{"product_id":"moksha-aldous-huxleys-classic-writings-on-psychedelics-and-the-visionary-experience-9780892817580","title":"Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience","description":"Selected writings from the author of \u003ci\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Doors of Perception\u003c\/i\u003e on the role of psychedelics in society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Includes letters and lectures by Huxley never published elsewhere. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. Huxley was decades ahead of his time in his anticipation of the dangers modern culture was creating through explosive population increase, headlong technological advance, and militant nationalism, and he saw psychedelics as the greatest means at our disposal to remind adults that the real world is very different from the misshapen universe they have created for themselves by means of their culture-conditioned prejudices. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoksha, a Sanskrit word meaning liberation, is a collection of the prophetic and visionary writings of Aldous Huxley. It includes selections from his acclaimed novels \u003ci\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIsland\u003c\/i\u003e, both of which envision societies centered around the use of psychedelics as stabilizing forces, as well as pieces from \u003ci\u003eThe Doors of Perception\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHeaven and Hell\u003c\/i\u003e, his famous works on consciousness expansion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Park Street Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780892817580\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Aldous Huxley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36645753880732,"sku":"9780892817580","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_9db764c2-a2dc-4c78-841e-0b2607d75015.jpg?v=1603862010","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/moksha-aldous-huxleys-classic-writings-on-psychedelics-and-the-visionary-experience-9780892817580","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}