To The Elitist Hedonist, Life Is The

My Historical Reading Of The Situation Is That These Great Monolithic Empires Developed, Rome, Turkey, And So Forth, And They Always Break Down When Enough People, And It's Always The Young, The Creative, And Minority Groups Drop Out And Go Back To A Tribal Form.

My Advice To Myself And To Everyone Else, Particularly Young People, Is To Turn On, Tune In And Drop Out. By Drop Out, I Mean To Detach Yourself From Involvement In Secular, External Social Games. But The Dropping Out Has To Occur Internally Before It Can Occur Externally. I'm Not Telling Kids Just To Quit School; I'm Not Telling People To Quit Their Jobs. That Is An Inevitable Development Of The Process Of Turning On And Tuning In.

At One Point Consciousness-altering Devices Like The Microscope And Telescope Were Criminalized For Exactly The Same Reasons That Psychedelic Plants Were Banned In Later Years. They Allow Us To Peer Into Bits And Zones Of Chaos.

Pursuing The Religious Life Today Without Using Psychedelics Drugs Is Like Studying Astronomy With The Naked Eye Because That's How They Did It In The First Century A.d.

Whenever In Doubt, Turn Off Your Mind, Relax, Float Downstream.