Timothy Leary - Turn on, Tune in, Drop Out

[Tim R]

This is inspiring.

I absolutely love this mindset. Timothy Leary, Terence McKenna, The Archaic Revival, Psychedelics, Dropping Out, all of it.

And I pray that I will live long enough to witness stage Green and the hippie lifestyle go mainstream. 

[ZenRising]

4 minutes ago, Tim R said:

And I pray that I will live long enough to witness stage Green and the hippie lifestyle go mainstream. 

I pray I get to be right there with you! 

[silene]

I loved it too, but dropping out didn't pay the bills so I got a job instead  

[Carl-Richard]

Quote

“Turn on’ meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end. ‘Tune in’ meant interact harmoniously with the world around you – externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives. Drop out suggested an elective, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. ‘Drop Out’ meant self-reliance, a discovery of one’s singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean ‘Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.”

18 year old me interpreted it that way. I call it the "pseudo-Green vortex": it draws in all kinds of immaturity.