Why Is the Problem with Rock Music? Q: In rock music, is it more dangerous to listen to the rhythm or the words or the music? RK: It is the rhythm. Q: If a person is aware of that rhythm and the dangers of it, does that make them? RK: No. It is hard to fight off. There are certain kinds of rhythms you can listen to, but you can say that I am not going to let this effect me, but you suddenly realize that your pulse is rising, you are feeling more angry, you are doing something aggressive to get rid of the feelings that you are getting. Witches have used those very same rhythms for centuries and centuries to kind of make people “dance to their tune,” as it were. Make them do what they want them to do. They are even involved in war-dances in a lot of tribes. It is just the rhythm. It is interesting to note that those rhythms have been proven to kill plants, make their roots shrivel up and the plant just keels over, it dries up cows that used to be giving milk, prevents hogs from putting on much weight. It has been demonstrated over and over again as to the kind of effect that that rhythm has. Not just on human beings but on other life forms. Even if mentally you can somehow overcome it, physically or physiologically you are still being negatively influenced. Q: How do you know which rhythms are causing the trouble? RK: There is one they call the anapestic rhythm which most rock music uses. It does not make any difference if it is “acid rock” or something which seems more mellow in tone. It is the rhythm and not the tune or the worlds. If somebody like the KISS group or something like that—Knights in Service of Satan is what that stands for—they have their own kinds of really weird lyrics which, if you listen to them, are really undermining so far as having a positive attitude toward life is concerned. That can add to it, but all of us are subject to the negative influence of that rock beat and the rhythm. The reason why it was made popular was to actually undermine people. It worked very well. Women who are pregnant women definitely should not expose themselves to rock music while carrying the baby. It induces a physiological deficiency in the infant and probably also conditions the infant to listen to the music for the rest of their lives. It is more insidious than people realize. It is a minor sort of thing to talk about. There are bigger things in the world that are more important, but it another one of those things which is keeping people from moving forward at the rate we should. This is such a wonderful nation. All of the things that we can do, a place where people can actually carry out their ambition to not suffer in frustration a lifetime because there is just no way to make something happen that is good and beautiful. They can do it. And yet, many people are turned away from even the desire to do that sort of thing, led into despair by the kinds of influences that they cannot even begin to measure or have any concept of what it is doing to them. Indeed, it is popular. If you do not do it is terrible. You have to smoke and take drugs and listen to rock music if you want to be “in.” How much can you preach about something like that. It has got to be an unpopular stance to preach about all the things that are wrong and bad because if you want to be anybody as a teenager, you have to do all of that stuff. Plus get pregnant or get somebody pregnant. That is another big thing, too. From where I stand, the whole thing is insane. Yet fortunately, there are some people who have, by one fluke or another, managed to escape from that situation. They decided it was not for them and just did not set well with them, so they avoided it. Not to be a snob or try to be different from anybody else or be outside of the group, but it just did not work with them. So, the only people we can really talk to is the ones we can get to listen to us. Somehow or other, we have to get together and save ourselves, and in the long run help toward building the Nation of God, where all of these things can be avoided henceforth. It all sounds very grandiose and beautiful and so forth, but people do have to somehow get together and make that happen. We think that we are sent here with people who want to do that and find one another to make it happen. We cannot pull them in with a hook and say, “Get down. We have to talk to you about what you are really doing because people, literally, will not listen. How in the world are we going to get this thing going? I am muddled. Somehow or other the people are there. They said there is a remnant of people who have held themselves away and outside of all these things and they will get together. I keep talking hoping that somebody is going to hear. And we keep printing things in hope that people will read about us and say, “Yes. They have something that is going to benefit me.” Hopefully, that is going to happen more rapidly in larger and larger numbers in the not-to-distant future. (02-1983)
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