Timothy-Leary-The-Psychedelic-Experience-The-Tibetan-Book-Of-The-Dead

of light, and to become aware of the enormous treasury of ancient racial knowledge welded into the nucleus
of every cell in your body.
Modern psychedelic chemicals provide a key to this forgotten realm of awareness. But just as this manual
without the psychedelic awareness is nothing but an exercise in academic Tibetology, so, too, the potent
chemical key is of little value without the guidance and the teachings.
Westerners do not accept the existence of conscious processes for which they have no operational term.
The attitude which is prevalent is: - if you can’t label it, and if it is beyond current notions of space-time and
personality, then it is not open for investigation. Thus we see the ego-loss experience confused with
schizophrenia. Thus we see present-day psychiatrists solemnly pronouncing the psychedelic keys as
psychosis-producing and dangerous.
The new visionary chemicals and the pre-mortem-death-rebirth experience may be pushed once again into
the shadows of history. Looking back, we remember that every middle-eastern and European administrator
(with the exception of certain periods in Greece and Persia) has, during the last three thousand years,
rushed to pass laws against any emerging transcendental process, the pre-mortem-death-rebirth session, its
adepts, and any new method of consciousness-expansion.
The present moment in human history (as Lama Govinda points out) is critical. Now, for the first time, we
possess the means of providing the enlightenment to any prepared volunteer. (The enlightenment always
comes, we remember, in the form of a new energy process, a physical, neurological event.) For these
reasons we have prepared this psychedelic version of The Tibetan Book of the Dead. The secret is released
once again, in a new dialect, and we sit back quietly to observe whether man is ready to move ahead and to
make use of the new tools provided by modern science.
II.
THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD
FIRST BARDO:
THE PERIOD OF EGO-LOSS OR
NON-GAME ECSTASY
(Chikhai Bardo)
Part I: The Primary Clear Light Seen At the Moment of Ego-Loss.
All individuals who have received the practical teachings of this manual will, if the text be remembered, be
set face to face with the ecstatic radiance and will win illumination instantaneously, without entering upon
hallucinatory struggles and without further suffering on the age-long pathway of normal evolution which
traverses the various worlds of game existence.
This doctrine underlies the whole of the Tibetan model. Faith is the first step on the “Secret Pathway.” Then
comes illumination and with it certainty; and when the goal is won, emancipation. Success implies very
unusual preparation in consciousness expansion, as well as much calm, compassionate game playing (good
karma) on the part of the participant. If the participant can be made to see and to grasp the idea of the
empty mind as soon as the guide reveals it - that is to say, if he has the power to die consciously - and, at
the supreme moment of quitting the ego, can recognize the ecstasy which will dawn upon him then, and
become one with it, all game bonds of illusion are broken asunder immediately: the dreamer is awakened
into reality simultaneously with the mighty achievement of recognition.
It is best if the guru (spiritual teacher), from whom the participant received guiding instructions, is present,
but if the guru cannot be present, then another experienced person; or it the latter is also unavailable, then
a person whom the participant trusts should be available to read this manual without imposing any of his