By Lionel Gayle
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| Amy Winehouse (Contributed) |
We live in a bloody topsy-turvy world, but I hoped young Amy Winehouse could’ve stayed around to gain some more experience. In so doing, she would’ve satisfied loved ones with her charming presence and fans with the continued expression of her artistic talent.
We don’t know how she spent her final hours, but we now know that her unique voice is silenced forever. (That’s according to our general belief system).
Had she stayed, I believe, she would’ve learned how to negotiate her way among this chaotic mess – composed of the tabloid spiders with their venomous tentacles. In their aiding and abetting, I believe they have become the ultimate destroyers of the young and the old who court even a modicum of public attention.
The blood-sucking paparazzi can’t prey on Amy anymore, and the tabloid wordsmiths will have to find another subject on whom to base their lies and innuendos. And I’m convinced that they are already hell bent on destroying other lives.
I was just listening to the The Ska EP, four songs by Winehouse, reportedly “recorded during the Back to Black era.” Even though I grew up on ska music, I like her Rehab song from the Back to Black album. It reflects her honest-sounding voice as she sings: “They tried to make me go to rehab but I said no, no, no.”
I doubt she was a very stubborn person, and therefore conclude that, except for her family, she had no close collaborators who really cared for her well-being. And apparently, she did not receive enough support that could’ve helped her defeat her demons – be they drugs or alcohol.
Deepak Chopra would’ve, probably, attribute Amy’s so-called troubled life and untimely demise to the pressure of “entropy,” which he describes as “a cosmic force stands ever ready to destroy life.” It’s like the flip side of good.
In his book, “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind,” Chopra says “Entropy is a one-way arrow” and further explains that it “came into existence at the instant of the Big Bang.” Put another way, entropy is “the universal tendency for order to break down into disorder,” he says.
But if French educator Hippolyte Leon Denizard Rivail, better known as the spiritist Allan Kardec (1804-1869) was right, that spirit is one of “two general elements of the universe,” then Amy’s continued existence, perhaps in another world, is assured.
Even though I’m fascinated with the metaphysics, I’m not yet fully convinced by Dr. Edith Fiore’s claim in “The Unquiet Dead: A Psychologist Treats Spirit Possession,” published in 1987.
Dr. Fiore, a psychologist and hypnotherapist, retired from her California practice in 1997 after 30 years, and now lives in Florida. Based on her “clinical findings” she says “life does continue after biological death,” and added that “It appears that death involves a smooth, natural transition to a spirit realm with no loss of consciousness.”
So, where is Amy now?
