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Title: Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience by Aldous Huxley, Michael Horowitz, Cynthia Palmer ISBN: 0-89281-758-5 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Food For Thought
Comment: Aldous Huxley was clearly a man ahead of his time: imagine an English intellectual in the 1940's writing about mecaline and LSD, how they relate to psychology, sociology and religion in modern times.
This was not a cult leader or an Edgar Cayce/Aleister Crowley sort of philosopher: his essays were published in periodicals as varied as the Saturday Evening Post and Playboy Magazine (!). He was one of the ultimate explorers of the mind. Many of his thoughts from the 40's and the 50's still sound as relevant today as the day they were written.
His timeless thoughts are his genius. I recommend this book highly.
Rating: 5
Summary: AN INFORMATIVE AND POIGNANT READ
Comment: This volume brings together selections from Huxley's Brave New World, Doors Of Perception, Heaven And Hell and Island, as well as magazine articles, letters, lectures and scientific papers. It also includes writings by Timothy Leary, Laura Huxley and Dr. Humphry Osmond. Leary's interesting account of a 1960 meeting with Huxley at Cambridge is titled Mushrooms For Lunch, whilst the same year's Harvard Sessions is a report of a psylocybin session where Huxley took part in a group experiment. Other very thought provoking chapters include Dr. Humphry Osmond's May Morning In Hollywood and Huxley's own Disregarded In The Darkness, Doors, Mescalin, Heaven And Hell and Brave New World Revisited. But the highlights of the book are Laura Huxley's 1962 account of her husband in a psychedelic state and especially her moving account of his illness and death, titled Nobly Born. The appendix is titled Instruments For Use During A Psychedelic Experience and the book concludes with an index. This is a brilliant collection of this refined author's best work and an insightful investigation into the use of entheogenic substances for the expansion of consciousness. I also recommend Huston Smith's Cleansing The Doors Of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogentic Plants and Chemicals, William James' Varieties Of Religious Experience the title Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness by Ralph Abraham, Terence McKenna and Rupert Sheldrake.
Rating: 5
Summary: Articulate Investigation of Entheogens
Comment: Entheogens (psychedelics) through the eyes of an articulate and cultured man of letters. We get to see through this series of essays why Huxley turned to psychedelics as a tool for spiritual exploration. It also raises important questions that need to be addressed by those of us using entheogens (psychedelics) as a means of expanding consciousness.
Thomas Seay
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Title: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley ISBN: 0060900075 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 16 February, 1963 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Perennial Philosophy, The by Aldous Huxley ISBN: 0060901918 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 18 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Island by Aldous Huxley ISBN: 0060085495 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Citadel Underground) by Ralph Metzner, Richard Alpert, Karma-Glin-Pa Bar Do Thos Grol, Timothy (Francis) Leary, Ralph Mezner ISBN: 0806516526 Publisher: Citadel Trade Pub. Date: February, 1995 List Price(USD): $8.76 |
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Title: Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers by Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann, Christian Ratsch ISBN: 0892819790 Publisher: Healing Arts Pr Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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