The Joyous Cosmology : Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
(2023)
By:
Goodwin, Stephen
Nonfiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Tantor Media, Inc., 2023
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EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (3hr., 01 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9798350878318 MWT16483127, 16483127
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Michael Langan
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
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