Start Your Own Religion by Tim Leary http://luminist.org/archives/start_your_own.htm ISBN:1579510736

Excerpts

1. The Purpose of Life is Religious Discovery

2. Drop-out. Turn-on. Tune-in

the sequence must continue. You cannot stand still.

Any action that is not a conscious expression of the Dropout-Turn-on-Tune-in-Drop-out rhythm is the dead posturing of robot actors on the fake-prop TV studio stage-set that is called American Reality. Actions which are conscious expressions of the Turn-on, Tune-in, Drop-out rhythm are religious. (Reality Tunnel)

3. How to Turn-on

When you Turn-on you shed the fake-prop TV studio and costume and join the holy dance of the visionaries

To Turn-on you need a sacrament.

Today the sacrament is LSD. New sacraments are coming along.

Sacraments wear out. They become part of the social TV studio game. Treasure LSD while it still works. In fifteen years it will be tame, socialised, and

4. How to Tune-in

5. How to Drop-out

Quit school. Quit your job. Don't vote. Avoid all politics. Do not waste conscious thinking on TV-studio games. Political choices are meaningless

Dismiss the Judaic-Christian-Marxist-puritan-literary-existentialist suggestion that the drop-out is escape and that the conformist cop-out is reality. Dropping-out is the hardest yoga of all. Make your drop-out invisible. No rebellion - please!

6. To Drop-out You Must Form Your Own Religion

The drop-out, turn-on, tune-in rhythm is most naturally done in small groups of family members, lovers, and seed friends. For both psychedelic and legal reasons you must form your own cult.

You must form that most ancient and sacred of human structures - the clan. A clan or cult is a small group of human beings organised around a religious goal. (tribe)

Remember, you are basically a primate. You are designed by the two-billion year blueprint to live in a small band

Avoid conflict with the establishment. Avoid recruiting and rapid growth. Preserve clan harmony. Your clan must be limited to essence friends.

7. How to Start Your Own Religion

First decide with whom you will make the voyage of discovery. If you have a family, certainly you will include them. If you have close friends, you will certainly want to include them. The question - with whom do I league for spiritual discovery-is a fascinating exercise.

put on a page the plan for your trip

you are forming not only your own religion, but your own natural political unit

Your mode of sexual union is the key to your religion. You cannot escape this. The way you ball (or avoid balling) is your central sacramental activity. The sexual proclivity of the clan must be explicit and inflexible. Do not attempt to establish clan relationships with persons of a different sexual persuasion. There is no value judgement here. Sex is sacred. People of like sexual temperament must form their own spiritual cults.

The aim of clan living is to subordinate the ego-game to the family game - the clan game. You will do well to have an explicit connection to a mythic figure. You must select an historical psychedelic guide

You will find it absolutely necessary to leave the city. Urban living is spiritually suicidal. The cities of America are about to crumble as did Rome and Babylon. Go to the land. Go to the sea.

Write down an eight-fold definition of your religion (goal, role, rule, ritual, value, language, myth, space/ time locale.) By doing so, you have formed your religion. The first Amendment to the Constitution, the Charter of the U .N., and the ancient traditions of human history give you protection to alter your own consciousness inside your shrine. cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Eightfold_Path

Get your charter notarised, or mail it to yourself in a postmarked envelope. You have thereby established, before possible conflict with Caesar's police, your religion

It is highly advisable, and quite simple, to incorporate your religion under the laws of your state

9. Dr. Leary. What Will Happen to Society After Everyone Turns-on, Tunes-in. and Drops-out?

Nowhere and never does everyone do the same thing at the same time. It's all planned in cycles by the DNA Code. Organic changes occur gradually and invisibly.

10. Illustrative Procedure for Formalising a Psychedelic Religion

On August 21, 1966, fifteen persons met in the Castalia Foundation centre, Millbrook, N.Y. to discuss the formation of a new religion

The papers were filed with the secretary of State, and, in ten days, the League for Spiritual Discovery was legally incorporated. (It's that easy!) The simplicity of this procedure may be deceptive. It had taken six years of dedicated, full-time searching to assemble this group of fifteen. Hundreds of LSD sessions provided the screening for this group.

MINUTES OF THE FIRST MEMBERSHIP MEETING OF THE LEAGUE FOR SPIRITUAL DISCOVERY