Counterculture of the 1960s of Timothy Leary to "Turn on, tune in, drop out", hoped to change society by dropping out of it. Looking back on his own life (as a Harvard professor) prior to 1960, Leary interpreted it to have been that of "an anonymous institutional employee who drove to work each morning in a long line of commuter cars and drove home each night and drank martinis ... like several million middle-class, liberal, intellectual robots." As members of the hippie movement grew older and moderated their lives and their views, and especially after US involvement in the Vietnam War ended in the
League for Spiritual Discovery be used as an aid to LSD trips), and underground newspapers to which the group subscribed. The League for Spiritual Discovery's belief structure was based on Leary's mantra: "drop out, turn on, tune in." Though the more popular "turn on, tune in, drop out" became synonymous with Leary, his actual definition was: ""Drop Out" – detach yourself from the external social drama which is as dehydrated and ersatz as TV. "Turn On" – find a sacrament which returns you to the temple of God, your own body. Go out of your mind. Get high. "Tune In" – be reborn. Drop