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.

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

More quotes by Alan Watts

The Two Hands of God : The Myths of Polarity (1963)

The Nature of Consciousness; also published as What Is Reality? (1989)

The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)

The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)

The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)

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