Editing Mike Oldfield (section)

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Oldfield and his siblings were raised as Catholic, their mother's faith.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tubular.net/articles/2002_08d |title=Interview with Mike Oldfield |publisher=[[BBC 1]]'s [[Heaven and Earth Show|Heaven and Earth]] programme |date=25 August 2002 |access-date=2 April 2008 |quote=My mother being Irish, she was a Roman Catholic. They put me on the first stages of educating me to be a Catholic.}}</ref> 

In June 1978, during the recording of ''Incantations'', Oldfield and his siblings completed a three-day [[Exegesis (group)|Exegesis]] seminar, a controversial self-assertiveness programme based on [[Werner Erhard]]'s [[Erhard Seminars Training|EST training programme]]. The experience had a significant effect on Oldfield's personality, who recalled that he underwent a "rebirth experience" by reliving past fears. "It was like opening some huge cathedral doors and facing the monster, and I saw that the monster was myself as a newborn infant, because I'd started life in a panic."<ref name=G97/><ref name=MM78>{{cite news|url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/mike-oldfield-this-is-the-year-of-the-expanding-man|title=Mike Oldfield: This is the Year of the Expanding Man...|first=Karl|last=Dallas|newspaper=Melody Maker|date=25 November 1978|via=[[Rock's Backpages]]|url-access=subscription |access-date=28 February 2019}}</ref> Following the Exegesis seminar, the formerly reclusive Oldfield granted press interviews, posed nude for a promotional photo shoot for ''Incantations'' and went drinking with news reporters. He had also conquered his fear of flying, gained a pilot's licence and bought his own plane.<ref name="TI93"/>

He used drugs in his early life, including [[LSD]], which he said affected his mental health.<ref name=changeling/> In the early 1990s, Oldfield set up Tonic, a foundation that sponsored people to receive counselling and therapy.<ref name=changeling/>

In 1980, Oldfield, a longtime fan of [[model aircraft]], acquired his pilot's licence.<ref name="omnotes"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.amadian.net/biography1.htm |title=Mike Oldfield Biography 1 |publisher=Amadian |access-date=6 March 2010 |archive-date=24 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124155547/http://www.amadian.net/biography1.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> He later became a motorcycle enthusiast and has been inspired to write songs from riding them. He has owned various models, including a [[BMW R1200GS]], [[Suzuki GSX-R750]], [[Suzuki GSX-R1000]] and a [[Yamaha R1]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults/mcn/2007/May/may21-27/may2307oldfieldbikesvideo/ |title=Mike Oldfield Motorcycle News 23 may |publisher=[[Motor Cycle News]] |date=25 May 2007 |access-date=1 April 2008}}</ref>

Oldfield has lived in [[Nassau, Bahamas]], since 2009 and is a Bahamian citizen.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/overseasproperty/5049511/Property-on-Majorca-New-modesty-can-wait.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100519163212/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/overseasproperty/5049511/Property-on-Majorca-New-modesty-can-wait.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 May 2010 |title=Mike Oldfield's house for sale |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=26 March 2009 |access-date=26 March 2009 |location=London |first=Anna |last=Tyzack}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://search.savills.com/property-detail/gblaixlai121182 |title=Bunyola, Mallorca, 08093 |publisher=[[Savills]] |year=2009 |access-date=6 July 2014}}</ref> He has also lived in Spain, Los Angeles and [[Monaco]]. In 2012, Oldfield stated that he had decided to leave England after feeling that the country had become a "[[nanny state]]" with too much surveillance and state control.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/humble-opus-still-rings-a-bell-39-years-on-20120111-1pv9c.html | title= Humble opus still rings a bell, 39 years on | work=The Sydney Morning Herald | first=Bruce | last=Elder | date=12 January 2012 | access-date=13 March 2024}}</ref> Oldfield has remarked that while he is close to other celebrity residents in the Bahamas, he chose not to live within a wealthy gated community with staff and described his lifestyle as "austere."<ref name="auto1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/music/article/todays-britain-rings-hollow-for-mr-tubular-bells-jvltxvp5l|title=Today's Britain rings hollow for Mr Tubular Bells|last1=Thring|first1=Oliver}}</ref>

In 2017, Oldfield expressed support for then US President [[Donald Trump]] and said he would have played at [[First inauguration of Donald Trump|Trump's inauguration]] if he had been invited to do so. In the same interview, he also stated that he was in favour of [[Brexit]].<ref name="auto1"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells legend launches new album, Ommadawn |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/the-times/mike-oldfield-tubular-bells-legend-launches-new-album-ommadawn/news-story/48a60638b49eb218d870409cc3cedcf9 |access-date=25 March 2024 |website=Theaustralian.com.au}}</ref>