I always thought in the case of this song it was less about drug culture
than the Indian mystical craze that people like Donovan, the Beatles (esp
George Harrison), Pete Townshend, and even (very briefly) Mick Jagger were
getting into at the end of the '60s as an alternative to the drug culture.
I take the imagery in Donovan's song, then, to be meditation- rather than
hallucinogenic-drug induced
KM
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NEIL SHICOFF, TENORE SUPREMO
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/shicoff/shicoff.html
My Own Website
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
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+ I sing hymns with my spirit, +
+ but I also sing hymns with my mind. +
+ - 1 Corinthians 14:15 +
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