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Doors of Perception. Heaven and Hell. The Perennial Philosophy. Return to a Brave New World

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Doors of Perception. Heaven and Hell. The Perennial Philosophy. Return to a Brave New World
19.99 €
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 turbulent 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 is the search for ideal ways to expand consciousness. "Eternal Philosophy" (1945) - a brilliant study of the spiritual heritage of all the world's religions. This book is based on canonical texts, masterpieces of philosophical thought and world literature. "Return to a Wonderful New World" (1958) - 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 work of fiction - the novel "O Wonderful New World". Again and again Huxley compared the world of the distant future that he had fictionalized many years ago with the very real world that surrounded him at the time of the writing of The Return - and again and again he found signs of frightening, dangerous and increasingly obvious similarities....
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