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Stoned

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"Well, they'll stone you when you walk all alone

They'll stone you when you are walking home

They'll stone you and then say you are brave

They'll stone you when you are set down in your grave

But I would not feel so all alone

Everybody must get stoned"

— Bob Dylan, "Everybody Must Get Stoned"

Has Life become a slogan, that modern battle cry from the ad world, a mantra for wannabe star swingers? Like "Turn on, tune in, drop out" that easy motto "given to Timothy Francis Leary" by Marshall McLuhan.

• "Turn on" meant go within, to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers engaging them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end.
• "Tune in" meant to interact harmoniously with the world around you—externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives.
• "Drop out" suggested an active, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. "Drop Out" meant self-reliance, a discovery of one's singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. Unhappily, my explanations of this sequence of personal development are often misinterpreted to mean "Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity"

— Timothy Leary, Flashbacks: A Personal and Cultural History of an Era pg. 253,

• Robert Anton Wilson,
• Terence Kemp McKenna,
• Timothy Francis Leary,
• None of them much silent.