Don's review
The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
Don's review
rating:
bookshelves: alternative, anthropology, entheogens, missaborrowed, religion, to-read-again
rating:
bookshelves: alternative, anthropology, entheogens, missaborrowed, religion, to-read-again
Aldous Huxley: respectable when one mentions "Brave New World", despised for "The Doors of Perception". This book is two books in one, the first well known. Huxley experimented with mescaline and LSD, going so far as order himself injected with many cc's of LSD on his deathbed. What a trip that must have been! He believed that LSD and other "pschedelic" drugs opened up a "valve" that normally stays closed except for intense periods when humans are mating, meditating or engaged in some intense activity. The valve is required for evolutionary survival, but it closes of much perception that is useful, just not for the everday.
A wonderful book by a legend.
A wonderful book by a legend.
