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By Christina M. Schumacher |
A good number of you probably cringed, rolled your eyes,
or made an offhand disgusted comment under your breath upon reading the
title to this article. That's good. Some kind of reaction is better than no
reaction at all. If your first thought is to go elsewhere to read, I urge
you not to do so as you may be quite surprised at what you'll discover here.
The fact is, The Night Watchman and
I do think Elvis Presley is alive, though not in the sense that he faked his
death and is living out the rest of his life after plastic surgery and a
change of identity. We believe that we have found a person who is the
reincarnation of Elvis Presley AND, before you cringe, roll your eyes, and
snort in disgust again, hear me out.
A bit off the beaten track for a moment, I'd
like to introduce you to a man by the name of Ian Stevenson, a physician and
psychiatrist who spent 40 years of his life doing amazing case studies on
reincarnation in the States and in such places as India and Lebanon. These
were not hynotherapy studies. These were studies of children from about the
age of three (this age varies depending on when the child was able to speak
clearly enough in sentences to be understood without mistake) who remembered
being someone else. Oftentimes, these children would deny who their present
life dictated they were and insist that they belonged somewhere else with an
entirely different family. They had names of family members, descriptions of
locations and, oftentimes, had a birthmark that corresponded to the death of
the person they believed themselves to be. Ian Stevenson was able to check
out the claims of each child and was unable to negate or explain away how
these children knew what they knew without ever having traveled in their
current life further than their own small village.
Recently, The Night Watchman had the
honor of playing lead guitar with a band for a college fundraiser. The
singer of this band - we'll call him J - has been an Elvis impersonator from
the age of three (note the age as per the previous paragraph). This man, J,
was born to parents who were huge Elvis Presley fans. So much so that they
gave him Elvis's middle name. Elvis died August 16, 1977 and J was born
three years later.
At this point, you're probably
saying, "So what. There are thousands of Elvis impersonators out there." You
are correct and this is also what we thought until we had the honor of
actually meeting J and hearing a bit about his life. As much as we would
like to give his real name here, we cannot as we don't believe that he would
welcome our theory with open arms. However, there are definitely some points
that make a good argument toward the possibility that J is, indeed, the
reincarnation of Elvis Presley.
As a side note here and at the risk
of being tarred and feathered, I must admit to never being an Elvis fan. If
an Elvis movie came on TV, I turned the channel immediately. If an Elvis
song played on the radio, I turned the station or turned the radio off. It
was quite a challenge to be thrown into the position of meeting J and
hearing the music I despised. I must say that J changed my thinking to a
huge degree.
The first thing we noticed upon
meeting J was that, without any effort, J LOOKS like Elvis. It was difficult
for us to see him as anyone else. There was, to us, absolutely no
resemblance to his parents whom we also met. Though he's lived his life in
the Midwest, he speaks with a southern drawl as Elvis did. Of course, this
could be from years of impersonating Elvis, but most people go back to
"themselves" when their show is over, just as actors/actresses can play
various parts and return to "themselves" once the show or movie is
completed. There is no indication from J's speech that he grew up in the
Midwest, and he is a very down-to-earth great guy despite his success.
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J, beginning
his career locally at the age of three, moved on to be a very successful
Elvis impersonator doing incredible shows in Las Vegas, Japan, Memphis,
France, etc. These were not just night club acts. We saw footage of some of
the shows and they were huge stage shows with all the frills that were Elvis
all the way.
It wasn't just his appearance that led us to our
theory. It was the fact that, out of all the Elvis impersonators, J is the
only one to ever be invited inside Graceland. This honor was bestowed upon
him as a thank you for bringing Elvis's fan base to numbers not seen since
he was alive. It's the fact that he is the only person alive who has been
able to perform all 800 of Elvis's songs (twice) from memory with no effort
and won a specific award each time. Elvis moves, including the entire upper
body shake that Elvis impersonators have difficulty duplicating is as
natural to J as breathing. His performances, as exciting as Elvis's and with
energy expenditure just as high, are to "see" Elvis just as he was - the
effortless body movements, the voice AND the look.
We have no doubt that if J were to
share more about his life with us, there would be many more areas that would
offer proof of our theory. One last interesting tidbit, however. When
considering doing a timeline of Elvis's life , J was the only Elvis
impersonator considered for the part. To those considering the project (and
these were big name producers), no one else WAS Elvis.
This is not to say that J is not his
own person. He is. No soul, upon reincarnation, can ever be the EXACT
replica of a previous life personality as there would be no lessons learned
were this the case. However, a soul can choose to repeat certain parts of
their previous life if it opens up necessary avenues of learning for the
personality they have become.
J has spent 23 years being Elvis,
but is now working toward entertaining as himself with a style of music that
fits who he is in this life. He is a fabulous stage presence, very much
worth the money paid for a ticket or CD, and we have no doubt that he will
be just as successful as J as he was as Elvis.
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