A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead 
 
Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, & Richard Alpert. 
 
University Books: 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Large, square octavo. Rubbing along the edges of boards. Minor stains on the text block edges. A tear on the attached back endpaper at the very bottom of the gutter. 159 pages. Very good. 
 
When you're ready to take a trip of the Dead, this is close to having Leary and Metzner there with you, quoting from Jung, Huxley, Govinda and the Bardo Thodol itself as you cross the territory. 
 
"Different explorers draw different maps. Other manuals are to be written based on different models - scientific, aesthetic, therapeutic. The Tibetan model, on which this manual is based, is designed to teach the person to direct and control awareness in such a way as to reach that level of understanding variously called liberation, illumination, or enlightenment. If the manual is read several times before a session is attempted, and if a trusted person is there to remind and refresh the memory of the voyager during the experience, the consciousness will be freed from the games which comprise 'personality' and from positive-negative hallucinations which often accompany states of expanded awareness."