The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (Perennial Classics)
by
Aldous Huxley*
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Sometimes a writer has to revisit the classics, and here we find that "gonzo journalism"--gutsy first-person accounts wherein the author is part of the story--didn't originate with Hunter S. Thompson or Tom Wolfe. Aldous Huxley took some mescaline and wrote about it some 10 or 12 years earlier than those others. The book he came up with is part bemused essay and part mystical treatise--"suchness" is everywhere to be found while under the influence. This is a good example of essay writing, journal keeping, and the value of controversy--always--in one's work.
Added on: Friday, July 28 2006
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Source: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (Perennial Classics)
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Aldous Leonard Huxley said
Source: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (Perennial Classics)
Contributed by: Smokey Mirror.
Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul
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Source: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (Perennial Classics)
Contributed by: katers.
“The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend.''