Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

The last thing that an institution of education wants to allow you to do is to expand your consciousness, to use the untapped potential in your head, to experience directly. They don’t want you to evolve, to grow, to really grow. They don’t want you to move on to a different level of reality. They don’t want you to take life seriously, they want you to take their game seriously. Education, dear students, is anesthetic, a narcotic procedure which is very likely to blunt your sensitivity and to immobolize your brain and your behavior for the rest of your lives.

Some students, though, will say, “I want to study psychology because I want to study human nature” or “I want to find out what’s what.”

Modern psychology calls this “turning on” by the fancy name “sensory deprivation.”

Answer number two to the question, where can we go, is: Go inside. Go into your own brain; start using the untapped region of your head. Here, my friends, is the real frontier, the real challenge, the real opportunity.

Now we have evidence which suggests that by ingesting a tiny bit of substance which will change biochemical balances inside our nervous system, it’s possible to experience directly some of the things which we externally view through the lenses of the microscope.

Our secular traditions, our favorite concepts, our cultural systems. These transitory phenomena are collapsing and will have to give way to more advanced evolutionary products.

And what is the next step? Where is the new direction to be found? The wise men have been telling us for 3,000 years: it’s going to come from within, from within your head.

All right, where do we go? What can we do? I have two answers to those questions. The first is: drop out! Go out where you are closer to reality, to direct experience. Go out to where things are really happening. Go out to the frontier. Go out to those focal points where important issues are being played out. Why don’t you pick out the most important problem in the world, as you see it, and go exactly to the center of the place where it’s happening, where it is being studied and worked on? Why not? Someone has to be there, in the center. Why not you?

an adult has filtered experience down to just the plastic reactions. This is a biochemical phenomenon. There’s considerable evidence showing that a habit is a neural network of feedback loops.

right, where do we go? What can we do? I have two answers to those questions. The first is: drop out! Go out where you are closer to reality, to direct experience. Go out to where things are really happening. Go out to the frontier. Go out to those focal points where important issues are being played out. Why don’t you pick out the most important problem in the world, as you see it, and go exactly to the center of the place where it’s happening, where it is being studied and worked on? Why not? Someone has to be there, in the center. Why not you?