HUXLEY, ALDOUS - The Doors of Perception and Heaven And Hell / 2 Complete Books

NY, Harper & Row Publishers. 1963, Later Printing. Trade Paperback, 5 1/4" Wide x 7 7/8" Tall. Vintage Copy!, Tight copy, minor edgewear, minor cover reading creases, no names, unmarked text. boards, silver spinal titles, very light corner edgewear, unmarked text, This is Aldous Huxley's famous work on his controversial and thought provoking experiments with mescalin, the active ingredient of Peyote - the desert cactus long used by Native American Indians of the Southwestern United States and Mexico in Sacred Religious Ceremonial Rites and Shamanism. His work had an immeasurable effect on the widespread acceptance of Psychedelic Hallucinogenic Drugs and Compounds in the 1960s. Which helped spawn the Hippie Cultures, Free Love Philosophies, and the Psychedelic Movement as the search for the perfect State of Shared Experiences, Social Freedoms, Desires for Communal Harmony, Altered Consciousness, Escapes from Reality, and Altered States of Meditative Perception. This is a Memoir of his first Psychedelic Trip, with his recollections of Transcendental and Mystical Experiences, Human Perception, Reflections on Humanity, Cultures, Enlightened Freethinkers and Artists, the Self, Societies, and an analysis of Reality. He would later experiment with LSD and Mushrooms containing Psilocybin. With the title of this book borrowed from the works of William Blake, the book and its title inspired famous Rock and Roll Singer/Guitar Player Jim Morrison to use part of the book's title to name his Rock Band, which is altogether another story in itself. In its sequel, 'Heaven and Hell', he went on to explore the history and nature of mysticism. Hugely influential, still bristling with a sense of excitement and discovery, these intense and illuminating writings remain the most fascinating accounts of the total consciousness and visionary experience ever written. 185 pages. Very Good.

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