The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

(Paperback, Second Edition)

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A classic account of the psychedelic experience

The Joyous Cosmology is Alan Wattss 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 Wattss personal experiments and a profound meditation on our perennial questions about the nature of existence and the existence of the sacred.

Includes Wattss article Psychedelics and Religious Experience

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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 mankinds newest self-examinations.
Newsweek

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Spiritual philosopher Alan Watts, student of Buddhism, Anglican minister, chaplain at Northwestern University, and author of more than twenty books, died in 1973.