Field notes / Spiritual traditions
Bardo
Belief / tradition
Meaning, context and sourced connections in the Great Awakening Map.
Locate on the interactive mapIn the map’s worldview
Esoteric interpretation
Bardo gives the map a language for transition between familiar states of existence, especially death and rebirth. Its spiritual significance is that awareness and recognition can matter during a transition, rather than consciousness simply ending with ordinary life. This belongs to Tibetan religious teaching; the word does not by itself identify an alien-controlled afterlife zone or validate the map’s other cosmic geography.
An interpretive reading of the poster and the sources below.
Sources for this interpretation · 2
- Original English V10 — Bardo in the posterBelief / proponent source
Records the poster’s wording and setting; the contextual explanation is an interpretive reading, not an additional factual claim.
- Study Buddhism glossary: BardoBelief / proponent source
Defines intermediate states within Tibetan Buddhist teaching.
Illustrated field note
The interval between lives
Open full-size diagram ↗In the Tibetan Buddhist sense illustrated here, bardo names the interval after death and before the next rebirth. The bridge emphasizes transition rather than a destination. In the poster this concept supports its larger theme of liberation from recurring existence. The drawing is a teaching metaphor; it is not a map of a verified afterlife, and it does not identify the bardo with the poster’s extraterrestrial realms.
Illustration credit & sources
Original explanatory vector diagram created for this map. Source concepts are credited below; no source artwork reproduced.
Definition & background
An intermediate state in Tibetan Buddhist teaching, especially the interval between death and the next birth.
Evidence & research
This explains the chart's connection between death, rebirth and contemplative liberation; it is a religious cosmology.
Read more
- Study Buddhism glossary: BardoBelief / proponent source
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Related topics
These relationships describe what the map and its cited sources say. A connection does not establish that a claim is true.
Within a tradition
Reincarnation / rebirth
Bardo is an intermediate state before the next birth → Reincarnation / rebirth
The Tibetan Buddhist glossary defines bardo as the interval between death and rebirth.
Sources for this connection
- Study Buddhism glossary: BardoBelief / proponent source
Claim made by the poster or its sources
DMT
DMT is compared with proximity to → Bardo
The quoted sentence beneath DMT and Terence McKenna says DMT brings one closer to Bardo; this is a phenomenological/spiritual comparison.
Sources for this connection
- Matching Russian translation — high-resolution mapBelief / proponent source