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The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert
Commonly referred to as The Psychedelic Experience, the book is an instruction manual intended for use during sessions involving psychedelic drugs. Started as early as 1962 in Zihuatanejo, the book was finally published in August 1964.[1] All of the authors of this manual took part in experiments investigating the therapeutic and religious possibilities of drugs such as mescaline, psilocybin and LSD. The book is dedicated to Aldous Huxley and includes a short introductory citation from Huxley's book "The Doors of Perception". Part of this text was used by the Beatles in the song "Tomorrow Never Knows". A reading from the book was recorded by the authors on an LP under the name The Psychedelic Experience in 1966, and reissued on CD by Folkways in 2003.

The Tibetan Book of the Dead introduces the voyager to the visions and sensations experienced upon the death of the "ego". Divided into three stages of the journey, or Bardo's, the voyager travels through multiple levels of reality--experiencing the transcendence of ego-death and non-game ecstasy. The manual outlines in full detail the expected experience of the voyager under the influence of psychedelics (to which the type and quantity of which are prescribed) and delineates the importance of setting as well as the karmic-state or "game" of the voyager. The manual further stresses that its effectiveness and legibility of the manual to help one along the Secret Pathway (Vajrayana), as referred to in Buddhism, is as dependent on the voyager undergoing the psychedelic experience as it is upon the setting and the orator of the manual.

First or Chikhai Bardo (Period of Ego death or non-game ecstasy)
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Physical Sensations (Tibetan equivalent)

 * 1) Bodily pressure (earth-sinking-into-fire)
 * 2) Clamminess followed by fever (water-sinking-into-fire)
 * 3) Bodily disintegration (fire-sinking-into-air)
 * 4) Pressure on head and ears
 * 5) Tingling in extremities
 * 6) Feelings of bodily melting and/or flowing
 * 7) Nausea
 * 8) Trembling in the pelvic region and traveling up the torso

Second or Chonyid Bardo (Period of (hallucinations)
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 * Timothy Leary makes note of 7 types of peaceful visions occurring in the first half of the Second or Chonyid Bardo
 * The terms to describe visions 6 and 7 are borrowed from Henri Michaux (Miserable Miracle) and Herman Hesse (Steppenwolf) respectively.


 * 1) The Source/Creator vision
 * 2) The internal flow of archetypal processes
 * 3) The fire-flow of internal unity
 * 4) The wave-vibration-structure of external forms
 * 5) The vibratory waves of external unity
 * 6) The Retinal Circus
 * 7) The Magic Theater

Second Bardo nightmares
In the "Bardo Thodol", after the appearance of the peaceful deities emergent in the first half of the Chonyid "Bardo", the voyager must then pass through the wrathful visions that encounter him or her. These wrathful deities, referred to as "Heruka", number 58 in total (both male and female) and are described as "flame-enhaloed, wrathful, and blood-drinking". The "Heruka" are not to be despised nor feared for they represent the dynamic aspect of "enlightenment". Traditionally the visions encountered in the nightmares are attributed to the outpouring of the brain and is noted in Tibetan belief to be part of the brain "chakra" whereas the first half of the "Bardo" refers to the heart "chakra". The specifics of the "Heruka" and visions encountered in the second half of the Chonyid "Bardo" are not given because the visions encountered at this step of the journey represent the futile attempt of the intellect to maintain its threatened boundaries and yet break through to a deeper level awareness and understanding. This experience is mostly unique to the individual and is informed by their past experience, beliefs, and culture. [2]

Third or Sidpa Bardo (Period of re-entry)
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The Tibetan manual envisions 6 possible realms of existence upon re-entry. Each level of existence has specific characteristics or "personality types". For example, the first and most illuminated realm belongs to those who are divine teachers,saints and devas and is characterized by a recurring round of pleasure and free-game ecstasy. [2]

Symptoms of re-entry

 * 1) Feeling of supernormal perception or performance (clairvoyance, ESP, telepathy etc.)
 * 2) Feelings of panic/torture/or persecution
 * 3) Feeling of mediocrity or resentment for the ordinary also consistent with a sense of unhappiness or wandering
 * 4) Feelings of stupidity or incoherence
 * 5) Feeling of being dead, isolated, and/or cut off from the rest of the world
 * 6) Feeling of being oppressed
 * 7) Feeling of greyness or dullness as if everything has lost its colour.
 * 1) Feeling of greyness or dullness as if everything has lost its colour.

Third Bardo levels of existence upon re-entry or Sangsara

 * 1) Existence as a saint (deva)
 * 2) Existence as a titan (asura)
 * 3) Existence as an animal or slave
 * 4) Existence as person unfulfilled (preta's)
 * 5) Existence with physiological or psychological impairments

Drugs and dosages
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Citation
[2] Leary, Timothy, Ralph Metzner, et al. The Psychedelic Experience. Kensington Pub Corp, 1995. 1-51. Print. .