![]() Gold's "American Book of the Dead." If these ring true and one wants to go deeper in the practice, highly recommend seeking out an authorized teacher and receiving both empowerments (ritual initiation) and deeper instruction. That might not be as easily accessible to a modern or Western person without long training.įor that reason, despite their often missing the deeper subtleties of the practice, it's sometimes worth first checking out Timothy Leary's very incomplete psychedelic version, or spiritual iconoclast E.J. The Bardo Thodal (also called "The Tibetan Book of the Dead") is an advanced meditational text, part of a much larger practice cycle, which while carrying deep insight is embedded in a Central Asian zeitgeist including colorful deities, demons and existential forces described in a fashion that would be familiar to a medieval Tibetan. ![]() ![]() ![]() While IANAL ("Lama," not lawyer) perhaps this background can help. Longtime Tibetan Buddhist practitioner here. ![]()
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