Rockstar Pete Townshend believes he has a ’50/50’chance of going to hell.
The Who guitarist, 79, said he has come to terms with the fact that he will die within the next 10 years.
And if Christian teachings are real and he could spend the afterlife in heaven or hell, Pete believes his rock ‘n’ roll excesses could mean that a date with the Devil is looming.
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He said: “I could live for another five years, I could live for another 10 years but I’m not afraid of what’s going to happen next.
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“I’m not afraid of being judged and I’m not going to f***ing pretend for a minute that I’m a saint or that I’ve not done anything wrong, I’m not going to go there.
“If there’s an old-style Christian fire and brimstone moment I would toss a coin as to which way I would go.”
Pete previously had a spiritual awakening when he had an out of body experience while high on acid – and a female voice told him to return to his body because it wasn’t his time.
The guitarist had taken LSD on his way back from the Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967, the famous musical event held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in California which featured the My Generation rockers, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Ravi Shankar and sparked the Summer of Love hippy movement.
Pete can vividly recall floating above his lifeless body on the plane, until he heard the woman’s voice telling him to return to his physical state.
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Pete then began to follow the teachings of 21st century Indian spiritual master Meher Baba who claimed to be an “Avatar of God” on Earth before his death in 1969 at the age of 74.
Appearing on the What It Takes podcast, Pete said: “I was only 22, and I’d just had a really terrible acid trip after the Monterey Pop Festival on an aeroplane.
“During that trip I left my body and when I left my body the psychedelic hallucination stopped, but I had a conversation with a female voice and the voice told me to get back into my body, that I couldn’t leave my body in the way I had.
“So when I got back to the UK, I remember telling this story to a few people and somebody saying to me, ‘It sounds like you should read this book,’ and they gave me a book by an English writer called Charles Purdom called The God Man which described the life of Meher Baba and there were certain things in there that he wrote that just chimed with me at the time.
“Trust God. Trust yourself, trust the universe, don’t worry, be happy, it’s all going to work out. It’s kind of poetic.”
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