Comments on: Literary Review: ‘The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell’ by Aldous Huxley

By: Literary Review: ‘Artificial Paradises’ by Mike Jay [ed.] « Psychedelic Press UK

Mon, 14 May 2012 17:34:20 +0000

[...] from the more obvious inclusions, like Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception (1954), Timothy Leary’s Flashbacks (1983) and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four (1889), [...]

By: Literary Review: ‘Drugtakers in an English Town’ by Martin A. Plant « Psychedelic Press UK

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:19:30 +0000

[...] by extension, from the information garnered by Plant from his study group. Specifically the books The Doors of Perception (1954) by Aldous Huxley and The Psychedelic Experience (1964) by Timothy Leary et al. are often [...]

By: Resonance Dreaming: Nitrous Oxide, Nos and Hippie Crack « Psychedelic Press UK

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:22:32 +0000

[...] tempered explanation of consciousness as read through the use of psychedelics and described in The Doors of Perception (1954). When the reducing valves of consciousness are opened, and the evolutionary-biological [...]

By: Literary Review: ‘A Drug-Taker’s Notes’ by Richard Heron Ward « Psychedelic Press UK

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:41:46 +0000

[...] the argument. Thirdly, however, the book appears to be a reply to Aldous Huxley’s two essays The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell. Ward argues against Huxley’s contention that drugs give us access to the beatific vision, which [...]

By: Interview: Roger Keen « Psychedelic Press UK

Interview: Roger Keen « Psychedelic Press UK — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:21:08 +0000

[...] on him: “As with so many other people, the first work of psy-lit to make a big impact on me was The Doors of Perception, which I read in my late teens. Aldous Huxley was already familiar to me as a novelist and his [...]

By: Literary Review: ‘Miserable Miracle’ By Henri Michaux « Psychedelic Press UK

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:05:53 +0000

[...] intellectual circles. Its use spawned several literary explorations, most notably Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception, a book that Michaux had already read before embarking on the publication his own book Miserable [...]

By: Literary Review: ‘Salvia Divinorum’ by J. D. Arthur « Psychedelic Press UK

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:39:18 +0000

[...] deal of other psychedelic literature) and is reminiscent of Aldous Huxley’s position in the ‘Doors of Perception.’ Although certainly not as poetic as Huxley – Arthur’s style is markedly more [...]

By: Psychedelic Medicine News » Blog Archive » Interview: Andy Roberts

Psychedelic Medicine News » Blog Archive » Interview: Andy Roberts — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:09:19 +0000

[...] cites such psychedelic texts as Timothy Leary’s ‘Politics of Ecstasy’, Huxley’s ‘Doors of Perception’ and the less well-known writer (in the UK at least) Stephen Gaskin as influences. Gaskin’s [...]

By: Interview: Andy Roberts « Psychedelic Press UK

Interview: Andy Roberts « Psychedelic Press UK — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:03:28 +0000