The Doors of Perception
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The Doors of Perception is Aldous Huxley’s influential 1954 essay detailing his mescaline-induced mystical experiences and exploring the nature of human perception and consciousness.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
essay
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non-fiction book → |
| author | Aldous Huxley NERFINISHED → |
| basedOn | mescaline session supervised by Humphry Osmond → |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom → |
| discusses |
brain as a reducing valve
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psychopharmacology of mescaline → relationship between art and vision → religious experience → |
| firstEditionFormat | hardcover → |
| followedBy | Heaven and Hell → |
| genre |
autobiographical essay
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philosophical literature → psychedelic literature → |
| hasDeweyDecimalClassification | 128 → |
| hasIsbn | 0060900075 → |
| hasLibraryOfCongressClassification | BF1999 .H9 → |
| hasOclcNumber | 702702 → |
| hasPart | Heaven and Hell → |
| influenced |
1960s counterculture
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The Doors → Timothy Leary → psychedelic movement → psychedelic research discourse → |
| inspiredBy | Aldous Huxley’s mescaline experience → |
| language | English → |
| mainSubject |
consciousness
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human perception → mescaline → mystical experience → |
| medium | print → |
| nonFictionSubject |
hallucinogenic drugs
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mysticism → philosophy of mind → psychology of perception → |
| openingTheme | limitations of ordinary perception → |
| pageCountApproximate | ~63 → |
| philosophicalFramework | perennial philosophy → |
| publicationYear | 1954 → |
| publisher | Chatto & Windus NERFINISHED → |
| references | William Blake → |
| setting | Los Angeles NERFINISHED → |
| title | The Doors of Perception → |
| titleDerivedFrom | William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell → |
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