“The Doors of Perception” (1954) and “Heaven and Hell” (1956) are essays that became a kind of intellectual manifesto for fans of the psychedelic culture of the turbulent sixties. They were admired by Carlos Castaneda and Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey and Jim Morrison. They influenced the minds of hundreds of thousands of “angry young people” who were looking for a new meaning in life. Their meaning and essence is the search for ideal ways to expand consciousness. “Eternal Philosophy” (1945) is a brilliant study of the spiritual heritage of all world religions. This book is based on canonical texts, masterpieces of philosophical thought and world literature. “Return to the Brave New World” (1958) is a work in which the great English writer and philosopher, in his polemical manner, drew parallels between Western civilization of the bourgeois “golden age” of 1950 -x and the dystopian totalitarian “consumer paradise” described in his most famous work of fiction, the novel Brave New World. Again and again, Huxley compared the world of the distant future, which he had imagined many years ago, with the very real world that surrounded him at the time of writing “The Return” - and again and again he found signs of frightening, dangerous and increasingly obvious similarities...