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The doors of perception : &, Heaven and hell / Aldous Huxley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2009Edition: First Harper Perennial Modern Classics editionDescription: 185, 22 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780061729072
  • 0061729078
Other title:
  • Doors of perception and Heaven and hell
  • Doors of perception, includes Heaven and hell [Cover title]
  • Heaven and hell
Contained works:
  • Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963. Heaven and hell
  • Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963. Drugs that shape men's minds
Subject(s):
Contents:
The doors of perception -- Heaven and hell -- P.S. insights, interviews & more.
Summary: "Explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness."Summary: In these two classic books, originally published in the 1950s, Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. As a user of mind-altering drugs like mescaline and LSD, he came to believe that they gave users essentially the same experiences that mystics attained through fasting, prayer, and meditation. The books became essential texts for the counterculture during the 1960s. -- adapted from back cover and page 5 of P.S. section.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 615.7883 H986 Available NOTED SOME WATER DAMAGE ON THE FRONT COVER & PAGES 33111009719069
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"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.

The Doors of perception originally published in 1954 and Heaven and hell originally published in 1956.

The doors of perception -- Heaven and hell -- P.S. insights, interviews & more.

"Explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness."

An additional essay, "Drugs that shape men's minds," is included in the P.S. section.

In these two classic books, originally published in the 1950s, Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. As a user of mind-altering drugs like mescaline and LSD, he came to believe that they gave users essentially the same experiences that mystics attained through fasting, prayer, and meditation. The books became essential texts for the counterculture during the 1960s. -- adapted from back cover and page 5 of P.S. section.

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