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The Doors of Perception

Author:
Aldous Huxley (author)
Language:
English
Original language:
English
Categories:
Drugs and philosophy
Publication year:
1954
Pages:
34
Synopsis:

The Doors of Perception is a very short book about Huxley's experience with mescaline (a psychoactive compound found in the Peyote cactus). He takes it in his own home with a friend and muses on the wonders he sees.

The title is a reference to a book by William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, which contains these lines:

"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 thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."

Review:

Even thought it's short, it's sweet and to the point. I highly recommend it.

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