Watts, Alan

Watts, Alan. i960. The New Alchemy. Available at http //druglibrary.org/schaffer/ lsd/alchemy.htm. 

Watts, Alan, The Joyous Cosmology (New York Random House, 1962). 

Walls, Karen, 30 Washington Post, 23 Wasson, R. Gordon, 88 Watts, Alan, 87 Weil, Andrew, 10-11,50 Wiccan, 52... 

Watts, Alan. The Wisdom of Insecurity. Pantheon, New York. 1951. 

Watts, Alan W. 1962. The joyous cosmology, adventures in the chemistry of consciousness. Vintage Books, a division of Random House, New York. Pp. 100. 

Watts, Alan J. Accident Reconstruction Science, 4th ed.. Lawyers Judges Publishing Co., Inc., Tucson, AZ, 2011. 

Hermann Kopp, Geschichte der Chemie, 4 vols. (Braunschweig Vieweg, 18431847). Adolphe Wurtz, A History of Chemical Theory, trans. Henry Watts (London Macmillan, 1869), on 1. As so often happens in historical mythologies, Wurtz s account had meaning for a contemporary quarrel in his own immediate scientific community. See Alan J. Rocke, "The Quiet Revolution of the 1850s Scientific Theory as Social Production and Empirical Practice," in Seymour Mauskopf, ed., Chemical Sciences in the Modern World (Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, in press). 

What are we to make of my colleagues experiences Do they tell us about the workings of reality, the mind, or both Alan Watts (1915-1973), who held both a master s degree in theology and a doctorate of divinity, once wrote ... 

Alan Watts finds that psychedelic experience has similar properties to those described by Marsh and by the Upani-... 

A vivid description of a psychedelic session has been given by Alan Watts (1962). This description demonstrates how the quality of what is listened to may change as the listener shifts from the sensory to the recollective-analytic, symbolic, and integral levels. 

Blurred vision. Three hypnotic subjects responded positively to this condition two hypnotic subjects and the simulator responded with schizoid withdrawal. Those that responded positively responded in terms of the primacy of color and light over form, and compared their perceptions of the world with impressionist paintings. One subject and the simulator responded in terms of an inability to make contact with anybody the last subject responded with a blunting and dulling of thought processes. All subjects lost some sensation in non-visual modalities. When the perception of outlines alone was blurred, colors tended to stand out. Alan Watts (1962) has noted how the perception of form and the perception of color may really be the same, but the behavior patterns of these subjects do not support this point of view. 

Alan WATTS is a philosopher and President of the Society for Comparative Philosophy in Sausalito, California. 

For "Psychedelics and Religious Experience," by Alan Watts, California Law Review, Vol. 56 No 1, January, 1968. Copyright 1968, California Law Review, Inc. 

Figure 4.9 Color gamuts of film, a color monitor, and printing inks (Reproduced by permission of Pearson Education from 3D Computer Graphics Third Edition, Alan Watt, Pearson Education Limited, Pearson Education Limited 2000).

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Reading books about mystical experience is a standard orientation procedure. Reading the accounts of others experiences is another possibility (Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, and Gordon Wasson have written powerful accounts). 

Michael Hollingshead, one of the main distributors of perhaps the most significant gram of LSD — labelled "H-00047" — that passed eventually into the systems of Donovan, Paul McCartney, Keith Richard, Paul Krassner, Frank Barron, Huston Smith, Paul Lee, Richard Katz, Pete La Roca, Charlie Mingus, Saul Steinberg, Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, Ralph Metzner, Alan Watts, Jean Houston and perhaps a thousand others. "There is some possibility," he once commented, "that my friends and I have illuminated more people than anyone else in history."... 

The future impact of psychedelics will be the sum of changes produced in millions of individual sessions. Most will be considered beneficial by their users, a very small number will not. May it be, as Alan Watts hoped, that by the end of this century we will have accepted the opportunities offered and be "swimming in the ocean of relativity as joyously as dolphins in the water. ... 

Alan Watts, philosopher and Zen master, had a bad first impression, characterizing his LSD experience as "mysticism with water wings. During two later experiments conducted by associates of the Langley-Porter Clinic in San Francisco, he quickly changed his mind ... 

Alan Watts said the DMT experience was like "being fired out of the muzzle of an atomic cannon. He later re-evaluated DMT, calling it "amusing but relatively uninteresting compared to LSD, mescaline, psilocybin and Cannabis. Most who have tried DMT find it to be immensely pleasurable but without enduring effects. 

In The foyous Cosmology Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness (New York Vintage, 19651, philosopher Alan Watts gives a colorful picture of states of consciousness induced by hallucinogenic drugs. Watts experimented with these substances as Lin explorer of the mind and a searcher for religious experience. 

For example, Robert Gardner, Kitchen Chemistry Science Experiments To Do at Home (New York J. Messner, 1982) Alan Kramer, How To Make a Chemical Volcano and Other Mysterious Experiments (New York F. Watts, 1989) Louis V. Loeschnig, Simple Chemistry Experiments with Everyday Materials (New York Sterling, 1994) Nathan Shallt. Cup and Saucer Chemistry (New York Dover, 1989). 

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