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5.0 out of 5 stars Re: Total Hype (not!), Dec 25 2003

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This review is from: Psychedelic Experience The (Paperback)

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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5.0 out of 5 stars flow with fire-blood...., April 17 2001

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This is undoubtedly Learys 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.
P.S:All the negative reviews of this book all seem to miss the point...its a GUIDEBOOK in the truest sense of the word,an internal 'roadmap'.Its not meant to preach to you a certain point,its there to be used as a manual-to memorize and if need be,to read during your trip.You will need to get beyond the sometimes 'poetic' style and get to the essence of the message.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Experience life after death while still alive, Feb 26 1997

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Contained herein is the key to experience life after death while still living in the same body, as hinted at in John 4...
People are afraid that if a Hollywood TV channel ran full time in there countries, that no one would watch anything else. This may be true. One thing is for sure, if the BBC ran as one of America's channels, no one would care one way or the other....Similarly.. English translations do not carry the essence to American audiences as pure as American interpretations...

It was for this reason that people hearing of the results of the American version of The "Tibetan Book of the Dead," called "The Psychedelic Experience," were disappointed when they dead ended in the English versions...

Here is a guidebook to take you through the realms of consciousness of death and birth and bring you back the same day...
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2.0 out of 5 stars Total Hype
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... Read more

Published on Aug 24 2001 by john

5.0 out of 5 stars Life before death
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... Read more

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