Dear Prudence : "She was going insane. So we sang to her." — John Lennon

 

John Lennon:  "[Prudence Farrow] wouldn't come out of the little hut we were living in... We got her out of the house — she'd been locked in for three weeks and wouldn't come out. She was trying to find God quicker than anyone else. That was the competition in Maharishi's camp: who was going to get cosmic first."


"Wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. I wisdom dwell with prudence."  ~Proverbs 8

Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play?
Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day
The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful and so are you
Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play?

Dear Prudence, open up your eyes
Dear Prudence, see the sunny skies
The wind is low, the birds will sing
That you are part of everything
Dear Prudence, won't you open up your eyes?

Look around round
Look around round round
Look around

Dear Prudence, let me see you smile
Dear Prudence, like a little child
The clouds will be a daisy chain
So let me see you smile again
Dear Prudence, won't you let me see you smile?

Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play?
Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day
The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful and so are you
Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play?

"Rishikesh, India," he says over the final guitar lick, as the others chuckle. "No one was to know that sooner or later, she was to go completely berserk under the care of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. All the people around were very worried about the girl, because she was going insane." He takes a deep breath. "So we sang to her." 

Anandamayi Ma

"Wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. I wisdom dwell with prudence."  ~Proverbs 8

Anandamayi Ma

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."  ~ Matthew 6:33

By Prudence Farrow

By Prudence Farrow 

Bonus fun factoid: Prudence Farrow had a three-year affair with Robert Durst while they were both married to other people. Three days after she broke up with him he murdered his wife.

"In late 1981, while Durst was still married to McCormack, he was nearing the end of a three-year affair with Prudence Farrow, who was also married at the time. A few months before McCormack's disappearance in January 1982, Farrow called her and asked that she give him up, as friends said she wanted him all to herself. After Durst's acquittal of murdering Black in 2003, Farrow contacted law enforcement authorities with concerns for her safety, as she said Durst was angry with her for terminating their relationship three days before McCormack disappeared."

“She was lost in her longing to understand.”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

"In the destructive element immerse."

—  Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

"The wind gusted up wisps of wet river spray on our faces and in our hair from the sacred Ganges racing below us. The bridge was lined with what appeared in the dark to be large full sacks of potatoes or grains. Later when I crossed the bridge in daylight, I saw that those shadowy shapes were not bags of edibles but rather beggars hideously deformed by leprosy."  —Dear Prudence, p. 196