The door of all wonders

Explore the most transcendent and dangerous borders of the human mind

Who is calling you, you respond calmly

Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly…

"I don't need comfort. I need God, I need poetry, I need real danger, I need freedom..."

── Huxley "Brave New World"

★ Huxley's unparalleled hallucinations, the first document in modern times to fully disclose the experience of drug use.

★ Understand the mystery of drug politics in "Brave New World", an indispensable stepping stone to enter Huxley's world.

★ Faithful records and deep thinking of mystic experience, a glimpse of the mystery of artistic aura.

★ The origin of the group name of The Doors, which climbed to the top and fell to the bottom with the help of psychedelic drugs.

★The whole book is accompanied by color pictures of Western paintings.

"I think I witnessed everything that Adam saw in the morning when he was created-every moment there is a miracle, manifested in a naked way." Poet and painter William. Blake's verse: "If we cleanse the door of perception, all things will appear before us in their infinite original form. If people close themselves, they can only see things through the narrow cracks of caves."

Huxley came from a family of science and art, and critics of his generation regarded him as a "unprecedented" creative writer with scientific intelligence and literary background. Huxley began to write novels at the age of twelve. At the age of sixteen, due to corneal damage and vision loss, Huxley learned the Braille system. Due to vision problems, Huxley abandoned the science porch and turned to the temple of literature. Huxley's first novel "Crome. Crome Yellow (1921) published a serious critique of the present society in a cynical tone. In Brave New World, a classic anti-utopian reader of the 20th century, he further explained that in the new world, family affection will no longer exist, religion will lose value, knowledge will be persecuted repeatedly, and human beings will stop pursuing truth and become primitive animals that satisfy the senses. Neither critical ability nor negative awareness. Huxley warned human beings not to be obsessed with material things, and criticized the contemporary blind vision of technological civilization as a tragedy of ignorance against nature.

"The Door of All Wonders" is known as the bible of drug addicts. It is a collection of notes written by Huxley after he personally tested the hallucinogen "Mescaline" in 1953. Personal experience has influenced contemporary Western culture, and it is also the origin of the discussion on the combination of drug culture, artistic experience, and religious belief. "Heaven and Hell" can be regarded as a sequel, in-depth exploration of the sensory limits of artistic experience and abnormal mental conditions. Some commentators may believe that Huxley expressed his experience and evaluation of mescaline in words, which led to the destruction of countless lives in later generations. Jim Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors, even mentioned that he read this book when he formed the group, and he deeply felt the echoes of the book and the experience of the members. For this reason, the band was named Loud and Short The "door".