Editing Easter Everywhere (section)

==Background==

''Easter Everywhere'' 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.<ref name="Drummond">{{cite book|first1=Paul|last1=Drummond|first2=Julian|last2=Cope|authorlink2=Julian Cope|title=Eye Mind: The Saga Of Roky Erickson And The 13th Floor Elevators, The Pioneers Of Psychedelic Sound|publisher=Process|date=2007|isbn=978-0976082262}}</ref>{{rp|281}}

===Symbolism===
The front cover, hand-drawn by George Banks, prominently features a primeval Eastern sun, intended to represent the open blazing [[third eye]].<ref name="Drummond" />{{rp|281}} Above this is the [[sahasrara|seventh chakra]], the ultimate realm of [[Nirvana]]. The gold color on which this is printed was chosen as a symbolic color for the divine.<ref name="Drummond" />{{rp|281}} 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 (musician)|Tommy Hall]], along with the rear cover image of a [[meditation|meditating]] [[yogi]], which is from a photograph of an eighteenth-century painting hanging in the [[National Museum, New Delhi|National Museum of Indian Art]] in [[New Delhi]].<ref name="Drummond" />{{rp|280}} Hall selected these images from a [[Tantra|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 [[Christianity|Christian]] merit, the album's composition melds the beliefs of multiple religions, combining [[Buddhism|Buddhist]], [[Hinduism|Hindu]], and [[Gnosticism|Gnostic]] scriptures into a single unifying spiritual concept evaluated from a Western, Christian perspective.<ref name="Drummond" />{{rp|280}} In the band's first and only interview, given to [[Houston]] fanzine ''Mother'' on November 20, 1967, Tommy Hall explained the correct interpretation of the title:

{{blockquote|Well, [the title] comes from the idea of [[Higher consciousness|Christ Consciousness]]. And realizing that you can be born again; that you can constantly change and be reformed into a better and better person. It's like a progressive perfection, and ''Easter Everywhere'' is sort of the combination or culmination of this idea as echoed in the public. It's like everyone is snapping to this; that there is a middle ground between the Eastern trip and the Western trip, and that is by learning to use your emotion and realizing what emotion is and why it is there and how to control it from a pleasure point of view so that you don't get hung up in a down place. It's just the idea of rising from the dead all over, everywhere.<ref name="Drummond" />{{rp|280}}}}