Psychedelics; Tibetan Buddhism; bardo; Timothy Leary; The Tibetan Book of the Dead; W.Y. Evans-Wentz
摘要
In 1964, Timothy Leary and a few colleagues published The Psychedelic Experience, a manual for “tripping” explicitly based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead. At the core of the Tibetan materials lies the concept of the bardo, the “in between” realm of the afterlife. While acknowledging the problematic nature of Leary’s radical appropriation, this essay argues that his application of these materials to the orchestration and regulation of psychedelic experience reflected a productive reframing of the phantasmagoria common to strong psychedelic experience. Using tools of comparative religion and secular psychology, Leary constructed a model of psychological transformation that rejected religious or transcendental meaning while creatively expanding the bardo concept already evident in Tibetan Buddhism.
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ABSTRACT 47 KEYWORDS 47 EGO DEATH 50 MAPPING THE BETWEEN 58 SET AND SETTING 63 BROADCAST 66 ENDNOTES 69
