John Lennon Memorial in Central Park, NY.
Photo courtesy of Al Rubowitz.

After years of mutual antagonism and infidelity, Yoko was secretly planning to divorce John as soon as he helped launch her own solo album.

• Shortly before his murder, why did she and her psychic “directionalist” send him through the Devil’s Triangle in a small sloop during hurricane season?

• Months later, why did Yoko refuse the safety measures -- recommended by her ex-FBI security consultant -- which would have saved John’s life?

• Due to his political activism, the ex-Beatle had been under close FBI surveillance and on Nixon’s list of subversives. Was his murderer, Mark David Chapman, an FBI or CIA assassin?

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.... Having detected an “evil cloud” in John’s aura, Yoko’s psychic directionalist insisted that to dispel the specter it was imperative John sail in southeasterly direction to Bermuda –through the Devil’s Triangle.

The occultist Yoko was surely aware of the nautical misadventures here. Since 1945, more than a hundred ships and a thousand people had disappeared in these waters. John’s mystical number, Nine, figured (alone or by addition) uncannily in many episodes. Among them: in 1945, the Navy bomber squadron, Flight 19, disappeared at 29°N 79°W on a course of 270°; in 1963, the Marine tanker Sulphur Queen vanished with 39 sailors aboard; in 1968, the nuclear submarine, Scorpion, with a crew of 99 went missing.

Just before the voyage, John – unaware that his wife was preparing to divorce him -- told his Tarot reader, John Green: “According to the numbers, the thing for me to do is take a little cruise down to Bermuda. So spake the oracle of the East [Yoko].” But, he added: “…a little ship and a little crew strikes me as a little dangerous… like tempting fate.” He called the plan “thoroughly reckless” and “totally off the wall,” and confessed that what bothered him most was “Yoko is so insistent that it’s the thing to do.”

Could it have been that his wife, The High Priestess of the Happening, was arranging the pieces for the ultimate Happening – the magical disappearance of a magical husband in a storybook place?

"All of my work in fields other than music have an Event bent,’ she had once said. “ …My events are mostly spent in wonderment.” It wouldn’t be the first time her art was born of a fateful event – they had almost died in a car accident years before in Scotland and, to John’s delight, his wife had turned the smashed car into a sculpture which she called “Tribute to Survival.” Latter, his bloody spectacles would grace the cover of Yoko’s first album as a widow....