The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

ISBN-13:	9781608682041
Publisher:	New World Library
Publication date:	04/30/2013
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	152
Sales rank:	197,633
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 5.20(h) x 0.60(d)

A classic account of the psychedelic experienceThe 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”