The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
Author: Alan W. Watts
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A classic account of the psychedelic experience The Joyous Cosmology is Alan Watts's exploration of the insight that the consciousness-changing drugs LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin can facilitate "when accompanied with sustained philosophical reflection by a person who is in search, not of kicks, but of understanding." More than an artifact, it is both a riveting memoir of Watts's personal experiments and a profound meditation on our perennial questions about the nature of existence and the existence of the sacred.
Includes Watts's article "Psychedelics and Religious Experience"
Critic Reviews
“Alan Watts describes with startling clarity and poetic beauty his drug-induced experiences." - Contemporary Psychology The Joyous Cosmology is a carrier wave of information and insight, which has lost none of its subtlety, suppleness, or zest." - from the new introduction by Daniel Pinchbeck , author of Breaking Open the Head A stirring introduction to one of mankind's newest self-examinations." - Newsweek”
"Alan Watts describes with startling clarity and poetic beauty his drug-induced experiences." -- Contemporary Psychology "The Joyous Cosmology is a carrier wave of information and insight, which has lost none of its subtlety, suppleness, or zest." -- from the new introduction by Daniel Pinchbeck, author of Breaking Open the Head
"A stirring introduction to one of mankind's newest self-examinations." -- Newsweek
About the Author
Alan Watts was born in England in 1915 and received his early education at King's School, Canterbury. He received a master's degree from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Illinois and an honorary doctorate of divinity from the University of Vermont. He wrote his first book, The Spirit of Zen, at the age of twenty and went on to write over twenty other books including The Way of Zen, The Book, and Tao: The Watercourse Way, which though never fully completed was published after the author's death and introduced thousands of readers to Taoist thought.
In addition to being an acclaimed au
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