When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to 'drop out,' 'turn on,' and 'tune in.' This period of robotization is called the Kali Yuga, the Age of Strife and Empire...
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Leary describes behavioral routine as death of self, urging internal rebirth through dropping out.
- In plain terms
- When behavior becomes a routine, you are a robot needing to reinvent.
- What can you take from it?
- Break routines to reclaim consciousness.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Where have you become routine?
- How do you choose rebirth?
Another view
It dramatizes normal habits as fatal without nuance.
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