The Doors of Perception

Zusatztext “The book that launched a thousand trips.” Informationen zum Autor Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) is the author of the classic novels Brave New World , Island , Eyeless in Gaza , and The Genius and the Goddess , as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Perennial Philosophy and The Doors of Perception . Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles, California. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung "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.

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"A genuine spiritual quest. ... Extraordinary." New York Times

Product details

• Authors: Aldous Huxley
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.07.2009
• EAN: 9780061729072
• ISBN: 978-0-06-172907-2
• No. of pages: 185
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 203 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Modern Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, NATURE: Essays, PHILOSOPHY: MODERN, RELIGION: Spirituality, PHILOSOPHY: Religious, SCIENCE: Life Sciences / Neuroscience, PHILOSOPHY: Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY: Individual Philosophers *, SELF-HELP: Meditations