La experiencia psicodélica

In the mid-1960s, a special vibration ran through our planet. The hippie revolution, destroyed by the tentacles of the capitalist octopus that gave birth to it, was a shock that, over time, took on the most exotic forms, the most amazing subtleties, to suggest to people the gratifying state of ecstasy, the development of the dormant layers of perception, the generous peace that comes in a higher state of understanding, the self absent, the mind quiet, situated in limitless space... Timothy Leary, along with other collaborators, made several trips to the India after realizing that, in itself, the lysergic acid "trip" was not the magic formula to make all people fulfilled beings. These essays on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, conceived at the most inspired time of his experiences, are the result of contact with Eastern culture and its close relationship with the higher stages of the mind.