The Doors of Perception
Chatto and Windus, London, 1954
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Huxley’s account of taking mescaline in 1953, and his argument that the brain acts as a reducing valve on a wider awareness he called “Mind at Large”, which the drug opened; the book began a long debate on drugs and mystical experience.
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Aldous Huxley. The Doors of Perception. Chatto and Windus, London, 1954.
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