Tag: psychedelics

  • The Doors of Perception, Huxley (1954)

    The Doors of Perception, Huxley (1954)

    Writing coherently about a psychedelic experience is not easy. Believe me, I’ve tried. The result is usually a mix of bad poetry and worse speechifying. (Evaluated under conditions of conventional perception, of course; if the doors of perception were cleansed, even claptrap appears as it truly is, infinitely adorable.) Huxley far surpasses coherence in Doors…