British author
emigrated to the US
wrote Brave New World, The Doors of Perception, etc.
brother Julian, part of well-known Huxley family
experimented with LSD, mescaline, took LSD while
dying.
emigrated to the US
wrote Brave New World, The Doors of Perception, etc.
brother Julian, part of well-known Huxley family
experimented with LSD, mescaline, took LSD while
dying.
Huxley, Aldous
1894-1963 69 years
1894-1963 69 years
| YouTube video of Huxley in an interview--8:30 |
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| A drug is a violent effort to awake the idiots: so you shock them, and they just open their eyes a little, and they just look…“Yes!” And yet the world becomes so beautiful, unbelievably beautiful – and then you are hooked, because then you think that it is because of the drug that the world is so beautiful. Now, when you are back and the trip is over, the world will look even dirtier and more dull than ever, because now you have a comparison in the mind. For certain moments it had become a beautiful phenomenon; it was paradise itself. Even a person like Aldous Huxley got mixed up, and he started thinking that this was the samadhi Patanjali was talking about, and Kabir attained, and Buddha, and all the mystics of the world. This is the samadhi… --Osho Yoga: The Mystery Beyond Mind, ch. 9 |