Timothy Leary, formerly of Harvard University, linked up the L.S.D. experience with that described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead.4 Thus he shows that the desire for, and the form of, this experience changes very little from West to East. Whether it is the existentialist speaking, or Aldous Huxley, or Eastern mysticism, we find a uniform need for an irrational experience to make some sense of life. Their views have brought them to a wall, and by an unrelated leap of faith they hope to clear the