From Wikipedia. Leary explains in his 1983 autobiography Flashbacks:
Turn on meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers engaging them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end.
Tune in meant interact harmoniously with the world around you—externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives.
Drop out suggested an active, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. Drop Outmeant self-reliance, a discovery of one's singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change.
In public statements I stressed that the Turn On-Tune In-Drop Outprocess must be continually repeated if one wished to live a life of growth.
Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development are often misinterpreted to mean "get stoned and abandon all constructive activity".[4]
In 1967, Leary (during the salon known as the Houseboat Summit) announced his agreement with a new ordering of the phrase as he said, "I would agree to change the slogan to 'Drop out. Turn on. Drop in.'"[5]
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