bodleingGreater Manchester, England UK13,810 posts
"Any action that is not a conscious expression of the drop-out-turn-on-tune-in-drop-out rhythm is the dead posturing of robot actors on the fake-prop TV studio set that is called American reality."
"My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out."
~Timothy Leary
"Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life."
Anyways, I think Leary's point was about perception/awareness (in a sober state), and a critique towards pretentious America that was so prevalent before the 60's. Not to suggest that his LSD experiments did not alter his perceptions
jahzahHappyfairygoblinland, Victoria Australia2,574 posts
StressFree: Anyways, I think Leary's point was about perception/awareness (in a sober state), and a critique towards pretentious America that was so prevalent before the 60's. Not to suggest that his LSD experiments did not alter his perceptions
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