The Doors of Perception

Name: The Doors of Perception
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Aldous Huxley
ISBN: 9798368903132

Author: Aldous Huxley

Narrator: Aedemon Maure

Unabridged: 3 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Throne Pen

Published: 05/23/2023

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Self-help, Biography & Autobiography

Synopsis

"A genuine spiritual quest. . . . Extraordinary." — New York TimesAmong the most profound and influential explorations of mind-expanding psychedelic drugs ever written, a complete classic book—The Doors of Perception —in which Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, reveals the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness.The Doors of Perception by Huxley blends Eastern mysticism with scientific experimentation to produce one of the most influential works on the effects of hallucinatory drugs on the human psyche. Huxley’s essays The Doors of Perception ushered in a whole new generation of counter-culture icons such as Jackson Pollock, John Cage, Timothy Leary and Jim Morrison. In fact, Morrison’s band name The Doors was inspired by The Doors of Perception.

About Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) is the author of the classic novels Brave New World, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Devils of Loudun, The Perennial Philosophy, and The Doors of Perception. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Keith on November 05, 2010

Generally, I greatly prefer to read books in the dead-trees format—actual paper in my hand. This was the first I've read in a long time where I found myself desperately longing, not only for an electronic edition, but for a fully hypertextual version, rich with links. Over the two months I spent on......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on April 10, 2013

Increasingly, I'm learning that perception is far more complicated than I ever imagined. Sight, as an example, isn't simply eyes acting like cameras, sending image data to the brain for interpretation. An article in the online journal, Nature, described the mechanism by which the brain "sees" what o......more

Goodreads review by Leonard on October 19, 2023

Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception and its appendix, Heaven and Hell, offer a philosophical exploration into the effects of mind-altering substances, especially the mescaline compound found in the peyote cactus (also present in San Pedro cacti). Through his own mescaline experiments, Huxley exp......more

Goodreads review by Ian on May 02, 2019

Teenage Kicks I read this book in the early 70's in my early teenage years. The first thing about "The Doors of Perception" is that it was the source of the name of the band, "The Doors". The second is that it shaped the views of many people about drugs for 20 years. Aldous Huxley came from a scientif......more