The Doors of Perception. Heaven and Hell. The Perennial Philosophy. Brave New World Revisited

The Doors of Perception 1954 and Heaven and Hell 1956 are essays that became a kind of intellectual manifesto for fans of the psychedelic culture of the tumultuous sixties. They were admired by Carlos Castaneda and Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey... and Jim Morrison. They influenced the minds of hundreds of thousands of angry young people searching for a new meaning of existence. Their meaning and essence are the search for ideal paths to expanding consciousness. The Perennial Philosophy 1945 is a brilliant exploration of the spiritual heritage of all world religions. At the core of this book are canonical texts, masterpieces of philosophical thought and world literature. Brave New World Revisited 1958 is a work in which the great English writer and philosopher, in his polemical manner, drew parallels between the western civilization of the bourgeois golden age of the 1950s and the dystopian totalitarian consumer paradise described in his most famous literary work—the novel Brave New World. Again and again, Huxley compared the fictional world he created many years ago with the quite real world surrounding him at the time of writing Brave New World Revisited—and again and again he found signs of disturbing, dangerous, and increasingly evident similarities…