Think For Yourself And Question Authority.

In The Eleusinian Mysteries, They Would Always Warn People, "if You Go In Here, Your Ego Will Die. You're Going To Have To Confront All Your Past Hang-ups, Strip Them Off, And Be A Changed Person." One Emperor Of Rom Who Wanted To Be Initiated In The Eleusinian Mysteries Said, "that's Interesting, I Approve Of What You're Doing, But I Don't Want To Be Changed.

Essentially, There's A Universe Inside Your Brain. The Number Of Connections Possible Inside Your Brain Is Limitless. And As People Have Learned To Have More Managerial And Direct Creative Access To Their Brains, They Have Also Developed Matrices Or Networks Of People That Communicate Electronically. There Are Direct Brain/computer Link-ups. You Can Just Jack Yourself In And Pilot Your Brain Around In Cyberspace-electronic Space.

To Describe Externals, You Become A Scientist. To Describe Experience, You Become An Artist.

We Are Dealing With The Best-educated Generation In History. But They've Got A Brain Dressed Up With Nowhere To Go. Science Is All Metaphor. In The Information Age, You Don't Teach Philosophy As They Did After Feudalism. You Perform It. If Aristotle Were Alive Today He'd Have A Talk Show. If You Don't Like What You Are Doing, You Can Always Pick Up Your Needle And Move To Another Groove. If You Take The Game Of Life Seriously, If You Take Your Nervous System Seriously, If You Take Your Sense Organs Seriously, If You Take The Energy Process Seriously, You Must Turn On, Tune In, And Drop Out.

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.