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  1. "Old Brown Shoe" is a song by the English rock band #theBeatles. Written by #GeorgeHarrison, the group's lead #guitarist, it was released on a non-album single in May 1969, as the #Bside to "#TheBalladOfJohnAndYoko". The song was subsequently included on the band's compilation albums #HeyJude, 1967–1970 and #PastMastersVolumeTwo. Although "Old Brown Shoe" remains a relatively obscure song in the band's catalogue.
    youtube.com/watch?v=iCV2N--rxBA

  2. Terry Gilliam – „Time Bandits“ (1981)

    Die Kritik hat mit diesem Meisterwerk der Phantasie damals nicht viel anfangen können. Doch das hat niemanden von uns davon abgehalten, diesen Film lebenslänglich zu lieben. Und jede:r von uns hat eine andere Geschichte darüber. Für mich ist er vermutlich eines der größten Geschenke, das ARTE uns dieses Jahr überhaupt machen konnte… (ARTE, Wh)

    Zum Blog: nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/
  3. “All religions are paths to God. I will use an analogy, they are like different languages that express the divine.”*…

    A special Sunday edition: an excerpt from Kwame Anthony Appiah‘s Captive Gods

    Much of my life has been spent in and around religious traditions. I have feasted at Eid al-Fitr with my Muslim cousins, celebrated Seders at home with my in-laws, recited a Sanskrit mantra as I meditated alone, and attended a nuptial Mass conducted by a cardinal. In my childhood, I sang in an Anglican school choir in England, went to Sunday school back home in Ghana in an interdenominational church (dressed in my Sabbath finery), and murmured “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep” in prayer each night before I retired. My weekly recitation of the Nicene Creed was quite sincere, even if I always had difficulty understanding how Christ could be of “one substance with the Father”; the words had some extra-semantic resonance. Like millions of people, I have experienced the inward peace that comes from meditation — the sense of oneness with everything that is spoken of in contemplative traditions from around the world; but I have felt that sense of communion, too, at the end of a long season of training, rowing with my fellow oarsmen in perfect concord on the Thames near Henley, when my body was working as hard as it ever has. Then, as in the daily meditations of my teenage years, I felt with the Blessed Julian of Norwich, who lived six centuries ago, that “all will be well and all will be well, and all manner of things will be well.” As a child, I gained security from a gold cross that hung on a chain around my neck, which had been blessed by a spirit that spoke through the mediumship of a modest Scottish postman, who also reassured me by transmitting benevolent messages from my long-dead English grandfather.

    And because much of my childhood was spent in Kumasi, in Ghana’s Ashanti region, I followed my father in pouring libations to our ancestors, who were once as real to me as the God whose presence I felt when I prayed. We would offer spirituous beverage, in particular, to the founder of my father’s lineage, the warrior Akroma-Ampim. Nana Akroma-Ampim, begye nsa nom: Akroma-Ampim, our elder, come take this alcohol to drink. We would honor, too, our formidable greatgrandmother Takyiwah, or her brother Yao Antony, for whom, like Akroma-Ampim, I was named. Mind you, my father was an elder in his Methodist church and considered himself a good Christian; but as a proud Asante man, he also shared the “traditional” beliefs of the world where he grew up. If he dreamed, it meant that his sunsum — a spirit of consciousness — was traveling the realm; when he died, he believed, something would leave his body and join the ancestors, to be given offerings on occasion. He joined in practices related to Nyame, the sky god, as well as to Asase Yaa, the earth goddess, and to other spirits of divers kinds. There were ritual practices and prayers, and professional priests and shrines of varying degrees of authority and various scopes of jurisdiction. (When he visited friends in, say, Sierra Leone, he expected that, just as the people were different there, so the gods would be: alternative technologies of the divine.)

    Via the ever-illuminating Alan Jacobs.

    [Image above: source]

    * Pope Francis (echoing Ramakrishna: “All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.”)

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    As we embrace understanding, we might recall that it was on this date in 1970 that Apple Records released George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord.” Inspired by the Hindu god Krishna and the Christian hymn “Oh Happy Day,” it is a call to abandon religious sectarianism (using devices like the blending of the Hebrew word hallelujah with chants of “Hare Krishna” and Vedic prayer).

    Harrison’s first release as a solo artist, it topped charts worldwide; it was the biggest-selling single of 1971 in the UK. In America and Britain, the song was the first number-one single by an ex-Beatle.

    https://youtu.be/AR4lpQWcT5g

    #alanJacobs #culture #divine #faith #georgeHarrison #history #kwameAnthonyAppiah #mySweetLord #philosophy #popeFrancis #ramakrishna #religion #sectarianism #tolerance #understanding

  4. The White Album

    November 22, 1968 ~ The White AlbumIt's #10 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time." Some call it the greatest. Ever. Listen to The White Album by The Beatles on Amazon Music ... #thebeatles #thewhitealbum #60smusic #classicrock #georgeharrison #johnlennon #paulmccartney #ringostarr #georgemartin #music #musicsky #musicansky #rock #rockmusic

    robinbannks.com/2025/11/22/nov

  5. The White Album

    November 22, 1968 ~ The White AlbumIt's #10 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time." Some call it the greatest. Ever. Listen to The White Album by The Beatles on Amazon Music ... #thebeatles #thewhitealbum #60smusic #classicrock #georgeharrison #johnlennon #paulmccartney #ringostarr #georgemartin #music #musicsky #musicansky #rock #rockmusic

    robinbannks.com/2025/11/22/nov

  6. The White Album

    November 22, 1968 ~ The White AlbumIt's #10 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time." Some call it the greatest. Ever. Listen to The White Album by The Beatles on Amazon Music ... #thebeatles #thewhitealbum #60smusic #classicrock #georgeharrison #johnlennon #paulmccartney #ringostarr #georgemartin #music #musicsky #musicansky #rock #rockmusic

    robinbannks.com/2025/11/22/nov

  7. The White Album

    November 22, 1968 ~ The White AlbumIt's #10 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time." Some call it the greatest. Ever. Listen to The White Album by The Beatles on Amazon Music ... #thebeatles #thewhitealbum #60smusic #classicrock #georgeharrison #johnlennon #paulmccartney #ringostarr #georgemartin #music #musicsky #musicansky #rock #rockmusic

    robinbannks.com/2025/11/22/nov

  8. The White Album

    November 22, 1968 ~ The White AlbumIt's #10 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time." Some call it the greatest. Ever. Listen to The White Album by The Beatles on Amazon Music ... #thebeatles #thewhitealbum #60smusic #classicrock #georgeharrison #johnlennon #paulmccartney #ringostarr #georgemartin #music #musicsky #musicansky #rock #rockmusic

    robinbannks.com/2025/11/22/nov

  9. "Taxman" is a song by the English rock band #theBeatles from their 1966 album #Revolver. Written by the group's lead guitarist, #GeorgeHarrison, with some lyrical assistance from #JohnLennon, it protests against the higher level of #progressiveTax imposed in the United Kingdom by the #Labour government of #HaroldWilson, which saw the Beatles paying over 90 per cent of their earnings to the #Treasury. The song was selected as the album's opening track.
    youtube.com/watch?v=Oyu5sFzWLk8

  10. Terry Gilliam – „Time Bandits“ (1981)

    Die Kritik hat mit diesem Meisterwerk der Phantasie damals nicht viel anfangen können. Doch das hat niemanden von uns davon abgehalten, diesen Film lebenslänglich zu lieben. Und jede:r von uns hat eine andere Geschichte darüber. Für mich ist er vermutlich eines der größten Geschenke, das ARTE uns überhaupt machen konnte… (ARTE, Wh)

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    November 22, 1968 ~ The White Album It's #10 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time." Some call it the greatest. Ever. #thebeatles #thewhitealbum #60smusic #classicrock #georgeharrison #johnlennon #paulmccartney #ringostarr #georgemartin Listen to The White Album by The Beatles on Amazon Music ...

    robinbannks.wordpress.com/2024

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    November 22, 1968 ~ The White Album It's #10 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time." Some call it the greatest. Ever. #thebeatles #thewhitealbum #60smusic #classicrock #georgeharrison #johnlennon #paulmccartney #ringostarr #georgemartin Listen to The White Album by The Beatles on Amazon Music ...

    robinbannks.wordpress.com/2024

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    November 22, 1968 ~ The White Album It's #10 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time." Some call it the greatest. Ever. #thebeatles #thewhitealbum #60smusic #classicrock #georgeharrison #johnlennon #paulmccartney #ringostarr #georgemartin Listen to The White Album by The Beatles on Amazon Music ...

    robinbannks.wordpress.com/2024

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    November 22, 1968 ~ The White Album It's #10 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time." Some call it the greatest. Ever. #thebeatles #thewhitealbum #60smusic #classicrock #georgeharrison #johnlennon #paulmccartney #ringostarr #georgemartin Listen to The White Album by The Beatles on Amazon Music ...

    robinbannks.wordpress.com/2024

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    November 22, 1968 ~ The White Album It's #10 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time." Some call it the greatest. Ever. #thebeatles #thewhitealbum #60smusic #classicrock #georgeharrison #johnlennon #paulmccartney #ringostarr #georgemartin Listen to The White Album by The Beatles on Amazon Music ...

    robinbannks.wordpress.com/2024

  16. George Harrison - Be Here Now (2024 Mix) [Official Video]

    George Harrison “Be Here Now - 2024 Mix" in collaboration with the Ram Dass foundation - Love Serve Remember Foundation (LSRF) - featuring official illustrations from the Ram Dass book, 'Be Here Now'.

    youtube.com/watch?v=oSYmD6kHdK

    #Music #GeorgeHarrison #TheBeatles #RamDass #Meditation #Mindfulness #BeHereNow