Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Article from 1967
That's good enough for John, Paul, Ringo and George, who plan to take two
months off to study with Maharishi at his Academy of Meditation in
Shankaracharya, Kashmir
"The four of us," explains Ringo, "have had the most hectic lives. We have got
almost anything money can buy. But when you can do that, the things you buy mean
nothing after a time. You look for something else, for a new experience. It's
like your Dad going to the boozer and you want to find out what the taste of
drink is like. We have found something now which fills the gap. Since meeting
His Holiness, I feel great."
The feeling is mutual. Says His Holiness: "I can bring them up as very practical
philosophers of their age. They can do a great deal for the youth which they
lead." Precisely what marvels the yogi has in store for his disciples is a good
question. Yet for openers he has persuaded the Beatles to renounce drugs. Paul
claims that he now realizes that taking drugs was "like taking an aspirin
without having a headache." Says' John: "If we'd met Maharishi before we had
taken LSD, we wouldn't have needed to take it." Skeptics notwithstanding, the
Beatles could well be on to something fruitful again, which may find expression
in who knows what strange new musical forms.
And what, after all, could be a more fitting philosophy than transcendentalism
for the Beatles, who have repeatedly transcended the constricting identities
foisted on them by press and public, whose whole career has been a transcendent,
heel-clicking leap right over pop music's high Himalayas? On the basis of what
they have achieved so far, it would be rash to dispute George when he says: "We
haven't really started yet. We've only just discovered what we can do as
musicians, what thresholds we can cross. The future stretches out beyond our
imagination."
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