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The Doors of Perception is an autobiographical book written by Aldous Huxley. Published in 1954, it elaborates on his psychedelic experience under the influence of mescaline in May 1953. Huxley recalls the insights he experienced, ranging from the "purely aesthetic" to "sacramental vision", [1] and reflects on their philosophical and ...
- Aldous Huxley
- United Kingdom
- 1954
- 63 (hardcover, first edition; without the accompanying 1956 essay Heaven and Hell)
A philosophical essay by Aldous Huxley, based on his personal experience of taking mescaline in 1953. He explores the effects of the drug on his perception, art, religion and the meaning of life.
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Jan 26, 2012 · The Doors of Perception: What did Huxley see in mescaline? Given his damaged sight, the book's emphasis on the visual is all the more piquant, complicating the question of how much its...
Aldous Huxley's 1954 essay The Doors of Perception explores the effects of mescalin, a hallucinogen derived from peyote, on the mind and the senses. He compares mescalin with adrenalin and schizophrenia, and suggests that the cactus is a symbol of the mind's potential for mystical experience.
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Dec 20, 2021 · How did the author of "Brave New World" open the doors of perception with mescaline and LSD? This article traces Huxley's journey from a dystopian vision of drug-induced social control to a utopian vision of mystical enlightenment.
The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell. The Doors of Perception. Aldous Huxley. If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. —William Blake. It was in 1886 that the German pharmacologist, Louis Lewin, published the first systematic study of the cactus, to which his own name was subsequently ...
Jul 28, 2009 · Among the most profound and influential explorations of mind-expanding psychedelic drugs ever written, here are two complete classic books—The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell—in which Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, reveals the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness.
- Aldous Huxley
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