The Doors of Perception - Aldous HUXLEY
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Far from
the fantastic surreal new brave world, Huxley talks here about drugs,
schizophrenia, art and religion.
I
couldn't agree with all of his assumptions, however they just might open a new
possibility of transcendental scientific research, other than that, what he
says of arts keeps a very subjective tune, despite the poignant apothegms he
gets into his use, to which one unwillingly relates, and might harm one's
feelings such as : "Thus, it seems virtually certain that I shall never
know what it feels like to be Sir John Falstaff...", for I too have
"a kind of alacrity in sinking"...
The
appendixes are pêle-mêle.
Broadly,
it casts a new light on the modern understanding of spirituality and theology,
and a tiny aperçu of what chemistry in our blood can do.
"The
mind is its own place, and the Places inhabited by the insane and the
exceptionally gifted are so different from the places where ordinary men and
women live, that there is little or no common ground of memory to serve as a
basis for understanding or fellow feeling. Words are uttered but fail to
enlighten. The things and events to which the symbols refer belong to mutually
exclusive realms of experience"
- June,
2017
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