Aldous Huxley

WITH A FOREWORD J.G. BALLARD In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme 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.

And Heaven and Hell

The Doors of Perception

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Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies -- all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.

the plot. if u can even call it that. the book is a recounting of this moment

For the moment that interfering neurotic who, in waking hours, tries to run the show was blessedly out of the way.

oh the tragedy of it. they can only yearn to

However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.

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