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This documentary dates from 2000.

The playlist of youtube is from 2007, and lacks two parts. This was from that epoch of youtube where people had to chop videos in parts because of time litims on videos. Now people upload videos of them playing videogames for 12 hours straight. It's incredible!

I've found this full documentary here

https://odysee.com/@TheBeatlesIdealFilmography:5/The-Real-John-Lennon-Richard-Denton-2000-documentary-corrig%C3%A9:e

Someone had the good taste of reuploading it there, in full. Thank you!

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I like longer videos

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Lennon made a pact with the Devil. That's why they were one of the first bands to include backmasking (reverse recorded messages). I'll soon post about satanic backmasking in hundreds of music bands.

What’s your best way to wake-up those who don’t want to open their eyes?

Please share your most effective wake-up strategies.

The more the awakened, the sooner this nightmare will be over!

The most effective strategy is asking about the person’s opinion on some of these topics:

I start with the 20 million dollar question, while showing videos of baby seizures (money or babies always get attention):

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/autism-day-shall-we-celebrate-the

If the person doesn’t want to discuss injections, then food is a good start:

Why is food poisoning legal?

How Rumsfeld forced the approval of Aspartame.

Artificial sweeteners, MSG, PFAS, Glyphosate ... go organic!

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/why-is-food-poisoning-legal

Then I’d follow with "Are you opened to see if the actual data matches your opinion?"

Then I start showing some of the shortcomings of the Pharma industry:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/system-failure-ai-exposes-zero-government

Then, show that every single person in the planet should be suing Pfizer and Moderna for deliberately hiding human DNA in their vacicnes, and Pfizer, for injecting an undisclosed carcinogenic monkey virus (SV40) sequence into the cell nucleus of the clueless biohacked, as officially recognized by Health Canada !!!

If he doesn’t like the topic, I’d show this video (all you need is 10 secs in the middle, who doesn’t have 10 seconds for you):

https://odysee.com/@ImpossiblyWackedOutWorld:f/WTC-7-Free-Falling:8

(caveat about the beginning: pot destroys your brain + “Raises Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke”)

9/11: two "planes", yet the third tower (WTC7) imploded, free falling on its footprint like in a controlled demolition. It was out of reach, and all 7 World Trade Center towers needed to be rebuilt, not the closer towers not belonging to World Trade Center... and the “owner” took an insurance policy for the WTC against terrorism, just months before, when no one was taking them … he didn’t show up for work precisely on 9/11 … just as his 2 grown up siblings (they never skipped work before). The inside information about the FUTURE 9/11 event helped masons make trillions by shorting the stock exchange: the records were deleted by the SEC so they wouldn't be prosecuted !!!

Watch amazing short and more evidence here:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/911-2-planes-3-towers

Please watch all of this! Your life depends on it, because there's a plan to murder 95% of the global population by 2050… written on the masonic Georgia guide-stones: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 … ”:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/depopulation-or-extermination

- J6: The false flag operation of the fake riot was planned, incited and guided by FBI agents, who broke into the Capitol !!! The same mason-plot was copy-pasted to disband the insurrection against the stolen elections in Brazil! All intel agencies (CIA, FBI, NSA) were founded by masons and are run by them for their own nefarious goals.

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/j6-what-you-need-to-know

It's such a mason manual that they organized the same J6 play in Brazil when it was proven that the voting machines owned by mason Soros, were rigged:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-2020-american-coup

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/dominion-over-us

All political parties are compromised/infiltrated. For example, Italy supports vax pass and WHO Pandemic Treaty !!! Meloni's Government! People voted her for being against that!

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/italy-endorsed-vax-pass-and-who-pandemic

- At least since the 90s, vaccines are weaponized to reduce the population, for example:

1. Adding hCG to infertilize women: lab detected in 30 countries

2. Overpassing the FDA 10 ng limit to human DNA “contamination” by 2000%, thus causing neuro-damage (autism, asperger, tics, dyslexia in 29% of kids, etc.) and childhood cancer epidemic (n.b. leukemia, non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas)

Check soundchoice.org or videos at bottom after this page:

Free 100 redpill movies and documentaries:

(don't miss the 1st one, 10 min at 2x, an amazing tool to start a discussion):

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/wake-up-videos

- COVID was designed as a primer for even more lethal COVID haccines:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-real-covid-timeline

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/not-vaccine-not-gene-therapy-just

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/what-do-bioweapons-have-to-do-with

- You’ll go nowhere and you’ll be happy:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/2050-youll-go-nowhere-and-youll-be

Elon's top secret: EVs cause cancer

Go green with gasoline!

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/electric-vehicles-cause-cancer

- It's genocide for depopulation:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/depop-vaccines-no-myth

- Their main source of power apart from sin-empowered demons? NOT a coincidence that the USA left dollar convertibility to gold in 1971, precisely triggering the exponential government deficit coupled with the trade deficit and inflation.

This is the Achilles’ heel of all nations: masonic and satanic secret societies counterfeit paper money and launder trillions with which they buy Banks, seats in the Federal Reserve (the only private run Central Bank in the world), political careers and parties, puppeticians, listed corporations, media, healthcare corporations and organizations, universities, foundations, judges, etc.:

Depopulation or EXTERMINATION? (finest quotes):

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/depopulation-or-extermination

Confessions of illuminati, David Rockefeller (finest quotes):

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/david-rockefeller-illuminati

Ex illuminati Ronald Bernard: how the world REALLY works

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/confessions-of-illuminati-ronald

Attali illuminati (“finest” quotes)

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/attali-illuminati-finest-quotes

The way out of this mess:

1. Create an easy system for real money: private currencies/warrants based on real assets, goods, services, etc. (gold, corn, oil, distance/volume/weight transportation, labor human hour/minute, etc.)

2. Ban legal tender. Let the free markets decide which real-currencies/valuables/warrants they prefer to trade with

3. Ban paper-backed currencies (unlike real-backed ones of point 1.)

4. Enforce a Legal Banking Reserve of 100% of deposits (so banks don't create money based on air) and therefore there's no excuse for a Central Bank, because there would be no risk of bank-runs since all their loans are fully backed with deposits

Anything else you might think of?

Now, are you really ready for this?:

The full PLAN exposed:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-plan-revealed

16 laws we need to exit Prison Planet

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/laws-to-exit-planet-prison

President John Quincy Adams: “Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.”

If you are a mason or know a mason, ask him to ask his 33° master to put in writing and sign it, who is "the great architect" and that he is not Lucifer. If he refuses, then he’ll know who he is really serving, Satan: tell him to get out of masonry NOW. Sooner or later he’ll be required to trample on a cross to get to a higher degree.

Confessions of a former mason (Serge Abad-Gallardo):

https://www.ncregister.com/interview/confessions-of-a-former-freemason-officer-converted-to-catholicism

Confession of 33rd degree master mason - Masons worship deities/demons

https://rumble.com/v294ksc-words-from-33rd-degree-master-mason-rare-video-masons-worship-all-sorts-of-.html

Masonry's Satanic Connection

https://odysee.com/@HiddenTruths:c/Masonry's-Satanic-Connection:4

Masonry's Satanic Doctrine | From Their Own Books

https://rumble.com/v2wg24a-masonrys-satanic-doctrine-from-their-own-books.html

Do Freemasons Worship Lucifer? Evidence They Don't Want You To See

https://odysee.com/@John_4-14:a/Do-Freemasons-Worship-Lucifer%EF%BC%9F-Evidence-They-Don't-Want-You-To-See-%EF%BD%9C-Hidden-Agendas---Walter-Veith:0

Satanic Ritual Abuse and Secret Societies [1995] [VHS]

https://odysee.com/@thisworldworks:1/satanic-ritual-abuse-and-secret-societies-1995:3

Satanic Pedophilia Torture and Blood - Dark Satanic Secrets Revealed

https://odysee.com/@Gmail.com:52/822821884_Satanic-Pedophilia-Torture-and-Blood---Dark-Satanic-Secrets-Revealed:4

UNITED NATIONS LUCIFER AND THE LUCIFER TRUST

https://odysee.com/@dynosarus:c/UNITED-NATIONS-LUCIFER-AND-THE-LUCIFER-TRUST:4

Freemasonry: 100% incompatible with Christ

https://rumble.com/vs9mxb-heres-why-christianity-is-totally-incapatable-with-freemasonry.html

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"Lennon made a pact with the Devil. That's why they were one of the first bands to include backmasking"

or maybe, let's just put the tape machine reels on backwards and hear what that sounds like?

Artists come up with new ways to see and hear and experience things. I don't expect that that means they are automatically in league with Satan.

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Also it's funny because you can take a song without that, play it backwards and hear words here and there.

Anyway, how do backwards words work in hypnotic suggestion when we ourselves do not process speech that way? It's gotta be a normal path and that's why the best hypnosis uses clear language and imagery.

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There were and remain rumors that The Beatles were strongly influenced by the Tavistock Institute. A year or more ago I came across website that was devoted to the premise that both The Beatles and R. Stones were not entirely self-made (The Stones had unexplained conditions while recording at Muscle Shoals) Since I grew up, well maybe not, never mind, raised when these guys hit their stride, their evolution all seemed quite genuine to me. John too seemed authentic and spoke his mind to the point of being perceived as brash and even rude by some. What he overtly saw in Yoko I never understood. The matronly instability in his early years coupled with a strong-willed older woman perhaps settled him. The Plastic One band album had, I think, three songs I liked, especially Working Class Hero but Yoko's musical "talent" was an embarrassment to humanity. Listening on the radio back then, I recall two things most about the Toronto Peace Festival, one being Yoko's minutes long deranged scream song; the other was that the M/C was soliciting the audience for a home for Chatsworth Chicken, a bird of unknown origin that found it's way into Alice Cooper's act. I know, irrelevant, right? But so, IMHO, was Yoko. But wait ! Here's the drawstring that makes the impertinent relevant again. Alice Cooper with Swedish subtitles: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/alice-cooper-chicken-murdered/

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Here is why I don't think the Tavistock thing holds water. Stay with me here. I am a professional musician, and it was Beatles who kickstarted my obsession. I used to be utterly mindblown as to how they came up with all of that beautiful music, just the invention of harmonies in the chords and melodies, it seemed like magic. And I'd heard the Tavistock rumors, and wondered of they were true. It did seem like they had an inordinate amount of musical knowledge from the drop.

Then, about 12 years ago, I started playing bass in a gypsy jazz band, the music of the 20s & 30s with a focus on Django Reinhardt material. Guess what? Nearly ALL of those amazing Beatles harmonic devices can be found within that repertoire! That stuff already existed. Postwar England was a major music consumer, everyone bought records and sheet music, and people sang together at parties and pubs. Those Django records were as ubiquitous as any others. And Paul's dad was a bandleader doing gigs most weekends, and George had a mentor at a music shop who showed him the "naughty chords". So, even though they "stumbled" into their genius, they were indeed the first rock group to combine those elements... and believe me, they borrowed freely. JP&G were all extremely bright and hungry for music, they absorbed all that they listened to. Everything was fair game.

Not to mention that deliciously quintessential British habit of shifting tonal centers, which I have always loved. For example listen to Bernard Cribbens' "Folk Song" and "Hole In The Ground". A more modern example is Madness' "Our House". So the Beatles weren't so far outside of basic English tonal sensibilities with their interesting shifts.

So if Beatles were from Tavistock, then so was Django, Irving Berlin, Gershwin, Satchmo, etc...? Nah.

Music is a language, and people get it organically.

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I'm not a player of music. My appreciation is limited to listening although my musical tastes are all over the place. If had to believe how many times their sound evolved over the span of less than a decade. I know they're rooted in skiffle and R&B but what about Sgt. Peppers, M.M.Tour? Are those "Django" chords to be found there too? The John documentary said they went to Berlin as amateurs but before long evolved into accomplished musicians. "Naughty chords", tonal centers . . . . , I wish I knew the meaning of. Thanks for your input and who buried Paul ? :- )

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Agreement, that certain feeling, like reliving joyful moments. I’m programmed effectively…

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Thank you! please share the link about Tavistock and Beatles/Stones

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Prof, I spent over half an hour trying to find that lost/misplaced website of the skeptical musician enthusiast regarding the Beatles and Stones, but to no avail. If I do eventually find it I'll let you know.

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Here’s a kinda wild theory: What if Yoko was CIA / MI6 or something of that globalist intel ilk that became John’s MK Ultra handler…and what if the song “Imagine” which contains all of the lyrics of a dystopian new world order system was never written by John, but simply used John’s creative mind for soothing catchy melody to become a tool for indoctrinating the perceptual minds of the masses?? Any thoughts??

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What if the Beatles were recruited by British intelligence to do something... Such as sell a positive image of the old country abroad?

Anyone who has listened to the Beatles knows the lyric from 1967, "It was 20 years ago today/Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play." Miles Mathis had much to say about this almost a decade ago.

"The Beatles were a British Intelligence Project run by the BSC and Major John Pepper. That is where they got the name Pepper: he was a real guy. Everyone on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's is a famous spook. The BSC was the American arm of MI6, and they now admit that. They also admit BSC was run out of Rockefeller Center, with its front the British Passport Control Office."

http://mileswmathis.com/elvis.pdf

Miles also thought that John Lennon was not assassinated, but instead retired and faked his death. and he considered the evidence he had assembled up to 2014 to be "proof enough for me."

http://mileswmathis.com/lennon.pdf

As for the song Imagine, I agree with you about that. it could be the anthem of the UNO or the WEF. No possessions. No nations. No religion. The song Melting Pot by Blue Mink has a complementary message: we need a hundred-year plan to turn our descendants into "coffee-colored people." Who but a racial supremicist or a far-right jackbooted national socialist could disagree with that sentiment?

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check out this amazing deep-dive article on the incredible influence the Tavistock Institute and its work has had on post-war society - http://www.frot.co.nz/design/conspiracies/how-the-tavistock-institute-invented-rock-roll/

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To much think. Enjoy life, if you can.

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But then again, how much is too much?

Cogito, ergo fruor.

I think, therefore I enjoy.

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I do feel that Yoko was some sort of handler--I would go so far as to say that's clear from watching this documentary. It isn't the first time I've wondered this about Yoko either. I also think that the Chapman story is wrong. As for the Beatles themselves, I think they were a genuine band and there's a ton of documentary evidence to back that up. Engineering was ongoing but some elements just become useful tools by accident. But the amount of LSD being used suggests a real vulnerability that was likely capitalized upon.

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Did Mark David Chapman murder John Lennon?

According to www.lightonconspiracies.com (Ole Dammegard) Mark David Chapman was set up to be the lone gunman. By who??? Another Lee Harvey Oswald? Where is Yoko Ono today???

Has anyone interviewed her??? Just asking. (Mark D. Chapman was employed @ Castle Medical Center, 640 Ulukahiki St. Kailua, HI 96734, then quit his job, to go to New York and kill John Lennon.

His wife (Graduated 1969, Kailua High School, and so did I).

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The questions about forensics of the shooting appear to be real. It appears that somebody else shot John Lennon in a tight circle of shots from a different angle. This needs to be re-examined.

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Hi Celia,

It is said that YO disapproved of this documentary and banned it from airing in the USA. Anything negative in the press about her she will have the source suffer in some way even if she can't sue them.

YO is still alive but unable to have full conversations so unable to do in person or live interviews.

John was a fractured and somewhat broken man who was a shadow of his former self, beatle john , as if he had been a horse that was beaten into submission and was under YOs control.

John obviously desperately wanted to return to the UK, there is evidence that she knew of his imminent demise. Chapman's bullets completely missed John from where Chapman was standing, he was the patsy.

A truck blocked the courtyard drive in entry past the gatehouse so John and YO were forced to get out of the limo on the street and walk in front of the Dakota past the the gatehouse into the courtyard with YO walking at least 20- 30 ft ahead of John.

One of the gateway security staff was a former known c-i--a asset (used in other ops); Dumdum bullets were used with previse aim at his throat and chest.

The Double Fantasy album, and the Imagine film is part of the ongoing cover up of her involvement with his downward spiral and murder to con the public into believing the story that they were soulmates and were always deeply in love.

Watch the scene towards end in the new film Argylle which uses new Beatle John lennons 'now and then' song as the theme song:

it is particularly significant towards the end of the film Argylle when the mind controlled heroine nearly beats to death the love of her life while under orders from her supposed mother (her handler) .

Lennon would have wanted to raise awareness after he died about mind control which was used to control him.

The case can be made that he developed several personalities after the maharishi India Rishikesh disastrous nearly 8 week retreat where John emerged a completely changed man who looked and talked quite differently: 1) calling YO 'mother' (YO had been sighted in Rishikesh. Also, she had attended the london preplanning meeting for the Indian meditation retreat with John and Cynthia, much to Cynthia's horror. Even worse, YO even insisted on being given a ride home with them after that meeting by jumping into John's bentley). 1) How John changed into a different person continued: john started parting his hair to mirror how YO parted her hair, 2) After rishikesh, john hated anything to do with the Beatles in 1968 and NEVER took another vacation or trip with his fellow Beatles, 3) John was so out of his mind post rishikesh that he announced he was Jesus christ at a visit to Apple days after YO had officially stayed overnight, and 4) he wanted the other Beatles to accept YO as the 5th Beatle in the recording studio and was forever joined at the hip to her in 1968/69/70, even being escorted to the loo by his 'Mother' YO into the abbey road recording studio bathroom. IMO John couldn't be left alone for even 5 minutes post his hookup with YO.

Justice for John cries out as his voice was silenced 8th Dec 1980.

Thanks Celia for taking an interest.

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And here’s another wild theory: You know all those thousands of girls screaming at the Beatles’ concerts….what if that was early experimental testing of CIA / MI6 technology that could remotely use electromagnetic fields to stimulate frenzied frenetic emotional responses in crowds?? Thoughts??

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Or it could be that they were cute and novel and excellent musicians. Music has always had the power to enchant; that is its reason for being, that is what music does -- and the lads were good at it. They loved it, they learned it, and they nailed it to the wall.

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partly explained in this amazing article focusing on the Tavistock Institute and its myriad think-tank off-springs, its massive PR and the incredible influence its work has had on post-war society - http://www.frot.co.nz/design/conspiracies/how-the-tavistock-institute-invented-rock-roll/

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Partly explained by the fact that people can be very prone to cult-like behavior and collective neurosis. Apparently, it isn't that difficult to organize a bandwagon effect and get people, especially teenagers, to join in. It wouldn't require electromagnetic fields. Just seed the behavior by paying a certain number of people to act it out and publicize that, and if the idols are cute enough and talented enough and the music, the marketing and the publicity are up to scratch, the phenomenon may become self-perpetuating! When the controllers did that with the Beatles, though, they exceeded all expectations. Perhaps those kids were screaming and fainting as a way of subconsciously outdoing what their elder siblings and cousins had done in the fifties.

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Wow, this documentary is incredible. The sound engineer says that John hated his own voice. He liked to use a lot of delay while recording. He couldn't sing without hearing his own delay.

That's very telling!

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Wow, by the end of the documentary, the relatives complain that they were not allowed to have a funeral, they don't know anything of what was done with the ashes. Wow!

To think they would go to such extents to destroy a person even after death.

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goes to show 'they' didn't want us to see what had happened. great deep-dive article on the massive post-war PR (psy-ops) ran by the Tavistock Institute and its extended network of disruptive agents ('actors') - http://www.frot.co.nz/design/conspiracies/how-the-tavistock-institute-invented-rock-roll/

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Once I had an exchange with a Tavistock denialist.

He asked why would anyone believe that crazy story.

I wrote: "the answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind."

Major meltdown ensued.

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LOL

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thx!

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When he was assassinated, part of me died… dreadful day. I Remember like yesterday. Thanks for your awareness.

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My primary interest in John Lennon these days is about his assassination, which as I understand, may mirror the "grassy knoll" set up that we saw used to disguise who was behind the murder of JFK.

I haven't got any links handy to post on this, but as I have heard the "tight circle of bullets" hitting John in the back do NOT match the position or location of where John was "shot by Mark David Chapman."

Obviously we know MBE, Tavistock, and the questions about James Paul McCartney being replaced by "Bungalow Billy Shepherd" whose children asked him "if to kill was not a sin." John, George and Ringo discussed "Beatle Bill" at breakfast in a film clip, and Ringo's "Back off Boogoloo video" covertly exposes the scandal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXg1AxBXN5g

Why was it necessary to assassinate Lennon? Was he a continual threat to this Psy-op and the entire facade?

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Hi Steve,

There were many reasons why John was killed, but he had been planning a trip back to the UK in December and had been rumored to want to start touring small gigs in Europe with a few of his former Beatles.

Yes he promised his many friends and family he was coming home but YO was afraid she couldn't keep control of him if he returned to the UK.

Plus YO wanted complete control of his estate which she got. She wanted all of John's assets which she got. If and when John woke up and could finally realize her abuse, he would have left her.

To understand how John became a changed man in 1968, see my earlier comment: https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/saturday-night-film-john-lennon/comment/54444952

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Thanks KT. I will read that.

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So sad! I’ve never heard this story

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His death was a political assassination. The deep state tried to force him to leave America and he took them to court and won.

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I cannot lie, december 9th, 1980 was the worst day of my life. It hit me harder than any death ever has. (Caveat: I am extremely blessed in that the deaths in my family have occurred at age-appropriate times). I was a Beatlemaniac, 4 years in and fully obsessed with everything Beatle. I have never cried for anyone like I cried for John. I feel weird saying that, and I expect that that could very well change at some point.

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Imagine a world without humans that carry on the 7 Deadly sins! Imagine a world void of other humans! Imagine as I do, you don’t exist. And the world will be a better place…

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The theme of Imagine is the creation of the new man. A huge political myth, on par with "divine right" or "mandate of the heavens" and other formulas.

This is yet another inversion of Christianity. The new man is a creation of God. It means gifting the spiritual life to people who are spiritually dead.

The political new man is fake, like everything else humans invent, to run faster away from God.

Socialism is one of the contraptions devised to foment this inversion. The goal is to create a false peace. The peace movement is a hamster wheel.

The decree of God is that man will live in error until he becomes saved. All war is flesh against flesh. Sin that seeks to redeem itself, forever losing its own impossible fight.

Conflict will always be present in material life. War is entirely optional. War is never necessary or sufficient. The resolution of social conflict, which is a small subset of soul trauma, is only achieved through inaction and voluntary silencing of the human lust for blood. When God speaks, human conflict vanishes.

Then it reactivates, because we cannot bear the voice of God forever. We have to act and run. Wounds are open again.

It's truly the curse of Cain. That's the theme at the base of all musical forms. A song of lament or a song of joy, for the curse or for being cleansed from it.

"Imagine" fails. Like all other liberal programmes. Like the Open Society. Like the Panopticon, like Eugenics, like Public Health, and like the obfuscation of self-regulation through total surveillance. All designed to fail, and cause shame.

Liberty, a gift from God as valuable as faith and love, cannot be allowed. If liberty is allowed, there can be no political programme. No coercion, no confusion.

What a waste to reject all the gifts from God, and use politics instead. What a fraud that always ends in massacres.

And how weak are conservatives. They don't reject the gift of liberty like the socialists, but they fear it. They fear all the gifts. That's why they fight with the only idea of not losing by much this time too. The fight is rigged by the myth of the political new man. There is no victory without God.

Everyone knows all this. I'm just reading what is already written in the heart. The law of love. And most of us will ignore the inner truth, and keep fighting to lose again to programmes designed to fail, the Planned Chaos.

Like the myth of Tantalus, who can never drink water.

Imagine is a song of the lamentation of one who is tired of being accursed. It seeks to convey joy, but it doesn't deliver any joy.

That's what imagine did to me.

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I apologize for my excess, I think it's because I'm a bit in martial mood today. But I insist in the old Chinese theme of inaction in relation to real peace. Quite a paradox!

Political songs feature paradoxes and its not wrong to analyze them through the lens of the pradox they present.

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I thank you for your "excess" Agent Roger." "Imagine" is an important song and your view of it captures significant interpretive themes worthy of concerted and determined articulation. I loved the song when I first heard and was haunted by it when he died. I tried to visit John and Yoko at their home in Ascott. No security no guards. I left a note at the front door. I looked in the window beside the door and there it was, the big room with the all white classical piano. I once exchanged a few words with John and Yoko as they left the Windsor Arms Hotel in Toronto to go to the airport.

The spirit of John Lennon inhabits me yet. Thanks Celia for putting the film on Substack. The missing pieces are on the Odyssey version cited here. I saw the Beatles Play at Maple Leaf Gardens on Labour Day 1964, the evening before starting Grade 9. It was so great seeing in the film all those family members and close personal friends of the legendary figure from a happier times when we Boomers were starting to exercise our collective cultural muscle.

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The sermon of the mount is a masterpiece of analysis of human behavior.

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Ouch……!

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Thanks for posting this classic by S.D. These talented guys were sardonic from the Day 1 so I think "Imagine" was but another log on their fire.

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