Alan W. Watts

The Joyous Cosmology

Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

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In describing the effects of mescaline, Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception opened a proverbial door for a generation of seekers. Watts walked through it with this classic account of the levels of insight that consciousness-changing drugs can facilitate when accompanied with sustained philosophical reflection by a person who is in search, not of kicks, but of understanding. Watts and peers including foreword authors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (then Harvard professors) anticipated physicists' recognizing the individual's inseparability from the rest of the world, the work of New Age thinkers who combine scientific findings and spirit… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-60868-205-8
EAN: 9781608682058
Produktnummer: 20456970
Verlag: New World Library
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 152 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 5'854 KB

Über den Autor

Alan Watts, who held both a master's degree in theology and a doctorate of divinity, is best known as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism in particular, and of Indian and Chinese philosophy in general. Standing apart, however, from sectarian membership, he earned the reputation of being one of the most original and unrutted philosophers of the past century. He was the author of some twenty books on the philosophy and psychology of religion, including The Way of Zen; The Wisdom of Insecurity; Nature, Man and Woman; The Book; Beyond Theology; In My Own Way; and Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown. He died in 1973.