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Leary’s “The Psychedelic Experience,” Integration & the Tibetan Book of the Dead

Leary’s “The Psychedelic Experience,” Integration & the Tibetan Book of the Dead

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Book Review & Discussion Sun. 10/25/20 @ 1 PM CST for Timothy Leary’s “The Psychedelic Experience,” An Integration Method Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

This will be a short presentation on the book’s subject matter, group discussion and experience sharing on the notion of what “psychedelic integration” means and whether Leary, Alpert, and Metzner provided a viable framework in the text. Outline is as follows:

  1. Group Discussion on What “Integrating” Psychedelic Experience Means
  2. Discuss Idea of Pre-Experience Frameworks for Integration
  3. Overview of the Text and Propositions
  4. Discussion of the Concept of Death Adjacent Dream State – The Bardo Thodol
  5. Group Discussion on Viability of Text as an Integration Model

You don’t need to read the book to participate (presentation will provide basics). Here is a Youtube link to Leary reading the original text: https://youtu.be/JhgJsg2mMeQ

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