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Half The Things I've Done Are Wrong, Mistakes [unintelligible]. The Moratorium On Pot And Lsd A Year Ago Is Ridiculous. I Shouldn't Have Done That. I Make A Blunder At Least One Out Of Two Times I Come To Bat.

Throughout Human History, As Our Species Has Faced The Frightening, Terrorizing Fact That We Do Not Know Who We Are, Or Where We Are Going In This Ocean Of Chaos, It Has Been The Authorities - The Political, The Religious, The Educational Authorities - Who Attempted To Comfort Us By Giving Us Order, Rules, Regulations, Informing - Forming In Our Minds - Their View Of Reality. To Think For Yourself You Must Question Authority And Learn How To Put Yourself In A State Of Vulnerable Open-mindedness, Chaotic, Confused Vulnerability To Inform Yourself.

At One Point Consciousness-altering Devices Like The Microscope And Telescope Were Criminalized For Exactly The Same Reasons That Psychedelic Plants Were Banned In Later Years. They Allow Us To Peer Into Bits And Zones Of Chaos.

One Cannot Understand The Rhythms And Meanings Of The Outer World Until One Has Mastered The Dialects Of The Body.

Actions Which Are Conscious Expressions Of The Turn-on, Tune-in, Drop-out Rhythm Are Religious.the Wise Person Devotes His Life Exclusively To The Religious Search - For Therein Is Found The Only Ecstasy, The Only Meaning. Anything Else Is A Competitive Quarrel Over (or Hollywood-love Sharing Of) Studio Props.