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turn on, tune in (and) drop out
used as a slogan for, and invitation to join, the hippy counterculture US
Credited to Timothy Leary (1920–96) the self-styled high priest of LSD, this pocket-philosophy combined TURN ON (to use drugs), “tune in” (to become culturally aware) and DROP OUT (to cease to be part of a conventional society) in a catchphrase that seemed to be more than the sum of its parts.- The trinity is Tim Leary’s answer to the Diet of Worms. — Sidney Bernard, This Way to the Apocalypse, p. 56, 1968
- We even found a drug-based religion, whose message would be “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out!” We would proclaim the Reign of the Happily Integrated Modern Soul! — Michael Hollingshead, The Man Who Turned on the World [The Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories], p. 97, 1973
- [Timothy Leary] later recanted the acid faith, disowning virtually all the subversive pronouncements of his post-Harvard career (the most famous of which – “Turn on, tune in and drop out” was the “Come on in, the water’s lovely” of its day). — Stuart Walton, Out of It [The Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories], p. 102, 2001
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