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John: You are here. People read it and suddenly realize it’s true. Yes, I’m here, they think. So are these other people. We’re all here together. And that’s where the vibrations start being exchanged. Good and bad ones according to who is sending out and how they feel.
A lot of people went to India to find out they were here. Like [Timothy] Leary’s friend Richard Alpert [Ram Dass] went to India and saw all the gurus, chasing all over the place, and all the gurus said to him was, ‘Remember – be here now’. That’s all them gurus will ever tell you. ‘Remember – be here now’. Remember this moment now.
I was talking to George the other day and I forgot to say to him, ‘What are you searching for? You are here!’
We’re all God. Christ said the kingdom of heaven is within you. And that’s what it means. And the Indians say that and the Zen people say that. It’s a basic thing of religion. We’re all God. I’m not a god or the god, but we are all God and we are all potentially divine and potentially evil. We all have everything within us and the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh and within us, you know. And if you look hard enough, you see it.
I believe in life after death, without any doubt. In meditation, on drugs, on diets, I’ve been aware of soul and been aware of the power. God is a power which we’re all capable of tapping. We’re all lightbulbs that can tap the electricity.
From the book MIND GAMES - in the words of John Lennon & Yoko Ono and the people who were there - available to preorder from Thames and Hudson at https://bit.ly/MindGamesBook
Sources: John Lennon on Frost On Sunday, BBC, August 1968 and John Lennon interviews with Howard Smith, September 1971 and David Wigg, June 1969.
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YOU ARE HERE (Elements Mix)
Sneaky Pete Kleinow: pedal steel guitar
Ken Ascher: organ
Produced by John Lennon
Recording Engineers (1973): Roy Cicala, Dan Barbiero
Assistant Engineers (1973): Dennis Ferrante, Richie Apuzzo, Ed Sprigg, Kevin Herron, Jimmy Iovine
Executive Producer (2024): Yoko Ono Lennon
Producer, Creative Director (2024): Sean Ono Lennon
Compilation Producer, Production Manager (2024): Simon Hilton
Mixed & Engineered by (2024): Sam Gannon
Stereo Mastering Engineer (2024): Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios.
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