The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell

Among the most profound and influential explorations of mind-expanding psychedelic drugs ever written, this landmark work of consciousness exploration includes two complete classic books—The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell—in which Aldous Huxley reveals the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. This edition also features an additional essay, 'Drugs That Shape Men's Minds.' It details Huxley's firsthand psychedelic experience with mescalin, the theory of the brain as a 'reducing valve,' visionary art and perception, and the nature of heaven and hell in visionary states.