TURN ON. Why did we humans, in the thick of the Cold War and, evolutionarily speaking, barely out of the trees, so favor this language of the "turn on" for all things psychedelic? Our only analogy for the novelty and seemingly infinite potential of psychedelic experience was a machinic one -we chose to compare ourselves to an informational machine both digital and analog. "Turn on" is digital, announcing as it does a discrete state of "on" or "off." So Leary's mantra begins with an experimental mapping of ourselves as Boolean machines.

TUNE IN. "Tune in" resounds with the suddenly enormous freedom to metaprogram this obviously interactive - and hence, for Leary, cybernetic - machine we momentarily map ourselves as. As a third order cybernetic operation, ( a map of a map of a map that clears new territories) "Drop Out" tunes the tuning toward the most proximate bit of order with which we have an analogy, with which we are continuous -a "sample" of the former self which is then dropped, released. Any aspect of ourselves for which we do not have a satisifying narrative, either (1) produces a narrative, and in a jiffy, through difficulty and out or (2) is released due to inability to narrate. This penchant for letting go of some accrued noise (Gelassenheit as Eckhart dubbed it) seems to initiate a tropism toward re-imagining self in the Light of Self.DROP OUT. So "dropping out" was anything but a "giving up", but was instead an intensification of personal yes spiritual iinformational rhetorical evolution necessary to the next stage of the human and transhuman adventure. Add to the mix that this brings out larger structures within which we are embedded ( See the Witkin Embedded Figure Test and its responsiveness to psychdelics, and Pop goes the dissipative structure - the noosphere! Psychedelics offered a rhetorical re-orientation, a living within Korzybski's "The Map is Not the Territory" that lets go of linguistic phenomena as anything but labels for our benefit and evolution. ADD First Person Science -

Intro: Alien arrival

Doyle reads pages 200-202, __ET Culture__; A mutation in the nature of reality itself? To wit: it no longer supports the subject/object illusion.

Zero: Tuning into Ecosystemic Distress In the Infoquake? (Gaia Superpower) Can we find the pattern embedded in the complexity? On Edgar Mitchell's Ecodelia

One: The Mushroom Telegraph Re-enactors: Wasson, The CIA and Penn State: Psychedelics as Information Technologies?

“Thus far, our studies suggest that certain hallucinogenic drug induced transformations in visual space may be regarded as an optimization of information.” Roland Fischer, 1973

The Mushrooms of Language - Ecstatic Signification or Psychedelics as Eloquence Adjuncts in indigenous practice

Of Maria Sabina and psychedelics as rhetorical adjuncts:

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She goes on talking and talking, non-stop; there are lulls when her voice slows down, fades out almost to a whisper; then come rushes of inspiration, moments of intense speech; she yawns great yawns, laughs with jubilation, claps her hands in time to her interminable singsong; but after the setting out, the heights of ecstasy are reached, the intoxication begins to ebb away, and she sounds the theme of going back to normal, everyday conscious existence again after this excursion into the beyond, of rejoining the ego she has transcended..."

Eleusis Mystery Theatre - was the most power rhetorical practice in ancient greece catalyzed through psychedelics?

Skaldic Versification, Soma and the Vedas - Enabling the perception of the pattern that connects? ( Bateson)

From Angiosperms to Birdsongs: The Noosphere as the effect of Attention on the Biosphere: Sexual Selection

Visualization technology of invention: Mullis, Crick, Pesce, Kapor

Two: Tripping On the Past: Al Hubbard and Ecodelic Perception in the invention of Information Technologies ( Psychedelics as Meta-Information Technologies?} ( feedback of eloquence on eloquence; The Information Pyre Theory of Evolution; autism and "nerdiness")

http://www.hofmann.org/papers/creative/index.html

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/stafford.htm

Ego death and the Evolution of the Noösphere - Levy, Bloom, Minsky

Three: Noospheric Seductions - Say Yes in A Culture of No!

Four: La Condition Transhumaine - an evolutionary feeback loop

Outro: Valis Transmission One, \"The Universe is a Way of Tricking Yourself\" When I drank ayahuasca, I learned to let go of former versions of my self that were not sustainable in the context of larger versions of my Self ( ecosystem), and I did so by releasing them and seeing them for what they are - aspects of my self and not my Self, maps and not territories.

Leary famously gave out the mantra "Turn on, Tune in, Drop Out", and we seem unable to hear the original context of this "drop out", which was really a "dropping in" to radical learning through the breakdown of established rhetorical habit structures. From the beginning, Leary treated the sacred context of psychedelics as both fundamental and implicit in the rest of his work. In this way Wiki is in its way as psychedelic as LSD. It "manifests" "mind", but hints at a collective mind, a Millbrook for the Noosphere. So we are "turned on" to our evolutionary feelin' through sexual selection in evolution, a sorting of our selves by our Selves in intensive, ecstatic mutual self examination. To put it in primate terms, the self is put under the microscope by the Self, and groomed. Mobius has written of the "ecodelic hypothesis" in his forthcoming tome, and with the right googlin you can find it!