From: jcblal@clark.net (Jessie Blalock)
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Subject: More Elvis
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 11:39:46 GMT
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The following quotes are from "Elvis Aaron Presley: Revelations From
The Memphis Mafia" by Alanna Nash, with Billy Smith, Marty Lacker, and
Lamar Fike (copyright 1995, Harper Collins).

Lamar Fike: "The Scientologists tried to get Elvis involved later on,
mostly to get money out of him.  He wanted no part of it.  And he
nailed them pretty hard.  Priscilla and Lisa Marie are into it
big-time.  They say that it's not a cult, that it teaches you to
confront issues, talk things out, and get straight with yourself."
(p. 398)

Lamar Fike: "Elvis knew that a lot of people just looked at him as a
dollar sign.  Peggy Lipton, the actress, tried to get him into
Scientology in  73 or  74.  He dated her on and off for about a month.
He sent his place to bring her up to Tahoe one night when he was
playing there. But she wanted to talk to him about Scientology more
than anything else.  And she stayed on him.

     "In Scientology, they do a process called  auditing'.  They hook
you up to a machine that's kind of like a lie detector.  And they ask
you questions about your personal life,  and this machine records the
electrical changes that take place in your body as you  answer.  Then
they analyze that and have you cleanse your soul to get all these
negative thoughts and painful experiences - they call them  engrams' -
behind you.

     "One day, in L.A., we got in the limousine and went down to the
Scientology center on Sunset, and Elvis went in and talked to them.
We waited in the car, but apparently they started doing all these
charts and crap for him.  

     "Elvis came out and said  Fuck those people!  There's no way I'll
ever get involved with that son-of-a-bitchin' group.  All they want is
my money.'  Well, Peggy still kept on about it, so Elvis didn't date
her any more.  And he stayed away from Scientology like it was a 
cobra.  He'd shit a brick to see how far Lisa Marie's gotten into it."

More tomorrow.