The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The Huxley.

Of course, it would take a phenomenal writer of his caliber to spearhead the romance of the '60s, the American Enlightenment, the spiritual revolution that eventually went nowhere because that's humanity.

And yet, it was a good dream. A dream of artists and changing one's perceptions with or without hallucinogens, of touching the true nature of reality, of getting down to the true platonic idea. Of seeing the terrain. And not just the map.

No matter who you are, it's still a worthwhile read, if not just for its place in history, then for its place in developing human consciousness.

It's something we've just about lost.

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