I have had to read *so much* mystic bollocks for my podcast because every sixties rock star seemed to find his own individual "guru" whose "teachings" informed his work.
The main conclusion I have come to after learning the teachings of Subud, the Maharishi, Scientology, Gurdjieff, the Nation of Islam, Meher Baba, Aleister Crowley, Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, and Christian Science is that owning a guitar must turn off your brain somehow.
Feb 4, 2026 10:37Some of these are 5% useful meditation practices 95% utter bollocks. Others are less useful.
I sympathize, having had to read so many bad '70s conspiracy-mysticism airport paperbacks for "Station to Station' era DB. would have been nice if he'd had a Balzac phase or something instead, but no...
