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How they started the whole Journey to the East to India.

“The farther one travels, the less one knows.” (Lao Tzu)

“1968, the Beginning of the End for the Fab Four and much else. That traumatic year for those who lived through it (and those who didn’t), includes an important nexus: the episode with the Maharishi that influenced so much Beatle output and is crucial to understanding the eventual dissolution of the Beatles….They would never be exactly the same again….“ -‘Inner Lite: The Beatles and Maharishi’ by Greg Panfile appearing in Beatlefan, Summer 1996

The Beatles renounced drug use in 1968 and after attending a lecture by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi decided on-the-spot to all become his disciples. What followed was an outpouring of music (they recorded most of their White Album at this time), and the popularization of going to India to study mysticism. Rishikesh, a major center to study yoga, became famous.

The Journey to the East in search of truth had been around since Herman Hesse. But the high profile Beatles gave tens of thousands of hippies the dream that their answers were to be found in the East – just follow the nearest Indian with a long beard and funny mantra.

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