Eastern Pantheistic Monism Discussion

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I’m having to respond to two classmates, but am having a difficult time writing a response to two classmates, here are the class instructions for the assignment. Read Chapter 7 of The Universe Next Door by Sire. Find a song by the Beatlesor another band of that generation that seems to support this view. Share the lyrics and provide the song. Be sure that you are sharing a different song than other students to provide variety in the discussion. Prepare to discuss/analyze Eastern Pantheistic Monism and how your song shows a partial rejection by the young generation of what you understand to have been the prevalent middle-class values of the 1960s. Here is my classmates response, and I’m unsure how to respond to them.. After much researching and thought, the song I have chosen to use is by The Beatles, “All you need is Love.” The Beatles were asked to come up with a song, or message that contained meaning and could be understood by all. The song is supposed to bring all people of the world together. I am not going to say it was an easy pick either,because Bob Dylan came to mind as well. He too believe it or not, had some spiritual, or meaningful songs something like this one. Here are the lyrics: “Love, love, love Love, love, love Love, love, love There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game It’s easy. Nothing you can make that can’t be made No one you can save that can’t be saved Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time It’s easy All you need is love All you need is love All you need is love, Love is all you need There’s nothing you can’t know that isn’t known Nothing you can see that isn’t shown There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where You are meant to be All you need is love All you need is love All you need is love Love is all you need All you need is love It’s easy.” By reasearching this song, I have found there to be a number of expectations that show false consciousness as well as enlightened responses. It’s also saying that the corrective consciousness is a sort of a Buddhist or Pantheist one. Love is simply a facet of this consciousness. The incoherencies here have each running right through the sixties counter culture, and are visibly seen in the lyrics. This song also shows a common association between self-realization and pantheistic self-surrender that is untenable. and the other , I grew up in the 60’s and by early 1970’s was in the army. I listened to a lot of this music and had friends that had started meditation and following some of the gurus. The Beatles were one of the groups I listened to the Let it be album was one I listened to a lot. I chose the song Across the Universe Words are flowing out Like endless rain into a paper cup They slither while they pass They slip away across the universe Pools of sorrow, waves of joy Are drifting through my opened mind Possessing and caressing me Jai Guru Deva, Om Nothing’s gonna change my world Nothing’s gonna change my world Nothing’s gonna change my world Nothing’s gonna change my world images of broken light Which dance before me like a million eyes They call me on and on across the universe Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universeJai Guru Deva, Om Nothing’s gonna change my world Nothing’s gonna change my world Nothing’s gonna change my world Nothing’s gonna change my world Sounds of laughter, shades of life Are ringing through my open ears Inciting and inviting me Limitless, undying love Which shines around me like a million suns It calls me on and on across the universe Jai Guru Deva, Om Nothing’s gonna change my world Nothing’s gonna change my world Nothing’s gonna change my world Nothing’s gonna change my worldJai Guru Deva Jai Guru Deva Jai Guru Deva Jai Guru Deva Jai Guru Deva Jai Guru Deva Given the mantra it is pretty evident that this is eastern religion. To free yourself from the bonds of earthly life to absorb a higher consciousness and learn vast secret knowledge is a false sense of security the only knowledge of a higher being is thru Jesus. I’m needing assistance with a 200 word response to both of these.