Author: Watts, Alan
Brand: New World Library
Edition: Second
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 152
Release Date: 30-04-2013
Details: Product 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”
Review
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
About the Author
Spiritual philosopher
Alan Watts, student of Buddhism, Anglican minister, chaplain at Northwestern University, and author of more than twenty books, died in 1973.
Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.0 x 0.5 inches
Languages: English
