Purpose Driven or Scripture Driven? - Way of Life Literature
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orderline as possible” (Henderson, 'Scuse Me While I Kissthe Sky, p. 115). Hendrix's 1968 album Electric Ladylandfeatured 20 nude women on the album cover.When complaints were made about his erotic behavioronstage, he replied: "PERHAPS IT IS SEXY ... BUT WHATMUSIC WITH A BIG BEAT ISN'T?" (Henderson, p. 117).Hendrix was more candid and honest about the character ofrock than the CCM musicians who are defending it today. Wewould agree that rock & roll is sensual by its very nature.Hendrix also promoted violence through his music, attimes destroying his guitars and amplifiers during concertsand setting his guitar on fire. This would send the youngconcert-goers into a frenzy.Hendrix abused drugs and alcohol. He took acid, smokedmarijuana, used heroin and amphetamines, and drank liquor.Hendrix’ bassist, Noel Redding, testified: “Whether it wastrue or not, we felt we had to be stoned to play properly.Good dope equaled good music” (A Time to Rock, p. 200).Hendrix was deeply involved in occultism and mysticismand these themes permeated his music. His song “VoodooChile” glorified voodoo practices such as out of bodyexperiences.His biographer, who spent five years researching his life,noted that “Hendrix demonstrated a high order of voodoo ...[he] showed the voodoo that related to the stars and tomagical transformation” (Henderson, p. 394). Hendrixbelieved in numerology, UFOs, transcendental meditation,reincarnation, and a variety of pagan and New Age concepts.He thought rainbows were bridges that linked this world withthe unseen spirit world.44
In July 1970, Hendrix set up a performance in Maui,Hawaii, in an attempt to reach a higher level of New Agespiritual awareness. When he arrived in Hawaii, he consultedan elderly German fortune teller named Clara Schuff and wastold that he descended from Egyptian and Tibetan royaltyand that his next life would be concerned with the magicalsystems of Tibet. The performance was called “The RainbowBridge Vibratory Color-Sound Experiment.” Hendrix wasinvited to participate in this experiment by a commune calledthe Rainbow Bridge Occult Research Meditation Center. TheHendrix group gathered on the side of the Olowalu Volcano,revered as a very holy place and called the Crater of the Sunby native Hawaiians. For the occasion, Hendrix wore Indianmedicine-man clothing and used a medicine-man tent. Heand all of the participants were high on LSD, hash, andliquor during the “experiment.” (Two months later, he wasdead.)Hendrix believed his music could open his listeners to“cosmic powers” and that people can rise through variousspiritual levels through music. He believed in reincarnationand thought he was from another planet, an asteroid belt offof Mars, and that he had come to earth to show people newenergy. He thought he had assumed other life forms inprevious lives:“There's no telling how many lives your spirit will gothrough--die and be reborn. Like my mind will be back in thedays when I was a flying horse” (Hendrix, interview withRobin Richman “An Infinity of Jimis,” Life magazine, Oct.3, 1969).Hendrix understood the mystical and hypnotic power ofrock music. He said:45
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<strong>or</strong>derline as possible” (Henderson, 'Scuse Me While I Kissthe Sky, p. 115). Hendrix's 1968 album Electric Ladylandfeatured 20 nude women on the album cover.When complaints were made about his erotic behavi<strong>or</strong>onstage, he replied: "PERHAPS IT IS SEXY ... BUT WHATMUSIC WITH A BIG BEAT ISN'T?" (Henderson, p. 117).Hendrix was m<strong>or</strong>e candid and honest about the character <strong>of</strong>rock than the CCM musicians who are defending it today. Wewould agree that rock & roll is sensual by its very nature.Hendrix also promoted violence through his music, attimes destroying his guitars and amplifiers during concertsand setting his guitar on fire. This would send the youngconcert-goers into a frenzy.Hendrix abused drugs and alcohol. He took acid, smokedmarijuana, used heroin and amphetamines, and drank liqu<strong>or</strong>.Hendrix’ bassist, Noel Redding, testified: “Whether it wastrue <strong>or</strong> not, we felt we had to be stoned to play properly.Good dope equaled good music” (A Time to Rock, p. 200).Hendrix was deeply involved in occultism and mysticismand these themes permeated his music. His song “VoodooChile” gl<strong>or</strong>ified voodoo practices such as out <strong>of</strong> bodyexperiences.His biographer, who spent five years researching his life,noted that “Hendrix demonstrated a high <strong>or</strong>der <strong>of</strong> voodoo ...[he] showed the voodoo that related to the stars and tomagical transf<strong>or</strong>mation” (Henderson, p. 394). Hendrixbelieved in numerology, UFOs, transcendental meditation,reincarnation, and a variety <strong>of</strong> pagan and New Age concepts.He thought rainbows were bridges that linked this w<strong>or</strong>ld withthe unseen spirit w<strong>or</strong>ld.44
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