Aldous Huxley". Peace Pledge Union. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011 . Retrieved 15 May 2011. Die Teufel von Loudun (1969), TV movie directed by Rolf Liebermann, based on novel The Devils of Loudun Huxley was a close friend of Jiddu Krishnamurti and Rosalind Rajagopal, and was involved in the creation of the Happy Valley School, now Besant Hill School, of Happy Valley, in Ojai, California. Watts Estrich, Helen (1939). "Jesting Pilate Tells the Answer: Aldous Huxley". The Sewanee Review. 47 (1): 63–81. JSTOR 27535511. The Art of Seeing: An Adventure in Re-education (1942), exploration of the discredited Bates method

The culture of Pala is the offspring of a Scottish secular humanist medical doctor, who made a medical visit to the island in the 19th century and decided to stay and work with its Raja, who embodies the island's Mahayana Buddhist tradition, to create a society that merges the best of East and West. The Old Raja's treatise, Notes on What's What, is a book within the book that explains Pala's philosophical foundations. In summary, Huxley writes that the ability to think straight is not reduced while under the influence of mescaline, visual impressions are intensified, and the human experimenter will see no reason for action because the experience is so fascinating. [41] The Discovery: A Comedy in Five Acts (1924), written by Frances Sheridan, adapted for the modern stage by HuxleyPoller, Jake (2019). "Mysticism and Pacifism". Aldous Huxley and Alternative Spirituality. Aries Book Series: Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism. Vol.27. Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers. pp.139–203. doi: 10.1163/9789004406902_006. ISBN 978-90-04-40690-2. ISSN 1871-1405. OCLC 1114970799. S2CID 203391577. William Blake (1757–1827), who inspired the book's title and writing style, was an influential English artist most notable for his paintings and poetry. The "doors of perception" was originally a metaphor written by Blake in his 1790 book, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. The metaphor was used to represent Blake's feelings about mankind's limited perception of the reality around them: Il sorriso della Gioconda (1969), TV movie directed by Enrico Colosimo, based on play Mortal Coils: Play So the knowledge that counts is not, strangely, the knowledge of abstract truths — but what the ancient Greeks already called “gnothi s’auton,” know yourself. And our knowledge of ourselves, so Huxley seems to suggest, will grow as we increasingly learn to accept what we are not, thus coming ever closer to our true core — what remains after everything that is not-us has been excluded. Ways of living Huxley, Aldous. The Human Situation: Aldous Huxley Lectures at Santa Barbara 1959, Flamingo Modern Classic, 1994, ISBN 0-00-654732-X

And perhaps, beyond all illusions, even the most beautiful ones, lies a terrible truth that we have to come to terms with – because it is what we are. And because our final destiny is to learn to know ourselves as we truly are: the blood-thirsty lizard as well as the meditating saint. Ropp, Robert S. de, Warrior's Way: a Twentieth Century Odyssey (Nevada City, CA: Gateways, 2002). p 247 Huxley, Aldous (1969). Grover Smith (ed.). Letters of Aldous Huxley. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 978-0-7011-1312-4.Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was a British writer and philosopher who wrote over fifty books during his lifetime, both novels and non-fiction. The most famous book of his is probably “Brave New World” (1932), which has often been included in lists of the best novels of all time. But Huxley was not only a novelist. In fact, his novels are sometimes only thinly veiled philosophical treatises. Huxley is often less interested in the plot and the character development of his protagonists, and more in the philosophical ideas that fill his books. On 21 October 1949, Huxley wrote to George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, congratulating him on "how fine and how profoundly important the book is". In his letter, he predicted: After the Fireworks: Three Novellas (1936), collection of 3 novellas earlier published in separate short story volumes: Although I feel it was an injustice to treat Aldous as though he were blind, it is true there were many indications of his impaired vision. For instance, although Aldous did not wear glasses, he would quite often use a magnifying lens." [75]

Kripal, Jeffrey (2007). Esalen America and the Religion of No Religion. University of Chicago Press. excerpt. American popular science author Steven Johnson, in his book Mind Wide Open, quotes Huxley about his difficulties with visual encoding: In the fall semester of 1960 Huxley was invited by Professor Huston Smith to be the Carnegie Visiting professor of humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). [58] As part of the MIT centennial program of events organised by the Department of Humanities, Huxley presented a series of lectures titled, "What a Piece of Work is a Man" which concerned history, language, and art. [59] a b "Stamps to feature original artworks celebrating classic science fiction novels". Yahoo . Retrieved 28 June 2023. Royal Mail has released images of original artworks being issued on a new set of stamps to celebrate six classic science fiction novels by British writers.

Group living (in the form of Mutual Adoption Clubs) so that children would not have unalloyed exposure to their parents' neuroses The work of a hundred years are destroyed in one single night." (294) Aldous Huxley's Island (1962)(PDF) On Huxley’s Island, the native population live peacefully, we learn, practice meditation, and raise their children together: so that the deficiencies, anxieties and psychological problems of particular parents are not passed on to their children. A variety of influences have been claimed for the book. The psychedelic proselytiser Timothy Leary was given the book by a colleague soon after returning from Mexico where he had first taken psilocybin mushroo

Roy, Sumita; Pothen, Annie; Sunita, K. S., eds. (2003). Aldous Huxley and Indian Thought. Sterling Publishers. ISBN 9788120724655. William Sargant, the controversial British psychiatrist, reviewed the book for The British Medical Journal and particularly focused on Huxley's reflections on schizophrenia. He wrote that the book brought to life the mental suffering of schizophrenics, which should make psychiatrists uneasy about their failure to relieve this. Also, he hoped that the book would encourage the investigation of the physiological, rather than psychological, aspects of psychiatry. [58] Other medical researchers questioned the validity of Huxley's account. According to Roland Fisher, the book contained "99 percent Aldous Huxley and only one half gram mescaline". [59] Joost A.M. Meerloo found Huxley's reactions "not necessarily the same as... other people's experiences." [60]

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The Doors of Perception is Huxley’s recollection of a mescaline drug experience. It is a rare and precious document, the true, minute-by-minute protocol of how a drug can change our perception, written by one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. a book review by Stephen Hren: Aldous Huxley's Hands: His Quest for Perception and the Origin and Return of Psychedelic Science". nyjournalofbooks.com . Retrieved 23 August 2022. Aldous Huxley Slept Here' – Illustrated Talk October 12 at West Hollywood Library". Larchmont Buzz. 8 October 2016 . Retrieved 23 August 2022. The book finishes with Huxley's final reflections on the meaning of his experience. Firstly, the urge to transcend one's self is universal through times and cultures (and was characterised by H. G. Wells as The Door in the Wall). [49] He reasons that better, healthier "doors" are needed than alcohol and tobacco. Mescaline has the advantage of not provoking violence in takers, but its effects last an inconveniently long time and some users can have negative reactions. Ideally, self-transcendence would be found in religion, but Huxley feels that it is unlikely that this will ever happen. Christianity and mescaline seem well-suited for each other; the Native American Church for instance uses the drug as a sacrament, where its use combines religious feeling with decorum. [50] Barnes, Clive. 1 April 1966. "Ballet: Still Another Balanchine-Stravinsky Pearl; City Troupe Performs in Premiere Here Variations for Huxley at State Theater". The New York Times, p.28.