Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Lloyd Price wrote the essays in this book to empower readers. Each essay conveys a different emotion; and is about a pivotal time in his life. Readers meet cruel and racist townsfolk of his youth in his hometown of Kenner; Louisiana. Then there are the bigoted police officers and salesmen; along with an eye-opening trip to Africa. Throughout; Lloyd Price grabs readers and pulls them into his life as a black man growing up in the Deep South many decades ago. Lloyd also deftly reminds everyone; no matter what his or her color; where America was sixty; seventy; eighty years ago in terms of race. And; where we are today. Throughout; we learn of his music; music that changed the course of history; music that changed the world. sumdumhonky is a finalist in the Foreword INDIEFAB awards for Performing Arts. Lloyd Price is not just a pioneer of rock n roll; he just might well be the founding father. ––Offbeat Magazine Times have changed since I was born more than eighty years ago. Blacks can now drink from the same water fountain as white people; eat at the same restaurants; ride in the front on public transportation; get a bank loan; hold jobs in management and we don t get lynched quite as often as we used to. ––Lloyd Price; sumdumhonky (Lloyd Price)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. ENLIGHTENINGBy Soo Suk KokMr. Hancock takes us along on his personal journey into an alternate reality induced by various drugs commonly used by different indigenous peoples around the world. He shows us the commonalities of experiences between modern persons having such "journeys" and our prehistoric forbears "seeing" virtually the same things. The cultural context sometimes colors the experience; as all such experiences; are; in their finality; siphoned through our own individual sense organs; human brains; and knowledge base.The fascinating thing he points out by referencing the commonalities not only worldwide but between prehistoric times and modern times; is that those who take such astral journeys into what he believes is an alternate reality encounter very similar "beings" or "creatures" which often as not are composite beings or what we have come to call ancestral archetypes.This book is a must read for any avid seeker of the deeper;hidden; and unseen realities around us. Once the mind learns the trick of opening the door to this alternate reality it becomes enthralled and sometimes frightened (as was Mr. Hancock) by what it "sees."While I would NEVER advocate drug use of any kind as the key to the door of alternate reality or other dimensions of existence; I do recommend reading about the experiences of those who have taken that route; as indeed; there are things to learn from them.When studying the ancient arcana of occult wisdom bequeathed to us by those wise ones who have gone before we are cautioned to approach the threshold of the "supernatural" with great respect and care. For; if we are not properly purified by long and intense rites and discipline to cleanse our minds and spirits of putrid things and sordid thoughts; we will attract beings of similar kind to ourselves as we travel in the astral world. This is the reason unknowing drug users have some horribly bad "trips" or even end up eventually mentally imbalanced or insane.The candidates who were permitted by the Heirophant at Eleusis had spent many months purifying themselves with various lustrations; mental cleansings;meditations; fastings; and other purgative disciplines in preparation to being allowed to partake in the Greater Mysteries inside the holy Telesterion at Eleusis. Even if the kykeon drink they were given was indeed what some researchers believe it to be--a hallucinatory drink made from einkorn---it nevertheless was offered in a special circumstance; surrounded by holy ritual; and long spiritual preparation; not frivolously or out of vain curiosity; as is so often the case today.One may induce the alternate state without drugs; as even Mr. Hancock points out in his book. One of the purposes in the mystical disciplines is to reach and receive from such "higher" realities information that one can then bring back to our earthly "plane" and use for the good of ourselves and others.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Buy this one!By DianeI love this book! Some say that this is Hancock's best book and I would have to agree that it is at least up there near the top.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Superb Study of Unlikely Origins of Human Experience of the SupernaturalBy rogmeauxExcellent; wide-ranging look at connections across prehistoric cave art; shamanic vision quests; medieval encounters with faeries; and contemporary alien abductions. At first glance these phenomena might seem to be unlikely bedfellows; but Hancock links them by carefully examining a number of enduring elements common to all of them. The book explores possible explanations for these commonalities; including the nature and evolution of human DNA; the biochemistry of psychoactive plants; and the possibility of advanced intelligences having played a role in life on planet earth. The book is a balanced; evidence-based first-hand account of the author's intellectual and experiential attempts to understand the supernatural and its role in human life.
