The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

By Alan Watts

Watts's lyrical account of his own experiments with mescaline, LSD and psilocybin, written less as a report than as a prose poem about consciousness turning to look at itself. He is careful to place the experience inside the older contemplative traditions rather than treating it as a shortcut. The original edition carried a foreword by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert.