Michael's drummer Jonathan Moffett speaks of an energy, a light around Michael [interview with Valmai Owens] ~
Valmai: Jonathan, people speak of an energy around Michael; a light. Did you ever feel that?
Jonathan: All the time, every time I am around him. That’s why you
know you are in the presence of greatness. That’s why you know you’re in
the presence of somebody special. Just count the number of fans and
people and the multitude that love him around the world. He’s one man
loved by... CNN said that over one billion people mourned Michael from
all the remote areas of the world, as well as all the known areas. What
other human being can draw that much sympathy and that much hurt from
their loss. Michael had something special, a radiance, and when you were
in his presence the whole room changed.
People would say,
"Michael’s coming," and everybody got nervous. As soon as you had the
vision of him, even just knowing he was coming, you felt something, like
a tingle happening. Just to watch him walk through the door, it’s like
all the molecules in the air stop and you can pinch them with your
finger; pick them up. It’s like you could see the smallest speck; you
could see the molecules in the air when Michael walked in the room. He
changed them; the molecular structure of the air. And that’s the
equation of what happens when Michael enters, and everybody in the room
felt it and knew it. Then their attitudes and personalities would
change. They would perk up their attention, but they would always say,
“There’s something with him. When he came in I got nervous. I felt
something!” And I would hear that over and over again and I would say,
“I know, I know. I’ve been feeling it for thirty years.”
And
he was just so pleasant; just something with his imagery. Everybody
radiates from a different frequency, and Michael had the highest level
of energy I think without being from another world. His gift and his
humanity of spirit were just so powerful and great and deep. He was a
different human being from most of us; from all of us. He did affect
everybody that came around him, from leaders of the world to normal
folk, from children to people, grandmothers. Every single person that’s
been around him said they felt something, that I remember seeing or
talking to.
And that’s why people cry. People absolutely cry. I
would sit on stage and watch them pass bodies, like back in the
medieval days when people died of the plague. You would see them lift
bodies, arms dangling and legs, heads swinging, and there was like an
ocean of people with their arms up passing bodies to the front, to the
gate. There would be a line-up there of emergency vehicles... five, ten
of them lined up. There were stretchers and triages back there. One by
one, people were passing them forward; sometimes a multitude of bodies
moving across the crowd being passed to the rescue people. They would
give them smelling salts and try to revive them. Some people were just
totally gone, unconscious, you know, like totally no life in them, and
that’s just from being in that stadium with Michael. I just got to just
sit back there and marvel at it. It was just the most powerful thing to
see, and that’s just from that one man in the center of the stage. He
made even men pass out; women and men. That’s a power and Michael knew
it. He knew he was gifted with something special, a purpose; uniting the
world and uniting people. ~ Jonathan Moffett
Full interview with Valmai Owens and Jonathan Moffett ~ http://thejamcafe-mjtpmagazine.com/issue/beyond-the-dream/article/interview-with-jonathan-moffett