The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of

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The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

In describing the effects of mescaline, Aldous Huxleyâ€™s The Doors of Perception opened a proverbial door for a generation of seekers. Watts walked through it with this classic account of the levels of insight that consciousness-changing drugs can facilitate â€œwhen accompanied with sustained philosophical reflection by a person who is in search, not of kicks, but of understanding.â€ Watts and peers including foreword authors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (then Harvard professors) anticipated physicistsâ€™ recognizing the individualâ€™s â€œinseparability from the rest of the world,â€ the work of New Age thinkers who combine scientific findings and spiritual experiences, and federally funded clinical trials utilizing psilocybin to treat a variety of conditions. More than an artifact, The Joyous Cosmology is both a riveting memoir of Wattsâ€™s personal experiments and a profound meditation on our perennial questions about the nature of existence and the existence of the sacred.

The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness