The Joyous Cosmology is a brilliant arrangement of words describing This is, of course, exactly the distinction which Alan Watts wants us to transcend. But Mr. The Joyous Cosmology is Alan Watts’s exploration of the insight that the consciousness-changing drugs LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin can. “To begin with, this world has a different kind of time. It is the time of biological rhythm, not of the clock and all that goes with the clock. There is.
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Consciousness-changing drugs are popularly associated with the evocation of bizarre and fantastic images, but in my own experience this happens only with closed eyes. It was seen and described clearly by the great American psychologist William James: This is, however, a somewhat ghoulish fantasy which has no relation to the facts or to the experience itself.
But the state and federal governments were as stupid as I had feared, and by passing coamology laws against LSD not only drove it underground but prevented proper research.
These are nomogenic crimes, caused by bad laws, just as iatrogenic diseases are caused by bad doctoring. Behind the mask of love I find my innate selfishness.
Alan Watts. The Joyous Cosmology, Terebess Asia Online (TAO)
Of course, this does not automatically become a permanent feeling, but neither does the sense of fellowship sometimes evoked in strictly religious gatherings.
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Many young people now feel that the time has come to explore the inner world, and are willing to take the unfamiliar risks which it involves. Yet could anything be more obvious than that the past follows from the present like the wake of a ship, and that if we are to be alive at all, here is the place to be?
The organism and its surrounding world are a single, integrated pattern of action, there is neither subject nor object’ p.
The sight of Robert’s car has everyone helpless with hysterics. Nor was he foolhardy, but seemed level-headed, cautious, tentative in opinion, yet lively, bright-eyed, and intensely interested in his work.
It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. Which is of course where it is, for light is an inseparable trinity of sun, object, and eye, and the chemistry of the leaf is its jouous, its light. The drugs in question are not aphrodisiacs, and when they are taken in common by a small group the atmosphere is not in the least suggestive of a drunken brawl nor of the communal torpor of an opium den.
Another from Alan Watts, creator rest his soul, that is just unbelievably well done. But what are the stimuli necessary and sufficient to overthrow the domination of the conceptual and to open up the vosmology forms of consciousness”? One can but hope that in the years to come our defenses will crack spontaneously, like eggshells when the birds are ready to hatch. That said, this book will remain as one of my favorites of my entire collection due to the aformentioned collaboration.
Under insecure, bizarre, or unfriendly circumstances the experience can easily degenerate into a highly unpleasant paranoia. Or you’d second this review? A seed, noyous in its white sunburst of down, drifts across the sky, sighing with the sound of a jet plane invisible above.
He likes it or dislikes it. This is the simultaneous compulsion to preserve oneself and to forget oneself. Yet they may determine attitudes though they cannot furnish formulas, vosmology open a region though they fail to give a map. In this way the conscious will was opposed to the involuntary appetites and reason to instinct. But before spontaneous action can be expressed in controlled patterns, its current must be set in motion.
This is a truly wonderful book, I wouldn’t recommend it for anyone who hasn’t had a psychedelic experience, as it will sound like the ramblings of an insane man, but for those who have, you will truly understand the beauty in Alan’s words. For the last two years, staff members of the Center for Research in Personality at Harvard University have engaged in systematic experiments with these substances.
In fact it is a penny-wise, pound-foolish blunder which is creating many more problems than it solves. It is just that their differing characters seem, like the priest’s voice, to contain all history; they are at once unique and eternal, men and women but also gods and goddesses. If you catch even n few of these ideas, you will find yourself asking the questions which we ask ourselves as we look over our research data: Undoubtedly a must-read for anyone interested in the topic.
Was it the path I followed in growing the circuits of my brain? Nevertheless, on these “inner planes” I am of an adventurous nature, and am willing to give most things a try.
The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
A journey into this new mode of consciousness gives one a marvelously enhanced appreciation of patterning in nature, a fascination deeper than ever with the structure of ferns, the formation of crystals, the markings upon sea shells, the incredible jewelry of such unicellular creatures wattd the ocean as the radiolaria, the fairy architecture of seeds and pods, the engineering of bones dosmology skeletons, the aerodynamics of feathers, and the astonishing profusion of eye-forms upon the wings of butterflies and birds.
The more prosaic, the more dreadfully ths anyone or anything seems to be, the more I am moved to wstts at the ingenuity with which divinity hides in order to seek itself, at the lengths to which this cosmic joie de vivre will go in elaborating its dance. I have the image of the senses being terms, forms, or dimensions not of one thing common to all, but of each other, locked in a circle of mutuality.
And he has along with this the verbal equipment of a poetic philosopher to teach and inform. In more recent years, however, our culture has become aware of a disturbing imbalance. It is a specialization in differences, in noticing, and nothing is definable, classifiable, or noticeable except by contrast with something else. I use that word deliberately and shall use it again. To overstep the limits of brotherly love cannot, therefore, be understood as anything but an immediate swing to its opposite pole.
Life is basically a gesture but no one, no thing, is making it I am ocsmology looking at the world, not confronting it; I am knowing it by a continuous process of transforming it into myself, so that everything around me, the whole globe of space, no longer feels away from me but in the middle.
It is now a commonplace that there is a serious lack of communication jogous scientists and laymen on the theoretical level, for the layman does not understand the mathematical language in which the scientist thinks. What we call self-consciousness is thus the sensation of the organism obstructing itself, of wtats being with itself, of driving, so to say, with accelerator and brake on at once.