Aldous Huxley book The Doors of Perception
describing his experiment with mescaline, pp. 26-27
The Doors of Perception (1954)
“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large — this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual.”
— Aldous Huxley, book The Doors of Perception
The Doors of Perception (1954)
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