The Doors of Perception
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The Doors of Perception is Aldous Huxley’s influential 1954 essay detailing his mescaline-induced mystical experiences and exploring the nature of human perception and consciousness.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Doors of Perception canonical | 5 |
| Aldous Huxley’s "The Doors of Perception" | 1 |
| Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Doors of Perception Context triple: [Aldous Huxley, notableWork, The Doors of Perception]
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A.
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
"The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" is a mystical, lyrical chapter in Kenneth Grahame's classic children's novel *The Wind in the Willows*, noted for its spiritual and nature-revering encounter with the god Pan.
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B.
Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch is a groundbreaking and controversial novel by William S. Burroughs, known for its nonlinear, hallucinatory depiction of addiction and its central place in Beat Generation literature.
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C.
The Hallucinogenic Toreador
The Hallucinogenic Toreador is a large surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that fuses images of a bullfighter, Venus de Milo figures, and hallucinatory symbolism to explore themes of death, desire, and Spanish culture.
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D.
I Sing the Body Electric
"I Sing the Body Electric" is a celebrated free-verse poem by Walt Whitman that exalts the human body and soul as sacred, democratic, and inseparable aspects of the self.
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E.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Doors of Perception Target entity description: The Doors of Perception is Aldous Huxley’s influential 1954 essay detailing his mescaline-induced mystical experiences and exploring the nature of human perception and consciousness.
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A.
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
"The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" is a mystical, lyrical chapter in Kenneth Grahame's classic children's novel *The Wind in the Willows*, noted for its spiritual and nature-revering encounter with the god Pan.
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B.
Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch is a groundbreaking and controversial novel by William S. Burroughs, known for its nonlinear, hallucinatory depiction of addiction and its central place in Beat Generation literature.
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C.
The Hallucinogenic Toreador
The Hallucinogenic Toreador is a large surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that fuses images of a bullfighter, Venus de Milo figures, and hallucinatory symbolism to explore themes of death, desire, and Spanish culture.
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D.
I Sing the Body Electric
"I Sing the Body Electric" is a celebrated free-verse poem by Walt Whitman that exalts the human body and soul as sacred, democratic, and inseparable aspects of the self.
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E.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essay
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non-fiction book ⓘ |
| author | Aldous Huxley ⓘ |
| basedOn | mescaline session supervised by Humphry Osmond ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| discusses |
brain as a reducing valve
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psychopharmacology of mescaline ⓘ relationship between art and vision ⓘ religious experience ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | hardcover ⓘ |
| followedBy | Heaven and Hell ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiographical essay
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philosophical literature ⓘ psychedelic literature ⓘ |
| hasDeweyDecimalClassification | 128 ⓘ |
| hasIsbn | 0060900075 ⓘ |
| hasLibraryOfCongressClassification | BF1999 .H9 ⓘ |
| hasOclcNumber | 702702 ⓘ |
| hasPart | Heaven and Hell ⓘ |
| influenced |
1960s counterculture
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The Doors ⓘ Timothy Leary ⓘ psychedelic movement ⓘ psychedelic research discourse ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Aldous Huxley’s mescaline experience ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
consciousness
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human perception ⓘ mescaline ⓘ mystical experience ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| nonFictionSubject |
hallucinogenic drugs
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mysticism ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ psychology of perception ⓘ |
| openingTheme | limitations of ordinary perception ⓘ |
| pageCountApproximate | ~63 ⓘ |
| philosophicalFramework | perennial philosophy ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1954 ⓘ |
| publisher | Chatto & Windus ⓘ |
| references | William Blake ⓘ |
| setting | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| title | The Doors of Perception ⓘ |
| titleDerivedFrom | William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ⓘ |
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Referenced by (7)
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linked to: The Doors of Perception
subject linked to:
William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
linked to: The Doors of Perception