Opening The Doors of Perception: The Key to Cosmic Awareness

An updated exploration of Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception, taking into account the latest research on neuroscience, quantum mechanics, and studies of consciousness. Re-examining the nature and experience of hallucinations as portals into greater consciousness, Anthony Peake analyzes “the scale of transcendence” as a way for people to observe the true nature of reality—what Gnostics called the pleroma. Looking beyond the psychedelic framework at “altered” states such as migraines, epilepsy, autism, schizophrenia, and bipolar syndrome, Peake demonstrates how Huxley’s doors of perception may yet be swung open in our contemporary scientific era, probing the relationship between physical reality and consciousness through myriad divergent experiences.