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Quotes from The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness — Alan Watts

1915–1973 England

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If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.

The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness (1962)

Our trouble is that we have ignored and thus feel insecure in the enormous spectrum of love which lies between rather formal friendship and genital sexuality, and thus are always afraid that once we overstep the bounds of formal friendship we must slide inevitably to the extreme of sexual promiscuity.

The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness (1962)

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