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  2. The Doors of Perception - Wikipedia

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    The Doors of Perception is an autobiographical book written by Aldous Huxley. Published in 1954, it elaborates on his psychedelic experience under the influence of mescaline in May 1953. Huxley recalls the insights he experienced, ranging from the "purely aesthetic" to "sacramental vision", [ 1 ] and reflects on their philosophical and ...

  3. Heaven and Hell (essay) - Wikipedia

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    Heaven and Hell is a philosophical essay by Aldous Huxley published in 1956. Huxley derived the title from William Blake's book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.The essay discusses the relationship between bright, colorful objects, geometric designs, psychoactives, art, and profound experience.

  4. Mind at Large - Wikipedia

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    This is as near, I take it, as a finite mind can ever come to ‘perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe'. The Doors of Perception, p.6. Huxley makes a total of eight references to 'Mind at Large' in The Doors of Perception. Huxley did not use the term again, or elsewhere, in his published writings.

  5. Microsoft Opens the Doors of Perception - AOL

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    "And suddenly I had an inkling of what it must feel like to be mad."-- Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception (1954) Instead of opening the doors of perception, it's more like Microsoft (NAS: MSFT ...

  6. Aldous Huxley - Wikipedia

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    After the publication of The Doors of Perception, in which he recounted this experience, Huxley and Swami Prabhavananda disagreed about the meaning and importance of the psychedelic drug experience, which may have caused the relationship to cool, but Huxley continued to write articles for the society's journal, lecture at the temple, and attend ...

  7. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - Wikipedia

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    Aldous Huxley took the name of one of his most famous works, The Doors of Perception, from this work. The Doors of Perception, in turn, inspired the name of the American rock band The Doors. [9] Huxley's contemporary C. S. Lewis wrote The Great Divorce about the divorce of Heaven and Hell, in response to Blake's Marriage.

  8. ESPN's 'Around the Horn' coming to an end in 2025 - AOL

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    ESPN talk show "Around the Horn" will go off the air next summer, ending a more than two-decade run on weekday afternoons. The Athletic and the New York Post previously reported that the ...

  9. Aldous Huxley bibliography - Wikipedia

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    He grew interested in philosophical mysticism [13] [14] and universalism, [15] addressing these subjects with works such as The Perennial Philosophy (1945)—which illustrates commonalities between Western and Eastern mysticism—and The Doors of Perception (1954)—which interprets his own psychedelic experience with mescaline.