Re: What's "Youve Got To Hide Your Love Away" About, Anyway?

That's the way John Lennon was, though:  He would have these blind
enthusiasms, only to terminate them with violent apostasies.  This
applies to Dylan, the Maharishi, to Allen Klein, to Janov and Primal
Scream therapy.  If only he had the sense to discern Yoko for the
narcissistic psychopath she was.
Lennon turned against his wife Cynthia and against McCartney in sick
ways, but he had not embraced them blindly; they had earned his trust
and respect, and it was Yoko, I believe, who engineered the destruction
of those relationships.  That's what narcissists do, just like cult
leaders.  A person who is severed from what stabilizes him is vulnerable
to the narcissistic cult leader.