Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out by Timothy Leary

Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out by Timothy Leary

Author:Timothy Leary
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781579511050
Publisher: Ronin Publishing
Published: 2015-10-12T04:00:00+00:00


SEAL OF THE LEAGUE

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The Buddha as Drop-Out*

This article was written in response to a request from Horizon magazine, which in the summer of 1967 was planning an issue on the hippies. The article was penciled hastily and typed by the author’s daughter, who at the time was involved in a mystical removal from all human games except the mastery of touch typing.

Horizon sent a check for $400 along, with a note of puzzling jocularity about my “frankness” and “honesty.” It was only after the issue was published (without “The Buddha as Drop-Out”) and after reading the introduction to the issue that it became clear that the editors of lost Horizon had mirthlessly missed the point of the article. They saw it as confessional rather than satirical. They wanted no part in the strategy to persuade their readers to become Buddhas.

They have a point. Buddhas don’t subscribe. They inscribe.



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