The price of admission is pledging allegiance to a program pretty much like that of the hippie counterculture: Distrust authority; oppose consensual reality; entertain possible alternative realities; be hyperalert to ways that culture and the media shape consciousness; comprehend the interconnectedness of systems of power; explore alternative states of consciousness and multiple states of self; open up to spiritual experience; sympathize with the devil (William Blake’s if not Mick Jagger’s); protest the vulgarization of art and minds by money; try to integrate conventional separated bodies of knowledge and experience. — Ken Johnson, in Are You Experienced: How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art. I love this quote (and this book) because one of the great myths of contemporary art is that it is lawless, but, perhaps, by viewing art through a psychedelic rather than postmodern filter, we can clearly see and evaluate the rules of the game.