McCartney and Starr will perform separate sets at the “Change Begins Within” concert for the David Lynch Foundation, which helps people learn Transcendental Meditation.

The Beatles helped popularize Transcendental Meditation — described as a simple mental technique that combats stress — in 1967 when they sought spiritual guidance from an Indian guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

“It was a great gift that Maharishi gave us,” McCartney told a news conference on Friday to promote the concert. “For me, it came at a time when we were looking for something to kind of stabilize us toward the end of the crazy ’60s.”

“It’s a lifelong gift. It’s something you can call on at any time,” he said. “I think it’s a great thing it’s actually coming into the mainstream.”

Starr also described Transcendental Meditation as a gift and that since learning it more than 40 years ago “sometimes a lot and sometimes a little I have meditated.”

The lineup for the concert at famed Radio City Music Hall also includes Sheryl Crow, Donovan, Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder, blues-folk musician Ben Harper and techno star Moby.

Filmmaker David Lynch’s foundation says that since 2005 it has provided scholarships for more than 100,000 at-risk young people, teachers and parents in 30 countries to learn Transcendental Meditation.

The concert is intended to raise funds toward the foundation’s goal of helping a million children learn to meditate.

“I feel like I’m at a meeting of meditators anonymous,” Moby joked. “I just learned T.M. recently because I was raised by hippies, and to be honest with you anything associated with T.M. and hippies scared … me.”

“When I was growing up, I thought T.M. involved ritual animal sacrifice and moving to some country and renouncing wealth and materialism and eating bugs. But one of the things that impressed me about T.M. … was its simplicity,” he said. “It’s a simple practice that calms the mind.”

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