We can all agree on one thing: Michael Jackson was ahead of his time. And if you don’t agree, I would kindly like to request to remove thyself from this space. For here, we are Michael Jackson die-hard stans.
Musically, visually, creatively—no debate there. Again, if you want to start a debate, please…See yourself out. His music paved the way. The performances are still duplicated. The videos still feel futuristic. His work doesn’t age because it wasn’t created for a moment in time; it was created from vision. From somewhere deeper.
But what people don’t talk about enough is this: Michael wasn’t just ahead artistically. He was ahead mentally. Ahead spiritually. Ahead in consciousness.
Man in the Mirror
Let’s take a look at one of my personal favorites: Man in the Mirror. On the surface, it sounds like a feel-good, world-peace anthem. But when you actually listen you realize he was dropping principles most people only discover after years of inner work.
“If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change.”
That’s not just lyrics. That’s truth.
Long before “self-concept,” “inner work,” or “I AM consciousness” became terms coined by the spiritual world, Michael was saying the quiet part out loud: The world does not change until you do.
If you been studying consciousness, you know this idea shows up everywhere:
- The world is a mirror
- Everything is you pushed out
- Reality reflects self-perception
- Change starts within
Michael was singing that… on global stages… to millions of people… in the 80’s.
He understood something most of us still resist: You cannot fix the outside while avoiding the inside. You cannot heal the world while refusing to look at yourself. You cannot demand change without becoming it.
And it doesn’t end there.
Every person experiences reality differently because every person’s reality is differently. Everyone walks around inside their own internal world, projecting it outward. That’s why two people can live in the same city, the same house, even the same relationship and experience completely different realities.
Because reality isn’t objective. It’s personal.
Michael wasn’t telling people to blame ourselves. He was empowering us. He was saying: we’re not powerless. You don’t have to wait for systems, governments, or saviors. The moment you shift how you see yourself, how you move, how you choose—your reality responds.
That’s high-level consciousness.
There’s a story often told about Michael Jackson that says everything about how he related to creativity. Michael genuinely believed that ideas didn’t belong to him. They moved through him.
According to the anecdote, whenever a melody or concept came to him, he felt an immediate urgency to act. No waiting. No “I’ll do it tomorrow.” If inspiration struck, he would go to the studio right then—sometimes in the middle of the night, even at 3 a.m.—to record it.
Why? Because Michael believed that creative ideas were downloads from the universe. And if he didn’t receive and express them in that moment, they wouldn’t disappear—they would simply move on.
To someone else who was open enough to receive them.
Famously, he joked (or maybe wasn’t joking at all) that if he hesitated, the idea would end up with Prince.
Affirmations
There’s another layer to Michael’s greatness that people often overlook, and that’s the way he spoke to himself when no one was watching. Michael Jackson didn’t just practice dance moves and vocals, he practiced identity. He was known to repeat affirmations like “I am the best,” not from ego, but from embodiment. He was impressing that belief onto his subconscious until it became natural, until it became truth in his body. This wasn’t performance, this was programming. He understood, whether consciously or intuitively, that who you believe yourself to be shapes how you show up, and how you show up shapes what the world reflects back to you. So before the world ever crowned him the King of Pop, he had already claimed that throne within himself
As an Michael Jackson stan I can go on and on as to how he was a master manifestor and maybe I will, but one thing’s for sure: he had a great sense of consciousness and his lyrics are relevant till this day.
Honorable mention: Keep The Faith
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