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This interview took place in October, and I posted the YouTube shortly afterward, but here are both the video and transcription, courtesy of Maria M. Thanks, M&M!
Emma: Hello again.
Elisa: Hello, hi Emma, hi Erik. We are going to go, we’re going to interview John Denver. Can you go get him, Erik? By the way, I still love you since like 30 minutes ago.
Erik: I love you too, Mamacita
Emma: Why does he always call you Mamacita? He says that a lot.
Elisa: I don’t know, he usually called me something like that, but Mama, sometimes Mom. Mom or Mama. Oh the days when he called me Mommy, they were precious. Ok…
Erik: You’ll always be my Mama, you know that.
Elisa: Of course, ya ain’t getting rid of me.
Emma: [Laughing] He’s here.
Elisa: Alright, John Denver. All I can think of is Dumber and Dumber, when the guy actually went to Nebraska and they were supposed to go to the Rockies, and so, I think it was Jim Carrey said, “That John Denver’s full of shit,” because there were no mountains. It was fun. But anyway, so you mean more to me, John Denver, than that Dumb and Dumber film. I adore your voice, it’s so beautiful, your songs are lovely, and a lot of people have begged me to interview you cause you have really impacted a lot of lives. So thank you for coming.
John Denver: Thank you for having me, and yes, I would like to believe that I soothed a lot of hearts in my day.
Elisa: So, what does he look like to you, Emma?
Emma: He just looks like a sharped dress man. He’s actually wearing, it kind of looks like a tan-ish suit…
Elisa: Wow.
Emma: …with a little black, [pointing to neck] I don’t know what that’s called…
Elisa: Like a bolo tie?
Emma: There’s like two little leather straps that go down.
Elisa: Yeah, that’s a bolo tie. Bolo tie, ok.
Emma: And he is wearing his glasses but he does have short hair. I always remember a picture, you know John Denver was before my time, this was the 70s I think? But I remember a picture of him having long blond hair, but here he has very short cut hair, but he has a really beautiful smile.
Elisa: Yeah, alright I have a lot of questions from blog members and then I’ll ask my questions, which are more kind of on the spiritual side. The first was; Was the song ‘I’m Sorry’ written about Annie leaving you?
JD: Yes, that was an easy one. Next.
Elisa: Ok. What were you thinking as your plane was headed into the Bay? Were you planning, ok, yeah.
JD: What was I thinking?
Elisa: Well, tell me about that trip and the plane and what you were thinking and why you were out there, were you trying to kill yourself, did you know there was a danger, I mean was it a complete surprise? Fill us in there.
JD: Well when it comes to my death, let’s just say that I hadn’t been happy for a while. You know, Annie has always been, she was my twin soul, and although I had other loves in my life, it never really fulfilled me. It never filled that void that I felt inside of me when she left. So, I did go back and forth. I did struggle with depression. I was really good at keeping up appearances and I was really good at seeming happy and smiling, but deep inside there was such a huge part of me missing that I never felt could ever be filled again.
Elisa: Because of Annie? Or did you have some sort of chemical…
JD: Because of Annie.
Elisa: Ah, what happened between you?
JD: Well, [sigh], let’s just say that my love for music and my love for the world, I was a true believer in the oneness of humanity, in the sacredness of live, protecting and loving each other, protecting our nature, taking care of our environment. I had so many passions and I was so driven to make a difference in the world, to use my fame for the better of man, to bring everyone together, to protect the wildlife, and I had so many passions that I got sidetracked.
Elisa: So you didn’t spend enough time with her?
JD: I didn’t spend enough time with my family. I was always on the road, I couldn’t say no to an offer. I just couldn’t say no. When they come up to you and they go, “Can you help us save the rain forest?”, or, “Can you help us with these children dying in Africa of hunger?”, I mean, how do you say no to that?
Elisa: That would be tough.
JD: It’s really hard, and so she felt neglected in some way, she felt abandoned in some way, my children weren’t seeing me as I should have been there, so it was just, they felt second place. They felt like they came last, and I gave them that feeling and I take full responsibility for that. I should have done things differently when it comes to my family…
Elisa: …could you have taken them with you on the road?
JD: Well, I did take Annie with me in the beginning, but as the children came, that became more and more difficult to combine, because you know they go to school, they needed to have friends. Don’t forget, I grew up in a family that was constantly moving, I moved everywhere, I moved all over Europe, Asia, all over America.
Elisa: Why?
JD: Because my Dad was in the military. My Dad was an Air Force pilot and so we moved from place to place to place to place and I never had time to establish friendships. I never had time to settle in. As soon as I thought I was going to settle, we were leaving again.
Elisa: And you didn’t want that for your children.
JD: Yeah, I grew up very alone. I never felt like I belonged anywhere and I didn’t want to do that to my children. I didn’t want them to go through that, and so with Annie, it really destroyed me. It really took a part of me away, and without her I just couldn’t do it. And although I had found new love, I don’t want to say that I committed suicide, because I didn’t have the intent of ‘yes, I’m going to go in this airplane and I’m going to crash’. That was not my intent. However, because I was feeling this void, this emptiness inside of me, don’t forget, by then my popularity had gone down, my record label had kicked me out. I felt really lost. I felt alone. Although I had somebody who loved me, I still felt alone. I felt abandoned again. I always felt abandoned by my father. He was never there for me and I always wanted his approval, for years. So when he died, again, a part of me was gone so I ended up with a big void inside of me and no matter how much I tried to help the world and help the people, and did so much for everything, it just didn’t take away the void I felt inside. So I became very reckless. In some way or form the adrenaline, kind of playing with fate, playing with the Universe, challenging the Universe. I would go skiing and I would go sky diving and I would really test my boundaries and my limit, in a way playing with death.
Elisa: Ok.
JD: Making me feel like I was in control of something. That whole thing with excitement and adrenaline, and so all that day, I had a very bad day that day I have to admit. My girlfriend was on vacation and she was not home, and as soon as I don’t have anybody to talk to I start thinking and thinking and thinking. And that’s the worst somebody can do when you’re already in a bad state of mind and you just have this long time to think. It creates a feeling of negativity. At least for me it brought back up all the things that I thought I did wrong, and so I was having a bad day. I didn’t drink that day, as what many people suggested I did. I did not drink that day, and so for me, flying was my way of getting away from everything. Getting away from the nasty thoughts, getting away from the nasty feelings. It is so beautiful up there and so peaceful. That was my escape. That’s why I loved it so much. My guitar is my escape and flying was my escape. I wasn’t very social due to the lack of friends I had during my lifetime, so my guitar was my way of being social. My guitar was always with me, always, no matter where I went. If I didn’t know what to say or what to talk about, I would bring out my guitar and that was my way of talking to people.
Elisa: Oh. So was it a contract for you to leave early? You sang about growing old.
JD: It’s not in my contract. It was…
Elisa: …Was it in the bird’s contract? The bird that hit your airplane?
JD: No bird hit my airplane.
Elisa: Oh, I thought it did. Ok.
JD: No, this is what happened. Well, the airplane that I had bought was very new to me. I had only flown it once or twice and the pilots or the people that I trusted, they told me that there had been some modifications. They had changed the airplane a little bit…
Elisa: Ok.
JD: …for the previous owner.
Emma: This is somebody that he had bought it from.
JD: And the previous owner had changed a certain switch that was supposed to be in between my legs and they had changed it behind me…
Emma: …almost like behind him but on one side. The airplane could hold two people and so the previous owner always brought a partner. There was always somebody with him, so whatever that switch was, it was almost like it had to do with fuel. Like there is fuel from one part of the airplane and there is fuel on the other part of the airplane, and when fuel is empty on one side they have to switch the lever and fuel from the other side comes in and you can continue to fly. And so whenever the previous owner had his partner behind him, they could just flip the switch. It was very easy, it was right in front of them.
JD: My people had recommended that I needed to switch that before I went up in the air because it was dangerous. They had tried it and they had gone down, because they couldn’t reach it. It was too hard to switch and too hard to reach.
Elisa: That’s awful.
JD: And so I knew of that problem. I knew of that problem and also on the day, when I left they told me, “You do not have a lot of fuel. There is not a lot of fuel in there. Do you want us to get the fueler?”. I told them “Nah, it would be fine,” so again, it was me being impulsive. I was playing with my life. I was challenging the Universe in some way or form, and so I went up and I thought, “It’s not my time to go, I’m going to be fine.” It’s a little bit playing, you are playing with your own life.
Elisa: Yeah.
JD: But for some reason that day, I just wanted to get up there as fast as I could and I just wanted to get away from everything. So it was kind of a rush, rush decision.
Elisa: So, you ran out of fuel, long story short.
JD: Basically I ran out of fuel. I remember the last moments, I was enjoying the view, it just made me feel calm and peaceful. Just like being in Heaven. It gave you that sense of being on top of everything, but away from everything. Just you, the Universe, and that’s all I needed.
Emma: And so what happened was, the engine started sputtering and he tried to reach, but because he was not paying attention, cause he was really in the awe, he didn’t have enough time to do it. And he went down quickly. He went down a lot faster than he expected. He thought he had at least an hour in fuel…
JD: …but keep in mind this is an airplane that was only like my second time flying so I wasn’t familiar with it and I thought I had an hour at least.
Elisa: Did you leave your body before you hit the terrain?
JD: Yes, I was actually, my father was with me in the airplane in spirit. So I remember the airplane going down and I’m trying to get to the button and I remember seeing my Dad sitting behind me.
Elisa: Wow.
JD: And I was like, “Dad, what are you doing in here?” And he says, “I’m here to take you home.”
Elisa: Oh wow.
JD: He took me out before we hit the water. Some way or form I really was relieved to see my Dad because he had played a very important role in my life. My whole life was about being accepted. It was about overcoming the idea that the outside world needed to accept me. My whole life I’ve tried to get my father’s attention. I’ve tried to, I wanted him to be proud of me, but he was a very introverted man. He would not profess feeling. He was very…
Elisa: Military?
JD: …rare with his praises. He wouldn’t give a lot of praises. He always thought that I needed to get a real job, and so for years and years and years, my whole life I tried to have my Dad be proud of me, to get his approval, to get love. And in some way or form the only love I ever experienced with him was when he quit the military and he taught me how to fly. Those times, those days, were for me, were priceless. Because the first time my Dad really saw me, my Dad and I communicated, which is something we didn’t do very often. We would talk on our trips to wherever we needed to go and he became my pilot. He left real soon, my Dad left real soon and so as soon as he left, the world collapsed. I finally found a way to communicate to him, I finally got that connection I wanted my whole life, and then he was taken away from me. And I never though we really got to where we needed to go, so when my father picked me up, it had a total different feeling. I no longer felt like I needed to impress him, I no longer felt (unintelligible), and it just felt so peaceful and so loving that my transition was so great for me.
Elisa: That’s awesome. Ok, we are getting so close, we might have to finish this in another session, Emma, but let’s see. Who did you meet, just real briefly, on the other side?
JD: My Dad was the first one, and then I had a spiritual, almost a homecoming team. My spiritual team who had been with me for a while. We all have, like a soul group of people who are guiding you, who are discussing your progress, who are teaming up to help you out. So those are the people that I saw, and then after that I did see some family members. I saw some great-grandparents and grandparents and there were some artists as well, who came forward to greet me.
Elisa: Do you have spirit concerts with people like Jim Croce, Karen Carpenter, John Lennon, things like that?
JD: We do sometimes get together. I wouldn’t call it a concert but it’s more a sharing of experiences and a sharing of lives.
Elisa: Ok. Someone wants to know if you share a past life or other life with any of the Channeling Erik blog members. Just a yes or no.
JD: No.
Elisa: Ok. What would be your most sincere wish for your fans to do in your memory? And then we’ll go to the spiritual ones. I can’t get to all the blog member ones, there is just not enough time.
JD: What was my wish?
Elisa: Yeah. What would your wish be in your memory, for your fans to do in your memory?
JD: As a human being it was always my desire to communicate through music and to bring forth ideas and support everyone, being an advocate for various causes that bring humanity together. So whatever you want to do in my honor, make sure that it always comes from a perspective of love, of compassion and of unity between the humans that live on this earth and the environment that provides us with all we need. So, whatever you need to do to protect the environment, to protect each other, I’ll be there for it.
Elisa: Good. So, Emma, do we have time to go through the usual, like real quickly my usual list?
Emma: Sure.
Elisa: Ok, John, what was your spiritual mission here on earth? Just real briefly, cause Emma has to get to her kids.
JD: Well, like I said, my spiritual mission was to open people’s eyes and to be an example on how we can all live in harmony.
Elisa: Ok. Where you here to learn anything?
JD: Yes, I was here to learn to love myself. I was here to learn to find the acceptance within me and stop finding it outside of me. I don’t think I had fully succeeded in that but I have other lives where I am still working on that as well.
Elisa: Ok. Do you have any regrets?
JD: The only regrets I have is that I didn’t spend enough time with my family.
Elisa: Oh yeah, of course. Can you share another life that most influenced your one as John Denver? Either past or future life?
JD: I have a life that is not on this earth. I have a life where I am a Pleiadian and we lived for protection. We lived for conservation. We lived for nurturing, teaching and growing. So it’s all from a perspective of complete, there’s no ego.
Elisa: Nice.
JD: It’s all in service of the whole, of everything. It is in service of everything that is alive to allow it to live or fulfill its purpose. And in this life as John, I wanted to do the same thing, but see when you are in a Pleiadian, from a Pleiadian perspective, we get an outside perspective on why humans are doing what we are doing to our world. Why we are attacking each other. So I really wanted to do the same thing. I wanted to bring peace and harmony and unification and love and compassion to the world, but I wanted to see it from a human perspective. Why was it so hard for us to achieve all those things?
Elisa: So we’re fellow Pleiadians, cool. Let’s get matching tattoos.
JD: Yes, a lot of us are.
Elisa: Yeah, yeah, of course. Have you reincarnated or do you plan to?
JD: I am currently incarnated. I am a five-year old boy and I live in Portugal.
Elisa: Cool.
JD: And again, my mission in this life will be the protection of the environment and the stimulation within people to have a healthy ecological system around them.
Elisa: Cool. Is that life going ok?
JD: So far so good. I have great parents.
Elisa: Ok. Oh, good. And they stay put, hopefully.
JD: Yeah, very supportive.
Elisa: Can you share anything about you that we don’t know? That people generally don’t know.
JD: Well like I said, my guitar was very important to me and I got it from a grandmother in an attempt to help me with my shyness and with my not being able to communicate to other children very well. And what people might not know is that guitar went with me. When my body was cremated, so was my guitar.
Elisa: Oh wow, ok. Cool. Any messages or advice for the world, for humanity?
JD: It all comes down to love. If we don’t have that then we don’t have anything and then these realities that we have created together, because they are created and they are created by the global consciousness, will come to an end and will cease to exist. Not that the energy will cease, but it will be turned into a non-livable place, unfortunately. Now, I don’t want to scare people…
Elisa: …Yes, please don’t.
JD: Yes, I don’t want to scare people. There are plenty of other species and energies out there who are helping and protecting this earth…
Elisa: Good.
JD: …but as a human race, if we want to evolve into a more enlightened state of mind, the first step is to be kind to your environment, is to be kind and to find the equality in all of it. Animals, plants, we are all the same, we are all equal. There is not one above the other. And as long as we don’t see that equality, we’re never going to find the compassion and the love that we want to experience.
Elisa: Yeah. Well said. So what do you think about Channeling Erik, and about Erik himself? Da’ man.
JD: Erik is a great guy and he is part of the healing process of all of us. And he is just beginning, so this is just him beginning and starting to open up awareness in people. So, I used to do it with song. If you listen closely to all my songs it was all about love. It was about nature, it was about finding your place in nature. Connecting to Mother Earth and loving her, and Erik does the same thing but it is more of an approach of teaching. An approach of reaching people at their level in understanding and comprehending the dynamics of the Universe. And so, knowledge, understanding and love, if you combine those then we can achieve great, great things as a human race.
Elisa: So you all make a good team. Do you ever play guitar, jam together? Have you?
JD: We have, actually, we have.
Elisa: Ah, so cool. Jamming with John. Cool.
JD: Yes, and Janis, Janis Joplin.
Elisa: Janis Joplin, awesome. So last question. Erik or Emma, do you have any questions to ask Mr. Denver?
Erik: Well why did you choose the name, Denver? Cause I know that’s not his real name.
Elisa: Oh my God, that’s so weird cause I was thinking the exact same thing. I must have channeled that, from Erik.
Emma: [unintelligible] laughing…
Elisa: I’ve got a naked grandson at the door. Oh my gosh.
Emma: He peaked in.
JD: Really it’s a simple explanation. There’s not much to what’s behind it, but basically I moved around so much. I’d seen a lot of different states and Colorado really was my favorite one…
Emma: [Laughing at grandson standing at the door] Hi baby! Ah, he’s just smiling.
Elisa: Ok, sorry about that guys, but it’s called life as a grandma.
JD: … and my real last name was Deutschendorf, so that didn’t go well…
Elisa: Really?!
JD: Yeah, my real name was Henry John Deutschenberg. You know my father was from German descent, my Mom was Irish.
Elisa: Was it Deutschendorf?
JD: Duetschendorf.
Elisa: dorf, ok.
JD: So that didn’t really ring any bells. And Colorado was my favorite state. I loved the nature, I loved the animals, I loved the mountains, I loved everything about it. You know, so I just picked Denver. John Denver, it had a good ring to it…
Elisa: Yeah, it’s awesome.
JD: …the capital of my favorite state, so there you go. It’s as simple as that.
Elisa: Awesome. Well thank you so much, you’ve given us so much wonderful advice and I feel like we know you so much better and I hope this was a good chance for you to share yourself with people, with others.
JD: Thank you for giving me the opportunity to come forward. I just want to say one more thing…
Elisa: Nope, you have a quota. We’re done. I’m kidding. Of course you can.
JD: I was always a fan of space and I would really like to see more research invested into exploring our Universe and our Galaxy.
Elisa: Ok.
JD: For anyone who’s listening, knowing the other species, connecting to them will help us in understanding ourselves and will help us with the tools that we need in order to create a unification of all species.
Elisa: Nice. Thank you so much. And thank you so much, Emma. Check her out on emanuellemcintosh.com. And thank you so much, Erik, I love you both.
Erik: I love you too, Mama. I love you too.
Elisa: Sorry I went over seven minutes, but go to your kiddos.
Emma: That’s ok, that’s ok.
Elisa: I gotta get some clothes on my grandson.
Emma: Yeah, and I’m gonna feed mine so…
Elisa: Love you. Bye everybody.
Emma: Bye
