Leary's collection of essays and interviews on the political and social implications of psychedelic consciousness expansion — the intellectual foundation of his cultural advocacy.
The political argument for psychedelics: expanded consciousness is inherently subversive of authoritarian social control — which is why it is suppressed. Turn on, tune in, drop out: a practical philosophy of withdrawal from the conventional game-playing of industrial society. The neurological politics: control of consciousness is the ultimate form of political control. Leary's most systematic statement of his social philosophy.
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