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The psychedelic experience; a manual based on the Tibetan book of the dead
Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996Contains an adaptation of the edition of the Bardo thödol translated by the Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup, compiled and edited by W. Y. Evans-Wentz, and called the Tibetan book of the dead.
Categories: Religion & Spirituality - Buddhism
Content Type: Books
Year: 1964
Publisher: New York, University Books
Language: English
Series: Psychedelic monograph,
File: PDF, 4.60 MB
English, 1964
This version of THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD is dedicated, to ALDOUS HUXLEY July 26, 1894- November 22, 1963 with profound admiration and gratitude. "If you started in the wrong way," I said in answer to the investigator's questions, "everything that happened would be a proof of the conspiracy against you. It would all be self validating. You couldn't draw a breath without knowing it was part of the plot." "So you think you know where madness lies?" My answer was a convinced and heartfelt, "Yes." "And you couldn't control it?" "No I couldn't control it. If one began with fear and hate as the major premise, one would have to go on to the con clusion." "Would you be able," my wife asked, "to fix your attention on what The Tibetan Book of the Dead calls the Clear Light?" I I was doubtful. "Would it keep the evil away, if you could hold it? Or would you not be able to hold it?" considered the question for some time. "Perhaps," I an swered at last, "perhaps I could — but only if there were some body there to tell me about the Clear Light. One couldn't do it by oneself. That's the point, I suppose, of the Tibetan ritual — somebody sitting there all the time and telling you what's what." (DOORS OF PERCEPTION, 57-58
Tha drug is oniy one component of a psychedelic session. Equally impor tant is tbe mental and spiritual preparation, both before and in the course of taking the drug. The authors find no need to invent new mental and spiritual materials for this purpose. The great literature of meditation lends itself very well to this use. This particular manual uses for this preparation material from THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD. The authors make an important contribution to the interpretation of THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD. They show that it is concerned, not with the dead, but with the living. The last section of the manual provides instructions for an actual psychedelic session, under adequate safeguards.
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