“I feel in the big picture the fact that John and I met was to do this [Imagine] song,” Yoko says in her interview in the film.So the first record album I bought was Sargent Peppers, considered the greatest record of all time, but I didn't know that at all. My best friend had all the Beatles records and we literally listened to the Beatles all the time - when I was around 8 years old. I bought Sargent Peppers after my friendship had ended as my best friend had moved away. The room in the attic of his house had been turned into a TM "yogic flying" room (by the new tenants) - where I had played Atari in trance alone - since I was already getting way too much into the Beatles music. When we played D'n'D I always wanted to be a chaotic good Monk. The Beatles had turned me into a Peacenik I think.
Journey Into Beatledom: The Beatles as Prophets, Peaceniks & Holy Writ Paperback – January 26, 2016
John's humour prone to the literary grotesque bordering on the bizarre, (he lived directly opposite - 100 yards away from a druid burial site); interview with the author Joe Robinson - on the BBC- Discusses quantum physics and Vedic philosophy....
Discover too why The Beatles were undoubtedly prophets as well as peaceniks as this book examines the stranger regions of Beatledom and the world of the Liverpudlian (Labskausian) nano-realm which helped the fabulous Foursome to promote peace, love and the avante garde ('Zappleness') and seeks to illuminate their (at times) obsessive conflating of the mundane and the surreal. The Beatles' historical and spiritual legacy too was informed by their Liverpudlian upbringing and close knit coterie of friends and supporters. the secret Fifth Beatle! Their road manager/accountant/school mateSo I listened to Sargent Peppers alone in the basement of our big house - over and over. Then later I got Magical Mystery Tour - and listened to that around age 14 to 15 - over and over.
2. Which two people can be referred to as ‘The Fool on the Hill?’I used that song for my Church confirmation to argue it referred to Jesus.
And then later when I went to Chicago to interview for a Green Corps job we had to bring something that we thought identified ourselves and present it to everyone. I brought Tater Totz - the record album by Yoko Ono - that was around 1996. Beatles made on Merseyside (the first unknown five years) - doc
they would later stop releasing tracks as singles to be fair to other artistes because there was a point they held No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and No7 on the US 100 billboard charts...lol with around 21 No. 1s to their credits.
So in this Netflix doc - about the making of Imagine (trailer) - we learn that Yoko Ono had survived the World War II bombing by the US - which was so devastating that she and her little brother literally had no food. So she then realized the power of "imagination." This is very much as with qigong Bigu fasting - for example Yan Xin qigong master says to visualize your Favorite Fruit.
So why a "favorite fruit" - in the lower tan tien? I had always wondered this until my recent EcoEcho Forest Cultivation session. In the Planet Earth BBC doc it is mentioned how smelling in the air is the equivalent of tasting in water. And so this is the transfer of our perceptions into the water energy that needs to be ionized - by visualizing or Imaging our favorite fruit we are now TASTING the water in the lower tan tien. Synesthesia then had REAL validity - has real power.
So just as we learn through noncommutative logic - the eyes need to be closed so that the Ears can store up the energy and then the energy is transmitted out of the eyes when the eyes are open - so too is taste in the water transformed into smell in the air via the Po Soul in Daoist Neidan alchemy meditation - the water energy originating from the Lungs as the Courage - the Clouds in the Air rain down the Qi energy to the Earth via the water. The Sun ionizes the nutrients in the water via the sound of the bird songs of the air.
So people report that John Lennon was not just transformed by Yoko Ono but he was merged with her and that Yoko Ono was writing the lyrics by translating from Japanese - to express nonwestern ideas. John explained that with Yoko everything had to be transformed into its opposite to understand it - in other words noncommutative logic.
So Yoko Ono was then said to be more American and if we think about her name "Ono" is close enough to One in English - and the song Imagine is about visualize the World as One - as your favorite Fruit - Apple Records then is that favorite fruit to be imagines. Yoko Ono said the first conceptual art she did was at age 8 when she imagined if all the seeds in the world were cut in half and reconnected in different ways so that, as she explained:
"pine trees would have apples."So John explained that with Yoko he had woken up from his dream of the Beatles. And that he was just a guy writing songs but he and Yoko were also now peace activists. And so Imagine was, as Tariq Ali explained, a peace anthem for the peace movement. We can then see how after John Lennon's death then the most prominent activist movement was the SANE FREEZE movement to try to end nuclear weapons. We can see how Yoko Ono had profoundly influenced that movement with her influence on John Lennon.
So in the same sense that George Harrison studied sitar music and incorporated Indian yoga philosophy into his music - with "Within You, Without You" being his prominent showcase song on Sargent Peppers, later George had joined John in part of the recording of the Imagine record. And so very much then for John it was his deep dive into Yoko Ono's philosophy of life that was John Lennon's attempt to turn away from the West and embrace something completely different.
Of course when the idea of Yoko Ono as the instigator of breaking of the Beatles is raised, John counters that the "tensions were already there." So the Beatles was very much a Jock Rock experience. They had their adoring cult status fans - and when John pointed out they were more popular than Jesus - the truth of his statement hit home. But John still had not reached into the core of what music meant. With the song "Imagine" then John was now finally singing from the place of total vulnerability - saying let's give up our "minds" altogether - embracing a nonwestern concept of truth as Peace of Emptiness through Listening as Imagination.
The song was released in 1971. It called for peace during the Vietnam War, and urged people around the world to live in unity. ... It wrote, “John Lennon wrote “Imagine,” his greatest musical gift to the world, one morning early in 1971 in his bedroomJohn wrote the song with Yoko the same year that I was born. So this might be why I also held this song to be of particular importance to my brain development (who knows?).
In 1971, it reached number one in Canada and number three in the US.https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/trending-today-yoko-ono-named-co-writer-of-john-lennons-imagine/3902004.html
In 2011, the magazine Rolling Stone named “Imagine” the third-greatest song of all time.The song Imagine has a heart-breaking power to it because of it's tempo of what I imagine to be 60 bpm - the SAME as the middle movements of Baroque music. In other words the TIME secret of Imagine is to induce a Theta brain wave serotonin bliss state as true Peace.
Lennon also said that some of the ideas of “Imagine” came from Ono’s book “Grapefruit,”
The National Music Publishers Association just gave the centennial (song of the century) award to Imagine, but WAIT! Surprise! They played an audio interview of my father saying (approximately) 'Imagine should've been credited as a Lennon/Ono song, if it had been anyone other than my wife I would've given them credit.'
The idea was not his alone: Ono's own art, before and after she met Lennon in 1966, celebrated the transformative power of dreams. The first line of "Imagine" — "Imagine there's no heaven" — is a direct descendant of the interactive pieces in Ono's 1964 book, Grapefruit ("Imagine letting a goldfish swim across the sky").So one of the Grapefruit imaginings was to bury the clouds that drip down into the dirt - this is secretly an alchemical idea from Daoist Neidan!
One poem, which Capitol Records later reproduced on the back cover of the original Imagine album titled 'Cloud Piece', reads: "Imagine the clouds dripping, dig a hole in your garden to put them in."
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/life/advice/2020/04/25/john-lennons-imagine-still-resonates/3023238001/
So this is why the song Imagine is not just some cheap "anthem" political number, as Yoko Ono emphasizes.
The album was titled after a song that he suspected was too fanciful to become popular (Yoko Ono had to convince John that he had a hit on his hands). “Imagine” would become the best selling single of John Lennon’s astronomical and far too short career.https://www.smoothradio.com/features/the-story-of/john-lennon-imagine-lyrics-meaning-facts-video/
He had also been given by Dick Gregory a Christian prayer book, which also inspired the main concept of the song.
The concept of positive prayer. If you can imagine a world at peace, with no denominations of religion, without this my God-is-bigger-than-your-God thing, then it can be true.
On June 14, 2017, the National Music Publishers' Association announced that Yoko Ono would finally be added as a songwriter for 'Imagine'.As I mention in my 2012 pdf book - for my 9th grade psychology class I wrote a paper investigating the assassination of John Lennon. That's when I realized there was some kind of secret CIA involvement. That is when I first began to be radicalized. That was in 1985-6.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/11/entertainment/john-and-yoko-review/index.html
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