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The "drop out" part isn't meant to be permanent or literal. Even Tim Leary kept busy writing books, teaching, giving talks and generally making a living. Nothi

The "drop out" part isn't meant to be permanent or literal. Even Tim Leary kept busy writing books, teaching, giving talks and generally making a living. Nothing wrong with boosting creativity. The choice of directing that creativity to your employer's profits is only an issue if your company is boring or unethical or undeserving. Besides, I don't think micro-dosing aspires to the "turn on, tune in" part of the equation. I've never micro-dosed, but a coffee-like buzz has no connection with Leary's mantra.

dkasper 2y ago
I think you’ve mostly got it, but it doesn’t mean drop out of life it means drop out of the mainstream and be self reliant. Leary explained it directly: > "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 engaging 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 active, 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 are often misinterpreted to mean "Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity".[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on,_tune_in,_drop_out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on,_tune_in,_drop_out
- d_sem 2y ago
  Leary also said "Drop Out" was a period where you abstain from mind altering drugs. So the order was. Turn On = expand your consciousness Tun In = learn/integrate from your alternative views generated by your altered state. Drop Out = return to unaltered state to rest
Animats 2y ago
> The "drop out" part isn't meant to be permanent or literal. In the 1960s and 1970s, after being a hippie, it was still possible to get back into mainstream society. Welfare payments were more generous, rents were lower, and student loan debt was not a big thing. Today, the next stop is homelessness.

dkasper 2y ago

I think you’ve mostly got it, but it doesn’t mean drop out of life it means drop out of the mainstream and be self reliant. Leary explained it directly: > "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 engaging 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 active, 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 are often misinterpreted to mean "Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity".[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on,_tune_in,_drop_out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on,_tune_in,_drop_out

d_sem 2y ago
Leary also said "Drop Out" was a period where you abstain from mind altering drugs. So the order was. Turn On = expand your consciousness Tun In = learn/integrate from your alternative views generated by your altered state. Drop Out = return to unaltered state to rest

Animats 2y ago

> The "drop out" part isn't meant to be permanent or literal. In the 1960s and 1970s, after being a hippie, it was still possible to get back into mainstream society. Welfare payments were more generous, rents were lower, and student loan debt was not a big thing. Today, the next stop is homelessness.