![]() ![]() Some consisted of anarchic, noisy “space music.” Others featured lush, whimsical takes on Gershwin or Disney classics. In response, during the next four decades-until his death, in 1993-Ra released more than a hundred albums of visionary jazz. By the fifties, the signs of hopelessness were everywhere: racism, the threat of nuclear war, social movements that sought political freedom but not cosmic enlightenment. This instruction guided Ra for the rest of his life as a musician and a thinker. They instructed him to wait until life on Earth seemed most hopeless then he could finally speak, imparting to the world the “equations” for transcending human reality. They shared knowledge with him that freed him from the limits of the human imagination. They beamed him to Saturn and told him that a more meaningful path than teaching awaited him. The aliens, who had little antennas growing above their eyes and on their ears, recognized in Ra a kindred spirit. ![]() According to Ra, this encounter happened in the nineteen-thirties, when he was enrolled in a teachers’-training course at a college in Huntsville, Alabama. ![]() When the aliens came for Sun Ra, they explained that he had been selected for his “perfect discipline.” Not every human was fit for space travel, but he, with his expert control over his mind and body, could survive the journey. ![]()
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