The Doors of Perception and Heaven
and Hell by Aldous Huxley
Getting Closer To The Right View
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--didnt 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 ones work.
Personal Review: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
by Aldous Huxley
you don't need to take psychedelics to realize their importance in this
world, especially when you have this book to tell the story from the mind of
an intelligent writer...

aldous, like all psychedelic virigns, went into the experience of taking a
psychedelic with his own ideas of what it would bring...in some ways he
was right, in other ways he could never have predicted such wonderful
things...
doors of perception is basically a campfire story about a man's journey on
mescaline (found in peyote) translated into basic english...he does a fine
job of explaining the unexplainable and keeps you interested all throughout
the book....my favorite part is how he describes being under the influence
as the loss of survival mode....this is spot on and it is the same idea as ego
death....there are plants on this earth that can kill you ego for a few hours
so you can finally see the world from untainted eyes....finally a chair is just
a chair...a tree is just a tree....the ground connects to your feet and to the
tree and to the air and back again (reminds me of i am the walrus "i am he
as you are he as you are me and we are all together")
if you are not going to take a psychedelic you could at least read this book!
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