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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 10 or 12 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.
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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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Cerebral Infarction and Increased Human Percepton,
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This review is from: Doors Of Perception (Paperback)
.What does Zen, Hindu and various forms of meditation have in common with poor diet, fasting and starvation, with self inflicted body wounds that bring on infection, with chanting songs and poems that hyperventilate, with yogic breathing exercises? Cerebral Infarction, or as Huxley words as inhibiting the brain's cerebral reduction valve, draining the required glucose to maintain a filtered, that is a reduced amount, of reality to be perceived for the survival of the human species. Whether this science is empirically true or not, the connection is most certainly there. One can find such revelatory and hallucinogenic experiences in the Hindu Upishads and Vedas, the Old and New Testaments and all cultures which have mystical experiences. The Catholic mystics called this experience the "gratuitous grace." Anotherwards, these various forms of ancient religious exercises were designed to allow greater portions of reality to be perceived by otherwise a limited and filtered human mind that only perceives limited amounts of reality. And both in ancient times with the use of etheogenic/hallucinogenic plants, and now in modern times with laboratory extraction and use of such plants this opening of perception (doors of perception) of the human mind, are opened to allow such beneficial observation. According to Huxley, this is not an escape to utopia, nor an ultimate answer, however it is an experience that will ever change the human in a most beneficial way, where he will never quite be the same but will have a newer and deeper understanding of art, creativity and perception as never before. Not as a simple recreational tool, but an advancement for the intellectual. I agree with his assessment.
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Where have I been?,
By Manny F. (Alberta) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Doors Of Perception And Heaven And Hell (Paperback)
I'm amazed that this book has escaped me for so long. That it is not more popular is beyond my grasp.Originally published as two separate publications, THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION AND HEAVEN AND HELL is an argument for the use of hallucinogens, hoping to expand the consciousness of the common man. The bad news? There hasn't been a drug produced that can guarantee a positive experiece for everyone, so there's the danger of the bad trip. Whether you believe in this way of thinking or not, I challenge you to read this remarkable piece of literature from one of the most free-thinking and open-minded writers of the last century. "Doors" is a first person account of Huxley's mescalin trip" and it's a great way to experience this without having to actually go "through" it. Other books you might want to check out: The Electric Acid Koolaid Test by Tom Wolfe Katzenjammer by Jackson McCrae A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Brave New World by Huxley
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A thoughtful read.,
This review is from: The Doors Of Perception And Heaven And Hell (Paperback)
I haven't read Huxley in a long, long time. Clearly, it's been too long. Just reading this book is a pleasure, as it is always a pleasure reading the words of any thoughtful person who can really handle the language. Huxley's descriptions of his Mescaline-induced experience are vivid and fascinating. The conclusions he draws from his 'trip' are equally fascinating. The tragedy is that the voices of people like Huxley, who understood the powerful potential of psychedelics as agents of healing, got swamped under the noise of others for whom such chemicals seem to have served as little more than entertainment, or easy avenues to enlightenment.This book comes from a time before there were 'sides' to the drug issue. It predates a lot of the cultural upheaval we typically associate with psychedelics. It is a wonderful little book (you can read 'The Doors of Perception' and 'Heaven and Hell' in a single day if you try). If nothing else, you'll be able to say, afterward, that you've read Huxley.
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