09-13-2022, 12:51 PM
The heart of the Awakening was the awakening experiences that people had, with a large number of them among people of all ages concentrated in the summer of 1966 just when this song came out.
The Byrds are known to have created the "first psychedelic song" Eight Miles High, but it was only obliquely related to psychedelics, being about an airplane flight and when you touch down, whose elaborate musical passages were inspired by John Coltrane and Ravi Shankar. But this song 5D puts it right out there, at the right time, in original words and music, and it can be a psychedelic experience, or not; maybe just a spiritual awakening.
The Byrds are known to have created the "first psychedelic song" Eight Miles High, but it was only obliquely related to psychedelics, being about an airplane flight and when you touch down, whose elaborate musical passages were inspired by John Coltrane and Ravi Shankar. But this song 5D puts it right out there, at the right time, in original words and music, and it can be a psychedelic experience, or not; maybe just a spiritual awakening.