If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
–William Blake
Is it possible today, in the climate of fear created by the war on drugs, to write a book on the entheogens with the informed objectivity of Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, the understanding that Albert Hofmann accorded the topic in LSD: My Problem Child, the expertise Gordon Wasson brought to it in his Soma, and the open-mindedness with which William James approached the subject in The Varieties of Religious Experience? And is the reading public ready for such a book?
"Excerpts from
Cleansing the Doors of Perception
The Religious Significance of
Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals"
by Huston Smith
12/1/06
"The Doors of Perception"
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
–William Blake
Is it possible today, in the climate of fear created by the war on drugs, to write a book on the entheogens with the informed objectivity of Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, the understanding that Albert Hofmann accorded the topic in LSD: My Problem Child, the expertise Gordon Wasson brought to it in his Soma, and the open-mindedness with which William James approached the subject in The Varieties of Religious Experience? And is the reading public ready for such a book?
"Excerpts from
Cleansing the Doors of Perception
The Religious Significance of
Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals"
by Huston Smith
