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Original Title:	The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
ISBN:	0060595183 (ISBN13: 9780060595180)
Edition Language:	English

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As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. These two astounding essays are among the most profound studies of the effects of mind-expanding drugs written in this century. Contains the complete texts of The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell , both of which became essential for the counterculture during the 1960s and influenced a generation's perception of life.

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Title	:	The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
Author	:	Aldous Huxley
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 187 pages
Published	:	May 4th 2004 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics (first published 1956)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Nonfiction. Psychology. Classics. Writing. Essays. Spirituality. Religion

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Huxley goes on an acid trip and validates buddhist conceptions of ego. I read this because Michael Pollan kept citing to it in his new book about psychadelics. This is really well-written and fascinating. Well worth the read.



Aldous Huxley munches on some Mescaline (four tenths of a gram, means nothing to me as a clean living soul) as a guinea pig, experimenting for a friend. He expects some kind of visionary experience, a la Blake, but as he admits, he is a poor visualiser and experiences less than the visions described and painted by artists, because gifted artists, according to him, have a little pipeline to the Mind At Large which by-passes the brain valve and the ego-filter. Unlike gifted artists, by an effort

Teenage KicksI read this book in the early 70's in my early teenage years. The first thing about "The Doors of Perception" is that it was the source of the name of the band, "The Doors". The second is that it shaped the views of many people about drugs for 20 years.Aldous Huxley came from a scientific as well as a creative background. For me, it gave him some level of credibility when assessing the merits of psychedelic drugs. Basically, (I think) he argued that the psychedelic experience could

This book narrates one of Aldous Huxley's mescaline trips. Taking this drug allows his consciousness to walk through "doors" and perceive things in a different way. When he comes back through the doors, he is enlightened and changed forever. The subject material of this book is similar to much of the Zen literature that I've been reading lately. A problem with Eastern thought is that you can understand "oneness" intellectually but still feel isolated. Huxley claims that mescaline can help the

Towards the end of his life Aldous Huxley was introduced to psychedelics, still legal at that time. His analyses of the phenomenon are detailed in these two essays here combined in one volume. For further reading about his relationship to such drugs see, of course, the various biographies about Huxley, particularly Huxley in Hollywood, and his wife's collection of essays by and about him and these drugs entitled Moksha. For his use of his experiences in literature see his novel Island.Though

The Doors of Perception is a mesmerizing drug report on Mescaline wherein Huxley communicates his visionary experience in excruciating detail through the use of artistical, philosophical and historical context to give thrilling insights into the human condition!