I like this site because they try to *explain* why they rate the books they
like highly. Personally I'm a big fan of Ursula K LeGuin and Roger Zelazny.
On Nov 9, 2014, at 8:51, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:
Cheers, there's a lot of my faves there and a few new ones that I haven't
tried. And a couple of those are now on the way to me!
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote :
Try this site:
http://bestsciencefictionbooks.com/top-25-best-science-fiction-books.php
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote :
There are actually groups of people who believe he was advocating a plan and
refer to a section of video taken out of context that makes it sound like he
was advocating it when 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 :
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@... [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.
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 the Hippies
Bhairitu,
Good point. According to Wikipedia, Huxley had association with the
Vendanta society:
Association with Vedanta[edit]
Beginning in 1939 and continuing until his death in 1963, Huxley had an
extensive association with the Vedanta Society of Southern California,
founded and headed by Swami Prabhavananda. Together with Gerald Heard,
Christopher Isherwood, and other followers he was initiated by the Swami and
was taught meditation and spiritual practices.[3]
In 1944, Huxley wrote the introduction to the Bhagavad Gita: The Song of
God,[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, 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
Aldous Huxley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
AldousLeonard Huxley /ˈhʌksli/ (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an
English writer, philosopher and a prominent member of the Huxley family...
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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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@... [FairfieldLife] wrote:
S3,
Huxley didn't appear to know about the advantages of meditation.
