The doors of perception pdf aldous huxley Continue Half an hour after swallowing the drug I became aware of the slow dance of golden lights... Among the most profound studies of the effects of mind-expanding drugs ever written, here are two complete classic books - Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, in which Aldous Huxley, author of the bestselling Brave New World, shows the distant boundaries of the mind and the unmarked realm of human consciousness. This new edition also features an additional essay, Drugs That Shape Men's Minds, which is being included for the first time. Book by Aldous Huxley This article is about the book by Aldous Huxley. For Dave Pike's album, see Doors of Perception (album). Двери восприятия Первое издание (Великобритания)АвторAldous HuxleyCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglishSubjectPhilosophypsychologyОпубликовано1954 Чатто и Виндус (Великобритания) Харпер и строка (США) Медиа TypePrint (hardback ) Pages63 (жесткий переплет, первое издание; без сопроводительного эссе 1956 Небеса и ад)ISBN0-06-059518-3OCLC54372147 Дьюи Decimal615/.7883 22LC ClassRM666.P48 H9 92004 Часть серии onPsychedelia искусств Психоделическое искусство Алгоритмическое искусство Cyberdelic Diffraction Fractal искусства жидкого светового шоу ЛСД искусства Пейсли Фосфен Психоделическая музыка Кислота дом Кислота джаз кислота рок кислоты кислоты техно кислоты транса Chillwave Hypnagogic поп Мэдчестер Нео-психоделия Пейот песня P-Funk Психоделический народный Психоделический поп Психоделический рок Психоделический соул Психоделический транс Космический рок Стоунер рок Трип-хоп Психоделический фильм Кислота Западный Стоунер Фильм Психоделическая литература Контркультура Энтеоген Смарт магазин Поездка няня Психоделическая микродозирование Наркотики 25I-NBOMe 2C-B Ayahuasca Cannabis DMT Ib Кетамин Кетамин ЛСД Мескалин Пейот Псилоцибин грибы Сальвинорин A/Salvia Сан-Педро кактус Список психоделических препаратов Список псилоцибиновых грибов Психоактивный кактус Опыт Плохая поездка Экология Эго смерти Серотонергическая психоделическая терапия История Кислотные тесты Альберт Хофманн Александр Шульгин История лизергическая кислота диэтиламид Owsley Стэнли Психоделическая The Age of Love by Timothy Leary William Leonard Picard Drug Law Netherlands Liberalization of The Drug Legal Status of Cannabis Legal Status psilocybin Mushrooms Legal Status Salvia divinorum Related Topics Cannabis Addiction MDMA Philosophy of Psychedelics Prohibition of Drugs Rave Recreational Drugs Published in 1954, he detailed his psychedelic experience under the influence of mescaline in May 1953. Huxley recalls the ideas he experienced, from purely aesthetic to sacramental vision and reflects on their philosophical and psychological implications. In 1956, he published Heaven and Hell, another essay detailing these reflections. Since then, these two works have often been published together as one the name of both comes comes William Blake's 1793 book The Wedding of Heaven and Hell. Doors of Perception provoked a violent reaction to his assessment of psychedelic drugs as mediators of mystical understanding with great potential benefits for science, art and religion. While many found this argument persuasive, others, including the writer Thomas Mann, the wedantic monk Swami Prabhavarand, the philosopher Martin Buber and the scholar Robert Charles Sanner, countered that the effects of mescaline were subjective and should not be correlated with objective religious mysticism. Huxley himself continued to take psychedelics until his death and corrected his understanding, which also influenced his last novel, 1962 Island. Von Mescaline (Peyote and San Pedro Cactus) Home article: Mescaline Meskalin is the main active psychedelic agent of peyote and San Pedro cacti that have been used in Indian religious ceremonies for thousands of years. German pharmacologist Arthur Heffter isolated alkaloids in peyote cactus in 1897. These include mescaline, which he showed through a combination of animals and self-experiments was the compound responsible for the psychoactive properties of the plant. In 1919, Ernst Spet, another German chemist, synthesized the drug. Although personal reports on cactus adoption were written by psychologists such as Weir Mitchell in the US and Havelock Ellis in the UK in the 1890s, German- American Heinrich Kluver was the first to systematically study its psychological effects in a small book called Mescal and Mechanisms of Hallucinations, published in 1928. The book states that the drug can be used to study the unconscious mind. Peyote is like the entheogenic drug Peyote cactus from which mescaline originates. In the 1930s, the American anthropologist Weston La Barre published the Peyote Cult, the first study of the ritual use of peyote as an entheogenic drug among the gueholov people in western Mexico. La Barre noted that Indian cactus users took it to get visions of prophecy, healing and inner strength. Most psychiatric drug research projects in the 1930s and early 1940s tend to look at the role of the drug in the imitation of psychosis. However, in 1947, the U.S. Navy began the Chatter Project, which examined the potential of the drug as an agent to reveal the truth. In the early 1950s, when Huxley wrote his book, mescaline was still considered a chemical rather than a drug and was catalogued by Park Davis without any controls. Mescaline also played a primary role in influencing the generation of poets and writers in the late 1940s and early 1960s. Most notable, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg, all of whom were respected artists beat. Their and many other works by contemporary artists were largely without a prescription form of mescaline during this time, because of its potency and attainability. Huxley was interested in spiritual issues and used alternative treatments for some time. In 1936 he told TS Eliot that he was starting to meditate, and he used other treatments too; Alexander's technique and Bates's vision method were of particular importance in guiding him through personal crises. In the late 1930s he became interested in the spiritual teachings of Vedanta, and in 1945 published Multi-Year Philosophy, which expressed a philosophy that, in his opinion, was found among the mystics of all religions. He had known for some time the visionary experience achieved by taking drugs in some non-Christian religions. Humphrey Osmond Huxley's research first heard about the use of peyote in ceremonies at an Indian church in New Mexico, shortly after coming to the United States in 1937. He first learned about the active ingredient of the cactus, mescaline, after reading a scientific paper written by Humphrey Osmond, a British psychiatrist working at the Weyburn Psychiatric Hospital, Saskatchewan, in early 1952. Osmond's article published the results of his research on schizophrenia, during which he used mescalin, which he conducted with colleagues, doctors Abram Hoffer and John Smithy. In the epilogue to the novel The Devils of Loudoun, published earlier that year, Huxley wrote that the drugs were toxic shortcuts to self-transcendence. For Canadian writer George Woodcock, Huxley changed his mind because mescaline was not exciting and seemed to have no unpleasant physical or mental side effects. He also found that hypnosis, autohypnosis and meditation apparently failed to produce the results he wanted. Huxley's experience with mescaline After reading Osmond's work, Huxley sent him a letter on Thursday, April 10, 1952, expressing interest in the study and posing as an experimental subject. His letter explained his motives as rooted in the idea that the brain is a shrinking valve that limits consciousness, and hoping mescaline might help access a larger degree of awareness (an idea he later included in the book). Reflecting on his stated motives, Woodcock wrote that Huxley realized that there were many ways to enlightenment, including prayer and meditation. He hoped that drugs could also break down the barriers of the ego, and both bring him closer to spiritual enlightenment and satisfy his quest as a knowledge seeker. In a second letter sent Saturday, April 19, Huxley invited Osmond to stay in Los Angeles to attend the American Psychiatric Association convention. He also wrote that he was looking forward to working with mescalin and assured Osmond that his doctor did not mind taking it. Huxley invited another, another, Gerald Heard, take part in the experiment; although Heard was too busy this time, he joined him for a session in November of that year. Osmond arrived at Huxley's home in West Hollywood on Sunday, May 3, 1953, and recorded his impressions of the famous author as a tolerant and kind man, though he expected otherwise. The psychiatrist had concerns about the provision of Huxley's drugs, and wrote: I didn't relish the opportunity, however remote, to be the person who drove Aldous Huxley crazy, but instead found it the perfect subject. Huxley was shrewd, in fact and to the point, and his wife Maria is extremely intelligent. In general, they all loved each other, which was very important when administering the drug. Mescaline was slow in strength, but Osmond saw that after two and a half hours the drug was working and three hours later Huxley was reacting well. The experience lasted eight hours, and Osmond and Maria stayed with him throughout. The experience began in Huxley's office before the group made a seven- block trip to The Owl Drug (Rexall), known as the world's largest pharmacy, on the corner of Beverly and La Cienega