In cooperation with Gaia Media Foundation Hotzenplotz & Underground Sound Promotion presents: The Psychedelic Experience - «Can you pass the Bardo test?» External Closing Ceremony following the World Psychedelic Forum 2008 23 - 24 March 2008, Basel, Switzerland Through experiencing a symbolic «Ego Death», one can regain acess to «Universal Love». «The Psychedelic Experience» is an instruction manual intended for guiding psychedelic sessions. It was written in 1964 by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner and Richard Alpert. It's based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, which is a funerary text that describes, the experiences of the consciousness after death, during the interval known as Bardo - between death and rebirth. One can compare the descriptions of the Bardo Thodol with accounts of certain «out of the body» or near-death experiences described by people who have used psychoactive substances. The concept of this event is to guide the voyagers with a «Audio-Visual Trip Guide», projecting relevant text passages, combined with animations of sacred geometry and carefully selected musical performances, tuned in synchronisation to the specific «Bardo» experienced. With help of reciting the Tibetan manual, one can immediately recognize symptoms and experiences which might otherwise be terrifying, only because of lack of understanding as to what was happening. Recognition is the key, awarness is the reward. Healing our perception, opening our third eye, passing over our «ego's», remembering «we are one»! "A man dreamed he was a butterfly. When he awoke, he no longer knew if he was a butterfly dreaming he was a man, or a man who had dreamed he was a butterfly." - Timothy Leary / Zhuangzi