As the fringe guru himself put it, "Mademoiselle Cancer moved in to share [his] body." But in the days before he died, Leary -- never one to miss an opportunity for a party -- used his approaching death to create an exuberant new vision of what dying can be. Optimism, courage, joy and spirituality were central to Leary's final days and his death. Design for Dying -- Leary's last book -- shows us how we too can make dying the high point of life. 
 Irreverent, thought-provoking and hilarious, Leary's parting shot pioneers new ways to die and new ways for the living to think about death. Urging us to take control of our deaths (and even to determine when and how we will die), Leary relates his own plan for "directed dying," a death we plan and orchestrate to reflect our own lives and values. 
 And the psychedelic prophet flings open a whole new range of beyond-death possibilites for the wired generation. From downloading consciousness onto the Net -- so that our souls can outlive our bodies -- to the way technology can enhance the final days of the dying to the far-out promises of cryogenics, Leary provides fascinating insights into how technology may eventually help us improve, and even sidestep, death. A thorough guide to death and dying resources and to online tools and further reading lists completes this surprising, funny and totally original look at the new frontiers of death. 
 Speaking to everyone who has ever wondered if there's more to death - -if there's life beyond the final frontier, if death really means the end, if dirges and hearses and funeral flowers are really how we want to be remembered -- Leary's flamboyant final statement rteveals revolutionary ways to die and redefines, with Leary's trademark creativity and joy, how the living can think about death.

Design for Dying

Computers & Technology

LEARY, Timothy

Computer Science

HarperOne

Shares thoughts on how and what dying can be, suggests that readers take control of their own deaths, and offers a guide to death and dying resources and on-line tools

Design For Dying

Essays examine human behavior, the nature of consciousness, political conditions in the United States, and the use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs

Changing My Mind Among Others

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Prentice Hall Direct

Info-psychology: A Manual on the use of the Human Nervous System According to the Instructions of the Manufacturers and A Navigational Guide for Plotting the Evolution of the Human Individual

History

Franklin Classics

Leary recounts his extraordinary life and encounters with such diverse figures as Aldous Huxley, Ram Dass, Jack Keronac, Eldridge Cleaver, and Charles Manson

Flashbacks : An Autobiography

J.P. Tarcher

A definitive collection of rare interviews and photographs chronicles the careers of the Beatles as they discuss such subjects as drugs, religion, and their break-up, and includes conversations with many of their close friends. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

The Lost Beatles Interviews

Biographies & Memoirs

Giuliano, Brenda

Arts & Literature

Dutton

Excerpt from The Politics of Ecstasy It is an understatement to write that Timothy Leary was privy to this stormy marriage of the mundane and the rapturous. Simultaneously observer and participant, Dr. Leary analyzed events around him even as he helped make them happen. Boundlessly energetic, keenly insightful, he was uniquely qualified to work both sides of Heisenberg Street. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Politics of Ecstasy

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Paladin

Harpercollins

A guide to the options available when dying by the counter-culture guru, Timothy Leary. The text looks at Leary's own experience of dying, how to control his drug intake and social life during the process, and considers post-mortem options such as cryogenics and downloading the soul onto the internet.

Social Sciences

THORSONS @

“It is a book for the living as well as for the dying.”—Lama Govinda 
We are in the midst of a powerful psychedelic renaissance. After four decades of hibernation, the promise of the psychoactive ’60s—that deeper self-awareness, achieved through reality-bending substances and practices, will lead to greater external harmony—is again gaining a major following. The signs are everywhere, from the influence of today’s preeminent psychedelic thinker Daniel Pinchbeck, to the renewed interest in the legacy of Terence McKenna, and to the upsurge of collective, inclusive (and overtly tripped-out) cultural phenomena like the spectacle of Burning Man. The Psychedelic Experience, created in the movement’s early years by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), is a foundational text that serves as a model and a guide for all subsequent mind-expanding inquiries. In this wholly unique book, the authors provide an interpretation of an ancient sacred manuscript, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, from a psychedelic perspective. The Psychedelic Experience describes their discoveries in broadening spiritual consciousness through a combination of Tibetan meditation techniques and psychotropic substances. As sacred as the text it reflects, The Psychedelic Experience is a guidebook to the wilderness of mind and an indispensable resource from the founding fathers of psychedelia.

The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Citadel Underground)

Metzner, Ralph

Karma-Glin-Pa

Alpert, Richard

Citadel Pr

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