The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ralph Metzner (2-Oct-2008) Paperback

by Ralph Metzner

Genres: Nonfiction

Paperback

About the author

Ralph Metzner Ph.D. was an American psychologist, writer and researcher, who participated in psychedelic research at Harvard University in the early 1960s with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (later named Ram Dass). Dr. Metzner was a psychotherapist, and Professor Emeritus of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he was formerly the Academic Dean and Academic Vice-president. He received his undergraduate degree at Oxford University and his doctorate in clinical psychology at Harvard University, where he was also the recipient of an NIMH Post-doctoral Fellowship in psychopharmacology at the Harvard Medical School. He had a life-long interest in the many different realms of consciousness and its modifications.

He is the author of The Well of Remembrance, The Unfolding Self, Green Psychology, Birth of a Psychedelic Culture (with Ram Dass); editor of two collections of essays on ayahuasca and on psilocybe mushrooms; and author of a new series of seven books on The Ecology of Consciousness.

Reviews

[J · Rating 1 out of 5]

Both intro's are unnecessarily long. By the time I reached useful text, most of the book was read. Felt like I was reading a book review on a different book, rather than what it's intended to be about. Too much written about the history of psychology, sociology and religion. While reading this I found myself consistently forgetting what this book was supposed to be about. As someone who has had multiple psychedelic experiences and is wanting to read a "manual" to fine tune future experiences, I wouldn't recommend this one.

[Trent Douglass · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing book to be able to set a framework for taking psychedelics. The ego death is paramount for all looking to enhance their self understanding.