<P> Huxley had used Blake 's metaphor in The Doors of Perception while discussing the paintings of Vermeer and the Nain brothers , and previously in The Perennial Philosophy , once in relation to the use of mortification as a means to remove persistent spiritual myopia and secondly to refer to the absence of separation in spiritual vision . Blake had a resounding impact on Huxley , he shared many of Blake 's earlier revelations and interests in art and literature . In the early 1950s , Huxley had suffered a debilitating attack of the eye condition iritis . This increased his concern for his already poor eyesight and much of his work in the early part of the decade had featured metaphors of vision and sight . </P>
<P> Huxley had used Blake 's metaphor in The Doors of Perception while discussing the paintings of Vermeer and the Nain brothers , and previously in The Perennial Philosophy , once in relation to the use of mortification as a means to remove persistent spiritual myopia and secondly to refer to the absence of separation in spiritual vision . Blake had a resounding impact on Huxley , he shared many of Blake 's earlier revelations and interests in art and literature . In the early 1950s , Huxley had suffered a debilitating attack of the eye condition iritis . This increased his concern for his already poor eyesight and much of his work in the early part of the decade had featured metaphors of vision and sight . </P>
if the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is infinite . meaning
if the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is infinite . meaning
in relation to the use of mortification as a means to remove persistent spiritual myopia and secondly to refer to the absence of separation in spiritual vision
in relation to the use of mortification as a means to remove persistent spiritual myopia and secondly to refer to the absence of separation in spiritual vision