I met the Walrus

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrators James Braithwaite and Alex Kurina have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. A spellbinding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit and timeless message, I Met the Walrus was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Animated Short and won the 2009 Emmy for 'New Approaches' (making it the first film to win an Emmy on behalf of the internet).

Imagine a World Without Hate

Thanks Relaxed Focus

Real

Thanks to Alienpunk for these.

Magical Mystery Tour

I should have expected this after seeing Yellow Submarine, but this is another symbolic masterpiece. It's hilariously filmed and acted and so much symbolism in it, watching it again may possibly yield more insights. I need to see everything the Beatles ever made now!

Violins

George Harrison quotes

“Love one another.” (last words)

“I think people who can truly live a life in music are telling the world, "You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don't need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give”

“When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.”

“Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.”

“As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.”

“With our love, we could save the world.”

“There's high, and there's high, and to get really high--I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going'.” 

"I felt in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything." (of first taking LSD) 

“I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.”

“They used us as an excuse to go mad and then blamed it on us. Gandhi says create and preserve the image of your choice. The image of my choice is not Beatle George - those who want that can go and see Wings. Why live in the past? Be here now.”

“It is one of our perennial problems, whether there is actually a God. From the Hindu point of view each soul is divine. All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality.” 

“I picture John physically as someone youthful who made a lot, but I feel him more as an energy, more metaphysically.”

“The thing that pleases me the most about it is that young people like it. It's given kids from 6 to 16 an alternate view of music to what's been available for the past 20 years.”

"Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you."

"You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they’re ready to get it. "

"If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception. In that way you can see, hear and play with God. Perhaps this may sound weird, but God is really there next to you."

George Harrison - Living in the Material World documentary

Great and long documentary about George Harrison and the Beatles directed by Martin Scorsese, I only saw part 1 so far, watching the second today. I found an evaluation copy online here of part 2. Part 1 included some great clips of the Beatles talking about LSD and meditation and their search for spirituality after having conquered the material world very eary on, for example John Lennon and George Harrison talking on a tv show about meditation and what the purpose of a mantra is. Gonna jump on my hometrainer and watch the 2nd part in a bit. If you're even slightly spiritual and a fan of the Beatles you have to see this so try to get a hold of it, couldn't find the first part online yet unfortunately.

Here is that great clip (in bad quality) about meditation I mentioned earlier:



added: I'm watching the beginning of part 2, it's pouring rain outside with the window slightly open and I'm riding the hometrainer bicycle, after about ten minutes in, and they start talking about the song 'Here comes the Sun', Eric Clapton is talking about walking around in the garden with George playing guitar, "and the sun was shining" - and outside my house the sun comes out when the words part Clapton's lips- "and it's a beautiful morning and we started to sing 'Here comes the sun' the opening lines you know, and I just watched this thing come to life." - and the rain faded away and stopped to be replaced by sunshine. Wonderful synchronicity :)

John Lennon Tumblr

Whoa! So I just found out you can check a tag on tumblr and basically have all your time sucked away forever, like for instance when I started scrolling the John Lennon tag.

The Beatles - Nowhere Man

He's a real nowhere man,

Sitting in his nowhere land,

Making all his nowhere plans

for nobody.

Doesn't have a point of view,

Knows not where he's going to,

Isn't he a bit like you and me?

Nowhere Man please listen,

You don't know what you're missing,

Nowhere Man, the world is at your command!

He's as blind as he can be,

Just sees what he wants to see,

Nowhere Man can you see me at all?

Nowhere Man, don't worry,

Take your time, don't hurry,

Leave it all till somebody else

lends you a hand!

Doesn't have a point of view,

Knows not where he's going to,

Isn't he a bit like you and me?

Nowhere Man please listen,

you don't know what you're missing

Nowhere Man, the world is at your command!

He's a real Nowhere Man,

Sitting in his Nowhere Land,

Making all his nowhere plans

for nobody.

Making all his nowhere plans

for nobody.

Making all his nowhere plans

for nobody!

The Beatles: YEllow Submarine

The Beatles: YEllow Submarine

Last night my buddy just started this movie out of the blue (or yellow), and wow, I thought this movie was about clean cut Beatles joking wholesomely in a black and white submarine movie, LOL! It was a psychedelic masterpiece! YES! Will do a full screenshot and symbolism post on this in the near future! In the meantime, be sure to watch it first without all those spoilers.

I Met The Walrus (John Lennon short film)

I Met The Walrus (John Lennon short film)

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit, and timeless message.

John Lennon & Yoko Ono: War is over! (If You Want It)

John Lennon & Yoko Ono: War is over! (If You Want It)

"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
John Lennon

Daily Dedroidify: Peace

Daily Dedroidify: Peace

"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal."

"I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!"

"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
John Lennon

"The whole folderol and whoop-de-do about the 1960s was that the crypto fascist bullshit agenda was damn near overthrown by a bunch of 19 and 20 year olds on campuses scattered around the high tech world. The male dominant agenda is so fragile that any competitor is felt as a deadly foe."
Terence McKenna


The U.S. VS John Lennon

The Life of John Lennon

John Lennon on being Government Targets

John Lennon on being Government Targets

John Lennon - Gimme Some Truth

John Lennon - Gimme Some Truth

Aleister Crowley on Freedom, feat. John Lennon

Question your beliefs, your reason for existence. Question your will. What will become of you in the end? This is necessary for all of humanity, but most of us do not seek out an answer. We merely continue on, conforming to a society that creates a perpetual state of depression and increases the tendency towards suicide.

Ask yourself, what are you doing it for? Take an honest look at the pillars of this civilization, media destroys truth, schools destroy knowledge, religions destroy spirituality, and governments destroy freedom. Ponder the meaning of Your Own existence and what YOU could become with your own self will. Not the dogma of greed stricken establishments. Running along the path of capital gain to be on TV and show how much money they have, rather than pronounce themselves true to their instincts and true to their hearts.

Today our world - (both internal and external) is literally full of hate and war, and this conflict is just a piece in the grand design of the Gods. At the dawn of every new Aeon there is a clash between the old and the new. At present humanity is being summoned along the path of enlightenment, while we must still shake free from the chains of fear and false love.

Secrets are kept veiled from humanity through religion, the governments of the world, and their voice in the media. The absolute most relevant issue of the day is mind control, but those whom we trust to keep us informed are not mentioning this for a reason. They have hidden higher levels of consciousness from all! They continue to halt and erode the intellectual growth of humanity. They lie to you about what they know, consciously telling everyone half truths pertaining to the mind, body and beyond...

The Truth is that we all have to wake up from a hypnotism that is installed in our minds from birth. By accessing the potential of the human mind we all can use many powers in ourselves. Strengths that we have previously been prohibited from developing due to a form of mass mind control.

We have to take control of our minds. Of Our Will! With will power we can de-program ourselves from the brainwashing nonsense that has been installed in our minds by the spiritual and material elite.

The elite know how to use this power and have no problem using it against you. They are extraordinarily wealthy and wicked; their loyal servants are your 'religious' leaders and your government. They control your media, your education systems, and your authorities. They protect you and keep you dumb for a reason. You are their slave. And they are the walls to your prison. There is no better way to keep slaves in slavery than to have them think they are free. Why would you want to escape your current life, the only life you know of, if you do not know a better life exists?

Throughout history slaves have always been a valuable and highly protected resource. Today is no different. You are a slave. You are given one choice from birth - to commit yourself to a system or suffer the consequences. It's true whether you believe it or not. There is a freedom from your slavery, from the cage they have built around your true possibility. It's time for you to know that freedom.

Aleister Crowley

The Life of John Lennon

The Life of John Lennon... Artist, Musician, Humanitarian, Activist, Father, Lover, Husband, Friend, and Hero.

John Winston Lennon was born Oct 9th 1940


To Julia Lennon, his mother ...


And his father Freddie Lennon.

At 17 his mother was killed tragically in the street in front of his Aunt Mimi and Uncle Georges home where he lived. Although John's mother loved him, she could not care well for him with his father off to sea, and she gave him up to her sister. Johns father showed up in his life at 5 and tried to re-claim him. His mother then forced John to make a choice and when he chose his Mother and Aunt Mimi his father disappeared again. This time until he was an adult and rich and famous. John's mother was his first musical influence and she also bought him his very first guitar. John was raised by his loving Aunt Mimi and Uncle George. Aunt Mimi would become John's "rock" and, John continued to take care of his Aunt Mimi until his death in 1980. Aunt Mimi loved John like her own son.
They're bond was very special.

Although John had the love and support from his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George, he was an angry child and often had troubles in school as a result of feeling the absence of his birth parents in his life. John had many fist fights, and many altercations with authority, he was considered somewhat of a bully. His Uncle George died in 1955 when John was only 15, his Aunt Mimi never stopped trying to help John, even despite her own pain and loss.

In 1956, inspired by Elvis Presley's "Heart Break Hotel", John started a band called the quarrymen with Paul McCartney. It was then that the handshake deal to remain partners in all of they're writings took place. John honored that agreement till death. Paul however, did not honor it. The quarrymen evolved into the Silver Beatles, and then into the Beatles, it was then that John gained Aunt Mimi's support to pursue a musical career after writing "Please please me". The Beatles went on to have many chart topping hits, and many many world records.


The Beatles now under the management of Brian Epstein, would go on to touring Germany. They played the nightclub scene nightly getting closer as a band, and tighter as musicians. On April 10, 1962, the day before the Beatles were to begin their third Hamburg tour, Stuart Sutcliffe, John's childhood and closest friend as well as longtime band member died from a brain hemorrhage. The news devastated John, and he would always feel guilty for his death. He felt that if he had not pressured Stu into staying in the band, a previous fight they had in Liverpool would have never happened and Stu would not have died. (In the second version of this story, John felt guilty because he believed he had caused the hemorrhage to occur from the beating that he had given Stu earlier.)


John Married Cynthia Powell on August 23, 1962, she gave birth to Julian Lennon on April 8th 1963. Julian was named after his grandmother Julia, and it was during that time John wrote "Julia" which was a song of the memory of his mother, and a confession to the love he held for Yoko. The line "Ocean child, calls me..." is a reference to Yoko's name which translated means "Ocean Child" in Japanese. John and Cynthia were divorced on November 8, 1969 after John had admitted adultery with Yoko Ono.

He married Yoko later that same year. Johns love for, and relationship with, Yoko Ono created a world of discussion and opinions. Many blamed Yoko for the breakup of the Beatles, however it was not the case. The Beatles broke up as a result of a power struggle within the band, and personal growth taking John in a seperate direction from Paul.

They're marriage was marred with rumors and turmoil, but they remained together despite a few breakups and much abuse. John learned how to deal with the painful loss of his mother, through the relationship with Yoko, and with her loving support. It was during that time that John wrote songs of healing such as "Jealous guy" and "Woman"

Sean Lennon was born to John and Yoko on John's 35th birthday of October 9, 1975. John took some time away from music to raise his son with Yoko before returning to music nearly 5 years later.


The Beatles were the only band ever, to hold the top 5 spots in the charts all at once. Nobody has even come close.



Although the Beatles did experiment with drugs willingly, John's first episode with LSD was an accident, a result of George's dentist-friend's spiking his coffee. He later wrote "Cold Turkey" as he was kicking Heroine. John's drug use was a direct result of all the pain he endured due to early losses in his young life, and his struggles with intimacy and relationships. Although John wore his heart on his sleeve in his music, there was much he wasn't capable of expressing cleanly or processing until doing some very deep healing inner child work. Yoko was a source of support through these times.



"I've made two 'discoveries' in my life: Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono. I think that's a pretty damned good choice." John Lennon

"Rubber Soul", an album of mostly John's influence, was the very first album ever to allow certain conditions by the record companies. It was the very first album ever where the band had complete control over the song selection, liner notes, and album cover artwork. It was also the very first album in the history of recorded music to NOT feature the bands name on the album cover. They opened so many creative doors for other artists. 20 years past their breakup The Beatles' latest album, "One" a hits compilation, has broken a world record by topping the charts in 34 countries, among other records.

"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all." John Lennon



"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal." John Lennon


John persuaded an entire generation to think outside of the box.



John Lennon was the very core of the "Peace Movement". There was nobody that had a greater affect on the rising energy of protesting the Vietnam war or the messages of Peace and Love from that era.

It was John Lennon who gave us the words... "All you need is Love"... "Love is the answer" and "The love you take is equal to the love you make"



In fact, the U.S. government had begun deportation proceedings on John Lennon because they were so afraid that the energy he was creating would cause public opinions and choices to sway drastically enough to create obsticles for military actions.



John Lennon with his anti-war slogans such as "All we are saying, is give peace a chance" and "Power to the people" caused the government to reconsider their actions.

Everybody needs someone, but nobody was ever more needed by everyone.

John spent much time contemplating over the world. He loved people, and he loved to speak openly about truth. John was perfectly content living among the regular people of New York City's Manhattan section, where he drank black gourmet coffee's in a small cafe' near his home at the Dakota builing. And he walked the streets daily conversing with anyone who came across him.



John Lennon's "Imagine" originally written in 1971, has had many resurges into popularity by world events. It remains a personal favorite to many many recording artists today, and an anthem for peace wherever there is not. It is one of the most popular, and re-recorded songs of all time.



This is one of the very last photo's ever taken of John. It was from the morning of the day he was shot. How bizarre that he chose to create this scene all on his own accord. The fetal position, and fully naked, the same way he came into the world, holding the woman who would be the one to help him through his own "mother issues". It is a haunting memory of the pain and subsequent beauty of his life, and who he chose to become.






John Lennon was shot to death on December 8th at 10:50 pm. Approximately 12 hours after laying in the fetal position with his love and companion Yoko Ono.

Although John Died on December 8th in New York, it was December 9th in John's hometown of Liverpool when he died. It is strange how the number 9 showed up in John's life so significantly.


The music of the Beatles, and John Lennon, has been the soundtrack of my life. I learned about who I am by listening to Johns songs.... Some of pain and loss... some of love and beauty... some of dreams.... but all of a very deep truth. It's how I learned to embrace my own truth.
He will always be my Hero....
He will always be my hero.



Bulletin by....Warrior, Dreamer, Shaman...~John B.~