Pacific Rim Discourse: The U. S. Global Imaginary in the Late Cold War Years
boundary 2 January 1, 1994 DOI: 10.2307/303396 (opens in new tab) via OpenAlex
Summary
AI-generated from the abstractAldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception describes the subconscious as a landscape populated by repressions, conflicts, and traumatic memories. Further inward lies a region of Jungian archetypes and mythological raw materials, and beyond that, reached through mescaline, a realm he calls the Antipodes of the mind. The text presents a metaphorical geography of the psyche, mapping levels of consciousness from personal unconscious to collective archetypes and transcendent experience.
Study at a glance
| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Intervention | Mescaline |
| Keywords | The imaginary Cold war History |
| Citations | 63 |
| Key finding | Proposes that mescaline can transport consciousness beyond the personal subconscious and collective archetypes to a visionary 'Antipodes of the mind.' |
Abstract
... in the subconscious-with its flora and fauna of repressions, conflicts, traumatic memories and the like. Travelling further, we reach a kind of far West, inhabited by Jungian archetypes and the raw materials of human mythology. Beyond this region lies a broad Pacific. Wafted across it on the wings of mescaline ... we reach what might be called the Antipodes of the mind. -Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception