and now a new book is looking back at the spiritual life of the lead guitarist for the beatles gary tillery the author of working-class mystic joins us now >>this is a great title why george harrison and why this book? >>i recently did a book about john lennon called the cynical idealist and in a spiritual way i realized that george harrison was more of a leader of the group >>the spiritual beginnings for george began an unconventional way perhaps with the introduction of lsd into his life but he was not aware when that happened to >>that's right he and john and their ladies went to dinner with a dentist and after the meal he slipped to sugar cubes with lsd and their coffee without telling them and after that trip they were convinced that there was something beyond this earth and there was more to god >>and shortly after that he found his way to india ... where he also heard of the sitar and fell in love with an instrument and he sought lessons from virtuoso raw fish on carraavi shankar and a friendship blossomed to their ... >>he was a life time student of the guitar and pioneered a number