The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

The Joyous Cosmology is Alan Watts’s exploration of the insight that the consciousness-changing drugs LSD, mescaline & 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 & a profound meditation on our perennial questions about the nature of existence & the existence of the sacred.

• Author
• Alan W. Watts, Richard Alpert, Timothy Leary

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 106

• Publisher
• Vintage Books/Random House (NY)

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780394702995

• Genres
• philosophy, psychology, spirituality, science, religion, neuroscience, chemistry, buddhism, plants

• Release date
• 1965