TY - BOOK AU - Huxley,Aldous AU - Huxley,Aldous AU - Huxley,Aldous TI - The doors of perception: &, Heaven and hell SN - 9780061729072 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Harper Perennial KW - Peyote KW - Mescaline KW - Visions KW - Consciousness N1 - The Doors of perception originally published in 1954 and Heaven and hell originally published in 1956; An additional essay, "Drugs that shape men's minds," is included in the P.S. section; The doors of perception -- Heaven and hell -- P.S. insights, interviews & more N2 - "Explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness."; 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 ER -