Hey there Fox and other denizens of the Board:

     Scott McKenzie sang it, but John Phillips wrote it. There is most likely a connection between this song and another,  Mamas and Papas song, called "California Dreamin'"

The skinny is that John wrote this song as an "advertisement" for the Monterey Pop Festival 1967. Scott performed it in this venue as one of the daytime acts. The festival remains one of the most noted 

musical  events in the pantheon of music.

Two things can be noted as highly spiritual:

1).Jimi Hendrix performed an old Troggs song by the name of Wild Thing.....except he didn't have an ocharina solo....instead, he burned his guitar in homage to the 

muse of music; and 

2) A young girl from Texas sang one of the greatest love songs ever.....that honestly portrayed the pain that is part and parcel of love....the song is "Ball and Chain"; the group is Big Brother and the Holding Company; 

and the singer is Janis Joplin.

The videos are available on Utube and I would encourage all to watch Janis' performance. The cameraman (wisely? by chance?) focused on her feet during a certain part of the song. Those of you who study kinetics can read certain things from this. Those of you who truly understand metaphysical rhythms can embrace a whole lot more. I mean to say, I cried when she sang.

With regard to the question/assertion by Sir Paul............I, also,  will defend the concept that ALL music is spiritual......from the Greek plays (which were sung folks, not recited like our plays) to the latest, greatest grand MC heavy D rapper....ALL music is spiritual!  This includes music that some might find distasteful, such as some things I post in Stochastic Music. No one has ever replied  that the  songs are not spiritual. Those who have been off put have been off put precisely because the songs touched the concept of spirituality, albeit  in an unexpected way.

Peace, Love and Lotsalight (available only on TeeVee via 1 800 222-2222-2222-2222, call NOW!)

Psi-co Marty and Luckylee and Poopyhead

OHHHHHHHHHHHHH................I am editing this post to maybe point out something.........another song was performed at the Monterey festival called Baja Bula Bunke, aka THE HEALING SONG, by Hugh Masekela. This was LARGELY IGNORED AND IS ALL BUT FORGOTTEN!!!!! So much for things which might be considered overtly metaphysical. One day, I will try to find the song, and I am certain that it will have some significance, somehow, someway. 

Hi Marty,

Thanks for taking time to reply!

I am just figuring things out too, I do not know about Randy and his Sea Gulls Sults or Sultry stuff though

Love and Light

Cause,

Well stated!!!

Thanks

My thought next day was "If I am so enlightened why did I just wake up with a cold?"

We have a concept of the solid. I know that Plato beat me to this illumination. The constant can be acheived through disipline, meditation, and the plane of mind, emerging through communication of these thoughts and others. How can you say that vibration is everything? We could say that in the first moment all things existed. This includes the possibility of us and spirit. What is more timeless than spirit. If the divine imagined the universe in a world of his mind. The world of spirit preceeds the vibratory excited world we have today. A sharp rebutal of this thought is from the Bible John 1.1 "In the begining was the word and with God and the word was God." Words become geometry. geometry becomes words. Spirit is comparable to many things!

I have decided that I had a cold because I coud not snach the lack of a cold from somebody's hand.

 cause

Tangeneting is cool and so is using a parabolic formula to substitute for a catenary repersentation lol

It is noting that offends, it is the fixed truths that are asked to rethought...  As any knowledge is line upon line and precept upon precept on the ladder..  So no points are fixed per se, and reevaluation of truth can sometimes be how we intergrate better formulas for cooler tangent moves as we fuzzy walk the dark night of the living LOL

Love and Light

Hiyaz guyz......well, I re-thunk it as suggested and I have concluded that ALL art is spiritual. We may or may not like the message conveyed, or even understand the message intended, but it does not diminish it's spirituality. Oh, BTW, someone hinted that spirituality is positive....but that "ain't necessarily so" - - - - see Danju's excellent thread with my response to the love of my life, Aqua-ree-us.

      To prove my point let us look at art in the broadest sense.....let's start with animal art.....let's see....there is......a........well.......a...........NONE!!!!! Animals do not create art.....birds sing, but not songs, though we like to think so. Orangs, Bonobos and Chimps will put paint on a canvas but they do so in a mimic of action that they have observed. Homo Habilii, Homo Erectus created NO art. It is only us,

     Homo Sapiensa, (the aware man) conceives and creates art. Now, onward Metaphysics!

     The first artist(s) that we know of, the one(s) who conceived the images we see in the Chauvet Caves in France, did a very telling thing.....something which solidifies my assertion. We cannot know the gender, most believe that they were males. I, in opposition, tend to think that they were females. I am a radical historian. Anyway, we see the animals, and the hunt, and stick figures, and flora, and fauna, and all kinds of things. We see the drawing of hands. The artist's representation of hands. AND, we see one truly remarkable thing!!!!!! We see the outline (NOT a representation, NOT a handprint) BUT an outline of the artist' hand.

     And we read from this as it might say....."these are the things that I see outside this cave as I live my life, they may be true, they may be wishes, BUT THIS HAND leaves them for you to see....that I, like you, have imagination, hopes, and dreams of the future. This is who I am, and I am just like you!

     The outlined hand is the signature of the artist who was moved to tell us.....you and me.....her/his story. I am not saying that these people were in any way "noble" or even "spiritual" by today's shallow understanding. They left their old for dead when they could no longer contribute to survival. They killed their young when they proved a burden to survival. They killed female babies in proportion to the need to have fertile breeding females. Males dominated female members of the clan........HEY..............................wait a minute........................................................am I talking about them or about us?????????

     Even though we do the same things they did, we can't still be cavepersons because we are all far to spiritually groovy...............the thing of it is that, in reality, we are still living in caves....still afraid of the light!

     Now, to side track everyone, and cause folks to dismount the high horseys they might be putting boot to stirrup.....here is a clip of the future........I watch it 'cos I think Yvette Mimieux is hot....I think she is an old lady that sells real estate in Caly...but I still think she is hot! AND, I watch it because you have to look in the background of the scene and see what things have been preserved into the future......strange......do I see Egyptian stuff.....do I see Tesla's sphere....and what do you guys make of the talking rings?????????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byQTsc

PPH, PPC, PPinaP9DO, (don't try to figure it out, it takes a Brit to know) PsychoolMarty, Luckycoolee, Poppycoolhead.......Groovy and Farm Out, Wavy Gravy

Edited because I can't spell but care enough that my words are spelled correctly.....since they are my words....no channel surfing for PiscoMartee...........oops, I misspelled my name, it is SligoMartie or some such thing.......

Edited for spacing,,,,,,,,,,,,,and spacetime!

I apologize....I have ancient equipment and am not good at linking....the link does not work and I cannot make it do so....my bad! But, I would still rather live in my world than in the one where "that's so 23 seconds ago" is the rule. I happen to like time....and everyone else seems not to.

Sorry, Dani.....I had a lapse in manners......I was busy replying and forgot to warmly welcome you! So, hereyago....WELCOME!

 Peas and Paws,

PsychoMarty, Luckylee, Poppyhead