1954, THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION by Aldous Huxley, HB, Chatto & Windus 2nd Impr VG

Description: SECOND IMPRESSION OF THIS CLASSIC ALDOUS HUXLEY BOOK FROM UK PUBLISHER, CHATTO & WINDUS, IN MARCH OF 1954. The First Printing was in February 1954. Lacking dust jacket but overall in VERY GOOD CONDITION. The wear issues are only associated with the blue cloth boards. There is substantial rubbing of the spine gilt titling, darkening on the spine, and some foxing marks on the boards. The boards have light corner and edge wear, no interior marks in 63 clean and solidly bound pages. The musical group The Doors, took their name from the title of this book. Here is a synopsis of the book from the internet: "The Doors of Perception is an autobiographical book written by Aldous Huxley. Published in 1954, it elaborates on his psychedelic experience under the influence of mescaline in May 1953. Huxley recalls the insights he experienced, ranging from the "purely aesthetic" to "sacramental vision", and reflects on their philosophical and psychological implications. In 1956, he published Heaven and Hell, another essay which elaborates these reflections further. The two works have since often been published together as one book; the title of both comes from William Blake's 1793 book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. The Doors of Perception provoked strong reactions for its evaluation of psychedelic drugs as facilitators of mystical insight with great potential benefits for science, art, and religion. While many found the argument compelling, others including German writer Thomas Mann, Vedantic monk Swami Prabhavananda, Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, and Orientalist scholar Robert Charles Zaehner countered that the effects of mescaline are subjective and should not be conflated with objective religious mysticism. Huxley himself continued to take psychedelics for the rest of his life, and the understanding he gained from them influenced his final novel Island, published in 1962." B85

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