The Psychedelic Experience
by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, Ralph Metzner, Daniel Pinchbeck · first published 2008
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…your reading lists this year. What stood out? I didn't read as much as I'd have liked due to life complications, but I particularly enjoyed: * Manufacturing Consent (Edward Herman & Noam Chomsky) * The Psychedelic Experience (Timothy Leary) * Young Men and Fire (Normam Maclean)
on “Ask HN: What book(s) had the most impact for you in 2019?” ↗…way to know for certain either way, though. [1] "When McCartney and Lennon visited the newly opened Indica bookshop, Lennon had been looking for a copy of The Portable Nietzsche but found a copy of The Psychedelic Experience by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner, adapted from the translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Walter Evans-Wentz, which was introduced to Leary by Aldous Huxley. Lennon bought the…
on “The Slippery Search for Creativity” ↗Timothy Leary wrote "The Psychedelic Experience" in 1962. Aldous Huxley wrote "The Doors of Perception" in 1954. And I guess there are many other books on psychedelics which I haven't read. But still it's a chemist, who earned the title by writing…
on “Goodbye to Sasha Shulgin, Godfather of Psychedelics” ↗…some time reading the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, as well as the (English translation) of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Before I found those sources, I had found the rewritten version found in the Psychedelic Experience by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert in my youth when I was interested in LSD. There are quite a few parallels between what I've heard from those close to me that were dying, psychedelic experiences of…
on “The hallucinatory thoughts of the dying mind” ↗