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George orwells 1984 as two of the great dystopian novels written in english. Aldous huxley 18941963 is the author of the classic novels brave new world, island, eyeless in gaza, and the genius and the goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as the perennial philosophy and the doors of perception. The book itself is not very long, but it takes some time to follow all the ideas and thoughts. The doors of perception from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia the doors of perception is a 1954 book by aldous huxley detailing his experiences.
In the first half of the book, doors of perceptionoriginally a separate volumehuxley offers a cogent and erudite argument for the use hallucinogens specifically, mescaline as a means for opening up the thinking mind to new ideas and perceptions, or even as a method for jumpstarting human creativity in the common man. Huxleys take on dystopia is an antiutopia centered around the cult of henry ford. Aldous huxley holds forth using his experience in an altered state as the center of his intellectual examination of the place of altered experiences in todays world. Jan 04, 2012 to start the year on a suitably strungout note, aldous huxley s personal research notes on mescalin sam jordison wed 4 jan 2012 08. I found this novel quite frightening in the longer view compared to 1984 considering, as christopher hitchens so rightly pointed out, that 1984 s house of horrors showed its weakness with the downfall of the soviet union, whereas huxleys type of brave new world still beckons toward a painless, amusementsodden, and stressfree consensus. The book takes its title from a phrase in william blakes 1793 poem the marriage of heaven and hell.
Thompsons fear and loathing in las vegas, aldous huxley wrote about his mindbending experiences taking mescaline in his essay the doors of perception. The doors of perception is a poignant book, partly because it reveals the human frailties and yearnings of a very cerebral writer, financial times from the inside flap in 1953, aldous huxley took fourtenths of a gram of the drug mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. Huxley, aldous the doors of perception internet archive. Jan 16, 2008 brave new world audiobook written by aldous huxley. A personal, and expectedly individualistic, description of his experiment with the drug mescalin, which induces a state of pleasant, mild intoxication and opens the doors of perception. The longer fiction of aldous huxley has been in the mainstream of the novel of. Written largely from the firstperson perspective, the doors of perception blends eastern mysticism with scientific experimentation in equal parts, and what results is one.
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