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Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience

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Description for Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience Paperback. Selected writings from the author of Brave New Worldand The Doors of Perceptionon the role of psychedelics in society. Editor(s): Horowitz, Michael; Palmer, Cynthia. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
In May 1953 Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescaline. The mystical and transcendent experience that followed set him off on an exploration that was to produce a revolutionary body of work about the inner reaches of the human mind. Huxley was decades ahead of his time in his anticipation of the dangers modern culture was creating through explosive population increase, headlong technological advance, and militant nationalism, and he saw psychedelics as the greatest means at our disposal to ""remind adults that the real world is very different from the misshapen universe they have created for themselves by ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Park Street Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Rochester, United States
ISBN
9780892817580
SKU
V9780892817580
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Ref
99-15

About Aldous Huxley
Michael Horowitz and Cynthia Palmer are the directors of the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library in San Francisco, the only library in the world devoted exclusively to the literature of mind-altering drugs. Michael Horowitz was Timothy Leary’s archivist and is coauthor of The High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs. Palmer and Horowitz live in northern California.

Reviews for Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
"Moksha is more than a book about psychedelics
although it may well be the most intelligent, well-rounded one of its kind. It is also another chance to spend hours in Huxley's fascinating company as he talks about art, literature, religion, psychology, and ecology."
Los Angeles Times
"A remarkably stimulating, worthwhile volume."
Publishers Weekly
"This book collects all ... Read more

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