That is SOME bad cover art.

I am working on my own Prince book in which I explore my life's journey as an admirer of his life and work. What makes my book unique is that it's a story told from the perspective of someone (me) with a physical disability. If anyone's interested in supporting the project and/or following it from its genesis to its completion, please orgNote me. I may start a thread if there's enough interest.


As for this book, it looks like an incoherent mess. I'll pass.

Ummmm... I'll pass.

TrivialPursuit said:

KoolEaze said:

Some of Prince´s "metaphysical concepts" did bother me, especially between ca.1996-2002.

But at least he coated them with great music and to be honest, some his concepts sounded quite interesting, especially The War that was mentioned by you in your post above.

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What gets on my nerve is when certain fans, not this author in particular but fans in general, try to be like Prince and use the same lingo, similar concepts or just plain gibberish for lack of such "concepts".

I once saw a similarly weird Prince book in an old bookstore in Minneapolis which looked as if it was selfmade or self-published but this one takes the cake.

Back to the concepts:

There are things that are whacky, but there are some things I believe he was forward thinking about when we look back. I'm soon publishing a lengthy essay/article about "One Song"'s monologue. I argue that January 1, 2000 - the day "One Song" showed up by itself on his website - was the real jump into Jehovah's Witness-isms. His monologue is an interesting commentary on how he was now seeing the world. Of course, I thought he was bonkers, but when I go back to it, I realize how much I agreed with him on a slight majority of his points. A lot of it was "what you think is what happens" or "you create your own reality" approach to life; all of which I think are in The Secret. I've worked hard on the essay, and I hope people find something interesting in it. I was really moved to talk about Prince's new concepts in life, and how he shook off traditions (while he adopted others, ironically enough) and approached his world differently.

I wouldn't mind digging into "The War" sometime as well, but this essay has taxed my eyeballs and my brain a bit.

As a note, I don't necessarily "time" exists. Clearly, the idea of hours or minutes or days is structured for man to count and track things. I don't believe that in reality time is anything. It's totally a construct of humankind. I do believe in God (not going religious here or anything) and I do believe that God doesn't live time. If God is omnipotent and omnipresent, then time would be an impossible state for it to exist. If God is eternal - has always existed and always will exist - then the opposite, that being man living in a time constructed world, ages and dies. (I sorta go into the spiritual death thing in the essay.)

I'm not fully clear on zero point, but from a layman's view, I sorta get where he's going. Might be something to learn about, whether I end up beileving it or not.

PS if I ever break down The Rainbow Children...

Very interesting TrivialPursuit, please let us all know where we can get your essay when it is published. This topic has to be quite an undertaking to tackle for sure.

Here is the Akashic Records definition, a concept Prince has mentioned on album and many times in concert during that time period.

"In theosophy and anthroposophy, the Akashic records are a compendium of all human events, thoughts, words, emotions, and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present, or future. They are believed by theosophists to be encoded in a non-physical plane of existence known as the etheric plane."

Would be interesting if you found a way to incorporate this as well.

As with many things in life, many hear, but don't listen, and the same can be said when it comes to Prince's lyrics. It is ALL there for those that take the time to understand what he is talking about.

Knowing about the Akashic records is not really obscure at all. Some of us have taken the time to know about them for many decades.

poppys said:

Knowing about the Akashic records is not really obscure at all. Some of us have taken the time to know about them for many decades.

Glad you took it upon yourself to do that!

If one were to ask 100 random people what the Akashic Records is, 99 out of 100 will either not know and/or tell you it is a record company.

Unless you are at some metaphysical convention with Edgar Cayce as one of the topics, it is indeed a very obscure concept.

leadline said:

poppys said:

Knowing about the Akashic records is not really obscure at all. Some of us have taken the time to know about them for many decades.

Glad you took it upon yourself to do that!

If one were to ask 100 random people what the Akashic Records is, 99 out of 100 will either not know and/or tell you it is a record company.

Unless you are at some metaphysical convention with Edgar Cayce as one of the topics, it is indeed a very obscure concept.

Blavatsky's writing and Theosophy was very popular when Prince and I were young. Not to mention that Buddhism is the world's 4th largest religion with over 520 million followers.