The doors of perception : &, Heaven and hell / Aldous Huxley.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2009Edition: First Harper Perennial Modern Classics editionDescription: 185, 22 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780061729072
- 0061729078
- Doors of perception and Heaven and hell
- Doors of perception, includes Heaven and hell [Cover title]
- Heaven and hell
- Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963. Heaven and hell
- Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963. Drugs that shape men's minds
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 615.7883 H986 | Available | NOTED SOME WATER DAMAGE ON THE FRONT COVER & PAGES | 33111009719069 |
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.