…becoming a, just a jerk I and the army library of all places I found the copy of the uh the doors of perception by Aldous Huxley and the joyous cosmology by Alan Watts, and so right from the start I just put a perspective on all that you know before…

…model of what psychedelics do. I mean there are many models there's the opens the valve of information model that was Aldous Huxley There's. The plunges you into the collective unconscious model which is maybe Stan's take a number of and then people who…

…of fortuitous elements could occur, that such a synergy to synergy to higher consciousness could even be possible. You know, Aldous Huxley called the psychedelic experience he called it a gratuitous a gratuitous grace. He said it is neither necessary nor…

…an exclusive way to treat these substances, I should remind you that no less a psychedelic and intellectual luminary than Aldous Huxley talked about restricting the use of psychoactive substances to select individuals. I'm not sure I agree with that but I…

…was seven, I was a rock collector, a fossil collector, a butterfly collector. Then around age ten, I read, I think, an Aldous Huxley, or maybe a Julian Huxley essay that sneered at all that and introduced this concept of the humanities. I didn't even…

…narrow and that it was all in the humanities. And I began reading Henry James and all this stuff. And I was into Aldous Huxley as an example of an english novelist and read antique hay, chrome yellow, after many a summer, must die of the swan and…

…I mean, I said this I must understand. Not only did my mother not tell me and my father not tell me, but Aldous Huxley never told me, and neither did John of the cross, and neither did Meister Eckhart. All those people were apparently flying at a…

…was talking about how similar he felt, his childhood experiences of poor sight, poor eyesight, and being a bookworm paralleled those of Aldous Huxley. I had to also marvel at the irony of other parts of their lives. Not only did they both die from…

…Well, Bartholomew Cubbins and the 500 hats, that was a biggie. But a really important book for me was a little book that Aldous Huxley wrote almost as a throwaway. I'm sure he barely gave it a thought. It's a book called the art of seeing. Seeing a.…

…is made of language. When you take a psychedelic, that cultural world is dissolved. It's just psycholytically dissolved. You know, Aldous Huxley had the notion of what he called the reducing valve. He believed that following cd broad that our senses have…

…make it clear that this was operating. They're not more florid or less florid than the descriptions of LSD that we get from Aldous Huxley and Tim Leary in the early 1960s. I mean, this stuff was taking them away. I don't advise you to eat hashish or…

…fuel in a few seconds and sending something hundreds and hundreds of feet into the air. And then I sort of. I read Aldous Huxley and Ashley Montague and all those people, and I sort of turned on science and my previous naive love of nature, rocks,…

…keep this program within a manageable time span, I've had to leave out some legendary elders such as Krishnamurti and Aldous Huxley. But I think that you're going to enjoy hearing again from Timothy Leary, Myron Stolaroff, Gary Fisher Frazier, Clark Terrence…

…of the phenomenon that makes it so rich. Yeah. You mentioned the gratuitous grace. This is based on a famous comment by Aldous Huxley. He was asked at one point, what is the psychedelic experience? And he said, it's a gratuitous grace. And then he…

…I had defined myself narrowly and that I was turning into a scientist. And I was reading people like Henry James and Aldous Huxley, and they were sneering at what I was becoming and talking about a mysterious realm of human thought called the humanities,…

…all this curiosity, all this edge work, led me, because I fancied myself also developing as a novelist, to read all of Aldous Huxley. Well, as you know, it moves from a spectrum of these polite novels of english society, like Chrome yellow and Antique…

…for you. So Wasson and Schultes were, and then further back in time. And I think it's obvious from what I've said, Aldous Huxley. And Aldous Huxley is a very interesting case study, because Huxley wrote one of the most savagely anti drug books ever…

…and Schultes were, and then further back in time. And I think it's obvious from what I've said, Aldous Huxley. And Aldous Huxley is a very interesting case study, because Huxley wrote one of the most savagely anti drug books ever written, perhaps the…

…experience that in some ways, it's ever had, and a very intelligent, educated, sensitive person. I mean, I'm certainly not Aldous Huxley, but that's who I would aspire to be. I mean, that's my model. Urbane, educated, you know, avuncular humor, very…

…a rational material, you know, a pain in the neck basically. And in all of that, somehow I began reading Aldous Huxley, the social novels, antique hay, chrome yellow, these comedies of manners of british academic society. I was like twelve or…

…narrow and that it was all in the humanities. And I began reading Henry James and all this stuff. And I was into Aldous Huxley as an example of an english novelist. And red, antique hay, chrome yellow, after many a summer, must die of the swan and…

…why it has a greater affinity for the bond site than the endogenously produced neurotransmitter. Well, it's as though, and I think Aldous Huxley was the first person to suggest this, that the mundane demands of day to day life and evolution, the need to…

…vacuum created by the perturbation of these cultural values rushes the raw, unanalyzed datum of reality. This is what Aldous Huxley called removing the reducing valve of consciousness. And suddenly culture is seen to be a relative phenomena. The stockbroker,…

…been handled as an adjunct to creativity. Its agenda would have surfaced. We would have ended up in a better place. This is what Aldous Huxley wanted to do. You know, he felt that you go to the people, to the power freaks in a non threatening way. You…

…but I always think there are so many ways in which it's true that it would have been so much different if Aldous Huxley had guided things through the turmoil of the 1960s. Aldous Huxley was, you know, a british intellectual, a novelist, a social critic.…

…it's true that it would have been so much different if Aldous Huxley had guided things through the turmoil of the 1960s. Aldous Huxley was, you know, a british intellectual, a novelist, a social critic. But even before he wrote the doors of perception, he…

…drug without any medicinal value. Yet that's what the screw heads in Washington and other world capitals are saying. However, as Aldous Huxley once said, facts don't cease to exist just because they are ignored. Also, I'd like to be sure to point out…

…of plants, does the human mind break forth with niagaras of alien beauty? It doesn't make evolutionary sense. It seems, as Aldous Huxley said of it, a gratuitous grace. What he meant by that was it's neither necessary nor sufficient for salvation, but it's…

…a complete dissolving of your personality, of the boundary constraints, everything. And so then what was offered after Freud and by Aldous Huxley and people like that to model it was some kind of confirmation of eastern philosophy. It was embraced that way.…

…vacuum created by the perturbation of these cultural values rushes the raw, unanalyzed datum of reality. This is what Aldous Huxley called removing the reducing valve of consciousness. And suddenly culture is seen to be a relative phenomena. The stockbroker,…

…as it is visual. Visual. And in thinking about this, I realized what an influence upon my own ideas in this area. Aldous Huxley was, not the Huxley that we might ordinarily associate with my concerns the huxley of the doors of perception and heaven and…

…a third. I feel better about the pursue. There are people in history that really seem to be beatific. Well, you know, Aldous Huxley said the very interesting thing about psychedelics, and I think it addresses this, he said, of psychedelics, he said, it is…

…and featured speakers that you've included lately and was wondering if you have any talks from Robert Anton Wilson, Marshall McLuhan, Aldous Huxley, or Andrew Weil? Thanks Mark. Well, thank you again, Mark and I agree that we could use some more talks by…

…cultures. So here's another way that you may want to look at it, and I'm taking this idea directly from an essay by Aldous Huxley in which he expanded on a comment by Edwin Hubble in his own essay, the role of science in education. And there Hubble…

…the origins of knowledge by Jeremy Narby. And of course the doors of perception and heaven and hell by Aldous Huxley. And then Christian Rasch, with some help from Doctor Albert Hoffman, has prepared the Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants, ethnopharmacology…

…while you might think that he maybe did most of the talking, you'll find that the opposite is true. And much like Aldous Huxley, Terrence did a lot of questioning and listening. It wasn't only from books that those guys acquired their particular views of…

…of the phenomenon that makes it so rich. Yeah. You mentioned the gratuitous grace. This is based on a famous comment by Aldous Huxley. He was asked at one point what is the psychedelic experience? And he said, it's a gratuitous grace. And then he…