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The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness Spiral-Bound |

Alan Watts, Timothy Leary (Foreword by), Richard Alpert (Foreword by), Daniel Pinchbeck (Introduction by)

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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

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”
Publisher: Ingram Publisher Services
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 152 pages
ISBN-10: 1608682048
Item Weight: 0.4 lbs
Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.76 x 8.0 inches
“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 mankind’s newest self-examinations.”
— Newsweek
Spiritual philosopher Alan Watts, student of Buddhism, Anglican minister, chaplain at Northwestern University, and author of more than twenty books, died in 1973.