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Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
Alan Watts: The Joyous Cosmology Alan Watts: The Joyous Cosmology

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.

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New World Library, Novato, Kalifornia, 2013
152 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9781608682041 · ASIN: 1608682048

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I should perhaps add that, for me, philosophical reflection is barren when divorced from poetic imagination, for we proceed to understanding of the world upon two legs, not one.

Alan Watts: The Joyous Cosmology Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

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In the Epilogue I shall make it clear that psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. When you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope; he goes away and works on what he has seen.

Alan Watts: The Joyous Cosmology Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness


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