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We Are Dealing With The Best-educated Generation In History. But They've Got A Brain Dressed Up With Nowhere To Go. Science Is All Metaphor. In The Information Age, You Don't Teach Philosophy As They Did After Feudalism. You Perform It. If Aristotle Were Alive Today He'd Have A Talk Show. If You Don't Like What You Are Doing, You Can Always Pick Up Your Needle And Move To Another Groove. 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.

What Human Beings Consciously Wish Is Often Quite At Variance With The Results Their Reflex Patterns Automatically Create For Them.

We Cannot Study The Brain, The Instrument For Fabricating The Realities We Inhabit, Using The Mental Constructs Of The Past.

Actions Which Are Conscious Expressions Of The Turn-on, Tune-in, Drop-out Rhythm Are Religious.the Wise Person Devotes His Life Exclusively To The Religious Search - For Therein Is Found The Only Ecstasy, The Only Meaning. Anything Else Is A Competitive Quarrel Over (or Hollywood-love Sharing Of) Studio Props.

Of Course, The Drug Does Not Produce The Transcendent Experience. It Merely Acts As A Chemical Key — It Opens The Mind, Frees The Nervous System Of Its Ordinary Patterns And Structures.