…says he starts out by saying: prior to the experiment described here I had entertained some doubts as to the claims of Aldous Huxley and others which imply that masculine can induce yogic experiences of a high order. And then he made the experiment with…

…mere subjective illusion. Based on the content of my previous studies and practices, the answer to this objection is that as Aldous Huxley brought out so well in his perennial philosophy in all ages and all countries everyone who has undergone a profound…

…quite like that because it's not a complete biography it's the story of the last days in a way or the last years of Aldous Huxley, but I can't think of anybody else who has been written about by his widow and a case where the book was so very…

…to be very perspicacious and tactful about his public relations. But you know a thing that has often occurred to me is that Aldous Huxley was one of the most highly educated men I ever ran into. When you study the field of his interests, the scope of…

…matters, and this is what you're doing. But you know, there's a critics have tended to say about the later work of Aldous Huxley, which begins with a book called ends and means. I remember reading an article by Charles Savage in the sewanee review some…

…this transformation is really the keynote. Isn't it to our living to be able to transform? Yes well it's that sentence which Aldous Huxley uses for the doors of perception from Blake Oh yes if the doors of perception were cleansed we should see everything…

…Europeans Don't pay for lectures yes again yes oh yes surely, the economy of an author now it's a very curious thing about Aldous Huxley, because when I first knew him he couldn't lecture for love or money. He used to put his nose in a manuscript and…

…now. Then, in the middle 1950s, a British Psychiatrist by the name of Humphrey Osmond persuaded a British novelist by the name of Aldous Huxley to take a dose of mescaline, and in the thought that at the time this was a drug which induced states of…

…thought that at the time this was a drug which induced states of consciousness similar to schizophrenia, Humphrey Osmond realized that Aldous Huxley was a marvelous master of words and therefore it might be a good idea to see if this experience were given…

…to a man who could describe things in a wonderfully accurate and vivid way, we might learn something about what it does. Aldous Huxley Didn't simply deliver a private report to the doctors. He rushed them to print and publish a book called the doors of…

…you think about drug induced mysticism. So I was foolish enough at the time to accept an invitation to stand in for Aldous Huxley at a meeting of the American Psychiatric association in los angeles. He couldn't be present and they asked me to talk about…

…out of a bottle, that's degrading everything. But yet I couldn't deny the fact that it had happened. So then by this time Aldous Huxley had rushed into print and had let the cat out of the bag that this kind of experience was possible through chemicals.…

…not only through atomic bombs but through overpopulation, lack of proper soil conservation, everything you can imagine, everything my friend Aldous Huxley can think up as a terrible threat to the future of the race. Then we're confronted with this very, very…

…people who think that they can get anything of this kind by taking certain drugs and even went so far as to call Aldous Huxley the los angeles idiot. Well I think that's really very unfair, because it should be said that although ecstasy will not of…

…able to communicate much as a result of having had some ecstasy. But on the other hand if a person can communicate and Aldous Huxley is an absolutely superb writer then as a result of having an ecstasy he's got something to say and after all this is…

…change? Are we conceived of pain? Is it possible? I think this is a very very difficult as well as interesting question. Aldous Huxley had a view on this that was interesting. He felt, of course that pain doesn't change and that it would be impossible,…

…time. We are therefore presentless people. We have a past we have a future, but that's all no present. So then, that's why Aldous Huxley wrote a book called time must have a stop. You have to get rid of that time where the present is totally…

…common sense. I once was invited to give an address before the American Psychiatric association. It was a very funny situation because Aldous Huxley had been supposed to give the talk and he was sick, and so they invited me to come and give it instead.…

…have them variously: cerebrotonic, somatotonic and viscerotonic and he could combine these three in various ways. Now a man like Aldous Huxley was quite obviously a cerebrotonic ectomorph, a long, skinny intellectual. But if you look at any of these sort of…

…are we doing, especially if it's in a sort of historical, humanistic subject that has no particular technical application. When Aldous Huxley graduated from Balliol at Oxford, his tutor took him aside and said: Mr Huxley, you have a very distinguished record…

…said you should very seriously consider an academic career in English Literature you would make a very fine professor. And Aldous Huxley said: that's most extraordinary, because I always thought literature was something to be enjoyed not to be studied. And…

…you know the discipline before anything happens. And so that is the danger in a relatively easier way but of course, as Aldous Huxley once said, to insist upon using the more difficult ways to attain the mystical state is rather like having to burn down…

For a long time I've been interested in the spiritual odyssey of Aldous Huxley. Beginning, I suppose about 1938, Aldous Huxley underwent what some people felt to be a catastrophic change in his literary career. To a large extent probably under the influence…

For a long time I've been interested in the spiritual odyssey of Aldous Huxley. Beginning, I suppose about 1938, Aldous Huxley underwent what some people felt to be a catastrophic change in his literary career. To a large extent probably under the influence…

…was about that time I think that d s savage published an article in the siouana review, the point of which was that Aldous Huxley Hadn't really changed at all. It was a very scathing article which said that this is a man who fundamentally hates people…

…unity of the divine. And one could see in various ways for example in such a book as the perennial philosophy, in which Aldous Huxley made a great anthology of writings on the world but very gradually he began to change. He began to change towards a…

…latest book called island, and it's just been published by harper's and it sells for five dollars. It says island, a novel by Aldous Huxley, and this is a bit misleading, because the person who reads this book with the feeling that it's trying to be a…

…to hear this timeless moment, one of my favorites. Alan Watts talks with Laura Huxley about her biography of her husband Aldous Huxley, and this interview was recorded by kpfa at the home of Alan Watts in sausalito. Laura I've been reading your book,…

…quite like that because it's not a complete biography, it's the story of the last days, in a way or the last years of Aldous Huxley, but I can't think of anybody else who has been written about by his widow and a case where the book was so very…

…to be very perspicacious and tactful about his public relations. But you know a thing that has often occurred to me is that Aldous Huxley was one of the most highly educated men I ever ran into. When you study the field of his interests, the scope of…

…matters. And this is what you're doing. But you know, there's a critics have tended to say about the later work of Aldous Huxley, which begins with a book called ends and means. I remember reading an article by Charles Savage in the sewanee review some…

…This transformation is really the keynote, isn't it to our living to be able to transform? Yes well it's that sentence which Aldous Huxley uses for the doors of perception from Blake Oh yes if the doors of perception were cleansed we should see everything…