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The Doors of Perception

Name: The Doors of Perception
Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Author: Aldous Huxley
ISBN: 9780061892868

Aldous Huxley · 1954 · 208 pages

Half an hour after swallowing the drug I became aware of a slow dance of golden lights . . .

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 mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. This new edition also features an additional essay, "Drugs That Shape Men's Minds," which is now included for the first time.

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Naval Ravikant
““Baruch asks, if I were to write a protocol for myself, what would it be to become enlightened? The first thing I would do is start meditating, and then I would read, concurrently I would read Objective Knowledge by Karl Popper. The reason for that is because this journey could… pic.twitter.com/oIYEgHKIj0”↗
Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)
“Got some new books to read”↗
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
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Michelle Rodriguez
“Aldous Huxley on Technodictators via @YouTube ‘Doors of Perception’ is a great book entry level to hallucinogenics”↗
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