Waking Life 
– Waking Life “A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage from which to view this experience. And where most consider their individual relationship to the universe, I contemplate relationships of my various selves to one another.” (Man on TV ~ Waking Life)
Wicks’s The Therapeutic Psychology of "The Tibetan Book of the Dead” conducts analysis on the meaning and manifest purpose of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. It discusses the Tibetan Book for the Dead as part of the Tibetan Buddhist funeral ceremony. The text is spoken to the dead under the belief that their spirit reincarnates. The text purpose is to offer the dead multiple opportunities for enlightenment. If someone can give up their unconscious desires that led to suffering or choose not to and go through the pattern of their previous existence once more. These experiences are moments of perfect clarity, but soon fall off into slightly enlightened modes of conscious that lead to hell-like experiences of selfishness and animal regression. The purpose of the text is to exemplify that people will repeat themselves if they do not change their ways. Furthermore, the experience in which an individual experiences divine or hell-like situations dependent upon their personality is called bardo states. This is when visions of demons or gods within the after-death are experienced reflecting ones inner self. The point is for the dead person to let go of their ego-centered personality, leading to enlightenment.
Wicks critical point throughout his essay is that the Tibetan Book of the Dead was written especially for troubled or “bewildered” souls. He states that the book implies that we are in control of our “desires, interpretations, evaluations, pleasures and our fears” and because of this we can suppress the effects of suffering completely under the assumption that we interpret the seriousness and significance of the world as the “play of our own creation”. He says that the book of the dead is not just a
Wicks’s The Therapeutic Psychology of "The Tibetan Book of the Dead” conducts analysis on the meaning and manifest purpose of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. It discusses the Tibetan Book for the Dead as part of the Tibetan Buddhist funeral ceremony. The text is spoken to the dead under the belief that their spirit reincarnates. The text purpose is to offer the dead multiple opportunities for enlightenment. If someone can give up their unconscious desires that led to suffering or choose not to and go through the pattern of their previous existence once more. These experiences are moments of perfect clarity, but soon fall off into slightly enlightened modes of conscious that lead to hell-like experiences of selfishness and animal regression. The purpose of the text is to exemplify that people will repeat themselves if they do not change their ways. Furthermore, the experience in which an individual experiences divine or hell-like situations dependent upon their personality is called bardo states. This is when visions of demons or gods within the after-death are experienced reflecting ones inner self. The point is for the dead person to let go of their ego-centered personality, leading to enlightenment.
Wicks critical point throughout his essay is that the Tibetan Book of the Dead was written especially for troubled or “bewildered” souls. He states that the book implies that we are in control of our “desires, interpretations, evaluations, pleasures and our fears” and because of this we can suppress the effects of suffering completely under the assumption that we interpret the seriousness and significance of the world as the “play of our own creation”. He says that the book of the dead is not just a