<b>A classic account of the psychedelic experience</b> <p></p> <i>The Joyous Cosmology</i> is Alan Watts's exploration of the insight that the consciousness-changing drugs LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin can facilitate &quot;when accompanied with sustained philosophical reflection by a person who is in search, not of kicks, but of understanding.&quot; 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. <p></p> <i>Includes Watts's article &quot;Psychedelics and Religious Experience&quot;</i>