Paul McCartney: Admits that meditation helped to stabilize the Beatles

Paul McCartney: Admits that meditation helped to stabilize the Beatles

The surviving members of the Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, are going to  perform at a concert on Saturday for raising funds to help children to learn a meditation technique . McCartney added that this technique had helped to stabilize the band at the height of its fame.

Paul McCartney and Starr will perform separate sets at the "Change Begins Within" concert for the David Lynch Foundation, which helps all the people to learn Transcendental Meditation.

The Beatles has helped in popularizing the Transcendental Meditation, which is described as a simple mental technique that combats stress, in 1967 when they sought spiritual guidance from an Indian guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

"It was a great gift that Maharishi gave us," "For me, it came at a time when we were looking for something to kind of stabilize us toward the end of the crazy '60s." Paul McCartney told this during a news conference on Friday for promoting the concert.

He said, "It's a lifelong gift. It's something you can call on at any time," "I think it's a great thing it's actually coming into the mainstream."

Starr also considered the Transcendental Meditation as a gift and since learning it in over forty years ago, "sometimes a lot and sometimes a little I have meditated."

The lineup for the concert at famed Radio City Music Hall also includes blues-folk musician Ben Harper, Sheryl Crow, Donovan, Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder, and techno star Moby.

The filmmaker David Lynch's foundation said that since the year 2005 it has provided scholarships for over 100,000 at-risk young people, teachers and parents in thirty countries in order to learn Transcendental Meditation.

The concert is intended to raise funds toward the goal of the foundation for helping a million children learn to meditate.

Moby jokingly said, “I feel like I'm at a meeting of meditators anonymous," "I just learned T.M. recently because I was raised by hippies, and to be honest with you anything associated with T.M. and hippies scared ... me."

He continued, "When I was growing up, I thought T.M. involved ritual animal sacrifice and moving to some country and renouncing wealth and materialism and eating bugs. But one of the things that impressed me about T.M. ... was its simplicity," he said. "It's a simple practice that calms the mind."