What are the “Doors of perception” and is it wiser to open them or keep them shut?
‘When the doors of perception are cleansed we will see the world as it truly is – infinite.’ Jim Morrison and Aldous Huxley both named some of their works after this quote from William Blake. They both also tried to open their doors of perception. The mind acts like a filter, enabling us to only take in a limited amount of information through our mind and six senses. If we can open our doors of perception, we can see the infinity and interconnectedness of all life. Mystics have been on that path for millenia. I say go for it, it is wiser to open your doors of perception. There are many paths to doing that – meditation, mind-yoga, theosophy, parasychology and the shamanic use of entheogenic plants.
