OCCULT ELVIS

An esoteric and magical portrait of Elvis Presley“A lively new book.” -The Guardian“Spine-chilling exposé.” -The Daily Mail• Draws on firsthand accounts from Elvis’s wife Priscilla his friends and family the Memphis Mafia and his spiritual advisors• Looks at key teachers who influenced him including Yogananda H. P. Blavatsky and Manly P. Hall• Examines Elvis’s efforts as a natural healer the significance of his UFO encounters and his telekinetic psychic and astral traveling abilitiesElvis Presley the most successful solo artist in history and an emblematic cultural figure of the Western world has been widely perceived as a conservative Southern Christian. However the truth about the man has been missed.Writer and researcher Miguel Conner reveals how Elvis was a profound mystic occultist and shaman. Beginning with the unusual circumstances of his birth-and his stillborn twin brother-Conner traces the diverse thread of mysticism that runs through Elvis Presley’s life drawing on firsthand accounts from the people closest to him including his wife Priscilla the Memphis Mafia and his spiritual advisors. He shows how Elvis studied seminal 19th- and 20th-century occultists including H. P. Blavatsky Manly P. Hall G. I. Gurdjieff and P. D. Ouspensky and was a devotee of Indian yogi Paramahansa Yogananda. Conner argues that Elvis was well-versed in the esoteric practices of sex magic meditation astrology and numerology and had a deep familiarity with Kabbalah Gnosticism Theosophy and Eastern traditions. He also reveals how Elvis was a natural healer telekinetic psychic and astral traveler who had significant mystical experiences and UFO encounters.Looking at the conspiratorial and paranormal aspects of Elvis’s life the author explores the Elvis visitations that have occurred since the King’s death and the general high weirdness of his life. As Conner convincingly argues Elvis was not just a one-of-a-kind rock-and-roller. He was the greatest magician America ever produced.