Door Magnet

VIEW LARGE I love the music of The Doors and spent some time reading about them as well as listening to their work. The Doors took their name from the Aldous Huxley book "The Doors of Perception", written in 1954. Aldous Huxley took the title of his book from a poem by William Blake "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" which has the line "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite." Aldous Huxley wrote his book about a mescaline trip, which is from the psychedelic cactus Peyote used by American Indians in religious ceremonies for thousands of years. I took the photo of the door with peeling paint around it while I was out driving for a living and it reminded me of my interest in The Doors. Th...