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