The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell

Yikes...
I had been under the impression that this book would document the experiences of an intelligent mind under the effects of mescalin. Instead it seemed to spiral into an abstract breakdown of reality in which points of view and experiences were supported with notions of "is-ness", something referred to as a "not-I", the "Mind at Large" and "the All in every This". The further I read, the farther away from understanding I ended up. In truth, I was barely able to finish the reading because I was not able to relate to what Huxley was trying to say. I understood certain aspects of the writing, such as the drugs effect on the perceptions of color, space and time, but overall, the idea that the "effects of a cerebral sugar shortage" (page 28) exposed a new universe of understanding...of BEING, was lost on me (personally).