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The Joyous Cosmology

Written by: Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck - introduction, Timothy Leary - foreword, Richard Alpert - foreword
Narrated by: Michael Langan
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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.

©2013 Joan Watts and Anne Watts (P)2023 Tantor

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