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The Doors of Perception was the first book Huxley dedicated to his wife Maria.
Huxley had used Blake's metaphor in The Doors of Perception while discussing the paintings of Vermeer and the Nain brothers, and previously in The Perennial Philosophy, once in relation to the use of mortification as a means to remove persistent spiritual myopia and secondly to refer to the absence of separation in spiritual vision.
It turned out, for certain temperaments, a seductive book .” For biographer David King Dunaway, The Doors of Perception, along with The Art of Seeing, can be seen as the closest Huxley ever came to autobiographical writing.
" For Steven J. Novak, The Doors Of Perception ( and Heaven and Hell ) redefined taking mescaline ( and LSD, although Huxley had not taken it until after he had written both books ) as a mystical experience with possible psychotherapeutic benefits, where physicians had previously thought of the drug in terms of mimicking a psychotic episode, known as psychotomimetic.
It was probably the criticisms of The Doors of Perception put forward by Robert Charles Zaehner, a professor at Oxford University, that formed the fullest and earliest critiques from a religious and philosophical perspective.
Although he acknowledged the importance of The Doors of Perception as a challenge to people interested in religious experience, he pointed out what he saw as inconsistencies and self-contradictions.
* May 5 – Aldous Huxley first tries the psychedelic hallucinogen mescaline, inspiring his book The Doors of Perception.
Aldous Huxley described his experience with mescaline in The Doors of Perception.
* The Doors of Perception
** Mind at Large ( concept in The Doors of Perception )
Marijuana use was associated with the subculture, and during the 1950s, Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception further influenced views on drugs.
* Aldous HuxleyThe Doors of Perception
Aldous Huxley took the name of one of his most famous works, The Doors of Perception, from this work, which in turn also inspired American rock band The Doors ' name.
* Aldous Huxley paraphrased the quotation in his 1954 book The Doors of Perception, writing " A rose is a rose is a rose.
* The Doors of Perception
As a result of his experience, Huxley produced an enthusiastic book called The Doors of Perception, describing the look of the Hollywood Hills and his reactions to artwork while under the influence.
Island explores many of the themes and ideas that interested Huxley in the post-World War II decades, and were the subject of many of his nonfiction books of essays, including Brave New World Revisited, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, The Doors of Perception, and The Perennial Philosophy.
He began but did not finish a doctoral thesis on Aldous Huxley ’ s Doors of Perception.
* Heaven and Hell ( essay ), a book by Aldous Huxley, sequel to The Doors of Perception
* Aldous Huxley ( 1894 – 1963 ), author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception
" The experience and history of the group are described in Smith's book Cleansing the Doors of Perception.
* Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals, 2000, Tarcher / Putnam, ISBN 1-58542-034-4, Council on Spiritual Practices, ISBN 1-889725-03-X, Sentient Publications, ISBN 1-59181-008-6
In 1954 Huxley recorded his experiences in the landmark book The Doors of Perception ; the title was drawn from a quotation by British artist and poet William Blake.

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Doors can be hinged so that the axis of rotation is not in the plane of the door to reduce the space required on the side to which the door opens.
MacLachlan is best known for his roles in cult films Blue Velvet as Jeffrey Beaumont, Showgirls as Zack Carey, as Paul Atreides in Dune, and Ray Manzarek in the Oliver Stone film The Doors.
' Forever Changes ' is like a horizontal slice of Los Angeles in 1967, when LA rivalled London as the centre of pop music. On this album, you can hear Tim Buckley's folk-meets-jazz, the Doors ' brooding rock with its arty leanings, Buffalo Springfield's folk / pop, early signs of LA's less mannered psychedelia and even a smidgin of the sheer pop prettiness of the likes of the Turtles and the Monkees.
The story is deliberately written as an elegiac farewell to the old conception of Mars, complete with canals and an ancient, dying Martian race, as " The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth " ( 1965 ) was his farewell to the Venus of earlier science fiction.
The Doors is the debut album by the American rock band The Doors, recorded in August 1966 and released in January 1967.
The Doors is a quiet book.
* July 3 – Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors is found dead in his bathtub in Paris, France.
* January 4 – The Doors ' self-titled debut album is released.
During this service the Canon of Great Saturday is repeated, at the end of which the priest and deacon take the epitaphios into the sanctuary through the Holy Doors and lay it on the Holy Table ( altar ), where it will remain until the feast of the Ascension.
Beggar-My-Neighbour ( alternatively Beggar-Thy-Neighbour or Beggar-Your-Neighbour, each a bowdlerization reflecting the substitution of " beggar " for " bugger "), also known by the etymologically unrelated names Jack Daniels, Beat Jack Out of Doors, Beat Your Neighbour Out of Doors, Beat your Neighbour Out of Town, Strip Jack Naked, Picture and Draw the Well Dry, is a simple card game somewhat similar in nature to War, and has spawned a more complicated variant, Egyptian Ratscrew.
Sigil, the " City of Doors ", is located atop the Spire in the Outlands.
Originally a stage actor, Kilmer is best known for his roles as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's The Doors, Doc Holliday in Tombstone and Bruce Wayne / Batman in Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever.
" Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi ", commonly known as " O Fortuna ", from Carmina Burana is often used to denote primal forces, for example in the Oliver Stone movie The Doors ..
For students interested in studying abroad, UNI is ranked fourth in the nation for the total number of students who study abroad among master's degree institutions, according to Open Doors 2002, the annual report on international education published by the Institute of International Education.
Secretary Shinseki sits on the Council, and is committed to the goal of ending Veterans homelessness by 2015 as laid out in Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness, which was released in 2010.
A bronze statue of Wild Wing is also located outside the team's arena ( located at the West side of the South Doors ), Honda Center.
* The Four Doors Room was the formal antechamber to the more important rooms in the palace, and the doors which give it its name are ornately framed in precious Eastern marbles ; each is surmounted by an allegorical sculptural group that refers to the virtues which should inspire those who took on the government responsibilities.
Other notable residents included Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, who exchanged marriage vows in a Celtic Pagan handfasting ceremony in June 1970 with The Doors singer Jim Morrison, and who is the author of twelve books ( and who knew Billy Hayes in high school ).
Billy Hayes was the subject of the autobiography and movie Midnight Express ( written and directed by Oliver Stone, in whose movie " The Doors " Kennealy-Morrison appears in a cameo and is portrayed by Kathleen Quinlan.
The Ed Sullivan Show is especially known to the World War II and baby boomer generations for introducing acts and airing breakthrough performances by popular 1960s musicians such as Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Supremes, The Beach Boys, The Jackson 5, The Rolling Stones, The Mamas & the Papas, The Lovin ' Spoonful, The Doors and Rosa Morena.
For example, John Lodge had gone from writing powerfully reflective mystical or humanitarian themed pieces such as " House of Four Doors ", " Candle of Life " and " One More Time To Live " to quirkier items such as " Here Comes The Weekend ", " Rock and Roll Over You " and " Love is On The Run ( From Me )", while Hayward's songs seemed less the deeper drama of numbers such as " The Actor ", " Dawning is the Day ", " You Can Never Go Home ", " The Land of Make Believe ", etc., to pleasant ( and more radio-friendly ) perennial far simpler songs about lost love and romance (" Your Wildest Dreams ", " No More Lies ", " I Know You're Out There Somewhere " etc .).

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