Hi! I'm new here. I visited this forum a couple of weeks ago but I couldn't post anything. I had a problem with my computer...Anyways, I just wanted to let you know that I purchased a new book titled "Jim Morrison Ceremnoy" by Adriana Rubio. The author explores Morrison's beliefs. He was so connected with Shamanism, Voodoo and Santeria. According to what I've read over the years, so many book authors mentioned the voodoo thing, but no one investigated it the way Rubio did. There's an author called Thomas Lyttle who said that Jim's death could be related to some voodoo spells, rituals and stuff like that. Lyttle tried to put Jim into a very wierd thing called "zombification" which is something practiced in voodoo, suggesting that Morrison faked his death by using a voodoo ritual. I really congratulate author Adriana Rubio for the investigation she did on the whole matter. In her book "Ceremony" she explains what zombification is about, something Thomas Lyttle never did for his article. Rubio also explains what Tetrodotoxin is about, another thing Lyttle never explained. Rubio also contacted an expert in this field called Wade Davis. After that she got to the conclusion that there's NO possible way to think that Jim Morrison may have ingested Tetrodotoxin to fake his death. I think you should read this book. For further info I suggest you to visit the author website at www.artspublications.net

I've only read the official biography, but I've never heard that he was into anything other than shamanism. He didn't need to zombify to fake his death, only three people ever saw the body, which is an easily bribable number of people.

This stinks of spam.

Yes, but it's also something that I'm sure a few people will be interested in.

We'll see how it goes. If this butterfly person doesn't ever post in this thread again, and it doesn't get a lot of hits about the topic, I'll kill the thread. If people want to talk about it, I'll let it be.

Personally, I couldn't care less about his religious beliefs. Hell, I think the Doors are one of the most overrated rock groups ever. While I find Voodoo and Santeria interesting, the idea that Jim was bright enough (not to mention sober enough) to contrive faking his death through "zombification" is laughable. Ha ha.

The idea that a man who, through his own recklessness (and frankly, towards the end of his life the risks he took were absurd) could poison himself to death with massive quantities of drugs and alcohol by the time he was twenty seven makes a lot more sense to me than the idea of him faking his own death, and thereby denying himself all the royalties he was due over the next 35 years of successful album sales...

Hi! I'm here again. Sorry if I don't post often here. Hope you can understand that I'm in my late 40s and usually don't have enough time to relax myself and share my thoughts with others. The thing is that I've read around ten books about The Doors and Jim Morrison over the years and it's the first time I found something different on Morrison. I just wanted to share it with people advocated to philosophy and religions. This book "Ceremony" makes the difference and I congratulate the author for the investigation she did on the whole matter. Author Rubio never said that Morrison faked his death by using the zombification thing. She investigated what zombification is about to clear up that there's no possible way to affirm that Jim Morrison may have used tetrodotoxin to fake his death. The author contacted Wade Davis, a well known scientist on this field, and his words are in chapter 4 "Voodoo".

I forgot something: Too many things have been said about Morrison's death, and although three or four ones saw the body back in 1971, there're lots of irregularities around his death. The author of "Ceremony" also investigated the possibility of Jim Morrison bieng alive since she interviewed a man who claims to be Jim's agent today. Regarding his religious beliefs, yes he was mostly into Shamanism, but he also enjoyed Santeria and Voodoo. According to what I've read Morrison was so spiritual himself and had the ability to get into different type of trances which are not only related to Shamanism.

you know with what you are talking about from jim morison's death. when it would come to the zombification and voodoo. it remins me of a movie called "serpent and the rainbow" a movie made by wes craven. you should check it out if you have or haven't seen it. but as far as jim morison goes. i dig a little bit of his music but i could care less about how he faked his own death. if he faked his own death or not. i don't really care about it. i'm not jamming this stuff down in your throat in a bad manner. i'm just giving you my own taste of opinion... but if you are into this stuff that is seriously cool. i'm happy for you and all. anyway this is all i have to say. so take care and the such.