George Harrison & Ravi Shankar - Mystic living in a Material World

agree and have always felt the same as he, that we are

 spirits within these bodies, people forget.

And it's our bodies that get old, not us inside. We may learn (hopefully) and get wiser, but we don't get old like our bodies.

George was one of the most coolest people andcoolest musicians. ~Peace George~

you can just feel the love


George Harrison - Mystic living in a Material World
The Beatles Discover Meditation

In 1967, George's first wife, Patti Boyd, learned Transcendental Meditation in London while George was away on tour with The Beatles. "I loved meditating and found the effects remarkable," she said. "The benefits are cumulative. It did what it said on the bottle -- it was life-changing. I couldn't wait to tell George."

Beatles aficionados know what happened next. The band returned to London and at Patti's urging attended a Maharishi lecture. They learned meditation and soon embarked on their journey to Maharishi's academy in Rishikesh, India -- where, in spare time between meditating and attending lectures, they created some of the most acclaimed music of their career.

Yet, fewer Beatles enthusiasts know the true story of what happened in Rishikesh, or how the band's continued involvement with meditation impacted their life and music.

George's Transcendental Side

Allusions to transcendence -- the experience gained during meditation when the mind goes beyond thinking to experience pure awareness -- began appearing throughout Harrison's lyrics. One overt example is his faux raga, "The Inner Light:"

Without looking out of your window

You could know the ways of heaven

It was as if the bottom had fallen out of George's younger, boy-wants-girl Beatle songs ("I Need You," "You Like Me Too Much") and the songs were now ballads of spiritual yearning and awakening ("All Things Must Pass," "Let It Roll," "My Sweet Lord").

Scorsese's film underscores Harrison's inner quest, yet deals honestly with his struggle to balance staggering fame and material success with his desire to live a truthful life. Scorsese shows Harrison caught between the spiritual and material, as the former Beatle portrays himself in the title song of his 1973 album "Living In The Material World."

For stability amid the turmoil, Harrison always returned to meditation.

"I still practice Transcendental Meditation," said George in his later years. "Maharishi only ever did good for us, and though I have not been with him physically, I never left him."

During the 1990s, George met again with Maharishi at the international Transcendental Meditation campus in Holland. Shortly thereafter, Harrison performed a benefit concert in London to support Transcendental Meditation and related "consciousness-based" programs throughout the United Kingdom -- his last full concert.