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![]() ![]() ![]() He thinks that the colors and ways of representing landscapes are similar to what people experience when they have visions of an "other world" or heaven, and we like these because they give us a glimpse of that world. In the second part of the book, Heaven and Hell, he talks about "transporting" artwork-stained glass, jewels, and certain kinds of paintings. He also advocates allowing the use of peyote over alcohol and tobacco because he thinks it has fewer downsides (and because he thinks people will always seek some kind of drug-induced escape from their lives). He is fascinated by details like chair legs, and he sees cosmic significance in them. This part of the book was highly entertaining. He has a psychiatrist present and records everything he says, so the account of his actions and experiences is presumably reliable. In the first part of the book, The Doors of Perception, he experiments with peyote. Huxley's theory is that the mind takes in all sorts of incredible experiences but that it then filters those (through what he calls the "reducing valve") into what we're conscious of. ![]()
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