Book Review: Aldous Huxley -- The Doors of Perception

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  • @squilliamdafoe4648
    @squilliamdafoe4648 11 років тому +122

    Fun fact: this book inspired the band name for "The Doors"

    • @Oleporcoocta08
      @Oleporcoocta08 6 років тому +3

      Oh Really? lol

    • @noeditbookreviews
      @noeditbookreviews 4 роки тому +2

      I guessed that they got the name from the dmt "doorway." "Break on through to the other side."

    • @barryg528
      @barryg528 4 роки тому +2

      One of my favorite bands

    • @david86dixon
      @david86dixon 4 роки тому +2

      Cool fact: Alan watts actually inspired Huxley with write the title ‘doors’

    • @muireanndaly3385
      @muireanndaly3385 3 роки тому +2

      That’s why I’m here

  • @gilbertrobert439
    @gilbertrobert439 3 роки тому +6

    I have experienced timelessness and the god consciousness on acid 4 years ago. Psychonauts call it "ego death". I was taken over by my higher self, it was me but the intensity of the experience of " being" was amplified. Time is static, right here right now, that's all there is. And consciousness is eternal. Eternity is here and now.

  • @megafone11
    @megafone11 10 років тому +49

    I think what the book is basically about can be understood in this quote:
    “That humanity at large will ever be able to dispense with Artificial Paradises seems very unlikely. Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.”
    In our times theres lots of legal ways to do so that are not good for you, while mescaline that is a pretty good and elevated way to do so, is illegal and not divulgated...
    I personally tried(and still do), ecxept shrooms and mescaline(hope to try it as soon as it gets), everything, and none of the substances never had made me to loose control such as alcohol.
    Alcohol is far more bad for us than narcotics.
    -Doctors are drugdillers with a license.-
    If you understand the substance buy learning it you would be abale to "prescribe" your own "prescription" and enjoy it at it best.
    (I read the book in italian-apologise for my probably not so good english)

    • @likyepetti
      @likyepetti 4 роки тому +1

      Mescaline can be find in legal cactus sush as San Pedro, you can buy it online, I personally tried mescaline for the first time through that cactus.

    • @megafone11
      @megafone11 4 роки тому +1

      @@likyepetti That's great! Do you know weather they ship to Italy? And one more thing, how much is it online? And how much is usually for?

    • @megafone11
      @megafone11 4 роки тому +2

      @@likyepetti Another quastion, have you done it with trusted friends, or by yourself?

    • @likyepetti
      @likyepetti 4 роки тому

      @@megafone11 Ah sei ita haha, ho ordinato su zamnesia, però ci sono altri siti che te la vendono già in polvere ed è più comoda. Se hai telegram contattami qua @Ashtarith che ti posso spiegare meglio.

  • @johnallen2771
    @johnallen2771 11 років тому +9

    i read this book when i was a teenager in the 60s while i was experimenting with lsd. it is a totally good read just like the yaqui way of knowledge , i'm probably a much better person because of it and i never had a bad trip..

  • @hosseinmaaref9970
    @hosseinmaaref9970 7 років тому +13

    i'd read the book way after the first time i took psychedelic drugs(in fact, mescaline for the first time) and reading it was just wonderful and even funny. this is not only about how much experiences i had in common within the lines. it's about common thinking through the meaning of life, joy, peace, success and ego and how much spiritual the life we live can be. now i can say there were a lot of stuff about me which i used to look forward to and now they just don't make any scence anymore-after the trips and stuff- but it doesn't has anything to do with nihilisim and shit. it's just knowing me way better than before, in a more stable state of mind.

  • @deeroycroft
    @deeroycroft 11 років тому +5

    Interesting to note: Huxley was virtually blind, and in recounting his experiences he is enthralled by the visual experiences he's having. He kept commenting, "This is how one ought to see."

  • @LanguageOfTheMad
    @LanguageOfTheMad 5 років тому +22

    I feel the word 'Drug' has negative connotations

    • @patrickpeanuts1126
      @patrickpeanuts1126 4 роки тому

      Have you never heard of a drug store?

    • @patrickpeanuts1126
      @patrickpeanuts1126 4 роки тому

      It’s another name for a pharmacy

    • @sandermanx681
      @sandermanx681 3 роки тому

      @@patrickpeanuts1126 Poignant observation. Doesn't really refute their claim.

  • @MrJanja93
    @MrJanja93 11 років тому +6

    Perception that is linked to neither space or time is pretty interesting stuff. The whole world seems spatio-temporally ordered totally, it's hard to even imagine taking those away.

  • @muzzleray
    @muzzleray 5 років тому +3

    There's a special shout out at the very end of the credits of the movie Doctor Strange to this book, which brought me here.

  • @Glowworm546
    @Glowworm546 12 років тому +1

    I know I wasn't religious or anything till after a few years ago experimenting. I felt I have grown as a person, I look at life differently. I've experienced my third eye and what it means to be a devotee. My goals in life are altered, I love more and worry less. I'm definitely not as materially motivated in life. Death is a real dilemma that isn't as taboo. After experiencing what I have experienced I can really say that there is more to being human

  • @jcd3869
    @jcd3869 3 роки тому +2

    Wow I was amazed in the first five minutes of your review as it sounded just like the same result as the Buddhist, Taoist, mindfulness practice...no drugs required to be amazed by all that is right here now in front of us. Shed thoughts and the mind and all that is left is right here right now. Release the noise and the world comes right to us in all its beauty.

  • @maciej.ratajczak
    @maciej.ratajczak 3 роки тому +8

    5:39 - Aldous Huxley was more or less humored at the fact that humans tried so hard to symbolize things and make a dent in the world with their self-absorption and placing it into an art form.

  • @itseveryday8600
    @itseveryday8600 2 місяці тому

    He moved to America and got involved in research into LSD at Harvard University during the 1950s.
    He wrote about his pleasant experience listening to classic music while high on LSD.

  • @BryanEKS89
    @BryanEKS89 12 років тому +2

    Aldous Huxley = most brilliant writer/thinker ever.

  • @eahs07
    @eahs07 10 років тому +2

    Everyone should read 'Island'. It's Huxley's counterpart to BNW and much more insightful, in my opinion. It includes a brilliant depiction of a trip on mushrooms that is incredibly accurate. The book really makes you wonder about technological progress and its dangers.

    • @DeanGoranites
      @DeanGoranites  10 років тому

      It's been on my to read list for too long.

    • @timespaceperspective701
      @timespaceperspective701 10 років тому

      loved brave new world and definitely intrigued by Island :)

    • @187erikk
      @187erikk 8 років тому

      sounds interesting

  • @georgejacob3162
    @georgejacob3162 3 роки тому

    Good review! I'll get this book. I've heard Aldous Huxley speak about his tripping experiences and how he appreciates natural forms more and not man made forms. This also reminds me of a story a friend of mine told me when they had taken a drug at a local park. He told me that he and his friend were at one with nature but were 'laughing at buildings'! I guess they had seen the self-absorbed aspect of the architect in the architecture of the building. He also said that instead of seeing cars on the way home he was seeing Unicorns! But yes I agree that we really should look at the nature around us lin a wondrous way like the first time we have seen it.

  • @zepprx
    @zepprx 11 років тому +1

    I hope this book doesn't define your impression of Aldous Huxley. His book "Brave New World" is so much more intellectual and profound. Most remarkable is his ability in 1931 to project and paint a futuristic world where drugs and genetic engineering are used to produce, control, and maintain a hierarchical society... seemingly peacefully, but in reality, the whole scenario is a satire, which is subtly evident throughout the book, but especially at the end.

  • @tuckersmoak6632
    @tuckersmoak6632 3 роки тому +1

    nothing quite like coming down from a major lsd trip in 2021 by watching a high school book report given by a dude that might as well been my older brothers shaddy friend who was peddling me drugs to start with.

  • @DeanGoranites
    @DeanGoranites  11 років тому +1

    Haha yeah you're right -- I'm aware of that too, the trouble is living that life without having to use mushrooms to get there.

  • @Ellotus13
    @Ellotus13 12 років тому

    I live in Finland and I've searched all of the library databases and the major bookstores and none of them have Infinite Jest on their shelves. I've listened to some interviews of him and he seems like a very bright guy and an interesting artist. And by the way, I appericiate your effort to do these reviews, very good quality material!

  • @m47131
    @m47131 9 років тому +33

    As adults we needs drugs to keep us from being close minded. Anything can be anything, logic is boring and too mundane.

    • @mohicanmowl
      @mohicanmowl 6 років тому +1

      Lol

    • @herberthuncke1288
      @herberthuncke1288 6 років тому +2

      took every drug under the sun to try n shut my mind up...if ye need drugs to open u up, ur not an artist

    • @mrbiscuits915
      @mrbiscuits915 5 років тому

      @@herberthuncke1288 everyone is different

    • @andrewtoebbe3885
      @andrewtoebbe3885 5 років тому +2

      Logic is beautiful

    • @davebryan1890
      @davebryan1890 5 років тому +2

      Without logic you'd be fucked, best to have a balance between that and spontaneity

  • @drilldrulus1235
    @drilldrulus1235 2 роки тому

    You stimulate the Brain centre by doing a repetitive mental task like drawing many circles or other geometric forms.

  • @DeanGoranites
    @DeanGoranites  11 років тому +1

    I've read it -- I like both for different reasons. I like how straight from the heart this one is. While BNW was certainly brilliant, it almost seems corny at this point, so over examined and propped up that it's lost something in that you know everything it has to offer, the message it conveys, completely, before you read it. I've read it twice, in fact, and still can remember no character names. I do remember Soma, though, and the wildlife-esk preserves, the human engineering...but not plot.

  • @benclark1054
    @benclark1054 5 років тому +1

    Great review. Keep doing what you're doing

  • @generaldilvry69
    @generaldilvry69 4 роки тому

    Classic. One thing holding the literature back from a true masterpiece is how Huxley’ writing seems to purposefully state contradictions to prove a point. We got it dude.

  • @Ellotus13
    @Ellotus13 12 років тому

    That happens when there's an ocean between, some things change to the worse. But it's kinda the same, that to get the not-so known Beat generation books (such as anything from Burroghts other than Naked Luch) you have to go to the bigger cities. But that's just the way it is and it is balanced with very obscure and unknown books in smaller libraries.

  • @jbrown479
    @jbrown479 12 років тому

    good suggestion...another cool read..."To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet to remain in a condition to survive as an animal, to think and feel as a human being, to resort whenever expedient to systematic reasoning. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be." it reminds me of the zen proverb "before enlightenment chop wood carry water, after enlightenment chop wood carry water."

  • @Ali-pw1hu
    @Ali-pw1hu 5 років тому

    Did you say that the author implies that humans spend way too much time absorbed with what is inside rather than the outside world??
    Because I totally got it the opposite way

    • @ethansAMAZINGworld
      @ethansAMAZINGworld 5 років тому

      I think psychedelics teach each person what they need to know. The main lessons that he took away is probably going to be very different than yours or mine

  • @jordanwade94
    @jordanwade94 12 років тому

    hey just wanted to know how often you get books sent to you?? being that im in year 12 and without a job i dont have any money but when i do obtain some ill buy my favs and send you them ;)

  • @johnallen2771
    @johnallen2771 5 років тому +1

    Our perception is based largely on our eyes and ears. They take center stage over the rest of the senses and tell our mind basically what's going on. Our ears and our eyes are limited without the aid of such things as microscopes and radio receivers. Maybe someday they will learn of a radio that can repeat what was playing at some date or time in history. That will certainly change the way we look at ourselves. As we look inward to study the Godhead, we look outward to study the physical realm. We should interact with our outside environment because it is a critical component of the relationship which is inside and outside. Then we can report our findings to the collective consciousness when we return to the Godhead.

  • @waedjradi
    @waedjradi 3 роки тому

    The part about music at 06:03; too true, too true.

  • @chaoukimachreki6422
    @chaoukimachreki6422 3 роки тому

    It's weird that none of the comments talk about the sunglasses on his head!!!!!

  • @markheithorn3905
    @markheithorn3905 3 роки тому +1

    Its great to see book reviews
    on You Tube. I am tempted to read ,"Brave New World".
    There is a Mike Wallace interview of Aldous Huxley available on You Tube. Very interesting conversation.
    Thanks for the video.

  • @jordanwade94
    @jordanwade94 12 років тому +1

    This sounds really interesting, thanks for showing these reviews!

  • @thazzchair
    @thazzchair 12 років тому

    I'm glad we're reading Moby-Dick at the same time! I absolutely love it, but I've got a ways to go still. Also--Would you read more Camus, do you think? I picked up a copy of The Plague yesterday and I'm pretty excited to read it.

  • @AbbaForensis
    @AbbaForensis 12 років тому

    Also, I said that last response towards the beginning of this video, but I'll definitely have to read this book. A lot of times I try and look at the world like how you explained, and my friends will say things like, "It's a tree, not a work of art." But that statement is just so funny and sad to me at the same time. Thank you soooo much! I definitely know the next book I'm reading.

  • @MsMike344
    @MsMike344 6 років тому

    Well done review bro. Best of luck on any further reviews.

  • @Glowworm546
    @Glowworm546 12 років тому

    So it's hard to say if that was the reason. I definitely and stand by this that it is not necessary to take drugs at all to have a genuine spiritual experience. That being said the ontological essence-ish doesn't discriminate to a "pure of heart" (Seeing God). Which becomes easier when the mind isn't so wrapped in associating it's nature to that which it isn't. It's you and your ego and your thoughts put into this literal trip. You should read The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Campbell

  • @Ellotus13
    @Ellotus13 12 років тому

    You should read Neuromancer by William Gibson and due it is very expensive and hard to get a copy of Infinite Jest where I live, would you kindly do a review of it and open it a bit, 'cause you have referred to it so many times and my interest is beginning to grow.

  • @Glowworm546
    @Glowworm546 12 років тому

    You did this for me

  • @Red1John
    @Red1John 11 років тому

    nice review, :)
    i need to read that book first, but i didn't find the complete version pdf, someone to help me, where could i find it ?
    n' thanks !

  • @sarahumphreville4088
    @sarahumphreville4088 3 роки тому

    8 years later

  • @jordanwade94
    @jordanwade94 12 років тому

    how are you finding it? interesting?

  • @george_MF_washington
    @george_MF_washington 7 років тому +1

    Wow. Extremely interesting. I might as well give it a try (not the drug, but the novel).
    I guess this makes sense for the natives who felt a connection with nature and their story's.

  • @amarfateen
    @amarfateen 5 років тому +2

    I'm here because of Bandersnatch... Anyone else?

  • @jordanwade94
    @jordanwade94 12 років тому

    well im 17 and 6 months of 12th grade left(aussie schools years are laid out differently :P). umm its really hard to make a 'top 5' but ive got some you might(??) be interested in. But im looking for a job so maybe in a month or two ill go pick up some and send you them. :D

  • @PninianPnin
    @PninianPnin 12 років тому

    That's good enough for me! Haha, my guess is that it's way beyond just a sailing story about the sea, so I'll still read it! Damn, you've nearly got 2 thousand subscribers, congrats!!!!!

  • @SmithMetal84
    @SmithMetal84 12 років тому

    I'm almost positive no one will believe me (I seem to be saying that a lot...), but both my father and his mother claim that Aldous Huxley is my great(-great?) uncle. I myself question the validity of this, apparently he's some far-off cousin or something of my grandmother. It would rule if it was true. Idk. But anyway good review.

  • @iDrEaMyyxD1
    @iDrEaMyyxD1 11 років тому +2

    This was eye opening

  • @hipsterscout1
    @hipsterscout1 11 років тому +1

    please read and review V for venteta

  • @Christopher_Pug
    @Christopher_Pug Рік тому

    Was someone just fondling the microphone the entire time you were talking? How does this have tens of thousands of views 😂

  • @DeanGoranites
    @DeanGoranites  11 років тому

    Sweet idea. I bet it was enjoyable to write.

  • @PninianPnin
    @PninianPnin 12 років тому

    I reckon you'll get there by next week, you're becoming quite a prolific booktuber now!

  • @SaveAD
    @SaveAD 12 років тому

    Ender's Game??

  • @jucurtis23
    @jucurtis23 12 років тому +3

    there's a killer on the road....people are strange....come on baby light my fire.....

  • @michellemigliaccio
    @michellemigliaccio 4 роки тому

    I wish I was required to read Brave New World in school, I could have adapted my world perspective at an earlier age. Maybe that's why it wasn't required reading, didn't want a bunch of young children questioning society's principles or free thinking

  • @drilldrulus1235
    @drilldrulus1235 2 роки тому

    naked and clean perception maskulin
    erase the conceptual part of the mind

  • @sintonatium
    @sintonatium 11 років тому

    great review man!! subscribed.

  • @DeanGoranites
    @DeanGoranites  11 років тому

    Well thanks! And Moby-Dick is up and running -- search for it if you wanna watch!

  • @matthunterrlf
    @matthunterrlf 12 років тому

    ha...i must admit i stole that from david lee roth..i heard him warn fans in an interview not to put their van halen albums in with their other albums because the other albums would melt..he also told the interviewer he recently stopped jogging...yeah moby dick...sometimes i re-read "the symphony" chapter just to hear ahab tell starbuck to stay on board...its like ahab is soooo close to saying fuck it lets turn back...one of the most devastating chapters in any book ive read

  • @PninianPnin
    @PninianPnin 12 років тому

    I know the feeling, I will one day read Moby Dick! Although I do have one last question which is a stupid one but oh well: If you have a deep hatred for the sea, is it possible to enjoy this book? lol

  • @lauriemarvel
    @lauriemarvel 11 років тому

    Thanks so much, I'm gonna make it one of my reads for sure. Enjoyed the vid, thanks, waiting on Moby Dick! I'm kinda excited to hear what your gonna say about it.

  • @PninianPnin
    @PninianPnin 12 років тому

    Have you ever read Ulysses? :)

  • @callen607
    @callen607 5 років тому

    this video said posted '7 years ago' and the date is 2012 gaaaaaa wtf

  • @swordofcoffee
    @swordofcoffee 3 роки тому

    God you mike tyson your mike in the first minute, dude.

  • @willsi
    @willsi 12 років тому

    Yeah, that's pretty much any psychedelic in a nutshell, haha. On his deathbed he had his wife (?) give him LSD. Cool guy, Huxley. Can't wait for 'M-D,' bro!

  • @DeanGoranites
    @DeanGoranites  11 років тому

    Hmm. I was going off the pronunciation I had heard in Zoolander, haha.

  • @Glowworm546
    @Glowworm546 12 років тому

    hmm well I wouldn't say that it's all from psychedelics. I just think it was a catalyst for new perception change. Well I've done Mushrooms, LSD, MDMA and DMT multiple times. Mushrooms being the probably most intense. DMT being the most interesting. MDMA being very sensual. LSD being the easiest to 'control'. I seldom do them anymore but on rare occasions. I don't get the same impact they don't take me to the same dark tunnels. I feel very psychic if I take them these days. Cerebral

  • @Glowworm546
    @Glowworm546 12 років тому

    P.S. Moby Dick is my favorite piece of fiction. Just flows like dream, excellent excellent piece of literature

  • @billykirby9703
    @billykirby9703 11 років тому

    Awesome book review!

  • @English-n7i
    @English-n7i 3 дні тому

    Don't able to understand this work 😢

  • @timothywright3130
    @timothywright3130 8 років тому +7

    God your microphone...

  • @DeanGoranites
    @DeanGoranites  11 років тому

    I can hear that. Point well taken.

  • @isaacmediatv9051
    @isaacmediatv9051 3 роки тому

    great job

  • @AndrewHarmsArtwork
    @AndrewHarmsArtwork 12 років тому +1

    Great book!

  • @louieplusflexxx
    @louieplusflexxx 11 років тому

    Great review

  • @michaelray4548
    @michaelray4548 11 років тому +2

    I'm so immature.

  • @matthunterrlf
    @matthunterrlf 12 років тому

    fuck...i left the punchline out...roth told the interviewer he recently stopped jogging...when asked why he replied "my drink kept spilling"

  • @DeanGoranites
    @DeanGoranites  11 років тому

    I knooow. I need a sitter. Someone I could trust to guide a first timer.

  • @NebulaTechChannel
    @NebulaTechChannel 12 років тому

    You're the Anthony Fantano of books.

  • @AbbaForensis
    @AbbaForensis 12 років тому +1

    Everyone in my class, while reading 1984, hated the book and found it really boring, and it made me so upset at everyone. xD

  • @kylabear21250
    @kylabear21250 12 років тому

    ive been trying to read moby dick forever now, its great but the writing is so old that its a pain.

  • @michaelray4548
    @michaelray4548 11 років тому +4

    Moby Dick is large.........pfffffffff hahahahahahahah!

  • @pillowsk3
    @pillowsk3 11 років тому

    I've also heard it pronounced pay-oh-tee too, but never pee-oh-tee hahah

  • @DeanGoranites
    @DeanGoranites  11 років тому

    Totally agree with ya.

  • @PninianPnin
    @PninianPnin 12 років тому

    Really? Wow, that's a good piece of info there, anything that's good enough for McCarthy's good enough for me! I started reading Ulysses and damn it's about the weirdest thing I've ever read. There's traces of it that are redolant in Blood Meridian actually. Ahh so many people love Moby-Dick and the more I read about it the more I flirt with the prospect of reading it. I've heard Moby-Dick is one of those books that sometimes makes you want to throw it against the wall, can you confirm? lol

  • @DeanGoranites
    @DeanGoranites  11 років тому

    Thanks!

  • @DeanGoranites
    @DeanGoranites  11 років тому

    Awesome.

  • @harryfarmer3847
    @harryfarmer3847 4 роки тому

    In order to truly understand it, you need to have taken some trips.

  • @DeanGoranites
    @DeanGoranites  11 років тому

    awesome.

  • @jordanwade94
    @jordanwade94 12 років тому

    possible psychology?? XD

  • @DeanGoranites
    @DeanGoranites  11 років тому

    So i hear!

  • @maninthebox2976
    @maninthebox2976 6 років тому +1

    brasil campeaooo

  • @DeanGoranites
    @DeanGoranites  11 років тому

    Haha thanks so much man!

  • @throatgorge2
    @throatgorge2 11 років тому +11

    oh dude, you should totally do psychedelics. It is life changing.

    • @bronktug2446
      @bronktug2446 4 роки тому

      throatgorge2 don’t cast pearl before swine, you’ll only waste your time

    • @jackslepowron5905
      @jackslepowron5905 Рік тому

      Yes just be careful of course

  • @jaredduran3828
    @jaredduran3828 6 років тому

    i like it very much

  • @louieplusflexxx
    @louieplusflexxx 11 років тому

    Thsnks bud

  • @kennybuckets7384
    @kennybuckets7384 4 роки тому

    Any1 else here from dr strange?

  • @DeanGoranites
    @DeanGoranites  11 років тому

    Thanks :)

  • @christlikemike6671
    @christlikemike6671 3 роки тому

    Brave new world is classed as fiction if you ask me he is a prophet we are living in the brave new world.