Paul interview - The Sunday Times magazine - September 2, 2018
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Nancy R wrote
They put their coats in what we call a closet and they call a cupboard.
P.S. All my cupboards/kitchen cabinets that hold my dishes and glasses have doors.
"The term cupboard was originally used to describe an open-shelved side table for displaying dishware, more specifically plates, cups and saucers. These open cupboards typically had between one and three display tiers, and at the time, a drawer or multiple drawers fitted to them. The word cupboard gradually came to mean a closed piece of furniture."
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Nancy R wrote:
beatlesfanrandy wrote:
Here's a link to the online version. The date on the print issue is Sept. 2nd, which is tomorrow. So maybe check back.
Thanks Randy! I registered so was able to read the whole thing!
Nancy R, did you just put your e mail addy and make up a password, to be able to read it? Thanks for info.
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Cover of the September 2, 2018 Sunday Times magazine, without words scratched out. Maybe they didn't want any spoilers out beforehand, about what was in the article?? (Photo from copies for sale on Ebay)
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Really loved the interview, thought it was well done. Especially enjoyed all the nice things he said about the Queen, and also enjoyed reading some of his thoughts on being "spiritual":
I tell him I want to get deep. He nods. A few months ago, during a Carpool Karaoke session with James Corden in which the two men drove around Liverpool singing, Corden mentioned his grandfather, and how he would have loved to know that his grandson was in a car with a Beatle, had he still been with them. “He is,” McCartney replied quickly, and it was oddly beautiful, even spiritual. Corden cried.
What did he mean by those words? “As in, was it a religious moment?” McCartney asks. Exactly. “Not really. But, having lost both my parents and Linda, and having experienced people close to me dying, you often hear this from others when you say you’re missing a person so much. ‘Don’t worry,’ they say. ‘They’re here, looking down on you.’ And there’s part of you that thinks there is no proof of that. But there’s part of you that wants to believe it.”
His voice cracks. “So,” he continues, almost in a whisper, “I like to allow myself to think that happens, rather than stopping myself thinking of the possibility. I’ve grown to allow myself that. When Linda died... When you are grieving like that, you see little things, and you know you’re reading into it, but you don’t mind. You allow yourself to read into it..."
In 1967, McCartney said of his bandmate Harrison: “I envy George, because he now has a great faith. He seems to have found what he’s been searching for.” When I ask if he is still envious, he says he’s never really been searching, and that, while his mum was Catholic and his dad Protestant, they weren’t a religious family. That has stuck with him. Jesus, he thinks, said a lot of great things and the Bible a lot of terrible ones, mostly about vengeance. So he cherry-picks from different religions to form his own belief.
“But I do think there is something higher,” he says, pretty much out of the blue. Like what? “No idea! But I sense that through experiences I’ve had...."
Have always sensed he was a person who believed in spiritual things. He seems to believe there may be a higher power, but is not affiliated with any one religion, and likes to have an open mind about it. Sounds like a good outlook to have. Like Linda said, in raising their children they felt it was important that they have good hearts.
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SusyLuvsPaul wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
beatlesfanrandy wrote:
Here's a link to the online version. The date on the print issue is Sept. 2nd, which is tomorrow. So maybe check back.
Thanks Randy! I registered so was able to read the whole thing!
Nancy R, did you just put your e mail addy and make up a password, to be able to read it? Thanks for info.
Yes. And here’s another pic from the article:
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Sir Paul McCartney has revealed how one experience with drugsduring The Beatles’ heyday led to him seeing “God”.
Speaking about his spiritual beliefs, McCartney said in an interview with the Sunday Times that he believed there was “something higher”, and linked it to his experience of taking Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) with a group of people including art dealer and gallery owner Robert Fraser.
“We were immediately nailed to the sofa,” he recalled. “And I saw God, this amazing towering thing, and I was humbled. And what I’m saying is, that moment didn’t turn my life around, but it was a clue."
“It was huge,” he continued. “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 both Robert and I were like, ‘Did you see that?’ We felt we had seen a higher thing.”
DMT became popular in the 1960s as a faster-working alternative to more widely-known hallucinogenics such as LSD and magic mushrooms.
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That's wild...Daily Mail Online showed excerpts from this and called Paul "The Good Beatle," said he was called that for not taking drugs as often as George, John and Ringo and then revealed his "DMT" story of experiencing God, as he felt he had after "being nailed to the couch" by the potent drug (guess he wasn't being too good that night!) which led him to think there's "something higher" (he sure was high!) and the excerpt included he saw a "white squirrel" once and concluded it was Linda, "it made me (him) feel better to think that." The first happened in the sixties, so no big deal and also he was being interviewed in England, country of eccentrics and also McCartney's an artist and poet, so creative flights of fancy are expected. It's cool Paul expressed himself so freely. It's funny, the DM article claims this is the "first" time Paul's ever admitted taking psychedelics, which isn't true, of course. They're not up on their pop history. Paul's DMT story made me remember taking something as a teen once and feeling in direct communication with the eternal Divine for a while; and how blissful and completely peaceful it felt, to be telepathically communicating with God. One shouldn't only get to experience that through drugs. It's said one can from meditation. Or from just eating some pizza (LOL). I liked it when Paul commented to James Corden in the car, "He's here," about Corden's departed grandfather after Corden started crying talking about his grand dad loving "Let It Be" and now he's passed on. Paul and Corden sang Let It Be in the car, then Paul described his famous dream of his mother Mary coming to him and assuring him all is fine, and there will be an answer, so just let it be. The online Daily Mail article describes this, too.