#the doors of perception
The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley
Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Philip K. Dick
The Silver Locusts, Ray Bradbury
Post link
Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception
A review and exploration.The brain, Aldous Huxley asserts, is like a reducing valve, filtering out great masses of unnecessary experiences, creating a unified, simple experience of the world. Although Huxley’s Doors of Perception is based around his experience of the consumption of the psychedelic drug mescaline, the wealth of wisdom within the book stretches far beyond that of speculation…
The things you enjoy, your emotions, and who you are- why some emotions persist and others do not
Why is it that when you listen to a piece of music, you feel a deep emotional connection to that piece of music, but as soon as the next piece of music comes on, your previous emotions are all but forgotten, replaced with the feelings the new piece of music induces? This may seem like an uncontroversial point, you may argue that that this is merely the nature of our experience of mediums like…
Society- the conscious mind’s push to evolve the subconscious?
Our unconscious urges and imagination are the driving forces of our overall nature, but when we confront them, they can seem completely strange to us. The unmitigated primal quality behind the social self seems uncivilised and uncultivated. Our higher self must indeed have a profound part to play in channelling our raw nature into the nature we know and experience.
J G Ballard’s book The…
