Two counterpoints: A) Lennon discovered and got very deep into LSD in 1966, mere months before Lucy in the Sky was written. He had a powerful ego death experie

Two counterpoints: A) Lennon discovered and got very deep into LSD in 1966, mere months before Lucy in the Sky was written. He had a powerful ego death experience [1]. B) Admitting to the public that one of their hit songs was about a controversial drug was an obvious PR no-no. I guess there's no way to know for certain either way, though. [1] "When McCartney and Lennon visited the newly opened Indica bookshop, Lennon had been looking for a copy of The Portable Nietzsche but found a copy of The Psychedelic Experience by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner, adapted from the translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Walter Evans-Wentz, which was introduced to Leary by Aldous Huxley. Lennon bought the book, went home and followed the instructions exactly as stated in the book. It discussed an “ego death” experienced under the influence of LSD and other psychedelic drugs, supposedly essentially similar to the dying process, and requiring similar guidance." https://books.google.com/books?id=FQSLCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA240 https://books.google.com/books?id=FQSLCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA240