The Doors Of Perception And Heaven Hell

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443434492

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Long before the psychedelic drug movement of the 1960s, Aldous Huxley wrote about his mind-expanding experiences taking mescaline and participating in ecstatic meditation in his essays The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell. In The Doors of Perception, Huxley blends Eastern mysticism with scientific experimentation to produce one of the most influential works on the effects of hallucinatory drugs on the human psyche. Heaven and Hell focuses on how science, art, religion, literature, and psychoactive drugs can expand the everyday view of reality and offer a more profound grasp of the human experience. Huxley’s essays The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell ushered in a whole new generation of counter-culture icons such as Jackson Pollock, John Cage, Timothy Leary and Jim Morrison. In fact, Morrison’s band name The Doors was inspired by The Doors of Perception. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Mescaline
ISBN : LCCN:55010694

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The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley Pdf

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2300000139136

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The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley Pdf

The Doors of Perception is a philosophical essay, released as a book, by Aldous Huxley. First published in 1954, it details his experiences when taking mescaline. The book takes the form of Huxley's recollection of a mescaline trip that took place over the course of an afternoon in May 1953. The book takes its title from a phrase in William Blake's 1793 poem 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'. Huxley recalls the insights he experienced, which range from the "purely aesthetic" to "sacramental vision". He also incorporates later reflections on the experience and its meaning for art and religion.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1417628596

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The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley Pdf

Among the most profound explorations of the effects of mind-expanding drugs ever written, here are two complete classic books-The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell-in which Aldous Huxley, author of the bestselling Brave New World, reveals the m

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Mescaline
ISBN : OCLC:217251985

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The Doors of Perception by Anonim Pdf

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Peyote
ISBN : OCLC:1085481764

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The Doors of Perception; And, Heaven & Hell by Aldous Huxley Pdf

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551997568

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The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley Pdf

Two of the most famous pieces of non-fiction by Aldous Huxley (best known for Brave New World), The Doors of Perception details his experiences on the mind-altering drug mescaline, while Heaven and Hell details the relationships between mysticism, art, and sense perception that these experiences helped Huxley to explore and develop. He analogizes the mental states achievable through the use of mind-altering substances to very forms of religious self-flagellation, and also theorizes that they might be used as a form of treatment for psychological ailments. The two works have been significant influences on thinkers in this field, as well as writers, theologians, and philosophers. Random House of Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in ebook form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Authors
ISBN : OCLC:1239345

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Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443434508

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Heaven And Hell by Aldous Huxley Pdf

Inspired by the poetry of William Blake, Heaven and Hell delves into the murky topic of human consciousness through a discussion of religious mystical perception, biochemistry and psychoactive drug experimentation. Heaven and Hell explains how science, art, religion, literature, and psychoactive drugs can expand the reader’s everyday view of reality, offering a more profound grasp of the human experience. Like his earlier essay, The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley’s Heaven and Hell exerted a tremendous influence on the counter-culture movement of the 1960s, inspiring the imaginations of an entire generation of artists and revolutionaries like Jim Morrison and Jackson Pollack. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1544816227

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The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley Pdf

Two great classics come to life in one of the most loved books in American History. Remastered to include Illustrated exercises, a biography of Aldous Huxley, and including the full essay of Heaven and Hell, and The Doors to Perception, this book is a great gift to those who are unfamiliar with his work, or may have forgotten about Huxley's famous contemplations of life and death. - ZKBS(c) All Rights Reserved.

Author : Aldous Leonard Huxley,James Graham Ballard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:812960275

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Heaven and Hell by Aldous Leonard Huxley,James Graham Ballard Pdf

Author : Aldous Leonard Huxley
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:8596547113249

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Heaven & Hell by Aldous Leonard Huxley Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Heaven & Hell" by Aldous Leonard Huxley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : William Austin Moore M.D.
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781504340199

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The Keys to the Doors of Perception by William Austin Moore M.D. Pdf

Verbum quod locutus est. Spiritus auden locquitur, Et auditum est, Ergo, "Ego sum". Title: "Enlightenment". oil on canvas W. A. Moore

Author : Morgan Shipley
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498509107

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Psychedelic Mysticism by Morgan Shipley Pdf

Concerned with scholarly, popular, and religious backdrops that understand the connection between psychedelics and mystical experiences to be devoid of moral concerns and ethical dimensions—a position supported empirically by the rise of acid fascism and psychedelic cults by the late 1960s—Psychedelic Mysticism: Transforming Consciousness, Religious Experiences, and Voluntary Peasants in Postwar America traces the development of sixties psychedelic mysticism from the deconditioned mind and perennial philosophy of Aldous Huxley, to the sacramental ethics of Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner, to the altruistic religiosity practiced by Stephen Gaskin and The Farm. Building directly off the pioneering psychedelic writing of Huxley, these psychedelic mystics understood the height of psychedelic consciousness as an existential awareness of unitive oneness, a position that offered worldly alternatives to the maladies associated with the postwar moment (e.g., vapid consumerism and materialism, lifeless conformity, unremitting racism, heightened militarism). In opening a doorway to a common world, Morgan Shipley locates how psychedelics challenged the coherency of Western modernity by fundamentally reorienting postwar society away from neoliberal ideologies and toward a sacred understanding of reality defined by mutual coexistence and responsible interdependence. In 1960s America, psychedelics catalyzed a religious awakening defined by compassion, expressed through altruism, and actualized in projects that sought to ameliorate the conditions of the least advantaged among us. In the exact moments that historians and cultural critics often locate as signaling the death knell of the counterculture, Gaskin and The Farm emerged, not as a response to the perceived failures of the hippies, nor as an alternative to sixties politicos, but in an effort to fulfill the religious obligation to help teach the world how to live more harmoniously. Today, as we continue to confront issues of socioeconomic inequality, entrenched differences, widespread violence, and the limits of religious pluralism, Psychedelic Mysticism serves as a timely reminder of how religion in America can operate as a tool for destabilization and as a means to actively reimagine the very basis of how people relate—such a legacy can aid in our own efforts to build a more peaceful, sustainable, and compassionate world.

Author : James Kellenberger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317147527

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Dying to Self and Detachment by James Kellenberger Pdf

Exploring the religious category of dying to self, this book aims to resolve contemporary issues that relate to detachment. Beginning with an examination of humility in its general notion and as a religious virtue that detachment presupposes, Kellenberger draws on a range of ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary sources that address the main characteristics of detachment, including the work of Meister Eckhart, St. Teresa, and Simone Weil, as well as writers as varied as Gregory of Nyssa, Rabi'a al-Adawiyya, Søren Kierkegaard, Andrew Newberg, John Hick and Keiji Nishitani. Kellenberger explores the key issues that arise for detachment, including the place of the individual's will in detachment, the relationship of detachment to desire, to attachment to persons, and to self-love and self-respect, and issues of contemporary secular detachment such as inducement via chemicals. This book heeds the relevance of the religious virtue of detachment for those living in the twenty-first century.