they have everything to do with who they are in theirs. His darkness comes from the shadow in their own selves reflected back to them.

It was Michael’s energy and aura that spoke to people most loudly, not his marketing by self or others. You can’t fake that kind of thing. You can’t manufacture a quality like that if it isn’t already there. You can’t cause people to feel who he was if they have hardened their hearts or steeled themselves against feeling including the cascade of emotions that evocative music from a transcendentalist who wields magic– brings to that personal experience. You can’t get people to feel something they armor themselves against. You can’t expect people to recognize unconditional love in someone unless they have a reference experience for it in their own lives. That is why Michael always said “what is wrong with them is that they need more love.”

So yes, we can pity them and wish that someday they feel that love from somewhere because they ‘can’t get it again’ from Michael. He certainly tried. But while we are having compassion, should we hold them accountable? Absolutely. But keep in mind that it is very, very difficult to look in the mirror and see one’s own shadowy monster. We don’t want to believe it lives in us so we spend much of our lives foisting it onto others in projection and condemnation. So if you approach these people with anger and accusation, you drive them deeper into their denial. Holding them still to look in the mirror is like holding their head underwater. How badly do you want that first gasp of air? That will be the magnitude of that struggle to ignore and look away from the carnage that one has done by projecting their own shadow.

 It doesn’t just affect the one who is holding the mirror for those in denial of their own projections, it hurts the world. Those who come to bring humanity a gift lose much when they are hamstrung or crucified but humanity loses more. The gift that their life is and that they came to bring is never given and humanity (people) loose and humanity (the collective) loses. What was lost when Diana was hounded by the press? Made fun of? What about what was lost when she was chased by paparrzi that last day of her life? The loss is immeasurable. For her, for her family, for us and for what didn’t happen because she was no longer here to complete her mission. What did the world lose because Diana is not here to champion it?

The same is true of Michael Jackson. Those who used him to sell tabloids- with copious untruths and slanderous mischief, those “journalists” who made their careers off him by taking their pound of flesh at every opportunity and if there was no opportunity that day, they made one up, those who were hangers on and sycophants and concierge doctors, those who were acquaintances or brief employees who sold stories encouraged by checkbook journalists, those who sought vicarious fame on coattails that weren’t their own wardrobe, those who were closet racists or overt racists who couldn’t abide a black man embraced or beloved, those who wanted him “out of the neighborhood” whether that was the neighborhood of the music business, law or media, those who made a buck in their six degrees– they are all culpable and they all have a hand in damaging not just Michael, but the world because of their own internal darkness.

This story illustrates just a tiny part of the carnage and resulting damage; it highlights only a fraction of this game of media and industrial destruction and their for-profit games. This is but a tiny illustration of the mirror and shadow and what unleashed Shadenfreude can do to a life, the life of a world and its people– and its humanity. And keep in mind Michael Jackson was known planet wide and his work was everywhere– so the gift was given on behalf of humanity because that was his platform and it was how he thought.

The following is an interview with Anjelica Huston the actress who toured with Michael Jackson for a Disney movie. She speaks about her memories of Michael Jackson:

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A CHILD SINCERE AND FRAGILE

By Silvia Bizio (C) 2009 Los Angeles translated from Italian to English by Isabella, from the Inner Michael family.

Anjelica Huston: “I had seen him a month ago, he told me that they stole a dream from him. He died of a broken heart. Michael was like a shaman capable of penetrating into your dreams. A unique human being. He died of a broken heart.”

So says Anjelica Huston, who in 1986 had worked with Michael Jackson in the short film Captain Eo in 3-D, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced to Disneyland and Disney World. A film in which Huston played a witch against whom Jackson, hero of the title role, was fighting to save humanity. The actress, 58, daughter of legendary director John Huston, had just begun to recover from grief for the death, last December, of her husband, sculptor Robert Graham, when she learned of Jackson’s death. “Another terrible grief – she says, reached at his home in Venice – I cherished a special affection for him.”

Mrs. Huston, how do you remember Michael Jackson at the time of the shooting of Captain Eo?

“I remember the first time I arrived on set, at five in the morning, he was already dressed up and with make up on, beautiful, a little androgynous and vaguely alien. I was amazed.”

Did you know him already?

“No, I had only seen him in newspapers or on TV. But in person it was different. He was upsetting, in positive sense, I mean. The way he worked, his professionalism, the perfectionism with which he studied and performed every song and choreography was admirable. After two hours of makeup every day I always felt impatient, he did not blink. He used to take my hand and calm me immediately.”

At that time Michael was a mega-superstar. One could notice?

“Of course! On the set he had a huge trailer and was followed by a lawyer, the managers and bodyguards. He had his personal chef, like a sheik. Every day he received visits from some star: on the first day of shooting Sophia Loren arrived, then Elizabeth Taylor and then almost all the biggest stars of those years. ”

You became friends?

“Yes he was very sweet and shy. He invited me to lunch in his trailer, where he used to enjoy himself watching cartoons on TV. In some ways he was, in fact, like a child, only physically grown up, a real Peter Pan, introverted but also eccentric, electrifying, he wound up incredibly in front of the audience. ”

 Was he good at acting?

“At first he found it hard to express feelings such as anger, as if that gene did not exist in his DNA. He could instead express pain and tenderness. I remember the morning when, after a week of camera turned on me, we would have to shoot his scenes, and I was annoyed because he demanded, that I would act my cues all dressed as a witch, with all the make up on, although I was not supposed to be filmed. Yet, when he climbed onto the platform and began to sing and dance, my heart started pounding, I was shivering. A spell, a force of nature. A performance of pure talent that I had never seen before.”

Have you seen hem recently?

“After Captain Eo I met him rarely… But, ironically, I saw him about a month ago, by chance, in the office of our dermatologist, Arnie Klein. We hugged and we were locked in one of the rooms and chat for a couple of hours. We talked about how he had felt humiliated by the accusation of sexual harassment and about the sorrow for the loss of Neverland, where he had lived many years.”

What did he say?

“I remember his words: ‘They ruined my dream. I had this dream, perhaps childish and foolish, a place designed to celebrate the innocence of that childhood that I never had, and they took it from me. I love children, I could never do them harm. I spent all my life to love them and try to do good things for them. The libel of harming a child, that breaks my heart. It is an unbearable pain, those accusations are unjust and terrible…’ As he said these things, he began to cry. I held him in my arms… He was so skinny and frail.”

Did he mention future projects?

“He told me he was preparing the London concerts. I told him ‘I advise you not to cancel a sole show, or they’ll slaughter you.’ He said:  ‘I know, so I’m preparing myself for the better, because otherwise I will have no more hope to be loved back again’. He was thin and pale, but with all the makeup he had, even just to see a dermatologist, you could not tell how it was underneath. One thing I can say, I could feel so much pain in him for the past and a lot of anxiety and uncertainty for the future.”

What do you think really killed Michael Jackson?

“Michael had a broken heart. For this he died. Of course, with the autopsy they will find many things, drugs and so on. But the truth is that they broke his heart.”

What is his legacy?

“Michael has changed the world. It changed everything in the lives of African Americans, proving that there is no barrier between whites and blacks. He really was both white and black. There were others such as Elvis Presley, but never like Michael Jackson. He had something alien that no one else had, and no one else will ever have. ”

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So why is this all important– what happens when shadow is allowed to run loose in the world without restraint and without culpability? When people commit acts of violence on another whether in the guise of the “truth,” the “law,” the “public’s right to know,” in the name of the first amendment, to underhandedly rid one’s neighborhood of  “unsavory elements” by employing vigilante tactics, to infuse one’s own religious beliefs into situations and manipulate the outcome, for commerce or the greater good to sell justice or newspapers or lies in the guise of righteously indignant justification, they steal something valuable from the rest of us. They steal the gifts, the progress, the forward momentum, the enlightenment and the very soul of humanity.

When Lee Harvey Oswald took President Kennedy’s life he stole something from me, from you, from the world and from the future. How are we to ever know what gifts of the genius of a singular man were withheld from us because of his death? How will we ever know what future was not, because of the early demise of a leader? Lee Harvey Oswald took away the future, the world, history, human potential and the advancement of ourhumanity. Sirhan Sirhan took it when he shot Robert Kennedy; James Earl Ray took it from us when he assassinated Martin Luther King; Al Qaeda has taken our innocent freedoms and a safe and bright future from the youth of the world. Those who plot against leadership or conscript their shadow for profit, fame or self aggrandizement commit unmeasured and immeasurable crimes, for they steal elements of humanity and its future– the paparazzi took it too when Diana died in a dark tunnel. And those who took their ounce or pound of flesh at the expense of Michael Jackson to serve their shadow are thieves and we are the victims of their crimes.

By what right do these people commit such crimes against humanity? By their arrogance. By their personal view of what is just, justifiable or right in the fantasy of their own minds.  So because of the fantasies of others, we are compelled to suffer these immeasurable losses. The arrogance of that assumption is illustrated graphically by an act of fantasy played out in Manhattan in 2001; it was an imagined grievancebegun in a mind against America that was expanded by one man– Osama bin Laden.

That ultimate act of arrogance differs from the others only by degree, not by principle. The most dangerous words in the English language can be: “Here, I know what’s best for you.” The sublime arrogance of some in powerful positions is matched only by their feverish scramble to excuse themselves from the presence of their own shadow and Shadenfreude.

A small example of what not only Michael lost, but what many children lost, their parents lost, their lives lost, their psyches lost, the demonstration of compassion that the world lost because they never saw the stewardship of children and responsibility for their welfare role modeled by example to them in the “it takes a village” tradition of healing planned for Neverland.

 David Nordahl, Michael’s artist and friend, provided Michael Jackson with the commissioned sketches of the Neverland Dream completed. They included a high-rise of condos architecturally designed to look like a high-as-a-cliff series of dwellings nestled in a massive concrete tree house. Each condo had a huge bay window facing the outside with an unobstructed view of Neverland with an outdoor theater screen looming across the landscape. Each apartment was wired with sound leading from that movie screen. The condos were furnished with state of the art hospital equipment and beds. Those beds were placed in front of the expansive windows so that the bed’s occupant could clearly see the opposing outdoor movie screen.

Some descriptors of Neverland recall the outdoor movie screen and remarked how it eerily played cartoons to an invisible audience and how spooky they found that seemingly empty attempt at amusement. What they didn’t know was the mind and heart of Michael Jackson: The reason for the condos was to host, free of charge, gravely ill and dying children and their parents at Neverland.

Michael had lots of experience hosting children at Neverland and witnessed firsthand how it could be a life changing experience. He had coached enough children about using affirmations (written and repeated declarations) to create a new reality and meditation in the form of visualizations to defeat disease. He had taught them how to imagine their cancer cells being eaten up by little healing pac-man characters inside their bodies. He had observed firsthand too, how the right music piped in through Neverland speakers made the flowers grow bigger and more beautiful and the grass grow greener and more lush.

Michael Jackson studied the cutting edge healing methods and knew that laughter is the best medicine, that humor heals, that negative emotions harm while positive ones heal the body. It’s quite possible that he was familiar with the beneficial effects of negative ions on mood– Neverland had fountains everywhere. Falling water produces negative ions; that’s why standing near a waterfall feels so good.

He obviously read Anatomy of An Illness and other works by Norman Cousins, the work of Patch Adams and other physician healers who understood holistic medicine, and how the Marx Brothers comedy contributed to understanding laughter’s effects on the body.  The movie screen was programmed to play cartoons night and day in a continual loop because Michael knew that children who are sick often wake up frightened at night and these children would have something funny to watch to forget their troubles. Michael knew from his research that human hormones, chemicals, systems and cells function better in a positive and upbeat environment than they do in a room-darkened gloomy sickroom atmosphere. He had studied how merriment decreases pain, elevates the body’s endorphins and increased the effects of natural hormones and medications. He knew the value of meditation and visualization and he had taught those methods to many children including the boy with cancer who eventually ended up accusing him of the unspeakable. Michael did not harm children; Michael Jackson was a healer.

 Who knows what advances in medicine or the healing arts might have come about by Michael’s underwriting of attending doctors and researchers at Neverland following these cases? The research didn’t happen because the experiment didn’t happen. So thanks to the selfish actions of a few arrogant souls focused only on themselves and their personally invented righteousness and the collective mind of the public conscripted to go along for the ride, children were not healed because the arrogance of a few dark minds led the pack that broke the Neverland Dream.

Those who did not know the whole story laughed. Many made fun of the man who knew more than they could ever imagine about how to heal and what alternative and cutting edge technologies worked in bringing about remissions and healings. These are technologies used in major general hospitals today. Michael Jackson was implementing them in the late eighties and the early nineties.

The healing center planned for the complex at Neverland Valley Ranch was never built because one selfish man wanted to use Michael Jackson and his generosity toward children for personal gain and in revenge for not getting what he wanted. He wanted Michael Jackson to bankroll his home and career and Michael suspected he was being used and declined.

David Nordahl says that Sony was going to financially underwrite the clinic Michael planned to build. He says that a certain individual expected to be a partner in that business and when that didn’t happen, he was enraged and went after Michael with a mad-dog attorney.

The money that was to fund the Neverland dream of a family and home centered healing clinic was paid out in an out of court settlement. Later, the boy who made an accusation about Michael with the help of others hired and recruited by his father would file for, and receive, emancipation from his parents. That father would eventually assault his son and become estranged from him, then contract a grave illness and commit suicide shortly after Michael’s death.

There are enough victims to go around in this scenario: the father, a victim of the “selfish kind of love” Michael sings of in Man in the Mirror; the boy held hostage and thrust into the media frenzy by parents deep into their own shadow; the parents whose ego felt so powerless and impotent and who believed so little in their own abilities to make their lives successful that they had to grab for a brass ring that belonged to someone else; those who used Michael out of the fear of not being enough to create their own success autonomously; the public duped into believing dark fiction about a naive humanitarian whose only crime was believing in magic– and that it can heal; the children who never came to benefit from new and cutting edge holistic medicine; the parents who lost an opportunity to be with their children at a magical place at the end of their lives or at the turning point toward remission; the field of medicine that never saw this experiment nor its outcomes; the delay in implementation of these holistic therapies because the Neverland dream was destroyed by a cynical few benefitting from a contrived frenzy that fueled the public ridicule and dismemberment of Michael Jackson for… was it… cash? Building a career as a “Jackson expert?” Vicarious fame? Entertainment? Tabloid or media market share? Or was it just… sport? A blood sport that harmed victims that will forever remain invisible. And us and the child in all of us.

 There are those who will still laugh at Michael’s expense– or so they think. It is actually at their own. There are those who would say that this plan of Michael Jackson’s to “save the world” or “save the children” was the silly pipe dream of an eccentric and delusional entertainer and “pop star.” Those would be the people who forget about the 1985 “We Are the World” project spearheaded by Michael Jackson that fed most of starving Africa and later, half of the world.

Those would be the same people who forgot that Michael Jackson started the trend of “rock stars” leveraging their influence for humanitarian efforts. Those would be the people who do not know about all the Michael Jackson and Friends concerts over the span of his career that raised millions for social causes and those touched by misfortune– including the Nine-Eleven families.

Those would be the forgetters, the detractors, the haters, those who read tabloids and believe,  perhaps even the ones who are innocently uninformed, and certainly the ones who avoid the mirror that simply stands and without fanfare, emotion or judgement silently asks: “And who are you being in the world?”

The references to Neverland, accusations and money paid out continue to haunt the man’s legacy. But that doesn’t change the truth: The money that was paid out in the 1993 case accusing Michael of harming children was going to pay for the condo healing center for sick and dying children– a gift to them, their parents, and the world from Michael Jackson. It was the Neverland Dream.

(C) lymmjjrip 6.2011. B. Kaufmann

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