I'm confused ((psychedelics))

The thing about George Harrison...is that he started out as an ISKCONite however...he ended up in all different schools of the Hindu tradition with both his interactions with Ravi Shankar (who belongs to Yoganandaji's SRF) and others... George has songs dedicated to Yoganandaji ("Dear One") and quotes Swami Pravanandaji's "How to Know God" Pantajali aphorisms ("The soul does not love, it is love itself. It does not exist, it is existance itself. It doesn't not know it is knowledge itself"- quoted on the song "Brainwashed"). All of these things, as I understand it, is bad according to ISKCON because others are "false gurus"... I think Srilla Prabhupada even calls Sri Ramakrishnaji and Swami Vivekanandaji this name. I'm not to pick on ISKCON or anything...I'm just saying the thing about George Harrison is that he started out in ISKCON but if you listen to his music ...His songs about Krishna are so much deeper... I know there's a song about George Harrison and spirituality by Joshua Greene called Here Comes the Sun...has anyone ever read it?

 

Yeah, I agree with you. I really despise the labelling of Sri Ramakrishna, Vivekananda and Yogananda as false gururs by Iskcon, just because they practiced other yogas, even though all of them too were lovers of Krishna.

Even Swami Vivekananda has stated that the Vaishnavas are a most intolerant sect .

Still , they should be credited with disseminating Krishna's message all over the world and emphasising Bhakti yoga and to a certain extent Karma yoga, though they completely ignore the other yogas taught by Krishna.

 

To get this back on topic -

Another thing about George Harrison is that he, like the rest of the Beatles, certainly had experience of LSD, as well as plentiful amounts of pot and in the early days in Germany, amphetamines.
He didn't end up either a psychotic or a junkie. He did get a bit withdrawrn perhaps, but that was probably more because of money and fame.
In interviews in the 1980's he was expressing a positive opinion about psychedelics, saying that the whole 60's counter-culture which led many people to look deeper into spiritual things was largely inspired by it. It was the fuel that launched many psychonauts into inner space.
If they'd never had it, I wonder if the Beatles would ever have gone to India?
Certainly, some of their best music would never have been written.

 

krishna's message is love and so if they don't teach that but intolerance, have they really taught krishna's message?