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The Doors of Perception

Written by: Aldous Huxley
Narrated by: Rudolph Schirmer
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The critically acclaimed novelist and social critic Aldous Huxley describes his personal experimentation with the drug mescaline and explores the nature of visionary experience. The title of this classic comes from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: “If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern.”

©1954 , 1955, 1956 by Aldous Huxley (P)1998 AudioGO Consciousness & Thought Medicine & Health Care Industry Philosophy Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
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Critic Reviews

“There is nothing the pen of Huxley touches which it does not illuminate, and as the record of a highly civilized, brilliantly articulate man under the influence of an astonishing drug, The Doors of Perception is a tour de force.”

(Daily Telegraph (London))

“You can look at Aldous Huxley and draw parallels with the Beatles…with The Doors of Perception his full-blown Sergeant Pepper trip. Like the Beatles, Huxley had so many ideas in his head that it was natural he would want to expand and experiment. What drugs provided for them both was not escape, but reevaluation.”

(Times (London))

“The Doors of Perception is a poignant book, partly because it reveals the human frailties and yearnings of a very cerebral writer.”

(Financial Times (London))

“Sometimes a writer has to revisit the classics, and here we find that ‘gonzo journalism’—gutsy first-person accounts wherein the author is part of the story—didn’t originate with Hunter S. Thompson or Tom Wolfe. Aldous Huxley took some mescaline and wrote about it some ten or twelve years earlier than those others. The book he came up with is part bemused essay and part mystical treatise—‘suchness’ is everywhere to be found while under the influence. This is a good example of essay writing, journal keeping, and the value of controversy—always—in one’s work.”

(Amazon.com, editorial review)
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The views expressed in this book regarding hallucinogen use is welcomed with subjective changes in thought, emotion, and consciousness that are not typically experienced otherwise and then seen as possible way to transform perception and a path to nirvana

This kind of thinking is very difficult to comprehend, almost ludicrous concept, because we can't understand universe as it is (which can be debated)
But the author uses this debatable concept so well here, drafted and presented in such a way that you can almost see the view of the author

After all is said and done,
I am still not convinced, not one bit,
But would recommend the book, because to look at the ways the author is able to put the point of consumption of hallucinogen drugs as a good thing

Strangely good

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I suggest try something and have an experience after reading the book. Few key words.
Psilocybin, DMT, dark room therapy, Carl Jung, advaita philosophy

For other psychonauts out there

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