The Doors of Perception (First American Edition)
New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1954. First American Edition. Hardcover. “’One bright May morning,’ writes Mr. Huxley, ‘I swallowed four-tenths of a gram of mescalin [sic] dissolved in half a glass of water and sat down to wait for the results.’ One of the results was this most unusual and compelling book. Mescalin is the active principle of peyote—the desert cactus long used by the Indians of Mexico and..... More
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