The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
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By Huxley Aldous
Paperback – English
ISBN: 0061729078
EAN: 9780061729072
Publisher: PERENNIAL
Publication Date: 28/07/2009
Pages: 208
Dimension: 20.57cm x 13.72cm x 1.27cm
Age Group: NA to NA
Grades: Not Applicable to Not Applicable
Lexile Level: 0
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About Author: Huxley Aldous
Aldous Huxley was an English writer and editor who is best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World and its utopian counterpart, Island, his satiric work Crome Yellow, and his essays on a wide range of topics. A humanist, Huxley was recognized during his life as a leading intellectual and researcher into visual communication. In addition to his literary work, Huxley was a credited Hollywood screenwriter for such films as Pride and Prejudice (1940) and Jane Eyre (1944). Huxley died on November 22, 1963, several hours after the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the death of fellow author
Categories:
Philosophy – Entheogens & Visionary Substances
Philosophy – Mind & Body
Philosophy – Religious
Also Available In: Prebound (28 Jul 2009)
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By Huxley Aldous
Paperback – English
“A genuine spiritual quest. . . . Extraordinary.” — New York Times
Among the most profound and influential explorations of mind-expanding psychedelic drugs ever written, here are two complete classic books–The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell–in which Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, reveals the mind’s remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. This edition also features an additional essay, “Drugs That Shape Men’s Minds,” now included for the first time.
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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