Podcast 511 – “Psychedelic Book of the Dead”
Psychedelic Salon
English - July 13, 2016 20:29 - 1 hour - 24.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 483 ratingsPersonal Journals Society & Culture Science Natural Sciences interview health entrepreneurship business politics news comedy leadership science entrepreneur Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Guest speaker: Erik Davis
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“The whole history of Buddhism in the West, the whole thing in the post war period as Buddhism starts to become really popular, is inextricable from psychedelics.” -Erik Davis
Today's podcast features a talk that was given by Erik Davis in which he unravels the history of both the Tibetan Book of the Dead and its psychedelic sister, the Psychedelic Experience, that was written by Leary, Alpert, and Metzner during their infamous Harvard years. Erik Davis, who holds a Ph.D. from Rice University's Gnosticism, Esotericism and Mysticism program, is a well known author and lecturer who has written books such as Techgnosis and Led Zeppelin IV.
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The Psychedelic Experience:
A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
by Timothy Leary