What was dear prudence about

So we sang to her. She was meditating far longer than anybody else, and the others were beginning to worry about her state of mind. They selected me and George to try and bring her out because she would trust us.

She went completely mental. We got her out of the house. When John had it down he was so pleased to find a whole new way of songwriting emerge. Paul added bass guitar and piano, while John laid down double-tracked vocals. Paul even threw in a few notes on the flugelhorn for good measure, drawing on the experience of his brief teenage dalliance with the trumpet.

I was flattered. When they arrived back in England, they would begin The White Album and begin disintegrating as a band. John Lennon would tell his bandmates he was quitting the following year. Though Paul McCartney worked on his own for several tracks and Ringo quit the band for weeks during the sessions, it stands as a masterpiece.

Most of the material for that record came from songs they wrote in India. At the ashram, Prudence remembers George regularly visiting a woman who was grieving her dead son, he wanted to give back through his music, she said. When Prudence became so wrapped up in her meditation studies that she rarely left her room, John and George sang to her to "come out and play. Years later when she would start a family, her kids didn't seem too impressed with their mother's connection to the band.

Now, Prudence said she uses that link to pop culture as a way to introduce more young people to meditation. In , she wrote, "Dear Prudence: The Story Behind the Song" to share her experience with transcendental meditation, the Beatles, and the culture of the late s. Prudence continued to teach transcendental meditation as she worked as a movie producer. She returned to school and earned a Ph.

She prefers the quiet life surrounded by nature and found that balance in Florida. We came here for our honeymoon, came here for summers before we retired here. The song, while iconic, is not what defines Prudence. I also meet people intimately. And I see people who are transformed by meditation. It's my service Learn more about Prudence and meditation on her website at prudencefbruns.