Opening the Doors of Perception: The Key to Cosmic Awareness (16pt Large Print Edition)

In 1954 Aldous Huxleys hugely influential book The Doors of Perception was published. Huxleys title is taken from William Blakes 1793 book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. In this Blake makes the following observation: If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is Infinite. For man has closed himself up till he sees all things thro narrow chinks of his cavern. Opening the Doors of Perception will update Huxleys work and suggest process and procedures whereby man can indeed perceive reality in its true glory. The concept of the scale of transcendence is analysed in great detail and suggests that there is a scale of perceptions whereby the doors of perception are slowly opened and bit by bit they reveal the true nature of reality as suggested by most esoteric teachings and mystic traditions. Most human beings perceive the doors as being securely closed. However there are occasions when the doors become slightly ajar and allow fleeting glimpses of what the Gnostics called The Pleroma. For normal people these glimpses are experienced during fleeting noetic experiences. However for others the doors are prized upon by certain neurological processes starting with migraine and progressing through various altered-states such as temporal lobe epilepsy bi-polar syndrome autism and finally when the doors are fully open schizophrenia.