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Paul McCartney talks of seeing God during psychedelic trip
Associated Press ^ | Sep. 02, 2018 9:17 AM EDT

Posted on 09/02/2018 11:46:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Former Beatle Paul McCartney has told a British newspaper he believes he once saw God during a psychedelic trip.

The 76-year-old star told The Sunday Times he was “humbled” by the experience.

He said that “it was huge. A massive wall that I couldn’t see the top of, and I was at the bottom. And anybody else would say it’s just the drug, the hallucination, but we felt we had seen a higher thing.” …

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Music/Entertainment; Religion
KEYWORDS: drugs; faul; lsd; marijuana; mccartney; mescaline; paulmccartney; paulsdeadmisshim; psilocybin; thc
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To: Olog-hai

So did I. He was at a 7-11 store getting a slurpy and some munchies.


41 posted on 09/02/2018 12:33:49 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: dfwgator

“What is your name?”

“Five seconds, Bob.”


42 posted on 09/02/2018 12:33:53 PM PDT by OKSooner
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To: OKSooner

I have to credit listening to Cheech & Chong as a kid with killing any desire I ever had to try drugs.


43 posted on 09/02/2018 12:35:37 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Yaelle

You people are mistaken. Paul is dead. Have you ever listened to a Wings album?


44 posted on 09/02/2018 12:35:37 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: dfwgator

LOL! “Ding dong ding dong ding dong” was inspired!


45 posted on 09/02/2018 12:44:45 PM PDT by LYDIAONTARIO
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“I buried Paul!”

I heard that on a Beatles album.


46 posted on 09/02/2018 12:49:19 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY)
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To: Olog-hai

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

47 posted on 09/02/2018 12:51:51 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: Mariner

“McCartney would have been the most sought after studio musician in England otherwise.”

I think Jimmy Page already had that distinction by the time he joined the Yardbirds.


48 posted on 09/02/2018 12:52:05 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Olog-hai

He’s as normal a family guy as a highly successful rocker can get, but every now and then he says something stupid. I hope he has a real encounter with his Creator before it’s too late.


49 posted on 09/02/2018 12:52:43 PM PDT by bethelgrad
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Had it not been for his Beatles’ cache, he never would had a hit. And you wouldn’t know his name.


50 posted on 09/02/2018 12:55:15 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Olog-hai
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51 posted on 09/02/2018 12:56:23 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: Yaelle

Thanks for those kind words. Although it happened many decades ago, sometimes it feels like yesterday.

The final 10 days was a nightmare that included a last hope trip to Mexico where I had to carry her in my arms and later personally convince the pilot in San Diego to allow her on the plane to get her back home to pass.

My girls were only 4 and 1 and I feel so bad for them to not have any memories of their mother although my oldest has vague impressions or, perhaps, just the idea of her mother.


52 posted on 09/02/2018 12:59:05 PM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: newfreep

WOW! I’m curious has your wife come to you in a vision while you slept?
I have had a few experiences myself.


53 posted on 09/02/2018 1:00:47 PM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: Olog-hai

By all accounts Paul McCartney is an MLA (Major League A$$hole), even aside from his “Who asked you?” political comments. So if he thinks he saw God while tripping, and considering his formidable ego, chances are he was simply looking in a mirror and mistook the image for Deity. I change stations whenever anything he did post-Beatles comes on the radio. Not so much because of his politics and reputation as an arrogant pr***, but because most of it’s commercial grade crap.


54 posted on 09/02/2018 1:06:58 PM PDT by katana (We're all part of a long episode of "The Terrific Mr. Trump")
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To: dfwgator

Also good for that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NVNv2ipphw


55 posted on 09/02/2018 1:07:37 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress")
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To: SkyDancer

“Strawberry fields forever” reversed becomes “A pair of sleepy red moose”.


56 posted on 09/02/2018 1:25:26 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Olog-hai
Acid tricked McCartney's mind which had washed his reasoning powers away. What he saw was not God. Perhaps it was Satan who encouraged him to eat more Acid and go further down the rabbit hole. Here is what I mean:


57 posted on 09/02/2018 1:26:27 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: painter

To answer your question - no, she has never appeared in visions - awake or sleeping.

That said...

My wife, literally “the girl next door”, passed at the hospital ~ 5am. By the time I returned home, I was quite exhausted from being up 24 hours and, of course, the experience. I sat rocking in my wood rocking chair feeling totally numb and very clearly heard her voice whisper in my ear, “Honey, I’m OK”.


58 posted on 09/02/2018 1:28:19 PM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: Olog-hai

I don’t doubt that someone can have a spiritual encounter while intoxicated on drugs. I just doubt that they are encountering a good spiritual being.


59 posted on 09/02/2018 1:32:10 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: DesertRhino

“If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are,” he said. “Why are we rock stars? Because we’re morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.”

/Alice Cooper


60 posted on 09/02/2018 1:34:07 PM PDT by Salamander (What is the sound of one hand, typing? Pit Bull Porn hate threads. Little more than a circle jerk.)
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