The doors of perception, and, Heaven and hell
By: Aldous Huxley
Series: Penguin books -- 1351
Publisher: Penguin Books in association with Chatto & Windus
Published: 1959
Place of publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Peyote; Mescaline; Visions
Description: "Doors of perception" describes how the author submitted himself as a guinea pig to mescaline. "Heaven and hell" explains how drugs can take the experimenter into an unexplored world of the mind. This world can have the characteristics of heaven, but negative emotions will turn it into hell.
Notes: Essays.

Deposit, Julio Santo Domingo III, April 2012.

Forms part of the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection.

Deposit, Julio Santo Domingo III, April 2012.

Forms part of the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection.

With the bookplate of the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library on inside front cover.

"Reprinted 1960, 1961"--Title page verso.

"Reprinted 1960, 1961, 1963"--Title page verso.

Bound in publisher's printed orange and white paper covers; in prefab (23 cm).

Bound in publisher's illustrated paper covers; in prefab (23 cm).
Table of contents: title: The doors of perception; title: Heaven and hell