Magical Mystery Talk

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A majority of the focus (but most certainly not all) of this 10th episode in the ‘Magical Mystery Talk’ podcast series is on the background surrounding the 1973 John Lennon album ‘Mind Games’ which was re-released in 2024 as a box-set and also online, in some representative shape or form. Accompanying this bumper reissue is what’s called the ‘Lumenate app,’ which uses the flashlight on the back of one’s smartphone to generate a strobe at specific frequencies onto a person’s closed eyes as they listen to ‘Meditation’ remixes of tracks from what was the former Beatle’s fourth solo LP following the split of the band. When the use of the app is coupled with these new mixes, it is, to quote from the John Lennon official website, “mind altering.” There’s also quite a bit of focus in episode 10 of Magical Mystery Talk on ‘Paul is Dead’ (P.i.D.) because, in 2024, came the release of a new book on the subject, ‘Forbidden Fruit: Solving the Hidden Puzzle in the Beatles’ Works: from the Psychedel