{"product_id":"opening-the-doors-of-perception","title":"Opening The Doors Of Perception","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn eye-opening response to Aldous Huxley’s widely influential work on psychedelics, physical reality, and consciousness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e What exactly are hallucinations? Are they actually doors to another reality? Anthony Peake thinks so. In this stunning book, he takes Aldous Huxley’s \u003ci\u003eThe Doors of Perception\u003c\/i\u003e and updates it using the latest information from quantum mechanics, neurochemistry, and consciousness studies. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Most human beings perceive the doors of perception as being securely closed. But here, Peake analyzes the concept of ‘the scale of transcendence’ and suggests there is a scale of perceptions whereby the doors are slowly opened, bit by bit, to reveal the true nature of reality. For ‘normal’ people, glimpses of this reality—what the Gnostics called ‘The Pleroma’—are experienced during ‘noetic’ experiences. However, for others, the doors are prized open by certain neurological processes starting with migraine and progressing through various altered states such as temporal lobe epilepsy, bipolar syndrome, autism, and schizophrenia.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A pioneering work on the relationship between physical reality and consciousness, \u003ci\u003eOpening the Doors of Perception\u003c\/i\u003e suggests that man can, indeed, perceive reality in its true glory.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57316668211582,"sku":"NW9781780289083","price":11.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781780289083.jpg?v=1778719521","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/opening-the-doors-of-perception","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}