The Morrison biography Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison, by James Riordan and Jerry Prochnicky, describes a tantalizing meeting between the singer and that other wildly successful 1960s spellbinder, Carlos Castañeda. Here is a zone somewhere between verifiable fact and provocative fiction, or anthropology as a branch of show business. People found it hard to tell whether Morrison was serious about his mystical bent or sending the whole thing up. On the great 2001 live collection Bright Midnight: Live in America, there’s a between-songs exchange with a girl in one audience about astrology. Morrison swaps a few apparently sincere sentences with her about star signs before turning aside to abruptly conclude: “Well, I don’t know. I think it’s all a bunch of bullshit myself.”
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