Michael Jackson Tragedy: Hollywood Marketing Maven Dr. Melody Jackson Says Drugs Not True Cause Of Death
As hearts broke around the world at the shock of Michael Jackson’s death, it was presumed to be another tragic celebrity death caused by an overdose of prescription drugs. “Unfortunately, no one seems to be addressing the true underlying cause,” says Melody Jackson, Ph.D., of the Hollywood Marketing Company in Los Angeles. “This is not a drug problem of the individual celebrity like Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger, or Elvis Presley. It is a problem rooted in a lack of understanding about something fundamental to fame.”
Dr. Jackson, who has coached thousands of Hollywood entertainers since 1992, states, “One of the common characteristics of people who seek fame is a deep desire to be adored. When a performer is desperate for it and they start getting it, they can never get enough. It’s like a drug addict who needs another hit. If they can’t get that rush, it becomes painful. Then they take pain-killers to they try to make the pain go away.”
“The problem,” says Dr. Jackson, “is that their pain will never go away with pain-killers because it’s a psychic pain, a pain of the soul. This pain is not some weakness in these individuals, it’s a problem that arises from the collective culture–and I’m not talking about the paparazzi.. It’s a by-product of not understanding the psychological phenomenon of projection. Projection is when one person looks at another and sees what they want to see. Like falling in love, you see the other person as perfect till the other shoe drops and then you project something else. With a star, a massive number of people are projecting on to them, so it’s a much bigger deal.”
When you take a superstar of Michael Jackson’s magnitude, it’s ultra-fame, the ultimate high. Even the fans also get so blissed out by it that they sometimes pass out just by seeing him in person. This deep expression of passionate longing and desire, on the part of both the star and the fans,” Dr. Jackson notes, “comes from deep within the part of the psyche that wants something beyond the day-to-day mundane. The fans and the star create an unconscious alliance: ‘I will scream for you and make you bigger than life if you will sweep me away beyond my own everyday tedium.’”
At some point, eventually, the star realizes they are not super-human and can’t go on doing what they’ve been doing forever. But by then, they’re in a quandary. They know they’re falling short of their own and the public’s expectations, but they don’t know what to do about it. The problem is they don’t realize that this expectation is nothing but a projection. Dr. Jackson gives 3 tips for coming to terms with fame and the illusion caused by projection:
- Learn about the psychological phenomenon of projection so you can manage its effect-get someone to help you understand this if you need to.
- Connect with your spiritual belief and learn to see that your own self-value can be sustained only when it comes from within you.
- Take out the trash, do your dishes, and clean your toilet bowl yourself. Doing a little housework will do wonders for helping you get your feet back on the ground when you’re famous and feeling super human.
August 19th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
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November 2nd, 2009 at 12:11 am
Michal Jackson was one of a kind, I know what he falt when he needed for his family to be A FAMILY THAT WAY WAS NOT GOD WAY TO BE A FAMILY ,LONE’LINESS IS A BAD UGLY FEELING. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME MICHAEL JACKSON WILL LIVE FOREVER GOD
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