Final Essay: Aldous Huxley

"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite" (pg one,William Blake)

I used the quote above simply because I like it. William Blake wrote that quote on Aldous Huxley, Doors of Perception. Its a rather interesting quote, and i thought I'd use it.
As i was reading about Aldous Huxley's life, i saw and interesting fact. He died on the same day as John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Now i think that's a rather big thing. They actually probably meet in the world beyond this life. Where ever or what ever that is. Maybe they shared a "psychedelic" moment together. Or maybe it was just Aldous Huxley himself. He meaning Huxley, actually invented that word psychedelic. While reading his biography Nicholas Murray calls him the"most intriguing and complex figures of twentieth-century english writing---novelist, poet, biographer, philosopher, social and political thinker. In an era of intense specialization he remained a free-ranging thinker, unconfined by conventional categories, concerned to communicate his insights in ordinary language---a very english intellectual." (prologue, Murray). While reading on I love the quote Huxley uses to describe what he feels about his life. "I have always felt a powerful craving for light." (1 Murray). He says that because he was born in the dark and gloomy weather of rain. He liked to experiment. Open his mind to things that you cant normally see with the naked eye. In other words he did drugs. He wrote the book "the doors of perception" about opening your mind to drugs, and let it take control. You'll see things you've never thought possible.
I also passed by a funny thing he said, that is now considered a quote.
"My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. " (Huxley)

Works Cited
Blake, William. "Doors Of Perception." 1954
Murray, Nicholas. "Aldous Huxley a Biography." 2003 Macmillan.
Huxley, Murray. "Aldous Huxley Quotes." 2003 Brainy quotes.