Sir Paul McCartney has told how an intense drug session led to him seeing a vision of God – and later his wife, Linda, reincarnated as a squirrel.
In a candid interview the former Beatle told how he once took a hallucinogenic drug so potent that it left him “nailed to the sofa”.
He explained: “I saw God, this amazingly huge, towering thing, and I was humbled.”
McCartney, 76, said the vision, which he experienced alongside gallery owner Robert Fraser and two others, was “a massive wall that I couldn’t see the top of, and I was at the bottom”.
Sir Paul McCartney has told how an intense drug session led to him seeing a vision of God – and later his wife, Linda, reincarnated as a squirrel.
In a candid interview the former Beatle told how he once took a hallucinogenic drug so potent that it left him “nailed to the sofa”.
He explained: “I saw God, this amazingly huge, towering thing, and I was humbled.”
McCartney, 76, said the vision, which he experienced alongside gallery owner Robert Fraser and two others, was “a massive wall that I couldn’t see the top of, and I was at the bottom”.
Speaking to a the Sunday Times , the pop legend said he liked to “cherry-pick” his beliefs from different religions but suggested the experience had led to him believing in the possibility of a spiritual afterlife.
This was cemented the day that he saw a white squirrel in the countryside and felt convinced it was his late wife Linda who had “come back to give me a sign”. Activist and photographer Linda, with whom he had four children, died of breast cancer in 1998.
“It was a great moment – it thrilled me,” he said. “Goosebumps. Obviously I have no proof it was her at all, but it was good for me to think that.
“There’s part of you that wants to believe it. So I like to allow myself to think that happens.”
McCartney also told of his admiration for the Queen, saying he was proud to be “one of her subjects”. Saying that she is doing “a hell of a job” he said the Beatles had always been full of admiration for the monarch.
“She was a good-looking woman to us – so we were always fans.”
McCartney’s new album, Egypt Station, is released on Friday.
