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Hello! An explanation - the name of this blog is a reference to H.G Wells' "The Door In The Wall", a short story written in 1906. The story was referred to by Aldous Huxley in his book "The Doors of Perception" (full text) - a fascinating account of his first experience with mescaline - charting the previously unexplored regions of his consciousness. The title of Huxley's work was derived directly from a statement made by William Blake in around 1791: 

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite" 

Incidentally, it was also this quote that inspired the name of the band The Doors.