The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness, by Alan Watts
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"
A classic account of the psychedelic experience
Forward by Timothy Leary & Richard Alpert. Introduction by Daniel Pinchbeck
“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
