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, drop out
Tenemos una masa gelatinosa, kilo y medio de masa gelatinosa
que pueden sostener en la palma de su mano
y que puede contemplar el inmenso espacio interestelar,
puede contemplar el significado del infinito
y puede contemplarse a si misma contemplando el significado del infinito.
Esta peculiar cualidad recursiva que llamamos auto conciencia,
¿Cómo estudiamos este órgano misterioso?
quiero decir, tiene 100 mil millones de celulas nerviosas,
pequeñas particulas de protoplasma interactuando entre si
y de esta actividad emerge todo el espectro de habilidades
que conocemos como naturaleza humana y conciencia humana.
"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.
