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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But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. Every new twist, every additional subtlety, was a fresh gambit in the game of making the original howl more effective.
There are no discussion topics on this book yet. But if it were felt otherwise, nothing would need to be done! We went back and looked at a volume of Chinese and Japanese sumi, or black-ink paintings, all of which seemed to be perfectly accurate photographs. In its place there arises especially in the latter wattss of the drug experience a strong sensation of oneness with others, presumably akin to the sensitivity which enables a flock of birds to twist and turn as one aalan.
Recently our Western science has provided, in the form of chemicals, the most direct techniques for opening new realms of awareness. But, listening again, I can hear the priest “putting on” his voice, hear the inflated, pompous balloon, the studiedly unctuous tones of a master deceptionist who has the poor little nuns, kneeling in their stalls, completely cowed. I try to go deeper, sinking thought and feeling down and down to their ultimate beginnings.
Huxley’s lead and pushes beyond. But I don’t have to overcome resistance. As might be expected, some prove to be valid and others not.
The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness by Alan W. Watts
I’ve never, never seen it so clearly. At this level allan is not one thing called pain and another thing called myself, which dislikes pain. Otherwise the purely mechanical and organizational ends of the system assume greater importance than those of the organism. Watts San Francisco, There This is a strange little book. Robert turns on the phonograph, without telling me what is being played.
I have seen, too, that the fountain is its own source and motive, and that its spirit is an unbounded playfulness which is the many-dimensioned dance of life. When an immature person experiences the identity of the voluntary and the involuntary, he may feel, on the one hand, utterly powerless, or on the other, equal to the Hebrew-Christian God.
There’s no shortage of interesting ideas presented in the preface, prologue and epilogue but many of them either go to far or does not say anything that I have not already been said.
The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
Western science is now delineating a new concept of man, not as a solitary ego within a wall of flesh, but as an organism which is what it is by virtue of its inseparability from the rest of the world. Much is to be gained with the literary exploration of such naturally and chemically induced states of mind.
Only very occasionally are my defensive attitudes directly concerned with warding off physical damage or deprivation. It is quite possible, even easy, to do this without the aid of any drug, though these chemicals have the advantage of “doing it for you” in a peculiarly deep and prolonged fashion.
It is the time of biological rhythm, not of the clock cosmoligy all that goes with the clock. Yet it struck me as highly improbable that a true spiritual experience could follow from ingesting a particular chemical. I do not know whether this mode of vision organizes the world in the same way that it organizes the body, or whether it is just that the natural world is organized in that way.
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I contemplate the mystery of trash in its immediate manifestation: Our difficulty is that we have perverted the Sabbath into a day for laying on rationality and listening to sermons instead of letting off steam. Of course, that must, in part, be due to English not being my native language. But this is a preliminary and clumsy way of feeling that what happens outside the body is one process with what happens inside it.
Principally that it may trigger a short-or long-term psychosis in anyone susceptible, and, despite all our techniques for psychological and neurological testing, we can never detect a potential psychotic with certainty. Eventually, the logical conceptual mind turns on itself, recognizes the foolish inadequacy of the flimsy systems it imposes on the world, suspends its own rigid control, and overthrows the domination of cognitive experience. The hummingbirds are soaring up and falling in their mating dance, as if there were someone behind the bushes playing ball with them.
He seems to come up with so many of them with such ease than all that one can do is to admire him and consider him an eminent wordsmith.
But this is simply a theoretical description of a state of affairs which, in these forms of Eastern Mysticism,” is directly sensed.
The sure foundation upon which I had sought to stand has turned out to be the center from which I seek. I am not saying that only intellectuals can benefit from them, but that there must be sufficient discipline or insight to relate this expanded consciousness to our normal, everyday life.
The offenders seldom feel guilty but often positively righteous in their opposition to this legal hypocrisy, and so emerge from prison loathing and despising the social order more than ever. Under insecure, bizarre, or unfriendly circumstances the experience can easily hhe into a highly unpleasant paranoia. The whole fabulous complexity of vegetable and animal life, as of human civilization, is just a colossal elaboration of the Eenie-Weenie trying to make the Eenie-Weenie.