title: Mind cosmology
author: Anthony Norvell
description: Mind cosmology [Hardcover] Anthony Norvell (Author)
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  **The Joyous Cosmology**
  
  **Alan W. Watts**
  
  **Forward**
  
  by Timothy Leary and Richard
  
  The Joyous Cosmology is a brilliant arrangement of words describing
  experiences for which our language has no vocabulary. To understand this
  wonderful but difficult book it is useful to make the artificial distinction
  between the external and the internal. This is, of course, exactly the
  distinction which Alan Watts wants us to transcend. But Mr. Watts is playing
  the verbal game in a Western language, and his reader can be excused for
  following along with conventional dichotomous models.
  
  External and internal. Behavior and consciousness. Changing the external world
  has been the genius and the obsession of our civilization. In the last two
  centuries the Western monotheistic cultures have faced outward and moved
  objects about with astonishing efficiency. In more recent years, however, our
  culture has become aware of a disturbing imbalance. We have become aware of
  the undiscovered universe within,