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<mailto:noozguru@...> wrote :
Also anyone who believes that Huxley was advocating the world
depicted in Brave New world should read his prologue to Brave New
World Revisited. BNW was a warning not a plan.
Eh? Did anyone think that really? His choice of hero being a human
with normal emotions who was so appalled by the BNW gave it away a
bit for me. Maybe other people identify with different characters in
the book? I never even considered that.
He didn't have to top himself though as he did have another option,
he could have gone back to living in the wild where he came from.
That's what I would have done but it was a more poetic protest to
hang himself I suppose...
On 11/07/2014 11:02 PM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@...
<mailto:turquoiseb@...> [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Anyone ignorant enough to post that Huxley was unfamiliar with
meditation (see jr post below) has clearly never read his best
novel, "Island." Huxley was practicing real meditation decades
before Maharishi invented his faux version and called it TM.
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*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Birth of the Hippies
Bhairitu,
Good point. According to Wikipedia, Huxley had association with
the Vendanta society:
Association with Vedanta[edit
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aldous_Huxley&action=edit§ion=6>]
Beginning in 1939 and continuing until his death in 1963, Huxley
had an extensive association with the Vedanta Society of Southern
California
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedanta_Society_of_Southern_California>,
founded and headed by Swami Prabhavananda
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Prabhavananda>. Together with
Gerald Heard <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Heard>,
Christopher Isherwood
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Isherwood>, and other
followers he was initiated by the Swami and was taught meditation
and spiritual practices.^[3]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley#cite_note-FOOTNOTERoy2003-3>
In 1944, Huxley wrote the introduction to the "Bhagavad Gita: The
Song of God",^[22]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley#cite_note-IsherwoodSwami_Prabhavananda1987-22>
translated by Swami Prabhavanada and Christopher Isherwood, which
was published by The Vedanta Society of Southern California.
From 1941 until 1960, Huxley contributed 48 articles to /Vedanta
and the West/, published by the Society. He also served on the
editorial board with Isherwood, Heard, and playwright John van
Druten from 1951 through 1962.
Huxley also occasionally lectured at the Hollywood and Santa
Barbara Vedanta temples. Two of those lectures have been released
on CD: /Knowledge and Understanding/ and /Who Are We/ from 1955.
After the publication of /The Doors of Perception
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_of_Perception>/, Huxley
and the Swami disagreed about the meaning and importance of the
LSD drug experience, which may have caused the relationship to
cool, but Huxley continued to write articles for the Society's
journal, lecture at the temple, and attend social functions. His
agnosticism, together with his speculative propensity, made it
difficult for him to fully embrace any form of institutionalized
religion.^Aldous Huxley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley#cite_note-23>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley#cite_note-23>
Aldous Huxley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley#cite_note-23>
AldousLeonard Huxley /ˈhʌksli/ (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963)
was an English writer, philosopher and a prominent member of the
Huxley family...
View on en.wikipedia.org
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley#cite_note-23>
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<mailto:[email protected]>, <noozguru@...>
<mailto:noozguru@...> wrote :
What about the Vedanta Society? What about Paramahansa Yogananda?
Arthur Avalon? Not to mention relatively unknowns who probably
migrated to the UK and taught yoga.
On 11/07/2014 05:49 PM, jr_esq@... <mailto:jr_esq@...>
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
S3,
Huxley didn't appear to know about the advantages of meditation.
Obviously, during his lifetime, TM was not around then.
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<mailto:[email protected]>, <s3raphita@...>
<mailto:s3raphita@...> wrote :
Aldous Huxley quote (1931):
"So far as I can see, the only possible new pleasure would be
one derived from the invention of a new drug — of a more
efficient and less harmful substitute for alcohol and cocaine.
If I were a millionaire, I should endow a band of research
workers to look for the ideal intoxicant. If we could sniff or
swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day,
abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows
in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its
aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and
significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were
of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear
head and an undamaged constitution — then, it seems to me, all
our problems (and not merely the one small problem of
discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth
would become paradise."
Sounds great - but I suspect that humans are so constituted that
changing our brains with chemicals is always going to have
unwanted side-effects.
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<fleetwood_macncheese@...> <mailto:fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote :
I used to buy Ritalin over the counter, in Macau, and did a fair
amount - Yuck. Couldn't get weed, but any big pharma drug was
there for the taking. Bad situation.
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<mailto:[email protected]>, <s3raphita@...>
<mailto:s3raphita@...> wrote :
Re "Cocaine DEFINITELY sucks":
Amen to that. Like you I only tried it a few times and the
after-effects were a warning I heeded. Ditto speed.
God knows what I'd have felt like after a methamphetamine binge
(the drug of choice today) - pretty sure I'd be suicidal.
