Arthur Brown - Part 3 ‘The Core Of Stillness‘ Interview by iain McNay
Arthur has recorded many albums over a 50 year period and is best known for his No 1 Worldwide hit ‘Fire.’ He has been a major influence on many successful artists including Alice Cooper, Kiss, Ozzy Osbourne, Peter Gabriel, Iggy Pop and the New York Dolls.
His music has always been driven by his spiritual realisations. In Part 3 Arthur talks about his time spent studying and teaching the Beshara tradition. He then moved to Austin, Texas where he forged links with Gurdjieff groups while running a painting and decorating business with the Mothers of Invention drummer, Jimmy Carl Black. He tells an amusing story about being with Da Free John and talks about three people that had significant influence on this spiritual development, Mooji, Satyananda and Ganga.
He formed a ‘Healing Songs Therapy’ group with counsellor Jim Maxwell where a song was created for each of their clients to help them heal.
He toured with Robert Plant and in 2013 recorded an album ‘based on the Cosmos’ called ‘Zim Zam Zim.’
His spiritual journey was always in the foreground, ‘Who Am I? Not my body, Not my thoughts.
My mind is at peace. I can bear without the slightest restlessness all manifestations – all thoughts and images that arise – both pleasant and painful. Suddenly I know that this awareness of all and everything is itself a limitation. Subjects, object and consciousness are one and the same’