aphrodisia

attitude

attractiveness

Beatles

brain

caterpillar

Christian fundamentalism

city

civilization

digital

dogma

Drop out, Turn on, Tune in

dropout

drugs

emotion

evolution

feminism

Garden of Eden

gender equality

hedonism

hippie

Inner reality

intelligence

Jehovah

marijuana

midnight

mushrooms (drug)

prayer

psychedelics

religion

ritual

sacrament

science

secrecy

suffering

surfing

telescope

turn on, tune in and drop out

universe

youth

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

actor

psychologist

cause of death

natural causes

Hinduism

innovator in the field of

psychology

World War II

is related to science in this: the scientist describes externals, the artist describes experience.

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

is everything. Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.

Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.

is a group of mutants; prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species - a young race of laughing, free men.

I declare that the Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species- a young race of laughing freemen.

is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can either program ourselves or allow it to be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.

The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.

is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.

The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.

The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly

is a system that appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.

Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.

is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

is reflective of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic.

Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a definition of the electronic-digital?

is to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.

By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.

is not productive of the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.

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.

is neither bad nor good. There are no bad drugs. There are only simply stupid people who don't know how to use them.

There are no bad drugs. There's simply stupid people who don't know how to use them.

is the Religion of the People. The Only Hope is Dope.

Drugs Are the Religion of the People ? The Only Hope is Dope.

is about achieving excellence. Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

is half-assed. Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

is responsible for starting the ecology movement, combating racism, liberating sexual stereotypes, encouraging pride and self-confidence, questioning robot materialism, getting marijuana decriminalized, and stopping the Vietnam War in four years.

Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years they managed to stop the Vietnam War. They got marijuana decriminalized in fourteen states during the Carter Administration.

is a word derived from the Latin 're' (again) and 'ligare' (to tie up)... as such, all religions are straightjackets.

The word 'religion' beautifully defines itself, of course. It translates 'to bind' from the Latin''re' means back and 'ligare' means to tie up. All religions are straightjackets, jackets for the straight.

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