The Doors of Perception

By: Aldous Huxley

Narrated by: Rudolph Schirmer

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."©1954 Aldous Huxley (P)2009 BBC Audio

great book

love the book and the ideas it discusses. I would highly recommend it to everyone

Important discussion on the nature of experience

Excellently written and thoughtful work regarding the mescaline experience, mind-at-large, and our perception of reality.

Great book show many problems in the 20th century.

Narrator was great, book was a little short. Made me do some internal reflection. thumbs up

Truth

He wrote this 70 years ago and nearly all of his insights still gold. Important work.

Huxley rocks still.

Amazingly interesting, intelligent, and honest. Huxley not only helps us better understand the nature of spiritual reality, he makes a case for the intelligent and spiritual use of mescaline, that’s peyote in the native American tradition. Thanks.