MJ Kim/MPL Communications Ltd.In advance of the release of his new album, Egypt Station, this Friday, September 7, Paul McCartney chatted with The Sunday Times of London about a variety of topics, including his thoughts about the existence of a Supreme Being.
McCartney tells the paper he thinks “there is something higher,” and shares that in 1967, while under the influence of the hallucinogenic drug DMT, he believes he saw God.
He recalled that he’d taken the drug with gallery owner Robert Fraser and a few other people. “[W]e were immediately nailed to the sofa,” he says. “And I saw God, this amazing towering thing, and I was humbled.”
McCartney described the vision as a “massive wall that I couldn’t see the top of, and I was at the bottom.”
He added, “And anybody else would say it’s just the drug, the hallucination, but both Robert and I were, like, ‘Did you see that?’ We felt we had seen a higher thing.”
McCartney noted, though, that the experience didn’t cause him to become more religious.
“[T]hat moment didn’t turn my life around,” McCartney maintains, “but it was a clue.”
In addition, Sir Paul told The Times that, having lost so many people close to him, he would like to believe that there’s an afterlife, although he hasn’t seen any proof.
He recalled an incident that happened after the 1998 death of his first wife, Linda, when he felt she may have visited him in a different form.
“I was in the country…and I saw a white squirrel. So, this was Linda, come back to give me a sign,” Paul explained. “It was a great moment. It thrilled me. Goosebumps! Obviously, I have no proof it was her at all, but it was good for me to think that.”
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