salyavin, some people swear by Ursula LeGuin but I've not read her as I prefer
my scifi on the big screen as opposed to on the page.
From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, November 8, 2014 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Birth of the Hippies
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote :
There are actually groups of people whobelieve he was advocating a plan and
refer to a section of videotaken out of context that makes it sound like he was
advocating itwhen he wasn't at all.
Nowt so queer as folk.
I haven't read a decent sci-fi book in decades. Can anyone recommend a recent
classic with the sort of vision of a Huxley or Heinlein?
I've tried a lot of stuff from the library but rarely get past the first
chapter. There's a "masterworks" series of the greats on sale and I'e got loads
of them but there isn't much that's new. Some of Iain Banks's "Culture" novels,
which were OK but it was his unfeasable plot developments that spoiled them.
"Excession" was good though, proper scary meeting with a genuine alien - or was
it God?
On 11/08/2014 10:16 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...>wrote :
Alsoanyone who believes that Huxleywas advocating the world depicted in Brave
New worldshould readhis prologue to Brave New World Revisited. BNW was
awarning nota plan.
Eh? Did anyone thinkthat really? His choice of hero being a human withnormal
emotions who was so appalled by the BNW gaveit away a bit for me. Maybe other
people identifywith different characters in the book? I never evenconsidered
that.
He didn't have totop himself though as he did have another option, hecould have
gone back to living in the wild where hecame from. That's what I would have
done but it wasa more poetic protest to hang himself I suppose...
On 11/07/2014 11:02 PM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@...[FairfieldLife] wrote:
Anyoneignorant enough topost that Huxley was unfamiliar withmeditation(see jr
post below) has clearly neverread hisbest novel, "Island." Huxley waspracticing
realmeditation decades before Maharishiinvented hisfaux version and called it
TM.
From:"jr_esq@...[FairfieldLife]"<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent:Saturday, November 8, 2014 6:34 AM
Subject:Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Birth of theHippies
Bhairitu,
Good point. According toWikipedia,Huxley had association withthe
Vendantasociety:
AssociationwithVedanta[edit]
Beginning in 1939 andcontinuinguntil his death in 1963,Huxley had anextensive
association withthe VedantaSocietyof Southern California,founded and headed by
SwamiPrabhavananda.Together with GeraldHeard, ChristopherIsherwood, and
otherfollowershe was initiated by theSwami and wastaught meditation
andspiritualpractices.[3]In 1944, Huxley wrote theintroduction to the"Bhagavad
Gita:The Song of God",[22]translated by SwamiPrabhavanada andChristopher
Isherwood, whichwaspublished by The VedantaSociety ofSouthern California.From
1941 until 1960,Huxleycontributed 48 articles to Vedantaandthe West, published
bytheSociety. He also served ontheeditorial board withIsherwood, Heard,and
playwright John vanDruten from1951 through 1962.Huxley also
occasionallylecturedat the Hollywood and SantaBarbaraVedanta temples. Two
ofthose lectureshave been released on CD: KnowledgeandUnderstanding and
WhoAreWe from 1955.After the publication ofTheDoorsof Perception,Huxley and the
Swamidisagreed aboutthe meaning and importanceof the LSDdrug experience, which
mayhave causedthe relationship to cool,but Huxleycontinued to write articlesfor
theSociety's journal, lectureat thetemple, and attend socialfunctions.His
agnosticism, togetherwith hisspeculative propensity, madeitdifficult for him to
fullyembrace anyform of institutionalizedreligion.AldousHuxley- Wikipedia, the
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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,<noozguru@...>wrote :
Whataboutthe Vedanta Society? Whatabout ParamahansaYogananda? Arthur Avalon?
Not tomentionrelatively unknowns whoprobablymigrated to the UK andtaughtyoga.
On11/07/2014 05:49 PM,jr_esq@...[FairfieldLife]wrote:
S3,
Huxley didn'tappear toknow about theadvantages ofmeditation. Obviously,
duringhis lifetime, TM wasnotaround then.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,<s3raphita@...>wrote :
AldousHuxley quote(1931):
"SofarasI can see, theonly possiblenewpleasurewould be onederivedfrom
theinventionof a newdrug — of amoreefficient andlessharmfulsubstitute
foralcohol andcocaine.If I were amillionaire, Ishould endow abandof
researchworkers tolook forthe idealintoxicant. Ifwecould sniff
orswallowsomethingthat would,forfive or sixhourseach day,abolishour
solitudeasindividuals,atone us withourfellows in aglowingexaltationof
affectionandmake life inall itsaspects seemnot only worthliving,
butdivinelybeautifulandsignificant,andif
thisheavenly,world-transfiguringdrugwere of sucha kind that wecouldwake up
nextmorningwith aclear head andanundamagedconstitution —then,it seems tome,
allour problems(andnot merelythe one smallproblem ofdiscovering
anovelpleasure)would bewholly solvedandearth wouldbecomeparadise."
Soundsgreat-but I suspectthathumans are soconstitutedthat changingourbrains
withchemicals isalways goingto haveunwantedside-effects.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,<fleetwood_macncheese@...>wrote :
Iused to buyRitalin overthecounter, inMacau, and didafair amount -Yuck.
Couldn'tget weed, butanybig pharmadrugwas therefor thetaking.Bad situation.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,<s3raphita@...>wrote :
Re"CocaineDEFINITELYsucks":
Amento that. Likeyou I onlytried it afew times andtheafter-effectswere awarning
Iheeded. Dittospeed.
Godknows what I'dhave felt likeafter amethamphetaminebinge(thedrug ofchoice
today)- pretty sureI'd besuicidal.
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