Your theory about what happened to Paul

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Barry Miles
The Beatles Diary Volume 1: The Beatles Years

March 27, 1965

Around this date, John and Cynthia were introduced to the chemical stimulus of LSD by their dentist, who spiked their late-night cups of coffee with impregnated sugar cubes. The now hallucinating party made their way from the dentist's home to The Pickwick Club in central London, where John interpreted a red light bulb as being the site of a raging inferno of fire, and then on to George's house. There John drew his first psychedelic cartoons, portraying The Beatles as a hydra-like creature, with each head pronouncing: "We all agree with you". Thereafter Lennon became a keen ambassador for the mind-expanding virtues of the drug, while his wife vowed never to experiment with the chemical again.

This guy is in the business of re-writing history. He makes it a profession.
A. Everybody knows, and I mean everybody, that George Harrison and John Lennon both had their first LSD experience together. They were both given the lysergic at the same point, by the same person. This has been documented so many times, I'm wondering where Miles is getting this spin tale from. There is no mention of Harrison in this diary entry that even states he was there, until his house is mentioned. From the way it's written, you would think John and Cynthia WENT to George's house AFTER they were given LSD. It's an assumption on Barry's part that YOU know Harrison was there. Which is a big assumption to make when documenting the day by day accounts of The Beatles. That's not writing. That's .. I don't know what that is.

B. "Thereafter Lennon became a keen ambassador for the mind-expanding virtues of the drug."

WHERE? I have seen no admission by him in the years after this first taking of LSD of its benefits, or even its dangers. In fact you're hard put to find him advocating LSD at all. In 1967 he even goes so far as to say that LSD no more contributed to his creativity than what Tea did. He advocated Transcendental Meditation during this period, right along with George Harrison. And when asked if he was using The Beatles to promote Meditation, he said an emphatic YES. Both Harrison and Lennon never made statements advocating LSD. That was Miles's buddy Paul doing that. But Miles has a very interesting preoccupation with painting Lennon as an LSD guru. Akin to someone like Timothy Leary. Which, if you look at documented evidence, Lennon was nothing like at all. At the time. And even in the 1980 Playboy interview, his thoughts on LSD included where it was manufactured, and what its implementation purposes were by "the powers that be".

I used to think that Lennon steered people wrong with LSD. But you know what. The more I look at the data and history, i can't find where he ever said Take It to any of his fans. His music said he was on something, but he never stated this is what I'm on. It's up to the fans really in that circumstance to decide if they want to get curious and discover what he's taking that makes his music so weird. And then you get Harrison and Lennon just promoting Transcendental whenever they could, whenever they were approached, even when Epstein died.

But then you get McCartney stating if politicians would take it, there would be no more wars. A grand statement.


Barry Miles. Spin Doctor.

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Feb 7, 2013 6:17:38 GMT -5 beacon said:

A few days ago I speculated if Paul McCartney may have had the song Yesterday hypnotically suggested to him as he slept at the Asher's residence. Re-reading the Celia Imrie / William Sargant article has only helped to further convince me.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1372700/My-electric-shock-nightmare-hands-CIAs-evil-doctor-Calendar-Girls-star-Celia-Imrie.html#axzz2KCuQvdlt

McCartney would write several songs while living at the Ashers', including Yesterday, which McCartney claims came to him fully formed in a dream. Upon waking, he hurried to a piano and played the tune to avoid forgetting it.

McCartney's initial concern was that he had subconsciously plagiarised someone else's work (known as cryptomnesia). As he put it; "For about a month I went round to people in the music business and asked them whether they had ever heard it before. Eventually it became like handing something in to the police. I thought if no-one claimed it after a few weeks then I could have it.”

Could it be that the song was deliberately ‘placed’ in his head as part of an experiment? Could it be that McCartney was being unconsciously subjected to numerous procedures that would render him ‘vulnerable to suggestion’?

At this time, a contemporary of Richard Asher, William Sargant was busily providing his NHS patients with electro-convulsive therapy and had developed a specialist treatment in what he termed his ‘Narcosis Room’. This was a ward where patients were forced into an insulin-induced sleep for days while tapes played instructions to them from under the pillow.

The following passage comes from the article that I have linked above: Sargant is notorious for his work for MI5 and the CIA, particularly its covert MK-ULTRA mind control programme. Even then, Sargant was a world expert on brainwashing. Today his books are said to be studied by Al Qaeda. His work has links to the mysterious death of CIA biochemist Frank Olson after being given LSD; the Jonestown massacre in Guyana, where 900 people killed themselves; and to the mind-bending and occasionally lethal drug experiments performed on unwitting human guinea pigs at the Porton Down research centre in Wiltshire.

I can't link Asher and Sargant, however, both do seem to have Tavistock links. Can anyone else add anything?

At the moment, nothing other than I know Yesterday bears similarities to the Nat King Cole made famous "Answer Me, My Love". Musicologists agreed Yesterday owed some of its cadence and rhythm to that song. That's all I can add right now on the music tip. Shall look further! But listening to the Cole version, I could hear it plain as day.

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Feb 7, 2013 6:08:05 GMT -5 vOOdOOgurU said:

Indica gallery/Bookshop.

We need funding!!! Let's approach our friend Paul McCartney to help us start up.

We need attention! We need people to come to our gallery and its exhibitions. We need to get this project off the ground. Who can we mention attends our shows? Peter (Asher) who do you know that would attract attention? Gosh, well Paul McCartney dates my sister and lives at my parents house! We could mention him or get his support and promotion. Great Pete! Who do you know John (Dunbar) -- well crap, I just sent a telegram to John Lennon telling him we had an exhibit, and he was in Spain, but he said he would definitely be there! Great!!! John AND Paul! We couldn't get any better than this! Barry (Miles) who do you know? Well gosh, I know Paul too.

Done deal. We will attract attention to our bookshop and gallery by noting our closeness to The Beatles, which will surely attract the attention of their fans should they know we court them and they are frequently seen hanging around our establishment.

Exhibition opens of Yoko Ono. Only person worth mentioning showing up early is Roman Polanski.

Beatle fan. Who the hell is Roman Polanski??? I thought they knew Beatles. I'm going down to the shops and pick up QUEEN magazine. They talk about Beatles.

Months later at Indica. hey those Paul McCartney and George Harrison interviews we secured sure helped get us some attention! Crap! We just got raided by the cops! Damn! Well keep running Beatles stuff anyway!



Yeah.

The key, for me, is why wasn't McCartney present at Yoko's exhibition?

He is, after all, the 'avant-garde' Beatle; he has part funded IT and the Indica, he is great mates with not only, John Dunbar and Barry Miles, but also Robert Fraser who has sponsored the show so why the hell is he messing around in Spain on a wild goose chase looking for John? Mal must have known where John was and Neil Aspinall sure as hell knew.

Firstly, it would have blown Yoko's claim not to know the Beatles if Paul tells all and sundry that this was the woman who had knocked on his door a few months previously.

But secondly, Yoko - the ex-mental institution resident - was in London purely to snare John Lennon and keep him under control, after all this what her tapes had told her to do! Miles, Asher and Dunbar all knew this was the plan so they had to keep McCartney out of the country so as he couldn't innocently spoil it all.

It maybe that Polanski - if he was one of the coven - knew this as well and so this is why it was all 'Polanski's fault'. Maybe Lennon and Polanski were at the Indica at the same time? Maybe Lennon had become aware of 'Mother's' mission (this has always struck me as a very odd way to refer to your partner) when he was with May Pang and this is the explanation to the outburst?

All idle speculation of course!!!

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Feb 7, 2013 6:37:31 GMT -5 beacon said:

Feb 7, 2013 6:08:05 GMT -5 vOOdOOgurU said:

Indica gallery/Bookshop.

We need funding!!! Let's approach our friend Paul McCartney to help us start up.

We need attention! We need people to come to our gallery and its exhibitions. We need to get this project off the ground. Who can we mention attends our shows? Peter (Asher) who do you know that would attract attention? Gosh, well Paul McCartney dates my sister and lives at my parents house! We could mention him or get his support and promotion. Great Pete! Who do you know John (Dunbar) -- well crap, I just sent a telegram to John Lennon telling him we had an exhibit, and he was in Spain, but he said he would definitely be there! Great!!! John AND Paul! We couldn't get any better than this! Barry (Miles) who do you know? Well gosh, I know Paul too.

Done deal. We will attract attention to our bookshop and gallery by noting our closeness to The Beatles, which will surely attract the attention of their fans should they know we court them and they are frequently seen hanging around our establishment.

Exhibition opens of Yoko Ono. Only person worth mentioning showing up early is Roman Polanski.

Beatle fan. Who the hell is Roman Polanski??? I thought they knew Beatles. I'm going down to the shops and pick up QUEEN magazine. They talk about Beatles.

Months later at Indica. hey those Paul McCartney and George Harrison interviews we secured sure helped get us some attention! Crap! We just got raided by the cops! Damn! Well keep running Beatles stuff anyway!



Yeah.

The key, for me, is why wasn't McCartney present at Yoko's exhibition?

He is, after all, the 'avant-garde' Beatle; he has part funded IT and the Indica, he is great mates with not only, John Dunbar and Barry Miles, but also Robert Fraser who has sponsored the show so why the hell is he messing around in Spain on a wild goose chase looking for John? Mal must have known where John was and Neil Aspinall sure as hell knew.

Firstly, it would have blown Yoko's claim not to know the Beatles if Paul tells all and sundry that this was the woman who had knocked on his door a few months previously.

But secondly, Yoko - the ex-mental institution resident - was in London purely to snare John Lennon and keep him under control, after all this what her tapes had told her to do! Miles, Asher and Dunbar all knew this was the plan so they had to keep McCartney out of the country so as he couldn't innocently spoil it all.

It maybe that Polanski - if he was one of the coven - knew this as well and so this is why it was all 'Polanski's fault'. Maybe Lennon and Polanski were at the Indica at the same time? Maybe Lennon had become aware of 'Mother's' mission (this has always struck me as a very odd way to refer to your partner) when he was with May Pang and this is the explanation to the outburst?

All idle speculation of course!!!

Yeah but speculation with evidence that states there's stuff to be speculated.

WHY is McCartney out of the country on a wild goose chase looking for Lennon, who Mal Evans would surely know was back in England by that point. He'd been back a week already by that point. Mal would know that, OF ALL PEOPLE. If Barry Miles knows Lennon went on a 3 day LSD binge, then Mal Evans would know that guy landed at Heathrow on the 6th November and may have been there PICKING HIM UP from that airport, or damn well arranging for someone to do so and take the Lennons back to Surrey.

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"As the Beatles’ Penny Lane jangled cheerily from kitchen radios, the chopped-up body of Bernard Oliver, a seventeen year old Muswell Hill boy, was discovered in two suitcases at the edge of a muddy field.

Less than three weeks later, in the Holloway Road in North London – a couple of miles or so from where the boy had gone missing – a famous record producer, his career now in tatters, blasted his landlady to death with a shotgun before turning the gun on himself. Joe Meek, who’d produced numerous hit records including Telstar and Johnny Remember Me, was now facing financial ruin."

Get rid of the landlady definitely.

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What's in the suitcases.
Where have I heard that before. Hmmm.

(That's idle speculation. But missing suitcases turns up a lot with Beatles. See blackmail attempt on Brian Epstein in 1966, missing suitcase/attache case)

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And a reprint of that Anonymous comment:
9:18 PM
Anonymous said...

The police and authorities knew already in the early 60's that drugs would be a major problem in the near future. They were preparing for it, but it went wrong somewhere, they weren't able to stem the tide.

I think drugs played a major role in the demise of the disciplined and ordered society I grew up in. Prior to this the only problem was the abject poverty, creating problems that should never had existed.

The liners and the new airliners were now allowing much increased travel and more drugs were flooding into the country.

I used to model for Harley Street specialists training med-students at this time, starting in '58 as a 12 year-old. The police, lead by top-cops Joe Simpson and Shirley Becke, used to supply Profs Emanuel Miller and Richard Asher with the drugs they wanted to study, and used me as a guinea-pig! There would be several off-duty coppers present to see the result and work out how to deal with an acid-head.

But the real problem was trying to stop the influx of drugs. I'm guessing here, but the blacks flooding into Britain were finding work hard to find (and not because of colour, there WASN'T any work, half my classmates had no jobs after school in '62) and wrote home to relatives and started-up networks to import drugs and make a living selling that.

The kids growing-up in post-war Britain, who had a job, had other values than their forbares and wanted a fun time, the 'swinging-60's' got going, the consumer society, and family-life suffered.

Without the drugs things might have been better.

'Big' Joe Simpson, head of the MET, suddenly died in the mid-60's, I believe (we had emigrated). He was always a front-line man, on the line with his officers out on the streets, especially if some hard-stuff was on the cards, plus all the paperwork and reports, and thus often worked 18 hour days. A heart attack in waiting.

Maybe that made the difference. Had he lived....

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But then of course you come across the name "Big" Joe Simpson

www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,368095,00.html

EXCERPTS
This episode would have passed with nothing more than a dressing down for the police from the Home Office if it had not been followed the next month by a raid on the Robert Fraser Gallery in Duke Street, Mayfair. This time the obscene publications squad seized 20 paintings and drawings by the American artist Jim Dine. The gallery owner told Inspector Bill Moody and his men that the artist's work was hanging in a national art gallery; this time it was the Tate, which officers then visited.

Roy Jenkins's growing concerns about the activities of the men who made up Scotland Yard's "dirty squad" grew into an unofficial declaration of war between the Home Office and the police when they raided one of the flag ships of the London "underground" hippy press, the International Times (IT). What disturbed Jenkins about the IT raid was not so much the seizure of 8,000 copies of the magazine but that the police had seen fit to drag William Burroughs's Naked Lunch down the station as well. The book had already been cleared under the "literary merit" defence of the 1959 Obscene Publications Act, which Jenkins himself had played such a leading role in getting onto the statute book.

The day the police raided the Beatles' favourite underground magazine

Dressed as an Arab sheikh, Paul McCartney had mingled with Michelangelo Antonioni, the Italian film director, at the launch party for the International Times (IT) held at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, north London in October 1966. While Richard Neville's Oz waved the banner of Playpower, IT was more serious, carrying lengthy pieces on Vietnam, Latin America and European student protests alongside its 60s mix of drugs, music, sex and nudity. But this spaced-out news-sheet of the London acid underground turned out to have friends in surprisingly high places.

When the police raided the Holborn office of IT in March 1967, the magazine had the backing of John Lennon and McCartney. It was the closest the police were to get to raiding the Beatles. They seized 8,000 copies of various editions of IT, and 35 books of "an obscene nature" including copies of William Burroughs's Naked Lunch, Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer and of I, Jan Cremer. Detective Sergeant Terry Beale reported: "All these books are, in my opinion, grossly obscene."

The Labour MP Tom Driberg pressed Jenkins for the whole matter to be dropped. "I am a bit worried about the recent police raid on the offices of International Times," he wrote. "As is usual when the police of any country take any sort of action against works of art or literature, their selection of books to remove seems to have been a fairly silly and random one. They took, for instance, a book called Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer. I do not happen to know this book, but I am told it is not pornographic at all! They also took copies of the Naked Lunch. I hope this does not mean there is any question of action against this book or its publishers."

Driberg's protest triggered a struggle within the highest reaches of the Home Office, with the old guard insisting that it would be "highly dangerous" if the home secretary were to start criticising the police's conduct in the case. But once it was established that the attorney general had ruled in 1965 that Naked Lunch "was reckoned to be obscene but to have literary merit", Jenkins privately made clear to the police his deep concern about the raid.

It was enough to ensure that all the charges against IT were dropped. The police were to exact their revenge three years later when, without a sympathetic home secretary to protect it, the magazine was closed down after the police prosecuted it for carrying gay contact ads. .

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Chasing Asher and Sargant:

This entry about Sargant (and thanks for that article Beacon about Celia Imrie. Very informative, and gave me an idea of how to start looking. The history of the NHS) comes from Wiki.

In recent years writer Gordon Thomas has suggested that Sargant's experiments with deep sleep treatment were part of British involvement with the CIA MKULTRA programme into mind control.[41] Donald Ewen Cameron was experimenting along similar lines in Canada, and it later emerged that his work was in part funded by the CIA.[42] Cameron often sought Sargant's advice and on one occasion Sargant sent Cameron a note saying: "Whatever you manage in this field, I thought of it first".[43] Books about Cameron's experiments have commented on links between the two psychiatrists.[44] Although Sargant acted as a consultant for MI5, no evidence has emerged that his work with deep sleep treatment at St Thomas' hospital had any links with intelligence services.

There is the section regarding this:
Sargant's methods inspired Australian doctor Harry Bailey who employed deep sleep treatment at Sydney's Chelmsford Private Hospital, eventually leading to the death of 26 patients. Bailey and Sargant were in close contact and apparently competed to see which of them could keep a patient in the deepest coma.[25] The death rate among Sargant's patients was lower than that among Bailey's, largely thanks to the nursing skills of the 'Nightingales' (St Thomas' nurses).[26] Each sleeping patient was allocated a nurse or student nurse who would monitor their sleep every 15 minutes and wake them every six hours to feed and wash them and take them to the toilet. Some of the nurses disliked working in the narcosis ward, but a former ward sister defended the treatment, recalling patients as 'being pleased to be helped'.[27] There were, however, several deaths.[28]

These "failures" (the ones who didn't die, but never truly came out of narcosis) in Sargant's therapy were often sent to mental wards.

Asher, though he was trained and practiced as a physician, was also responsible for the mental observation ward at Central Middlesex. Which led him to his chief contribution to medicine, the study of mental illness.

In 1964, following a proposal that his beds in the mental observation ward should be placed under the charge of a psychiatrist, he suddenly gave up his hospital post and all his medical activities.

In his private life, his chief interest was music. He played several instruments and was a Tenor.

"He was happiest with a small team of registrar, houseman, and students and disliked and mistrusted large institutions with their administrative complications. "

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Currently reading:
Br Med J. 1956 February 11; 1(4962): 309–313.
RESPECTABLE HYPNOSIS*
BY
RICHARD ASHER, M.D., F.R.C.P.
The report of the special subcommittee of the B.M.A.
(Supplement to the British Medical Journal, April 23,
1955, p. 190) stressed the necessity for medical men to
take a more serious interest in hypnosis and underlined
the need for observations of its therapeutic effects to
be made. This encourages me to publish these lectures,
uncomprehensive though they are, in the hope that other
more complete and extensive work will be forthcoming. ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1978855/

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Feb 7, 2013 6:17:38 GMT -5 beacon said:

A few days ago I speculated if Paul McCartney may have had the song Yesterday hypnotically suggested to him as he slept at the Asher's residence. Re-reading the Celia Imrie / William Sargant article has only helped to further convince me.

McCartney would write several songs while living at the Ashers', including Yesterday, which McCartney claims came to him fully formed in a dream. Upon waking, he hurried to a piano and played the tune to avoid forgetting it.

McCartney's initial concern was that he had subconsciously plagiarised someone else's work (known as cryptomnesia). As he put it; "For about a month I went round to people in the music business and asked them whether they had ever heard it before. Eventually it became like handing something in to the police. I thought if no-one claimed it after a few weeks then I could have it.”

Could it be that the song was deliberately ‘placed’ in his head as part of an experiment? Could it be that McCartney was being unconsciously subjected to numerous procedures that would render him ‘vulnerable to suggestion’?

Read RESPECTABLE HYPNOSIS* BY RICHARD ASHER, M.D., F.R.C.P.
I provided a link to the whole article in an above post. He was quite enthralled with what could be done with Hypnosis, and performed many tests on the power of suggestion under different methods of hypnosis.

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Feb 7, 2013 12:46:28 GMT -5 vOOdOOgurU said:

Currently reading:
Br Med J. 1956 February 11; 1(4962): 309–313.
RESPECTABLE HYPNOSIS*
BY
RICHARD ASHER, M.D., F.R.C.P.
The report of the special subcommittee of the B.M.A.
(Supplement to the British Medical Journal, April 23,
1955, p. 190) stressed the necessity for medical men to
take a more serious interest in hypnosis and underlined
the need for observations of its therapeutic effects to
be made. This encourages me to publish these lectures,
uncomprehensive though they are, in the hope that other
more complete and extensive work will be forthcoming. ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1978855/

Very interesting read, many thanks for posting.

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Feb 8, 2013 5:15:39 GMT -5 beacon said:

Feb 7, 2013 12:46:28 GMT -5 vOOdOOgurU said:

Currently reading:
Br Med J. 1956 February 11; 1(4962): 309–313.
RESPECTABLE HYPNOSIS*
BY
RICHARD ASHER, M.D., F.R.C.P.
The report of the special subcommittee of the B.M.A.
(Supplement to the British Medical Journal, April 23,
1955, p. 190) stressed the necessity for medical men to
take a more serious interest in hypnosis and underlined
the need for observations of its therapeutic effects to
be made. This encourages me to publish these lectures,
uncomprehensive though they are, in the hope that other
more complete and extensive work will be forthcoming. ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1978855/

Very interesting read, many thanks for posting.

No worries

I'm still confused as to why he just suddenly quit at the prospect of having a psychiatrist on the mental ward. He never practiced medicine again. Was it that much an affront? I don't get it.

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Feb 8, 2013 5:31:16 GMT -5 vOOdOOgurU said:

Feb 8, 2013 5:15:39 GMT -5 beacon said:

Very interesting read, many thanks for posting.

No worries

I'm still confused as to why he just suddenly quit at the prospect of having a psychiatrist on the mental ward. He never practiced medicine again. Was it that much an affront? I don't get it.

I am speculating, as I tend to do, but I wonder if he was worried about what a psychiatrist may unearth from his patients?

He mentions in the article examples about suggesting to patients that they can no longer scratch themselves and speaks about how by making the relevant instructions a patient would never recall what had been suggested to them whilst in a trance. I know medical ethics have changed but if these are examples of what he was prepared to admit in a medical paper then the reality of what he was suggesting in practice may have been quite shocking.

It seems as if he did not want external observers.

The more we unearth however, does make me believe that Yesterday may well have been 'suggested' to McCartney whilst he slept - it just seems to fit the pattern of Asher's techniques.

Does anyone know if there was any sort of public statement from McCartney about Asher's suicide?

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Feb 8, 2013 6:58:28 GMT -5 beacon said:

Feb 8, 2013 5:31:16 GMT -5 vOOdOOgurU said:

No worries

I'm still confused as to why he just suddenly quit at the prospect of having a psychiatrist on the mental ward. He never practiced medicine again. Was it that much an affront? I don't get it.

I am speculating, as I tend to do, but I wonder if he was worried about what a psychiatrist may unearth from his patients?

He mentions in the article examples about suggesting to patients that they can no longer scratch themselves and speaks about how by making the relevant instructions a patient would never recall what had been suggested to them whilst in a trance. I know medical ethics have changed but if these are examples of what he was prepared to admit in a medical paper then the reality of what he was suggesting in practice may have been quite shocking.

It seems as if he did not want external observers.

The more we unearth however, does make me believe that Yesterday may well have been 'suggested' to McCartney whilst he slept - it just seems to fit the pattern of Asher's techniques.

Does anyone know if there was any sort of public statement from McCartney about Asher's suicide?

Yeah I wonder. It's why I highlighted "He was happiest with a small team of registrar, houseman, and students and disliked and mistrusted large institutions with their administrative complications". That is of course understandable. Totally justified in most circumstances when trying to accomplish something and bureaucracy sticks its nose in. But when you match that with all of a sudden leaving your position, and never practicing medicine again, that's like a "Final Straw" moment. If he hadn't committed suicide, I might not think much of it. Here's a man who is known in the field for his contributions to mental illness. He then commits suicide. Maybe one can't self diagnose, and maybe never should. But if he was showing signs of depression, who better to know than he that he was depressed???

I'll see what I can find about statements made.

I also swear I read awhile ago, "somewhere" about something happening when McCartney and Asher parted company. And then someone either close to the family (but not her father) also winding up dead. I swear I read this a bit ago, and I wish I had saved it. I wasn't looking for "criminal element" at the time, and maybe i put it down to something unsubstantiated. But NOW I want to find that allegation/story again, and see who this other Asher related death was. And the article/story seemed to suggest McCartney had a strange reaction to the events, and then this person was dead.

Argh. I should've saved it.

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Back to Hypnosis now:

www.lermanet.com/exit/confusion-technique.htm

L Ron Hubbard's Use of the "Confusion Technique" to Induce Hypnosis in Scientology

The confusion technique was one of Erickson's most innovative and important contributions to hypnosis. These verbal and nonverbal methods created disorientation, disrupting habitual sets paving the way for enhanced responsiveness.

From: The Letters of Milton Erickson

Think of this post as just a memo. I haven't read it myself yet, it's just trying to tie the history of LSD, when it came to London (because it was imported from the USA at least until 1969), why it was so important for this unknown reporter to ask Paul McCartney if he had taken LSD, more information about the Process Church of the Final Judgement, and ... stuff ... all together. Slowly. Looking at Asher's research into Hypnosis and again, certain elements that start showing up in 1965/1966.

Trying also to get a document about the PCFJ from a website, hoping the link is still active.

Have not found a single comment yet about Asher's death by Paul McCartney. Still looking

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Wasn't quite aware of this, it probably has been written before but my knowledge of Jane Asher is scant at best. Catching up

Asher's background is best described as privileged. She, like the Duchess of York and Camilla Parker-Bowles, is of the same lineage as England's King Richard III (In fact, Jane Asher has offered a lock of her hair to prove, through DNA, that the King did not kill his nephews in the 1800s). Her childhood six-story home was in the center of London. Asher was educated at Queen's College, one of London's leading private girls schools, located on Harley Street. Her father was a well-known physician, psychologist and writer of a number of medical books. Mrs. Asher, of the noble Eliot lineage, played in orchestras before quitting to have a family. (She maintained lessons at her home, as well as at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama). Asher's intellect as well as her acting abilities from her parents made her the quintessence of a young high-society woman in England.

Right there, anything to do with aristocracy, alarm bells go off. It goes right along with McGowan's Laurel Canyon series. Power and Privilege. And class is still very important in England, no matter how people like to think it's not.

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Hunting

Richard Asher’s resignation: not entirely honourable

Martin W McNicol, retired consultant physician


That Richard Asher had wit and clinical wisdom is not in dispute, but perhaps less well recognised is his undoubtedly cyclothymic temperament, and that had as much to do with his resignation as principle.1 Pique about beds is perhaps a more apt description.

I was at Central Middlesex at the time. The proximate cause of his resignation was the hospital’s decision, long overdue, to appoint a psychiatrist to its own staff, replacing a not very satisfactory service from the regional mental hospital, and Asher’s own contribution as the physician who managed the observation ward. Although that ward was the source of some of his valuable clinical insights (myxoedematous madness is an example), this was not a satisfactory way to provide services to the hospital or its local population. Richard Asher was unable to come to terms with that. The hospital perhaps did not adequately realise the nature of his problems, being preoccupied with the problems of the manic depressive illness of its medical director and senior physician, Horace Joules, but to describe this as a point of principle is a travesty, and it is sad that you have published such a description.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2443566/

[vOOdOOgurU]

Asher suffered a great disappointment when his Mental Observation Service was re-assigned to the new specialty of Psychiatry. This, and his failing health contributed to a serious depression in his later years, and in 1969 this gifted man and devoted physician took his own life. There is a cruel irony and, perhaps, something prophetic of Asher's 1959 paper on suicide: in the closing paragraph, he wrote -"Misjudgments by the patient or doctor may have fatal results especially as many doctors tend to underestimate the degree of the patient's depression".

www.humanehealthcare.com/Article.asp?art_id=126

[multiverser]

Check out my new thread: Bishopsgate Synchronicities

[vOOdOOgurU]

Will do

Currently checking out my copy of LET IT BE, and wondering what the "Bill Sound" actually is.

This copy is a first pressing from 1970. Catalogue #AR334001
AR3 should be recognised as iamaphoney used characters for certain aspects of that work. As far as I know, Let It Be is the distinction in the Apple catalogue to have AR3 as a prefix, along with some releases it did in Japan. (see Mary Hopkins etc.)

Scratched into the inner circle is "Phil + Ronnie" this is of course Phil & Ronnie Spector.

Next is what I assume to be the production number JS 17,500 -13 (on Side A) JS 17,501 - 13 (on Side B).

Next is a very small stylised font "Bill Sound" and then an sf, but again very stylised.

Next is a triangle with the words I AM within it. I think this means this particular album was pressed at Capitol's Scranton, NJ plant.

What's the Bill Sound.

[vOOdOOgurU]

Feb 10, 2013 6:53:50 GMT -5 vOOdOOgurU said:

Will do

Currently checking out my copy of LET IT BE, and wondering what the "Bill Sound" actually is.

This copy is a first pressing from 1970. Catalogue #AR334001
AR3 should be recognised as iamaphoney used characters for certain aspects of that work. As far as I know, Let It Be is the distinction in the Apple catalogue to have AR3 as a prefix, along with some releases it did in Japan. (see Mary Hopkins etc.)

Scratched into the inner circle is "Phil + Ronnie" this is of course Phil & Ronnie Spector.

Next is what I assume to be the production number JS 17,500 -13 (on Side A) JS 17,501 - 13 (on Side B).

Next is a very small stylised font "Bill Sound" and then an sf, but again very stylised.

Next is a triangle with the words I AM within it. I think this means this particular album was pressed at Capitol's Scranton, NJ plant.

What's the Bill Sound.

Have to verify if that says BILL or BELL, or if that even says SOUND. On Side A the IAM is closer to the sf. On Side B, quite far away. On one side what I'm guessing to be SOUND looks almost like combined alpha/numeric characters, whereas on the other side it looks a lot like SOUND. Taking pictures. Researching.

Ummmmm

On my Capitol "Yellow Submarine" LP
SW-1-153 Purple Label, Side One,scratched into the inner circle is V.Lemay

If you google search yellow submarine + capitol + v lemay
first thing that shows up is:
Operation Downfall

Other searches yield:
[PDF]
Matterhorn to Nagasaki - Air Force Historical Studies Office - Air ...
v. 7. Services around the world. 1. World War, 1939-1945-Aerial ..... increasingly successful effort by US. submarines to cut the sea com- ..... dence. The tactics finally adopted by LeMay involved low-level night ...... Chengtu, capital of ...... the Yellow River at Kaifeng down the railway leading to the Yangtze.

Also:
Midway Myth - 1st Tactical Studies Group (Airborne): Combat ...
www.combatreform.org/.../midwaymyth.htmShareby P Tyler - Related articles
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUZrUGG29fo ... American Submarines sank 55% percent of all Japanese ships lost in the war, more ...... America, enjoys a capital armored ship protection plan. ...... Submarine Spadefish (SS-411) sinks Japanese escort carrier Shinyo 140 miles northeast of Shanghai, China, in Yellow Sea.

[PDF]
Air and Space Power Course - IWS - The Information Warfare Site
www.iwar.org.uk/military/resources/aspc/pubs/narrate.pdfShareFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
Mitchell, Hap Arnold, Ira Eaker, and Curtis LeMay saw the potential of an independent air force and of ...... By attacking submarine bases, surface sea craft, and invasion ports, the combined .... Unlike the rest of the manual, this section was typeset in capital letters, .... Additionally, the fighter-versus-fighter aerial engagements ...

I tried entering VICTOR Lemay.
ussslcca25.com/lemay-v.htm
Victor Lemay was killed in a car accident in Feb. 15th, 1947

"Victor came home safely, but unfortunately he was killed in a car accident in 1947. He was very young, out with friends for the evening. He died instantly. ... My mother, Rita, will be 81 in December ... "

Just odd little synchronicities

That's a guess as to what the V may stand for, It could stand for anything.

[vOOdOOgurU]

Feb 10, 2013 15:09:22 GMT -5 linus said:

We have two extensive threads on the I A M triangle from the Scranton plant.


invanddis.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=7010


invanddis.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Clues&action=display&thread=7016

Thank you very much Linus

[vOOdOOgurU]

Now we head back to LSD, and The Process Church.

"In the summer of 1964, Beat novelist Ken Kesey (the author of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and who had been an MK-ULTRA test subject at Stanford along with Allen Ginsberg and Grateful Dead musician Bob Hunter) launched a yearlong cross-country trip in a Day-Glo painted school bus filled with friends called "Merry Pranksters." The Merry Pranksters distributed thousands of doses of LSD along the way (a phenomenon colorfully described in author Tom Wolfe's 1969 novel, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test) supplied by one Ronald Hadley Stark. Stark (who died in 1984) was a CIA operative fluent in five languages with access to unlimited public funds and numerous high-level contacts in business and government throughout the world.

For instance, when the underground manufacture and distribution of LSD was suddenly derailed in 1969 due to the scarcity of its key ingredient, ergotamine tartrate, and increasing federal law enforcement pressure, Stark, via the Laguna Beach, Calif.-based Brotherhood of Eternal Love, a small group of local surfers led by chemist Nicholas Sand, got it quickly back on track. For five years, Stark, aided by the Castle Bank of the Bahamas (which pioneered the art of money laundering for the Mob) and his contacts in a French pharmaceutical firm, facilitated the mass production and distribution (via the Brotherhood and other groups) an even more powerful strain of LSD nicknamed "orange sunshine." This firm also manufactured BZ. Stark (who operated LSD labs in Brussels and Paris as well) claimed he was going to supply orange sunshine as an offensive weapon to CIA-backed Tibetan rebels fighting the Chinese occupation.

(Sidenote: BZ was longer lasting, more powerful, and actually could be sprayed on someone, like aerosol.)


Stark also was a close friend of the Los Angeles founders of a small breakaway Scientology sect called "The Process Church of the Final Judgement," English expatriates Robert DeGrimston Moore and Mary Ann McClean.

www.lewrockwell.com/orig/kreca1.html

[cranberryfaul]

I think Paul got tired of being a Beatle and so he became a "Paperback Writer", and went to swapped his life with Faul's life.