The Doors of Perception

· Blackstone Audio Inc. · Narrated by Rudolph Schirmer
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The critically acclaimed novelist and social critic Aldous Huxley describes his personal experimentation with the drug mescaline and explores the nature of visionary experience. The title of this classic comes from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: “If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern.”

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4.7
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Kelvin Price
7 October 2022
I've never heard anyone describe a psychedelic experience so aptly, and also so poetically. far out and right on
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Ashley Stuart Mason
13 October 2019
The most important and profoundly beautiful book of all time...
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About the author

Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894–1963) was an English poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist, and humanist philosopher. He attended Eton and Oxford and briefly taught at Eton before devoting himself solely to writing. His fifth novel, Brave New World, is one of the most read books in literary history.

Rudolph Schirmer (1919–2000) was educated at St. Mark’s and Princeton University. His father’s music publishing business, G. Schirmer, Inc., was responsible for bringing classical music to America and for nurturing leading composers of the twentieth century. A talented poet and writer, he was published in various journals and had a long association with the Huxley family.

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