"Paris. Timothy Leary, a former Harvard professor, extolled students and young professionals to ""Turn on, tune in, drop out"", a phrase that became a catch-cry for the hippie phenomenon. With the Beatles as the most popular and influential act of the era, music was the principal agent of these changes. Having become a leading publicist in Los Angeles following his work with the Beatles in 1964, Derek Taylor co-founded the Monterey festival. This event showcased the diversity of musical styles and influences that constituted the new ""rock"" medium, as well as pop music's ascendancy to the level of art. Pop's"
"""Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"", the ""poet"" Henry Gibson would randomly say, ""Marshall McLuhan, what are you doin'?"" McLuhan was credited with coining the phrase ""Turn on, tune in, drop out"" by its popularizer, Timothy Leary, in the 1960s. In a 1988 interview with Neil Strauss, Leary stated that slogan was ""given to him"" by McLuhan during a lunch in New York City. Leary said McLuhan ""was very much interested in ideas and marketing, and he started singing something like, 'Psychedelics hit the spot / Five hundred micrograms, that’s a lot,' to the tune of a Pepsi commercial. Then he started"
"Gate Park In speaking to the group, he coined the famous phrase ""Turn on, tune in, drop out"". The English magician Aleister Crowley became an influential icon to the new alternative spiritual movements of the decade as well as for rock musicians. The Beatles included him as one of the many figures on the cover sleeve of their 1967 album ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" while Jimmy Page, the guitarist of The Yardbirds and co-founder of 1970s rock band Led Zeppelin was fascinated by Crowley, and owned some of his clothing, manuscripts and ritual objects, and during the 1970s"
"drop out."" In a 1988 interview with Neil Strauss, he said that this slogan was ""given to him"" by Marshall McLuhan when the two had lunch in New York City, adding, ""Marshall was very much interested in ideas and marketing, and he started singing something like, 'Psychedelics hit the spot / Five hundred micrograms, that's a lot,' to the tune of [the well-known Pepsi 1950s singing commercial]. Then he started going, 'Tune in, turn on, and drop out.'"" Though the more popular ""turn on, tune in, drop out"" became synonymous with Leary, his actual definition with the League for Spiritual"
"experience, peace and many other issues. In a 1988 interview with Neil Strauss, Leary said the slogan was ""given to him"" by Marshall McLuhan during a lunch in New York City. Leary added that McLuhan ""was very much interested in ideas and marketing, and he started singing something like, 'Psychedelics hit the spot / Five hundred micrograms, that's a lot,' to the tune of a Pepsi commercial of the time. Then he started going, 'Tune in, turn on, and drop out. The phrase was used by Leary in a speech he delivered at the opening of a press conference in"
"going, 'Tune in, turn on, and drop out.'"" During his lifetime and afterward, McLuhan heavily influenced cultural critics, thinkers, and media theorists such as Neil Postman, Jean Baudrillard, Timothy Leary, Terence McKenna, William Irwin Thompson, Paul Levinson, Douglas Rushkoff, Jaron Lanier, Hugh Kenner, and John David Ebert, as well as political leaders such as Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Jerry Brown. Andy Warhol was paraphrasing McLuhan with his now famous ""15 minutes of fame"" quote. When asked in the 1970s for a way to sedate violences in Angola, he suggested a massive spread of TV devices. The character ""Brian O'Blivion"" in"
"that afternoon with his famous phrase ""Turn on, tune in, drop out"" and Richard Alpert (soon to be known as ""Ram Dass""), and poets like Allen Ginsberg, who chanted mantras, Gary Snyder and Michael McClure. Other counterculture gurus included comedian Dick Gregory, Lenore Kandel, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jerry Rubin, and Alan Watts. The Hells Angels, at the peak of their ""outlaw"" reputation, corralled lost children. Music was provided by a host of local rock bands including Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Blue Cheer most of whom had been staples of the"
"the evolving quicksilver mind of America's only literary virtuoso ...""): Allen Ginsberg Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet, philosopher and writer. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture, such as his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. He was one of many influential American writers of his time known as"
"in one of the lines. Gil Scott-Heron criticised the concept in his 1970 poem and song ""The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"", with the line ""You will not be able to plug in, turn on and "". The lyrics, ""Turn on, tune in, drop out"" are included verbatim in several songs: The """" episode title ""Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead"" also parodies the quote, with the episode focusing on how two victims who are supposedly dead get up and walk away. A variation of the quote (""Tune in, Turn on, Talknet"") was used in the 1980s and early 1990s"
"Allen Ginsberg Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet, philosopher and writer. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture, such as his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. He was one of many influential American writers of his time known as the Beat Generation, which included famous writers such as Jack"
"case further cemented Leary's growing reputation as a counter cultural guru. Around this time, President Richard Nixon described Leary as ""the most dangerous man in America."" Repeated FBI raids instigated the end of the Millbrook experiment. Leary refocused his efforts towards countering the tremendous amount of anti-LSD propaganda then being issued by the United States government, popularizing the slogan ""Turn on, tune in, drop out."" Many experts blame Leary and his activism for the near-total suppression of psychedelic research over the next 35 years. Historically, LSD was distributed not for profit, but because those who made and distributed it truly"
"February 1967 salon known as the ""Houseboat Summit"") announced his agreement with a new ordering of the phrase as he said, ""I would agree to change the slogan to 'Drop out. Turn on. Drop in.'"" During his last decade, Leary proclaimed that the ""PC is the LSD of the 1990s""—""turn on, boot up, jack in"" reworked the existing phrase to suggest joining the cyberdelic counterculture. The phrase was referenced in several songs of the time. Psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock parodies the quote in their 1967 song ""Incense and Peppermints"", singing ""Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around"""
"a ""New Morality"", saying ""the morality they discuss is the barnyard morality and it is as old as the hills."" However, she was also an advocate for the involvement of women in business and politics. By 1966, she was telling audiences around the state, ""Why should women have any less say than men about the great decisions facing our nation?"" She added that women ""represent a reservoir of public service which has hardly been tapped."" She explicitly criticized the counterculture phrase ""Turn on, tune in, drop out"", saying ""What kind of a philosophy is that?"" Instead she urged young people"
"unsuccessful attempt to maintain legal status for the use of LSD and other psychedelics for the religion's adherents based on a ""freedom of religion"" argument. ""The Psychedelic Experience"" was the inspiration for John Lennon's song ""Tomorrow Never Knows"" in The Beatles' album ""Revolver"". He published a pamphlet in 1967 called ""Start Your Own Religion"" to encourage just that (see below under ""writings"") and was invited to attend the January 14, 1967 Human Be-In a gathering of 30,000 hippies in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park In speaking to the group, he coined the famous phrase ""Turn on, tune in, drop out""."
"by the way, those quotes from George Carlin aren't really George Carlin"". George Carlin George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and social critic. Carlin was noted for his black comedy and reflections on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and various taboo subjects. He and his ""seven dirty words"" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case ""F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation"", in which a 5–4 decision affirmed the government's power to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves. He is widely regarded as one of"
"that promoted his philosophy, such as ""turn on, tune in, drop out"", ""set and setting"", and ""think for yourself and question authority"". He also wrote and spoke frequently about transhumanist concepts involving space migration, intelligence increase, and life extension (SMI²LE), and developed the eight-circuit model of consciousness in his book ""Exo-Psychology"" (1977). He gave lectures, occasionally billing himself as a ""performing philosopher"". During the 1960s and 1970s, he was arrested often enough to see the inside of 36 prisons worldwide. President Richard Nixon once described Leary as ""the most dangerous man in America"". Leary was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, the"
"George Carlin George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and social critic. Carlin was noted for his black comedy and reflections on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and various taboo subjects. He and his ""seven dirty words"" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case ""F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation"", in which a 5–4 decision affirmed the government's power to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comics; one newspaper called Carlin ""the"
"Jerry Rubin Jerry Clyde Rubin (July 14, 1938 – November 28, 1994) was an American social activist, anti-war leader, and counterculture icon during the 1960s and 1970s. During the 1980s, he became a successful businessman. Rubin was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of a truck driver who later became a Teamsters' union official. Rubin attended Cincinnati's Walnut Hills High School, co-editing the school newspaper, ""The Chatterbox"" and graduating in 1956. While in high school Rubin began to write for ""The Cincinnati Post"", compiling sports scores from high school games. He attended Oberlin College, and Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and"
"Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book ""Walden"", a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay ""Civil Disobedience"" (originally published as ""Resistance to Civil Government""), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the"
"to preserve their way of life and rights given to them prior to the advancement of new technologies. Neil Postman Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic, who is best known for his twenty books, including ""Amusing Ourselves to Death"" (1985), ""Conscientious Objections"" (1988), ""Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology"" (1992), ""The Disappearance of Childhood"" (1994) and ""The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School"" (1995). Postman was born in New York City, where he would spend most of his life. In 1953, he graduated from"
"Nipsey Russell Julius ""Nipsey"" Russell (September 15, 1918 – October 2, 2005) was an American comedian, poet, and dancer best known for his appearances as a guest panelist on game shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, including ""Match Game"", ""Password"", ""Hollywood Squares"", ""To Tell the Truth"" and ""Pyramid"". His appearances were frequently distinguished in part by the short, humorous poems he would recite during the broadcast. These lyrics became so closely associated with Russell that Dick Clark, Bill Cullen, Betty White, and others regularly referred to him as ""the poet laureate of television."" He also had a leading role"
"be used as an aid to LSD trips), and underground newspapers to which the group subscribed. The League for Spiritual Discovery's belief structure was based on Leary's mantra: ""drop out, turn on, tune in."" Though the more popular ""turn on, tune in, drop out"" became synonymous with Leary, his actual definition was: """"Drop Out"" – detach yourself from the external social drama which is as dehydrated and ersatz as TV. ""Turn On"" – find a sacrament which returns you to the temple of God, your own body. Go out of your mind. Get high. ""Tune In"" – be reborn. Drop"
"Discovery was: """"Drop Out"" – detach yourself from the external social drama which is as dehydrated and ersatz as TV. ""Turn On"" – find a sacrament which returns you to the temple of God, your own body. Go out of your mind. Get high. ""Tune In"" – be reborn. Drop back in to express it. Start a new sequence of behavior that reflects your vision."" Repeated FBI raids ended the Millbrook era. Leary told author and Prankster Paul Krassner regarding a 1966 raid by Liddy, ""He was a government agent entering our bedroom at midnight. We had every right to"
"Dale Carnegie Dale Harbison Carnegie (; spelled Carnagey until c. 1922; November 24, 1888 – November 1, 1955) was an American writer and lecturer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. Born into poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of ""How to Win Friends and Influence People"" (1936), a bestseller that remains popular today. He also wrote ""How to Stop Worrying and Start Living"" (1948), ""Lincoln the Unknown"" (1932), and several other books. One of the core ideas in his books is that it is possible to"
"Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay ""Nature"". Following this work, he gave a speech"
"Tuli Kupferberg Naphtali ""Tuli"" Kupferberg (September 28, 1923 – July 12, 2010) was an American counterculture poet, author, singer, cartoonist, pacifist anarchist, publisher, and co-founder of the band the Fugs. Naphtali Kupferberg was born into a Jewish, Yiddish-speaking household in New York City. A ""cum laude"" graduate of Brooklyn College in 1944, Kupferberg founded the magazine ""Birth"" in 1958. Kupferberg reportedly appears in Ginsberg's poem ""Howl"" as the person ""who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge and walked away unknown and forgotten into the ghostly daze of Chinatown soup alleyways & firetrucks, not even one free beer."" The incident in question"
"Hal Block Harold Block (August 2, 1913 – June 16, 1981) was an American comedy writer, comedian, producer, songwriter and television personality. Although Block was a highly successful comedy writer for over 15 years, today he is most often remembered as an original panelist of the television game show ""What's My Line?"" who was fired from the show in its third season, reportedly for inappropriate on-air behavior. Block is a controversial figure in the history of television, denounced by some, while praised by others as a writer and for contributing to the original success of ""What's My Line?"" During the"
"Susan Sontag Susan Sontag (; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay ""Notes on 'Camp'"", in 1964. Her best-known works include ""On Photography"", ""Against Interpretation"", ""Styles of Radical Will"", ""The Way We Live Now"", ""Illness as Metaphor"", ""Regarding the Pain of Others"", ""The Volcano Lover"", and ""In America"". Sontag was active in writing and speaking about, or travelling to, areas of conflict, including during the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo. She wrote"
"Pyne, their daughter Claudia, and his other children, Cathee, Ed, and Sheila. Joe Pyne Joe Pyne (22 December 1924 – 23 March 1970) was an American radio and television talk show host, who pioneered the confrontational style in which the host advocates a viewpoint and argues with guests and audience members. He was an influence on other major talk show hosts such as Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Wally George, Alan Burke, Chris Matthews, Morton Downey, Jr., Bob Grant, and Michael Savage. Joseph Pyne was born in Chester, Pennsylvania. His father, Edward Pyne, was a bricklayer; his mother, Catherine, was a"
"Joe Pyne Joe Pyne (22 December 1924 – 23 March 1970) was an American radio and television talk show host, who pioneered the confrontational style in which the host advocates a viewpoint and argues with guests and audience members. He was an influence on other major talk show hosts such as Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Wally George, Alan Burke, Chris Matthews, Morton Downey, Jr., Bob Grant, and Michael Savage. Joseph Pyne was born in Chester, Pennsylvania. His father, Edward Pyne, was a bricklayer; his mother, Catherine, was a housewife. Pyne graduated from Chester High School in 1942, and immediately enlisted"
"Fame in 2007 in the category of ""Observer""; that is, print and media journalists, publishers, writers, historians, photographers, and artists. Tad Dorgan Thomas Aloysius Dorgan (April 29, 1877 – May 2, 1929), also known as Tad Dorgan, was an American cartoonist who signed his drawings as Tad. He is known for his cartoon panel ""Indoor Sports"" and the many words and expressions he added to the language. Dorgan was born in San Francisco on April 29, 1877. He was one of at least 11 children—six sons and five daughters – of Thomas J. and Anna Dorgan. His brother John L."
"Magnificent Montague Nathaniel ""Magnificent"" Montague (born January 11, 1928), is an American R&B disc jockey notable not only for the soul music records he helped promote on KGFJ Los Angeles and WWRL New York City, but also his trademark catch-phrase, ""Burn, baby! Burn!"" that became the rallying cry of the 1965 Watts riots. Following criticism that this phrase had inadvertently stirred up rioters, Montague advocated non-violence and urged young listeners to pursue their education, coining the new phrase ""Learn, baby! Learn!"" Semi-retired by the mid-1970s, Montague relocated to Palm Springs, California, where he was instrumental in the launch of easy"
"on March 25, 2014, twenty-three days after his 95th birthday. Eddie Lawrence Eddie Lawrence (born Lawrence Eisler; March 2, 1919 – March 25, 2014) was an American monologist, actor, singer, lyricist, playwright, artist, director and television personality, whose unique comic creation, the eternally optimistic Old Philosopher, gained him a devoted cult following for over five decades. Born Lawrence Eisler in Brooklyn, New York, he began performing at the end of the Depression 1930s. Barely out of his teens, he gained a minor reputation as an original comic/raconteur who performed bizarre elocution of whimsical free verse in little clubs in the"