ON FREDDIE MERCURY, ZOROASTRIANISM, AND COMMUNING WITH AUDIENCE

I will try, but words cannot describe my adoration for the late great Freddie Mercury. I believe his sex appeal transcended more than just male, female, homosexual, bisexual,  heterosexual, transsexual, transfeminine, transmasculine, transgender, or any other gender descriptive adjective.  I believe he probably could have communed with an entirely different species on a distant undiscovered planet.  He was timeless, ageless and he spoke the language of pure LOVE.  In the way he carried himself, in his lyrics, in his voice – he emanated pure universal love.  Maybe this had to do with his religion – Zoroastrianism, which was the religion of pre-Islamic Persia (or modern day Iran).  There are somewhere between 100,000 to 200,000 followers worldwide today. Not a lot. It’s as rare a gem of a religion as Freddie Mercury was a musician. 

Zoroaster proclaimed that Ahura Mazda was the supreme creator – the creative and sustaining force of the universe. Humans are given a choice between supporting Ahura Mazda or not, thus making them responsible for their own fates and soul decisions.  Angra Mainyu’s negative forces are born from Aka Manah or evil thought.  Evil thought is considered to be a Zoroastrian’s worst enemy.  But here’s the interesting part, and maybe I’m crazy (well, we all know that’s not a “maybe” at all), but I see this next fact about Zoroastrianism appearing in Freddie’s music.  The life force that originates from Ahura Mazda, is known as asha meaning truth and cosmic order. It stands in opposition to druj  which is falsehood or deceit. It’s almost like tribes of good and bad fighting for control.  So many classic films are based on the theme of Good vs. Evil. Certainly, it’s an operatic concept.  But when Truth and Cosmic order become a standard to strive for (ie: Zoroastrianism) , that is approaching a land called Utopia.  Because Truth is everything that’s right and beautiful about the world and humanity.  Truth does not have to be “ugly” contrary to popular belief.   If we knew “truth” to be beautiful, then we’d live it and reach for it every day, as we should.  That’s what Freddie Mercury’s music emanated – this Universal Truth that all of humanity shares.  Yes – We Are The Champions.  Not because some are better than others, but because we stand as One.  One Creation. One Humanity.  One Love. That Oneness makes us The Champions. Don’t Stop Me Now.  Was he speaking only to my soul when he wrote the lyrics?  When my energy is running on that altitudinous level, I have felt every single one of those descriptions.  I just couldn’t verbalize them. “And the world, I’ll turn it inside out, yeah. I’m floating around in ecstasy…”(totally me).   “I’m a racing car – passing by – like Lady Godiva, I’m gonna go – go – go, there’s no stopping me.” (Exactly).  “I’m a rocket ship on my way to Mars on a collision course, I am a satellite, I’m out of control…” Just about every day! Thank you Freddie for expressing it so exactly spot on!  Or maybe I just speak your language Mr. Mercury.  We Will Rock You – Freddie had a way of transforming the worst parts of life into a magnificent reality and reminder that this IS life, and it is magnificent, simply because it is that.  Life doesn’t need anymore than itself to be exquisite.  The first lines in every stanza take us through an entire man’s life: “Buddy you’re a boy, make a big noise…you got mud on your face, a big disgrace, kickin’ your can all over the place”… singing “We will, we will ROCK you!” Keep rising. Keep fighting. Keep shining.  “Buddy you’re a young man, hard man…you got blood on your face, a big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place”… And right at about mid-life, don’t we all join causes and champion something or other, so we can remember that we’re alive, so that we can wake up the daily numbness, and so that we can “belong” to some movement – waving our banners all over the place, and “we will, we will rock you, we will we will rock you” and we all joined in.  We could never resist, because Freddie’s passionate energy was contagious and warmly beckoning  – an entirely filled Wembley stadium of 90,000 fans chanting the words with him, and the love was overflowing.  The love was overflowing.  “Buddy, you’re an old man, poor man…pleading with your eyes, gonna make you some peace someday… you got mud on your face…”  And again, “we will, we will rock you… we will, we we will ROCK you!”   Freddie definitely knew how to raise the vibration.  A soul ahead of his time and a kindred spirit.  Inspired by John Lennon, Freddie wrote a song called There Must Be More To Life Than This. He said that it was the nearest he wanted to go in terms of talking about world politics or the disasters happening around the world. A fellow empath, I believe it hurt his heart to write about the state of humanity.   ” Why is this world so full of hate? People dying everywhere. And we destroy what we create. People fighting for their human rights. But we just go on saying c’est la vie – so this is life.”  For Freddie, the theme had to be love.  Love. The one important subject nobody seems to talk about today. Today, when we need to talk about it the most.   And what about the theme of everyone working together to build a better world?  Time Waits for No One – how very true and how many songwriters approach the subject so directly and unabashedly?  “And it seems to me we’ve not cared enough, or confided in each other at all” – that’s an understatement if you ask me.  “It seems like we’ve all got our backs against the wall.”  Yes, we do.  The planet has its back against the wall.  Let’s multiply that microcosm of 90,000 adoring fans at Wembley Stadium chanting in unison, by almost itself -90,000 (8,185,531,174) to arrive at earth’s population today.  Let’s all raise the vibration together as a tribute to Freddie and chant the lyrics of Crazy Little Thing Called Love – let the whole world chant it together –