Turn on.
Tune in.
And Go deep.
The 60's psychedelic advocate Timothy Leary used the expression; "Turn on, Tune in and drop out," as an address to people to turn their backs on the materialistic world of the time. The way to do this according to him was to take the powerful hallucinogen LSD.
LSD or lysergic d acid, is a derivative of some naturally occurring fungus that has the ability to radically and some times permanently alter the consciousness of the partaker.
Those of us that are perhaps not so radical already know that we can alter consciousness in a more controlled way through the techniques of, among other things, Pranayama, Asana and Meditation.
Leary's idea was to get out of the conditioned thinking of material living as it existed in the sixties by using these powerful drugs, and as in the lines of Leonard Cohen's song 'The Butcher,' "it did some good and it did some harm".
It's all very well getting high for the sake of getting high, and this is what many yoga enthusiasts seem to be doing. But if you look a little deeper into some of the more interesting Yoga books aforementioned, you may find a map of consciousness leading onward and upward.
It's better to travel with a destination in mind, don't you think?
Tune into the breath.
Drop the thoughts.
And dive deep into the experience of being here and now!
Omzzzz
Tune in.
And Go deep.
The 60's psychedelic advocate Timothy Leary used the expression; "Turn on, Tune in and drop out," as an address to people to turn their backs on the materialistic world of the time. The way to do this according to him was to take the powerful hallucinogen LSD.
LSD or lysergic d acid, is a derivative of some naturally occurring fungus that has the ability to radically and some times permanently alter the consciousness of the partaker.
Those of us that are perhaps not so radical already know that we can alter consciousness in a more controlled way through the techniques of, among other things, Pranayama, Asana and Meditation.
Leary's idea was to get out of the conditioned thinking of material living as it existed in the sixties by using these powerful drugs, and as in the lines of Leonard Cohen's song 'The Butcher,' "it did some good and it did some harm".
It's all very well getting high for the sake of getting high, and this is what many yoga enthusiasts seem to be doing. But if you look a little deeper into some of the more interesting Yoga books aforementioned, you may find a map of consciousness leading onward and upward.
It's better to travel with a destination in mind, don't you think?
Tune into the breath.
Drop the thoughts.
And dive deep into the experience of being here and now!
Omzzzz
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