See Yourself

Along with Beatles bandmate John Lennon and their wives, George Harrison first took the hallucinogenic drug Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in April 1965,[1] when a dentist friend slipped it into their after-dinner coffee.

"[9][10] While Ringo Starr had joined Harrison and Lennon for their second LSD experience, in August 1965,[11] Paul McCartney remained wary of its reality-distorting effect[12] and, despite peer pressure from his bandmates,[13][14] declined to partake of the drug until late in 1966.

[15] On 19 June 1967, by which time it had become the recreational drug of choice among the counterculture, during the Summer of Love,[16][17] McCartney confirmed to an ITN reporter that he had taken LSD,[18] having already admitted as much to journalists from Life magazine and the Sunday People over the previous few days.

[22][nb 1] Author Ian MacDonald describes McCartney's candour as a "careless admission" that, as with Lennon's comment in March 1966 that the Beatles were more popular than Christianity, "brought howls of righteous anger on their heads".

[39] This departure from pop convention was reflective of Harrison's immersion in Indian music,[40] during a period when he devoted himself to studying the sitar, partly under the tuition of Bengali Hindu musician Ravi Shankar.

[37] By then, after having espoused self-realization and God consciousness in much of his solo work since the Beatles' break-up, Harrison had chosen to soften his message,[42][43] partly as a result of the contentment he had found with his new partner, Olivia Arias.

[46][47][nb 3] In a December 1967 interview, Harrison paraphrased part of the song's lyrics when asked to comment on the criticism then being levelled against the Beatles' Transcendental Meditation teacher, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, saying: "It's easier to criticise somebody than to see yourself.

"[49] Leng views the lyrical themes in "See Yourself" as similar to those of two songs focusing on human relationships, "Run of the Mill" and "Isn't It a Pity", both released on Harrison's 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass.

[54] "See Yourself" was one of a number of unfinished compositions from the late 1960s that Harrison revisited when making the album,[55] in what some commentators view as a sign of writer's block, brought on by charges that he had plagiarised the Ronnie Mack song "He's So Fine" in his 1970–71 hit single "My Sweet Lord".

[64] Harrison played acoustic guitar on the basic track, accompanied by Billy Preston (piano), Gary Wright (keyboards), Willie Weeks (bass) and Alvin Taylor (drums).

[77][78] Music critics praised Thirty Three & 1/3 as Harrison's finest album since All Things Must Pass,[79][80] and wrote approvingly of the more subtle tone of his spiritual message compared with the perceived preachiness of Living in the Material World (1973) and Dark Horse (1974).

'"[86] In the 2005 publication NME Originals: Beatles – The Solo Years 1970–1980, Adrian Thrills names "See Yourself" as a highlight of Thirty Three & 1/3, an album that was an "upbeat affair that seemed to restore Harrison's love for music".