The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

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"

Author: Alan Watts
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 04/30/2013
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781608682041
ISBN10: 1608682048
BISAC Categories:
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Mysticism
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Entheogens & Visionary Substances

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