A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead

by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner & Richard Alpert

This manual uses material from The Tibetan Book of the Dead for this preparation. The authors also 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 'little death' as the Tibetans called shamanic initiation). The last section of the manual provides instructions for an actual psychedelic session, under adequate safeguards.

The authors were engaged in a program of experiments with LSD and other psychedelic drugs at Harvard University until sensational national publicity unfairly concentrating on student interest in the drugs, led to the suspension of the experiments. Since then, the authors have continued their work without academic auspices.

A reader: 'This is undoubtedly Leary's definitive work.This guide book is absolutely essential if you are going to take a psychedelic drug.It really makes sense of the visions and sensations you will encounter in the different stages,or Bardos of the trip.To put it simply and to the point,Lennon said of this book,'Learys method is the only way to trip'.It really is a great guide book that should send you in the right direction. PRICELESS.'

Paperback, 160 pages