874 The Beatles “Tomorrow Never Knows” 1966

“Although the Beatles’ Revolver revolution makes some claims to our political consciousnesses by critiquing some ‘institutions,’ they really aim, throughout the album but especially on ‘Tomorrow Never Knows,’ at our psychospiritual and aesthetic sensibilities instead…What is revolutionary and ‘shining’ for the Beatles on Revolver is nothing less (or nothing more) than what John Lennon, following Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, called the void: a pathless path that one reaches by relaxing and floating downstream, not by beating against the current, and certainly not by firing machine guns, rifles, or revolvers” (Russell Reising in Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four, 2006). 

The Beatles “Tomorrow Never Knows”