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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.
- Aldous Huxley
- 1954
THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION. 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 given. Anhalonium lewinii was new to science. To primitive religion and the Indians of Mexico and the American Southwest it was a friend of immemorially long standing.
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Dec 20, 2021 · How did Aldous Huxley, the author of "Brave New World", open the doors of perception with mescaline and LSD? This article examines his unique perspective on hallucinogenic drugs as tools for spiritual and intellectual insight, drawing on his interest in Eastern religions and mysticism.
- Aldous Huxley
- 1954
- “We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone.
- “The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend”
- “To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal.
- “Most lead lives at worst so painful, at best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principle appetites of the soul.”
Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception and its appendix, Heaven and Hell, offer a philosophical exploration into the effects of mind-altering substances, especially the mescaline compound found in the peyote cactus (also present in San Pedro cacti). Through his own mescaline experiments, Huxley explores the furthest frontiers of the mind and ...
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The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell. 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 given.
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
