BOWIE USED WITCHCRAFT TO BEAT COCAINE PARANOIA



A white witch helped cure DAVID BOWIE of his crippling drug-fuelled paranoia, according to a revealing new book about the rock star.

Writer Mark Spitz spent years talking to Bowie, as well as the rocker's family and friends, in a bid to explode myths about the Let's Dance legend in his new tome, Bowie.

And Spitz reveals how the rocker called on magic to help him get through a terrifying part of his life.

In the book, Spitz writes, "While planning the follow-up to Young Americans (album), Bowie would sit in the house with a pile of high-quality cocaine atop the glass coffee table, a sketch pad and a stack of books. Psychic Self Defense was his favourite. Its author describes the book as a 'safeguard for protecting yourself against paranormal malevolence.'

"Using this and more arcane books on witchcraft, white magic and its malevolent counterpart, black magic, as rough guides to his own rapidly fragmenting psyche, Bowie began drawing protective pentagrams on every surface."

Bowie told the author, "I'd stay up for weeks. Even people like Keith Richards were floored by it. And there were pieces of me all over the floor. I paid with the worst manic depression of my life. My psyche went through the roof, it just fractured into pieces. I was hallucinating 24 hours a day."

Spitz adds, "Increasingly Bowie was convinced there were witches after his semen. They were intent on using it to make a child to sacrifice to the devil, essentially the plot to Roman Polanski's 1968 supernatural classic Rosemary's Baby."

A friend hooked Bowie up with New York-based white witch Walli Elmlark.

The author adds, "Elmlark quickly and successfully exorcised the pool. Angie (Bowie), who was living there at the time, noted that it started to bubble and smoke, and that it only rained outside David's window while the rest of the L.A. sky was clear. Elmlark wrote a series of spells and incantations out for Bowie as he continued to wrestle with the forces of darkness."



Contact Music, 26 October 2009

Sounds fascinating!

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Isn't this a passage from Stardust by Tony Zanetta? From what I've been reading on here, this new book sounds like passages lifted from other sources and compiled into yet another book.

As Bowie said in 1986, "It's like a bloody cottage industry!"

Mist.

Not sure if it is lifted word for word but it's certainly the second "new" old story we are hearing from Spitz's new biography.

I recall some of the above in Buckley's Strange Fascination but I don't recall reading, for instance, the name of the actual witch. Googling now shows it is nothing new - the name 'Walli Elmark' mainly brings up reference to David Bowie.

I wonder what he has to say about NEU! and "Heroes. Any new insights, perhaps?

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From an interview with Tim Beckley (Publisher, Reporter, Movie Producer, and UFO Paranormal Researcher and Experiencer!):


My friend Walli Elmlark was the White Witch of New York, and she also wrote a column for Circus magazine which is kind of a hard rock version of Rolling Stones.


She met all of these different rock stars and I would hang out at her apartment and since I was writing for some of the magazines too I met them at press conferences and socialized with them.


Of course, this is when they were on their way up the ladder to success although they were more anxious to meet with the press and tell their stories and all. And when I did meet with David he was signed to RCA Records and he was doing the Ziggy Stardust tour.


I met him and he was dressed up as Ziggy Stardust.


We never did talk a great deal about UFOs. He did tell me that he believed in UFOs and was interested in the aliens and stuff like that, but he was good friends with Walli and in one of the books written about David Bowies career there is three pages about Wallis dealings with him because for awhile he was heavily into the Wicca.


Then he got into Buddhism, and I dont know what hes into now. But rumor has it that he had UFO sightings in England while growing up and then was actually an editor of a UFO newsletter when he was a teenager, but I dont know what that newsletter was.

-"Since I'm going to Hell, bet ya $20.00 it looks like a Rob Zombie production ."

I burrowed through my back issues of Fortean Times Magazine to unearth an article about UFO obsessions among Sixties English rockers. It's a quote from the November '03 issue of Word:

"Throughout his career, David Bowie has flirted with the idea of the alien, often mentioning extraterrestrials in songs such as Starman, and creating the Ziggy Stardust persona. In the late 1960s, before he was catapulted to fame with the single Space Oddity, he claimed to have been closely involved with flying saucer research. In 1975, he revealed to Creem magazine: I used to work for two guys who put out a UFO magazine in England about six years ago. And I made sightings six, seven times a night for about a year, when I was in the observatory. We had regular cruises that came over. We knew the 6.15 was coming in and would meet up with another one. And they would be stationary for about half an hour, and then after verifying what theyd been doing that day, theyd shoot off. The fact that the 6.15 was so regular over south London should have given Bowie a hint that it might have been an aircraft rather than a UFO! Bowies active interest in UFO research dwindled as his fame as a performer grew, but it cant have been helped by this event, recounted in a recent issue of The Word: An early attempt, while living in Beckenham, to attract extraterrestrials involved standing on his roof at dusk pointing a coat hanger into the skies. He gave up, dejectedly, when a passer-by enquired, Do you get BBC2?

I used to wake up the ocean

Check this link below out. I emailed Alan Yentob about the recording, but got no reply.

http://www.ufomind.com/misc/1997/aug/d18-001.shtml

Mist.

Always worth a try.


I live just up the road from a ROGER BUCKMASTER who trained in England as a violin maker.


He owns a specialist string instrument store just a suburb away and I am hoping that one day he might turn around and say "oh, it's a bit like that old soundtrack I have of David Bowie with my brother Paul".


We have to eventually luck out one day.

The Fortean Times (FT228, Nov. 2007) also had an article about a celebrated UFO hoax in 1967 in (wait for it...) Bromley, Kent. Some bright boys (no Bo) made a flying saucer, phoned in some fake sightings and left their artifact in a field. The MOD got its knickers all in a twist until the hoax was uncovered. It's unrelated to anything, and yet somehow resonant.

I used to wake up the ocean