Was Jim Morrison religious, and what religion?

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Please don't say anything about drugs or alcohol.

Answer 1

He was raised Catholic. in college he was a disciple of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. I believe he was on a spiritual quest his entire life but was unable to commit to one practice.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Jim was not any particular religion. His ancestors were Irish and Scottish so when he was younger he practiced a catholic or roman Catholic religion. I remember reading in a book that he did not totally accept or call this religion his own but supposedly he went to a Catholic church when he had a problem when he was a teenager. This last has not been proven but his girlfriend from then said her mother dropped him of at the church but she was not certain if he even went in. I would say that Jim was more spiritual than religious. I think that he believed in a "greater being" as most religions do. It also seems that he picked up thoughts of beliefs from other religions such as the belief of karma from the Buddhists. He was also very interested in Native American Shamanism. Jim never, or at least in interviews confirm himself as having any particular religion, but this is not to say that he did not hold certain spiritual beliefs concerning with how you treat people, life, and death. If you would like to look deeper into Jim's religious or spiritual beliefs I would suggest that you read some of his poetry, the poem A Feast of Friends in particular, I think it reveals a lot about his personality and thoughts, especially regarding his religious beliefs.

Answer 4

I would say he was spiritual. He was an explorer. He liked to learn about different aspects of spirituality, and in particular Native American spirituality was of interest to him. Some say that he really did believe that the soul of an Indian had jumped into him, some people say that's just something he said to be his controversial self.

He also explored Wicca, and married a Wiccan woman (in ceremony only, not legally) by the name of Patricia Kennealy.

I think, from what I have read that he believed in a soul, and that he may have believed in an afterlife. But he didn't have any religion in particular. He did not like constraints and limits.

The very name of the band came from this quote by Aldous Huxley -

"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through' narrow chinks of his cavern."

Anything that closed his mind to further exploration would have been regarded as something that "closed" his doors of perception.

Jim was quite the enigma.

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Was Jim Morrison religious, and what religion?
Please don't say anything about drugs or alcohol.

Answer 6

Jim Morrison was not religious but he was a Catholic

Answer 7

I don't think he was religious in any conventional way, but he was spiritual. He believed in many of the same things that Native Americans do, and he was greatly influenced by them. He was also influenced by a writer whose name I don't know how to spell, so I will try to spell it the way it sounds. It was pronounced like Neechee.

Answer 8

I have read his book and he did not appear religious, but he had a strong connection to indian spirits and was very sensitive to their pain at a roadside accident that his parents did not stop to help at.
He writes alot about spiritual things, but his mind is alittle fried from all the drugs and alchohol.

Answer 9

I love his music, but you can't say much about the guy without mentioning drugs or alcohol.

He was very experimental spiritually as well. The two were often intertwined. You would have to ask him to know if he really found any answers.

Answer 10

Wikipedia had nothing to say on that. This other site I found implied he might have been "spiritual but not religious".