The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell - Aldous Huxley

What do you get if you take one of the century's most imaginative science fiction writers, give him a dose of powerful hallucinogenic drug and get him to record the results? The Doors of Perception, that's what. The title is from Jim Morrison's favourite William Blake quote: "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite". Huxley uses this concept to express his theory of how drugs act upon the mind. He sees mescalin and LSD as tools to enable us to bypass the 'filters' within the mind that usually block out all the sensory information that is deemed unnecessary for survival. Only ...