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 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 Philosophy Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Thought-Provoking
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Eloquent, thought provoking and packed with interesting ideas - including the use of "speaker pillows" to reassure the mentally fragile while they sleep!

Profound and lyrical

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A profund journey of alternating perception under mescaline, through which many questions arise, most notably: what is sanity, what is insanity?

Beautiful description of the changes we go though once we come out the door are

What’s been seen can’t be unseen

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A stunning short book about the possibilities that exist to expand your knowledge and your mind. We should never stop learning or trying to understand ourselves and our reason for being. A fabulous listen.

Mind opening

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This book was on my reading list for a long time. I enjoyed listening to it and found the account of his experience to be very interesting and well described. I particularly enjoyed the very last few minutes, where he describes his thoughts and views around this area of knowledge and competency after he had finished the account of his experience. It is also a piece of history, as well as being interesting in itself.

Fascinating account and thoughts on the subject

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Once I point out the narrator’s wheazey in take of breath after every few words, it’s all you’ll hear. Don’t smoke kids.

Having said that, thank goodness Aldous experimented with consciousness changing things which prompted this interesting essay and no doubt inspired his inspirational imagination.

Time for a new (less wheazey!) narration

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