Doors Of Perception; Heaven And Hell (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Amazing book! Stunning. Not many pages but the content is beyond imagination though it is based on a true experience. Great Author.

A blast from the past. What a mind trip!!!!

Great book by a great mind!

First about important books (cc 2013) version. This is a very poor printing from probably a scanned original of a smaller book since it has more than a 100 typos and improper hyphens. The reviewers on Amazon agree. It was never edited. The cover is a pixilated image of the original. Thus the company "Important Books" may be engaged in copyright infringement.Now to the content. This was pure nostalgia from the 60's. Those who had their consciousness altered will be thankful for these Huxley essays on his experience with hallucinogenic drugs which permitted him to temporarily alter his consciousness. What do you do when your doors of perception open? Well you try to explain it, you try to comprehend your beingness in a material world, you try to understand your relationship to everything even the Infinite Intelligence, you look for transcendent clues in the material world in art, music, poetry, novels, movies, lives of mystics, you try meditation, and sensory deprivation, yoga, the varieties of religious experience. You look for people who are awake, quickened, self-actualizing. This is all natural because you are never the same. But you are forever aware that you are aware you are living in a "socially shared hallucination" to use RD Laing's words from The Politics of Experience. And indeed you are aware you are a stranger in a strange land. We live in an abnormal thoughtform among infinite possibilities. And we become thankful when we meet a fellow traveler in this reality. Huxley was one of many.....but this fellowship is oh too small to overcome the tsunami of evil in this reality. I am in agreement that we thirst for a true transcendental experience with God. If you look for it, you will find it. And when you do as St. Thomas Acquinas discovered, "all here is straw". Unfortunately the human potential movement of the 60s and 70s fizzled out....so viable opportunities for guided personal growth seem to have dwindled.

The media could not be loaded.  (Review by Dean Goranites of the BookReviewersClub.)The book is about a research program involving a drug test. A company was looking for volunteers to participate in a drug study, and Huxley volunteered to join the program.Basically, the story takes place within an 8 to 10 hour time period after Huxley consumes the drug "Mescaline." He then recorded the entire experience so that when he wrote this essay, he could give exact quotes of how he had felt while on the under the influence.In the book, Huxley said he was not really concerned about space, which Dean found really interesting. He also liked the various details about life that Huxley discussed. Aside from that, Huxley was very focused on natural occurrences.The whole book was really intriguing, and so Dean gave the book 5 stars.

Lucy in the sky with diamonds.It is not fashionable anymore to get there in that fashion. Peyote, LSD. And it is just as well.Still I am happy super talented Aldous Huxley went and shared his travels with us.It feels good to know it is there. I rejoice Huxley lived and wrote. Peace and love to him.

A very heavy book to read, but it takes you into the deepest meaning of what it is to be conscious.

Awesome book

Es un gran libro para entender las experiencias de Aldous Huxley, creo que es muy recomendable para obtener un punto de vista diferente sobre los elementos para expandir las puertas de la percepción.

Not what I expected. Didn't my expections