…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…

…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…

…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…

…an existentialist, rational material you know a pain in the neck basically. And in all of that somehow I began reading Aldous Huxley, the social novels, antic hay, chrome yellow these comedies of manners of British Academic society. I was like 12 or…

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

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

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

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

…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 written,…

…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 written, perhaps the…

…psychedelic 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 a vuncular humor,…

…an existentialist rational material, you know a pain in the neck basically. And in all of that somehow I began reading Aldous Huxley the social novels, antic hay, chrome yellow, these comedies of manners of British Academic society. I was like 12 or…

…in consciousness from which one recovers after a few hours induced by plants and I discovered through the writing of Aldous Huxley and other people that this was a worldwide religious and cultural phenomenon that my own Catholic Middle class upbringing had…

…in vats and had very free sex and so forth and so on. It was an interesting book but then I started reading the author Aldous Huxley, and I read chrome yellow and I read antic hay and I read after many a summer dies the swan and I read aphenescent.…

…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…

…LSD by Albert Hoffman in the late 30s and then the writing on the subject of the psychedelic experience that was done by Aldous Huxley, Metzner and others, it became a fad of the self exploring youth culture of the 60s to be involved with these things.…

…of plants, does the human mind break forth with Niagara's 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…

…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 cross and neither did meister Eckhart. All those people were apparently flying at a lower altitude…

…terribly 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 ante k crome yellow after many a summer must die of the swan and so…

…an agenda. The daily newspaper sets the tone of what I just smoked. It puts in the coloration. We should also mention the Aldous Huxley tribute which is the very next night, Saturday the 30th. I'll be participating in that too and a bunch of other folks…

…the quality of thought. It well basically that's it it does something to the quality of thought but I had been reading Aldous Huxley and havelock Ellis and those people and I kept saying: you know where are the ruins of alien civilizations where are the…

…of the phenomenon that makes it so rich. Well, 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…

…Well, Bartholomew Cubbins and the 500 hats that was the 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 and it…

…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 explained…

…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…

…days we would stack our Abrams books on Hieronymus Bosch and Piero Della Di Francesca and Giotto, and then the idea following Aldous Huxley was that you would imbibe the meaning of these great works of art behind the kind of psychic freedom that the…

…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,…

…up all this metallic fuel in a few seconds and sending something hundreds and hundreds of feet into the air. Then 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,…

…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…

…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…