Turn on" meant . . . 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, . . . express your new internal perspectives. "Drop out" suggested an active, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. . . . Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean, "Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.

—Timothy Leary

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