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Part Three

Me: What were you here to learn and teach, Jimi?

Jimi (laughing): I really think my life was a little self-centered; I don’t know if I was teaching anyone anything!

Jamie and I giggle.

Jimi: But I would be honored if people learned from me.

Me: What were you here to learn, then?

(Pause)

Jamie (chuckling): He’s talking to Erik now.

(Pause)

Jimi (to Erik): Your mumma has really good questions, man.

Me: Aw, thanks, Jimi!

Jamie: Okay, your question again? Sorry, we got off track. 

Me: What was your spiritual mission here in your last incarnation? Were you here to learn anything? Tell us about your original spiritual contract or mission before you came into your last body.

Jamie: You mean his original spiritual contract on earth?

Me: Yes.

Jamie (giggling to Jimi): Can you say that?!

Jamie (to me): I don’t know if you really want it written down like this, but his first response is, “To fuck people up.”

Me (laughing): Why? Did you want to break them down so they could build their own identity?

Jimi: Yeah, to mix it up. That’s probably a better way to put it.

Me: To mix it up. Okay.

Jimi: To mix people up. I was a boy when my parents divorced, and—

(Pause)

Jamie (sadly): Aw. His mom died young?

Me: I don’t know. Aw, how tragic.

Jamie: This is sounding familiar. Isn’t this what Kurt Cobain went through? I mean, everybody seems to grow up with somebody else! A broken family.

Me: So you came from a broken home, Jimi?

Jimi: Yeah, my grandmumma raised me. I had nothin’.

Jamie: He means he was in deep poverty.

Jimi: I didn’t have the materials; I didn’t have the means; I didn’t have the know-how, and I just pulled in. Everything I knew was gone; Everything I knew went away.

Me: Aw, Sweetie.

Jimi: The only thing I found that gave me an escape, to mix me up enough to where I felt I knew who I was was music.

Me: So it’s really like having a big glass of water with sand on the bottom. You really can’t see through it, but you mix it up and you can see.

Jimi: Yes!

Me: Stir things up to see what’s you and what’s not.

Jamie: That is a great visual.

Me: It seems like that’s what you were here to teach and to learn, then. Is that right, Jimi?

Jimi: Absolutely.

Me: Okay. Now, do you have any regrets?

Jimi: My regrets are nothin’ that I could have controlled. My regret is that I didn’t know my mum well enough, that my mum wasn’t there to see me perform and to see what I turned into. My other regret is my use of external drugs to help me find myself. 

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This interview during The Dick Cavett Show, following his performance on the set, reveals Jimi’s spiritual side:

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