The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert & Ralph Metzner

Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert and Ralph Metzner reinterpret ideas from the Tibetan Book of the Dead in The Psychedelic Experience. Their influential countercultural text connects altered states with questions of ego, awareness and spiritual transformation.

This is the authors' adaptation, not a translation of Buddhist scripture or a clinical safety manual. Its historical importance does not establish that psychoactive substances are safe or appropriate for an individual reader.