Post by LUCY on Aug 11, 2004 11:31:28 GMT
OPENED UP THE DOOR of PERCEPTION?
""Bleak," in the sense of John Lennon's brilliant, innocence being abused, by the vicious world and his struggle with his self-imposed burden and eventual assassination. at the hand of the manifestation of hypersuggestible psychosis---in his confrontation with the insanity inherent in society. The double edged sword of entheogenic use is pretty clear in this regard, in John and then the scary reality of Mark David Chapman and his ilk of acid monstrosities. Thus the expression "Pay through the nose," I looked in "Acid Dreams" to see what they had to say about Lennon's acid usage in tems of dating, his first use. It says he and George were "slipped" acid in a beverage, at a dinner at a friends house, in "early 1965" and tells of his initial freak out.
I estimate that to write the LSD-oriented song "Help!", Lennon must have had around 3-7 LSD sessions prior to writing the song. Not just 1 session, nor 1000 sessions. This sort of exclamation and discovery of the need for rescue generally doesn't happen at the very beginning of a series of loose-cognition sessions, nor does it wait very long.
A single LSD session has a quick ramp up to the peak, followed by a long decline -- so does the mind discover the wonders of the altered state over the course of many sessions. The most amazing discovery is not in the first or second session, nor the 1000th, but more like the number of planets. For the most interesting acid-inspired album by a Classic/Heavy Rock group, look for their second album in which they evidence some knowledge of LSD -- not their first LSD album, nor their 7th LSD album.
Bob Prostovich wrote:
>I have an ancient interview with John Lennon on a reel to reel tape. In the long ago radio interview, John Lennon said that the song "Help" was written after a recording session while on LSD. "
www.egodeath.com/MysticStateAllusionsBeatles.htm
and more:
www.egodeath.com/johnlennonhelp.htm
"This confirms that Rubber Soul was released late enough after Lennon's first LSD experience to have been LSD-influenced. However, I insist that the line "my independence seems to vanish in the haze" and other lyrics in the song "Help" are almost certainly an LSD allusion to LSD panic and prayer. I have heard both "Jan 65" and "Aug 65" cited as dates for the release of the album "Help".
One place, I read that the album "Help" was released in January 1965. Elsewhere, I read that the album was released August 1965. My hypothesis is that the song "Help" was written *after* Lennon had taken LSD several times, and is full of double-entendres that allude to standard LSD experiences.
Rubber Soul, in late 1965, is packed full of quite adept LSD encoding, so it is very reasonable to propose that the song "Help" contains LSD allusions, if it was recorded just a few months earlier than Rubber Soul and at least several weeks after Lennon's first LSD session, most likely after at least 4 or 5 LSD sessions. The lyrics of "Help" certainly look like masterful work of someone who is adept at alluding to LSD experiences.
If someone claims that Help was written before Lennon had first-hand experience with LSD, I would be highly skeptical and would look for a secret history of his having taken LSD *before* the date of writing the song "Help". It is unbelievable that Help was written without first-hand experience with LSD; it matches the standard LSD lyrical encoding techniques too perfectly to be a coincidence. "
""Bleak," in the sense of John Lennon's brilliant, innocence being abused, by the vicious world and his struggle with his self-imposed burden and eventual assassination. at the hand of the manifestation of hypersuggestible psychosis---in his confrontation with the insanity inherent in society. The double edged sword of entheogenic use is pretty clear in this regard, in John and then the scary reality of Mark David Chapman and his ilk of acid monstrosities. Thus the expression "Pay through the nose," I looked in "Acid Dreams" to see what they had to say about Lennon's acid usage in tems of dating, his first use. It says he and George were "slipped" acid in a beverage, at a dinner at a friends house, in "early 1965" and tells of his initial freak out.
I estimate that to write the LSD-oriented song "Help!", Lennon must have had around 3-7 LSD sessions prior to writing the song. Not just 1 session, nor 1000 sessions. This sort of exclamation and discovery of the need for rescue generally doesn't happen at the very beginning of a series of loose-cognition sessions, nor does it wait very long.
A single LSD session has a quick ramp up to the peak, followed by a long decline -- so does the mind discover the wonders of the altered state over the course of many sessions. The most amazing discovery is not in the first or second session, nor the 1000th, but more like the number of planets. For the most interesting acid-inspired album by a Classic/Heavy Rock group, look for their second album in which they evidence some knowledge of LSD -- not their first LSD album, nor their 7th LSD album.
Bob Prostovich wrote:
>I have an ancient interview with John Lennon on a reel to reel tape. In the long ago radio interview, John Lennon said that the song "Help" was written after a recording session while on LSD. "
www.egodeath.com/MysticStateAllusionsBeatles.htm
and more:
www.egodeath.com/johnlennonhelp.htm
"This confirms that Rubber Soul was released late enough after Lennon's first LSD experience to have been LSD-influenced. However, I insist that the line "my independence seems to vanish in the haze" and other lyrics in the song "Help" are almost certainly an LSD allusion to LSD panic and prayer. I have heard both "Jan 65" and "Aug 65" cited as dates for the release of the album "Help".
One place, I read that the album "Help" was released in January 1965. Elsewhere, I read that the album was released August 1965. My hypothesis is that the song "Help" was written *after* Lennon had taken LSD several times, and is full of double-entendres that allude to standard LSD experiences.
Rubber Soul, in late 1965, is packed full of quite adept LSD encoding, so it is very reasonable to propose that the song "Help" contains LSD allusions, if it was recorded just a few months earlier than Rubber Soul and at least several weeks after Lennon's first LSD session, most likely after at least 4 or 5 LSD sessions. The lyrics of "Help" certainly look like masterful work of someone who is adept at alluding to LSD experiences.
If someone claims that Help was written before Lennon had first-hand experience with LSD, I would be highly skeptical and would look for a secret history of his having taken LSD *before* the date of writing the song "Help". It is unbelievable that Help was written without first-hand experience with LSD; it matches the standard LSD lyrical encoding techniques too perfectly to be a coincidence. "
