Thanks for that alternative viewpoint Catherine.

I guess it was to be expected - as happens with perhaps all celebrities, there will be constant internet rumours. I've seen all manner of things appear since his passing - several clearly fantastical. But I would suggest, that since very few will ever have access to the truth of these, what's important from my perspective at least, is the energy I feel myself when I connect with the essence of such people - or else the risk is descending into judgment.

Clearly he was a very complex character. That came across through his music. And yes, no doubt, he had a chequered past. To varying degrees, so does everyone. I didn't post about him with the purpose of exploring any of his distortions. That wasn't my point. He clearly inspired millions across the planet by his courage to express, and be himself. I certainly wasn't holding him up as some kind of 'saint' to which everyone should aspire.

To me, this brings up another powerful point: when anyone in the public arena says anything, does anything or expresses anything, I put it to all, that in alignment, it's not so much how THEY are being that counts. It's how do they inspire YOU to be? What does their reflection activate in you?

People are often so consumed in society about whether 'so and so' is speaking 'the truth' - whether they are aligned. It's almost irrelevant! For every action, every expression, is always relative, and therefore never perfect. It's never 'truth absolutely'. It can't be.

So maybe we might evolve our perspective with this? Maybe we might look at others and not disempower ourselves by making our reality about them? Maybe we can look into the reflection, make it about us, and then be all we can be in response?

I agree in keeping it real about Bowie. But what is really real?
You can never truly know. So instead, I'd encourage asking what's real about you in that (Bowie) reflection.

With love

Open *give_rose*