THERE'S INFINITE SURVIVAL IN
THE HIGH BABTISMAL GLOW
Easter Everywhere
is the second
studio album
by the American
psychedelic rock band
It was released on
October, 25th 1967,
through record label
International Artists.
The album was packaged
with lyrics printed on
the inner sleeve,
gold ink on the cover,
and full color pictures
on the reverse.
The packaging was
quite expensive
at the time of release.
In 2012,
NME ranked the album
number 5
on their list of
"10 Best Psychedelic Albums of All Time
Symbolism
The front cover,
hand-drawn by
George Banks,
prominently features a
primeval Eastern sun,
intended to represent
the open blazing third eye.
Above this is the
seventh chakra,
the ultimate realm
of Nirvana.
The gold color
on which this is printed was
chosen as a symbolic color
for the divine.
Below the sun
is the band's name,
colored red
and formatted to look like
the eyebrows of Buddha.
This image concept was
selected by lyricist
and jug player
Tommy Hall,
along with the
rear cover image of
a meditating yogi,
which is from a photograph
of an eighteenth-century painting
hanging in the
National Museum of Indian Art
in New Delhi.
Hall selected these images
from a Tantric art book,
intending to communicate
that evolution is obtainable
through alignment of the chakras
and opening of the third eye
(corresponding to the pineal gland);
thus a soul coalesces with
the collective primeval life force
and retains a
latent knowledge
of its
previous existence,
therefore consciously
achieving immortality.
Title
While the use of the term
Easter
in the album's title
is often misconstrued as
implying the album to be
of primarily Christian merit,
the album's composition melds
the beliefs of multiple religions,
combining Buddhist,
Hindu,
and Gnostic scriptures
into a single unifying
spiritual concept
evaluated from a
Western,
Christian perspective.
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