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Re: The Doors Of Perception... [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
    #9304078 - 11/24/08 01:09 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

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I mean absolutely no asshole connotations here, but what's your point?



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I'm not entirely sure I ever have a point.  Anyone is free to perceive one from my posts though.  Simple information sharing.  Some posters above mentioned how Morrison derived the name "the doors" from Huxley's book in question.  I went off on another tangent explaining how Huxley very well could have been turned onto mescaline 24 years prior by someone who has influenced a huge number of other people, usually indirectly.  Huxley was an early white westerner to experiment with and write about psychedelics, but there were those before him.

And to those who consider Huxley's books pretentious and book-wormish, keep in mind that many writers of that era simply wrote that way.  It's going to read differently than a modern book.  Granted, I never read a Huxley book, so I am just posing an ignorant defense 
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Re: The Doors Of Perception... [Re: lavod]
    #9304288 - 11/24/08 01:51 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

Oh, ok.  I thought you were somehow implying some weird conspiracy shit about Crowley's book about mescaline not being published but Huxley's was.

All is good.  :smile:


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Re: The Doors Of Perception... [Re: theorganicdomino]
    #9308839 - 11/25/08 02:28 AM (15 years, 2 months ago)

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The Joyous Cosmology is a completely different take on this topic..Its like comparing Picasso's 'Weeping Woman' to Da Vinchi's 'Mona Lisa'; both pieces and by extension artists are brilliant in their own rights, as are these 2 books.




It doesn't stop me saying that I think one is better than the other though does it? I like The Doors of Perception, I just prefer the Watts book. Both are books on the same topic, albeit from different angles, therefore I don't see why I can't compare them.

I was just offering a subjective opinion, you seem to be disappearing up your own pretentious backside!




I was just offering my subjective opinion on the topic, you seem to miss this and jumped on it like I was attacking your opinion or something, disappearing up your own pretentious narcissistic backside, so it would appear. 

At no point did I say you were wrong.. All I said was that they're difficult to compare.




Your comment seemed to suggest that I was wrong to offer a comparison, as if one couldn't compare the Picasso and the Da Vinci - which one can, by the way I prefer the Da Vinci - therefore you seem to suggest I couldn't compare the Huxley and Watts as if their "brilliance" was on equal footing.

I totally disaggree with you, they're not difficult to compare, but it is all a matter of opinion - I don't mind people having different opinions - my complaint was that you seemed to reject my rights to have such a preference at all.

I just wondered what motivated you to respond in such a way to what was such a cut and dry throwaway recommendation.




Cause I'm a pretentious ass :grin:.

You can compare anything to anything, but in my opinion its not fair to do so.. the content of each book differs so much...The doors of perception is more of a trip report than anything, where he talks about his experience and puts it in context of his own earthly experience, whereas The Joyous Cosmology is more about philosophy and perception of self :shrug:.

Both authors come from different walks of life and approach the issues raised by the psychedelic experience differently (hence the Picasso / Da Vinchi comparison). The reason I hold the doors of perception in high regard is due to Aldous Huxeley's ability to convey the psychedelic experience in a language so completely inadequate


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