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Title: The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Citadel Underground) by Ralph Metzner, Richard Alpert, Karma-Glin-Pa Bar Do Thos Grol, Timothy (Francis) Leary ISBN: 0-8065-1652-6 Publisher: Citadel Trade Pub. Date: February, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.76 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Life before death
Comment: The funny thing about this is, thousands of copies of "the Tibetan Book of the Dead," found there way on to the shelves of hippie homes, because people thought they were getting Tim's "Psychedelic Experience."
We were seeking one thing and being confused with another.
The Psychedelic Experience is a manual where many, many people who I have met; claim to have been enlightened just by following Tim's directions.
We know the Beatles, The Grateful Dead, The Rolling Stones; The Moody Blues were all exposed to these teachings, before they became really big stars.
"When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find peace of mind is waiting there." George
The Beatles did a song about The Psychedelic Experience; they called it "The Void." You may remember it!
"Turn off your mind, relax, and float down stream,"
"Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void,"
"I'll play the game "existence" to the end of the beginning,"
"The Psychedelic Experience," is about life before death, The Tibetan Book is about life after death.
Ram Dass's famous "Be Here Now," is a prelude to "The Psychedelic Experience," but few people read that far.
There are three introductions in the Experience. Skip two and just read the one by lama Govinda. Tim was a researcher at Harvard University, those other introductions were written for people long dead.
The rest of the experience is quite simple (once you have had the experience that is.)
Leary's Psychedelic Experience do it now!!
Rating: 2
Summary: Total Hype
Comment: I was personally quite disapointed in this book. The statement 'Ram Dass's famous "Be Here Now," is a prelude to "The Psychedelic Experience,"' is beyond misleading. Be here now had so much to say, but this book adds nothing to the already huge body of liturature written on the topic. If you are interested in this text, get the html version off the net and spend your money on something serious, like the Tibeten book of Living and Dying.
Rating: 5
Summary: Re: Total Hype (not!)
Comment: I would like to clear up some apparent confusion in the reviews below:
Ram Dass' book "Be Here Now" *can't* be a prelude to this book, since "Be Here Now" was written I think seven years *after* "The Psychedelic Experience." For those of you who don't know, "Ram Dass" is in fact Richard Alpert, one of the three authors of "The Psychedelic Experience."
To say that this book "adds nothing to the already huge body of liturature written on the topic" is like saying that The Bible adds nothing to the already huge body of christian literature. This book was at it's time absolutely revolutionary. It is to my knowledge the first work published giving a detailed road map for those travellers seeking spiritual enlightenment with the aid of psychedelics.
The brilliant reinterpretation of the Bardo Thodol as a guide for premortem ego death and the interpretation of numerous aspects of eastern mysticism in general in the light of Leary's "Game of Life" theory (e.g. "heavy world game playing" interpretations of "karma") makes the meaning of these ancient mystic teachings readily accessible to the mind of the western psychonaut.
If you're a psychonaut and want to better understand your experiences, read this book. If everybody who wanted to try a psychoactive substance would first read this book, there would probably never again be anybody who would have what s/he would call a "horror trip" (unless the heavy game players don't understand what they're reading and insist on taking the substances anyway.)
Read it and weep.
Wishing you Good Journeys,
erasurehead
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Title: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley ISBN: 0060900075 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 16 February, 1963 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Be Here Now by Ram Dass ISBN: 0517543052 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 12 October, 1971 List Price(USD): $10.50 |
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Title: Your Brain Is God by Timothy Leary ISBN: 1579510523 Publisher: Ronin Publishing Pub. Date: 09 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: High Priest by Timothy Leary, Timothy (Francis) Leary, Howard Hallis ISBN: 0914171801 Publisher: Ronin Publishing Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Change Your Brain by Timothy Leary ISBN: 1579510175 Publisher: Ronin Publishing Pub. Date: 30 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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