The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness by Alan Watts & Daniel Pinchbeck & Timothy Leary & Richard Alpert Ph.d

Author:Alan Watts & Daniel Pinchbeck & Timothy Leary & Richard Alpert Ph.d [Watts, Alan & Pinchbeck, Daniel & Leary, Timothy & Alpert, Richard Ph.d]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entheogens & Visionary Substances, Consciousness, Pharmacology, Eastern, Body; Mind & Spirit, Medical, Philosophy, Mind & Body, Hallucinogenic drugs, green_pill_short, Psychiatry, Mysticism, Psychopharmacology, Pain Medicine
ISBN: 9781608682041
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Amazon: 1608682048
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 2013-04-29T00:00:00+00:00

I am listening to the music of an organ. As leaves seemed to gesture,

the organ seems quite literally to speak. There is no use of the vox

humana stop, but every sound seems to issue from a vast human throat,

moist with saliva. As, with the base pedals, the player moves slowly

down the scale, the sounds seem to blow forth in immense, gooey

spludges. As I listen more carefully, the spludges acquire

texture---expanding circles of vibration finely and evenly toothed like

combs, no longer moist and liquidinous like the living throat, but

mechanically discontinuous. The sound disintegrates into the

innumerable individual drrrits of vibration. Listening on, the gaps

close, or perhaps each individual drrrit becomes in its turn a spludge.

The liquid and the hard, the continuous and the discontinuous, the

gooey and the prickly, seem to be transformations of each other, or to

be different levels of magnification upon the same thing.