The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (P.S.)

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Paperback, 208 pages

Published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics.

ISBN:
9780061729072

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4 stars (1 review)

Half an hour after swallowing the drug I became aware of a slow dance of golden lights . . . Among the most profound explorations of the effects of mind-expanding drugs ever written, here are two complete classic books-The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell-in which Aldous Huxley, author of the bestselling Brave New World, reveals the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. This new edition also features an additional essay, "Drugs That Shape Men's Minds," which is now included for the first time.

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I enjoyed the Heaven and Hell more than The Doors of Perception. While an interesting take on the psychedelic experience, it was the the ponderings about religion, of aesthetics like stained-glass windows of the cathedrals, the incense, the ritual chants that transfer us into different realities, that I found thoroughly enlightening.

There are a lot of cultural references here, and having read into Joseph Campbell's work, Zen and Meister Eckhart made this much more easily approachable than what it would've been without that pre-existing knowledge.

Subjects

  • Health, Mind & Body -- Self-Help
  • Literature & Fiction -- Authors, A-Z -- ( H ) -- Huxley, Aldous
  • Nonfiction -- Philosophy -- Consciousness & Thought