num_pages: 100
description: The Joyous Cosmology is Alan Watts’s exploration of the insight that the consciousness-changing drugs LSD, mescaline &amp; 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 &amp; a profound meditation on our perennial questions about the nature of existence &amp; the existence of the sacred.
language: English
title: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
titlecomplete: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
genres: Religion, Buddhism, Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, Psychology, Nonfiction, Neuroscience, Chemistry, Personal Development
ratings_count: 1364
publisher: Vintage Books/Random House (NY)