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The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell: Two Complete Nonfiction Works Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Peguin , Paperpack , 144pages 1971 printing. You can revive it by posting a reply. The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Sartrapi 91. Melville: His World and Work by Andrew Delbanco 25. Dialogue Concerning Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei 103. Thread: 70 philosophy/science/non-fiction/fiction books . Aldous Huxley, The Doors Of Perception & Heaven And Hell Two of Aldous Huxley's works on his experiences with mescaline. Well as some non-fiction, to whit If a Pirate I Must Be by Richard Saunders (2007), being a biography of the real "dread pirate Roberts," The Duelling Handbook by Joseph Hamilton (1829), and re-read The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley (1954-56). When Jommy's parents are killed by the state secret police, he is forced to grow up in secret, living amongst the enemy, so that he can carry on his father's life work -- although he doesn't yet know what that is. The exploration of the inner life through mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs was to dominate his work for the rest of his life. This topic is currently marked as "dormant"—the last message is more than 90 days old. An enduring opponent of the moral decadence of modern culture, Huxley sought through both fiction and non-fiction writing to denounce conformity and the orthodox attitudes of his time (particularly of Western societies) as well as to .. And so I decided to read Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell: Two Complete Nonfiction Works because it would have fit perfectly into several of my college philosophy and sociology classes. Jillbone's List of Nonfiction Books. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell: Two Complete Nonfiction Works (Perennial Classics) by Aldous Huxley Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf : a play by Edward Albee The Island of Dr. And Man--* Martin Buber * *Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell--*Aldous Huxley^ISBN:0060900075 .. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell:Two Complete Nonfiction Works (DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences). Huxley described his experience in The Doors of Perception and its sequel Heaven and Hell. Dehumanising aspects of scientific and material 'progress') and the pacifist novel 'Eyeless in Gaza' (1936) were accompanied by a series of wise and brilliant essays, collected in volume form under titles such as 'Music at Night' (1931) and 'Enda and Means' (1937). Eminent British novelist whose brief volumes The Doors of Perception (1954) and Heaven and Hell (1956) pioneered discussions on the relationship between drug experience and mysticism.