When John wasn’t being enthusiastic, he relished playing the role of retired superstar who had seen and done it all. More than once he told me that he felt an obligation to pass on some of his accumulated wisdom. He loved to lecture about spiritual matters, health and nutrition, the latest scientific discoveries, current events, celebrity gossip, and any number of other subjects about which he was an expert. He knew more about everything than anybody I had ever met and I could not help becoming his acolyte.
John was not a devotee of any philosophy: he studied them all, absorbing useful bits of knowledge from every school of thought, Western and Eastern. His restless, inquisitive mind likes to believe everything until it was disproved. Many of the ideas he tried on me were over my head, but he always suggested books that would bring me up to the mark. Unfortunately, my demanding work schedule left me little time for intellectual pursuits. All the same, I appreciated the way John shared his insights.
– John Lennon: Living on Borrowed Time by Fred Seaman.
