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The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers Inc : 9780061729072 : 0061729078 : 24 Jun 2011 : In these two classic books, originally published in the 1950s, Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. As a user of mind-altering drugs like mescaline and LSD, he came to believe that they gave users essentially the same experiences that mystics attained through fasting, prayer, and meditation. The books became essential texts for the counterculture during the 1960s.Read More

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  • Amazon Review

    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.

  • Product Description

    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 booksâ??The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hellâ??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.

  • 0061729078
  • 9780061729072
  • Aldous Huxley
  • 1 August 2009
  • Harper Perennial
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 208
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