Charting his experiences under a four-gram dose of mescaline, Huxley’s modern masterpiece is a stunning journey of re-evaluation and heightened appreciation of the manifold nature of reality.
Discover this profound account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades.
In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transformed. Huxley described his experience with breathtaking immediacy in The Doors of Perception.
In its sequel Heaven and Hell, he goes on to explore the history and nature of mysticism. Still bristling with a sense of excitement and discovery, these illuminating and influential writings remain the most fascinating account of the visionary experience ever written.
WITH A FOREWORD J.G. BALLARD
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099458203
Number of pages: 144
Weight: 109 g
Dimensions: 196 x 129 x 8 mm
Concise, evocative, wise and, above all, humane, The Doors of Perception is a masterpiece - Sunday Times
There is nothing the pen of Huxley touches which it does not illuminate, and as the record of a highly civilised, brilliantly articulate man under the influence of an astonishing drug, The Doors of Perception is a tour de force - Daily Telegraph
You can look at Aldous Huxley and draw parallels with the Beatles: Crome Yellow and Those Barren Leaves were his breakthrough Merseybeat books, Point Counter Point was his 'Revolver', 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 - The Times
The Doors of Perception is a poignant book, partly because it reveals the human frailties and yearnings of a very cerebral writer - Financial Times
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) proposes here in the first part of the intricately connected two parter that an individual can be positively transformed by ingesting mescalin, sit down and take in the new world of... More
When I was at my lowest, I discovered "The Doors of Perception" through Jim Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors. Reading this masterpiece transformed my perspective on life. Huxley's insights from... More
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