Moksha. Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience (1931-1963).
New York: Stonehill Publishing, 1977. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in brown cloth binding in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light wear to spine ends and a small chip to the bottom edge of the rear panel. Moksha, a Sanskrit word meaning "liberation," is a collection of selected writings from the author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception on the role of psychedelics in society. Includes letters and lectures by Huxley never published Much of Huxley's writings following his 1953 mescaline experiment can be seen as his attempt to reveal the power of these substances to awaken a sense of the sacred in people living in a technological society hostile to mystical revelations.elsewhere. In May 1953 Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescaline. The mystical and transcendent experience that followed set him off on an exploration that was to produce a revolutionary body of work about the inner reaches of the human mind. Item #28942
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