Heaven & Hell

Name: Heaven & Hell
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Aldous Leonard Huxley
ISBN: 9798368984483

Author: Aldous Leonard Huxley

Narrator: Aedemon Maure

Unabridged: 2 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Throne Pen

Published: 04/18/2023

Categories: Nonfiction, Religion, Biblical Studies, Old Testament, Poetry, Children's Fiction, Children's Poetry, Humorous, Literary Criticism

Synopsis

Inspired by the poetry of William Blake, Heaven and Hell delves into the murky topic of human consciousness through a discussion of religious mystical perception, biochemistry and psychoactive drug experimentation. Heaven and Hell explains how science, art, religion, literature, and psychoactive drugs can expand the reader’s everyday view of reality, offering a more profound grasp of the human experience.Like his earlier essay, The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley’s Heaven and Hell exerted a tremendous influence on the counter-culture movement of the 1960s, inspiring the imaginations of an entire generation of artists and revolutionaries like Jim Morrison and Jackson Pollack.Throne pen brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the Throne pen collection to build your digital library.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cecelia on January 22, 2019

This is an odd work. Like The Doors of Perception, it is really more art criticism than anything else. Most of the main text is about how the heavenly is represented in visual art, with some hypothetical links to psychedelic drugs or other visionary states thrown in. Hell appears very little, and wh......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on March 04, 2021

read this last night instead of starting das kapital. I am somewhat ashamed but at least I enjoyed myself......more

Goodreads review by Khatie on September 28, 2019

I think the book clearly discusses about the importance of enlightened mind to see the world above the daily rational routine. Best book for painters or ones who love art. The thing that I appreciate about this Huxley's work, he talks about different cultures and views and combines them into one met......more

Goodreads review by Nicholas on May 31, 2022

Many themes are beautifully touched on in this eloquent mind-stretching novel. For example, art and the visionary quality of intrinsic significance, praeternatural intensity, the Absolute, Eternal namelessness and formlessness, the Void, and many other themes and mystical drug-induced experiences wi......more

Goodreads review by Anne on October 29, 2020

Too much heaven, not enough hell. Also, preternatural antipodes. 3.5 stars — plenty of what I like in here but my expectations were probably too high based on how much I drooled over The Doors of Perception.......more