The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
Title
The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
Description
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”.
Includes Watts’s article “Psychedelics and Religious Experience”.
Subject Matter
Drugs
Publication Year
1965
Publisher
Vintage Books
Language
English
Files
Collection
Citation
“The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness,” The Bruce Lee Library Research Project, accessed May 15, 2025, https://www.bruceleelibrary.jamescbishop.com/lib/items/show/1735.