English Explanatory Dictionary

doors of perception

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The ability to perceive more than the normal input of our senses; the means of achieving altered states of consciousness.

Word forms

doors of perception

Etymology

From a quote from William Blake's book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793): If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.

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