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The Doors of Perception

Aldous Huxley · 1963

A first-person account of Aldous Huxley's mescaline experience in 1953, exploring altered consciousness, perception, and the nature of subjective experience through the lens of psychopharmacology and philosophy.

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Mescalin briefly widens the brain's reducing valve, letting raw Being flood a consciousness ordinarily starved of it.

Sex: Absent
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Primary

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mind-and-cognition

Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain. What comes out is a measly trickle of consciousness to help us stay alive.
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Istigkeit — 'Is-ness.' The Being of Platonic philosophy, perceived in a bunch of flowers shining with their own inner light.
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self-and-identity

To this new-born Not-self, the behavior of the self it had ceased to be seemed enormously irrelevant — how I longed to be left alone with Eternity in a flower.
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The schizophrenic is like a man permanently under mescalin, unable to shut off reality which he is not holy enough to live with.
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faith-and-doubt

Countless persons desire self-transcendence and would be glad to find it in church. But the hungry sheep look up and are not fed; disappointed, they turn to the bottle.
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The poor Indian has had the wit to supplement the fig leaf of theology with the breechclout of transcendental experience.
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