…was at, a lot of other things. But the key to me, all psychedelics are really keys. They open up that reducing valve that Huxley talks about, you know, and once that's open, whatever comes in, comes in. But for me, it has nothing to do with the…

It's Sunday morning, it's ten minutes after ten, and we're in Huxley. Right. We're turning final here, as old Bush pilots say, which means the final approach before landing. So this is basically loose thread time and summation time and opportunity. Hopefully…

…know, Moby Dick and Huxley's doors of perception. But then when I really got down on it, I realized that a little tiny book Huxley wrote that my mother pushed on me when I was about twelve years old, called the art of seeing, probably shaped me as…

…McLuhan esque terminology. And he says, the way to overcome, and I think this is very, very, very intelligent and simple advice. Huxley said, the way to overcome the print bias, and God knows he was a Cambridge educated gentlemen steeped in the traditions…

…I don't think most modern people realize this about evolution. In the 19th century, these guys like Darwin and Thomas, Henry Huxley and Charles Lyell, they were waging war against Christianity. They were the great warriors of atheism. And the way it worked,…

…elf place. And, you know, you thought you were going to get the white light or you thought you were going to get a Huxley esque aphorism on form and void. And no, you got 16 elves trying to climb inside your clothes in this broom closet in hyperspace…

…at, a lot of other things. But the key to me, all psychedelics are really keys. They open up that reducing valve that Huxley talks about, and once that's open, whatever comes in, comes in. But for me has nothing to do with the psychedelic itself. Expire…

…are geometric patterns, shifting lights. But unless synergized by another drug, the classic psychedelic experience that started it all with Huxley and those people, was, I believe, 200 micrograms of LSD and 30 microns milligrams of mescaline. And I would…

…know, Moby Dick and Huxley's doors of perception. But then when I really got down on it, I realized that a little tiny book Huxley wrote that my mother pushed on me when I was about twelve years old called the art of seeing, probably shaped me as much…

…McLuhanesque terminology. And he says, the way to overcome. And I think this is very, very, very intelligent and simple advice. Huxley said, the way to overcome the print bias, and God knows he was a Cambridge educated gentlemen steeped in the traditions…

…are geometric patterns, shifting lights, but in less synergized by another drug. The classic psychedelic experience that started it all with Huxley and those people was, I believe, 200 micrograms of LSD and 30 milligrams of mescaline and I would believe that…

…hand them out to your friends. It's interesting that when this was all being hashed out at the very beginning, it was Huxley it was Aldous Huxley's Notion that this is how it should be done he said: you know, engineers, artists, diplomats, administrators,…

…just for a quarter anywhere get one of these pills. That just puts you right back into being happy and cooperative. And so Huxley who was, you know a very concerned person very interested in the fate of 20th century society went from this dystopic vision…

…seeds because we didn't know what a dose was really or what actually was supposed to happen because if you read Huxley It's pretty high flown language it's all about radiance and significance and existential validity flooding into the rose. Well once you're…

…maintenance of an open mind. So thank you very much. Okay it's Sunday Morning it's ten minutes after ten and we're in Huxley right, we're turning final here as old bush pilots say which means the final approach before landing. So this is basically loose…

…history of psychedelics. It was not a formal debate but it was real and it went on between the Harvard Group and Huxley. And Huxley's Notion was the magic bullet theory of psychedelics. He said: we must get this to politicians, artists, writers city…

…e the putumayo, the devil's Paradise, London 1912. Harner, Michael, the sound of rushing water natural history, July 1968. Huxley, Aldous: the doors of perception, Joyce James, Finnegan's wake, London 1939. Ulysses Ditto, slightly earlier, yonch, Eric, the self…

…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 most intelligent anti drug book ever written which…

…had taken LSD before I had smoked DMT and I was able to hold it within the model provided by Freud and Jung and Huxley and ordinary literatures of mystical experience. But when you smoke DMT it seems to carry you into a data field that is well beyond…

…just for a quarter anywhere get one of these pills that just puts you right back into being happy and cooperative. And so Huxley who was you know a very concerned person, very interested in the fate of 20th century society, went from this dystopic vision…

…seeds because we didn't know what a dose was really or what actually was supposed to happen because if you read Huxley It's pretty high flown language. It's all about radiance and significance and existential validity flooding into the rose. Well once…

…his book and people have objected to it on the grounds that evolution may well move by fits and starts. Even t h Huxley disagreed with Darwin on this one. Anyway if evolution moves by fits and starts rather than uniformly, then it looks as if there's…

…there's a connection down into the molecular level. This will be our last one this morning. Language transcendence. Huxley, Jung and others often mention liberating and enlightening epiphanies as beyond language and iconic imagery. You yourself mentioned…

…evil, well then it's Carl Jaspers on something else, or Sartre. It's just horrible, horrible stuff. So I became aware through Huxley that there was this other possibility and Huxley always wrote about the psychedelic experience as a branch of the mystical…

…or Sartre. It's just horrible, horrible stuff. So I became aware through Huxley that there was this other possibility and Huxley always wrote about the psychedelic experience as a branch of the mystical quest, what he called the perennial philosophy. And…

…thought of moby dick and Huxley's Doors of perception but then when I really got down on it I realized that a little tiny book Huxley wrote that my mother pushed on me when I was about 12 years old called the art of seeing, probably shaped me as much…

…McLuhan Esque terminology, and he says the way to overcome and I think this is very very, very intelligent and simple advice. Huxley said the way to overcome the print bias and god knows he was a Cambridge educated gentleman steeped in the traditions of…

…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 hell but the Huxley…

…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 hell but the Huxley of a very modest book that he wrote in the early…

…not the Huxley that we might ordinarily associate with my concerns, the Huxley of the doors of perception and heaven and hell but the Huxley of a very modest book that he wrote in the early 50s called the art of seeing, the art of seeing, and in that…

…forward his book. People have objected to it on the grounds that evolution may well move by fits and starts. Even t h Huxley disagreed with Darwin on this one. Anyway if evolution moves by fits and starts rather than uniformly then it looks as if…

…hand them out to your friends. It's interesting that when this was all being hashed out at the very beginning it was Huxley, it was Aldous Huxley's Notion that this is how it should be done. He said: you know, engineers, artists, diplomats, administrators,…

…mean sandoz LSD. So for me when I got to psilocybin I was just exultant because, see what I had done is I'd read Huxley, then I'd gone back to havelock Ellis the dance of life and Henri Michaud the miserable miracle and people like that and havelock…

…between these things. So then having discussed options it would remain it seems to discuss techniques since it's almost what Huxley called the gratuitous grace: all conditions for success can be present and one can still fail, although not if all…

…you've got to play some more you've got to play some more. But you know you're in there with competition with people like Huxley and Buckminster Fuller so there's some pretty stiff competition for airtime and is what you've got old shows that I did at…

…past year and I was amazed how much of my own attitude toward life is contained in this fairly trivial book. You know Huxley had terrible eyes too and he discovered the so called bayesian method of eye exercises and eye health, which at that time we're…

…a single pyrite crystal or a single beetle carcass just turning it over and looking at it, and then at some point again Huxley keeps coming back into this I decided that I would become a writer, not because I loved writing particularly, but because I…

…have heaped upon them which was something that I, as a goggle eyed weirdo was not getting much of. So then the name Huxley recurred again and I started reading through all of those novels, the social novels you know. After many a summer dies the swan…

…many a summer dies the swan and all the REST of it, ape and essence and finally I came to a work of nonfiction by Huxley, the doors of perception in heaven and hell. This was by now probably 1958. I was 14 years old and in that book Huxley, the…

…of perception in heaven and hell. This was by now probably 1958. I was 14 years old and in that book Huxley, the quintessential English Academic establishment intellectual, describes his confrontations with mescaline and what it meant to him. And it was…

…hand them out to your friends. It's interesting that when this was all being hashed out at the very beginning it was Huxley. It was Aldous Huxley's Notion that this is how it should be done. He said: you know engineers, artists, diplomats, administrators,…

…at pictures and seeing the ischite in the folds of your trousers and thinking about how that relates to meister Eckhart and all this Huxley type stuff. But that gave me the idea and then I stuck with it. I stuck with it somehow and found marijuana and…

…in a Catholic way yeah because it was all religious mysticism. There was no other form of mysticism before I guess before Huxley published his books, I mean it was somehow well for Catholics. There was no other form of mysticism. There was Ouspensky Itis…

…you know, moby dick and Huxley's Doors of perception but then when I really got down on it I realized that a little tiny book Huxley wrote that my mother pushed on me when I was about 12 years old called the art of seeing, probably shaped me as much…

…McLuhan Esque terminology, and he says the way to overcome and I think this is very, very very intelligent and simple advice. Huxley said the way to overcome the print bias and god knows he was a Cambridge educated gentleman who was steeped in the…

…and the good is through the palpable realm of the beautiful. And to my mind this is what these psychedelics achieve. As Huxley said, they dial open the valve of consciousness or as Blake implied, the window of perception is cleansed and then you see…

…and you know then Jung splicing in the myths and then the surrealists and iliad, and then the drug people come along and Huxley and so forth until finally people say, as that wonderful line in rosemary's baby my god this is really happening, you know…

…Andy will be a tough act to follow, but we have just the man. But before I introduce him, some of you may wonder why Laura Huxley is not here tonight. She had a crisis in her family that arose rather close to this date and so she was unable to be…

…you. The eyes are it and it's the visual thing that is so thrilling, so sexy, so infinitely deep. And in that book Huxley tells you how to look at a painting by basically clear your mind, open your eyes, stand still that's very important when viewing…

…do you want to comment? Well, I had the occasion a few years ago to write the introduction for a new edition of Laura Huxley One of Laura Huxley's books, and I dashed off this forward at the last minute and with the elusive praise of Huxley and island…

…edition of Laura Huxley One of Laura Huxley's books, and I dashed off this forward at the last minute and with the elusive praise of Huxley and island and this and that and the other thing and within 48 hours she was on the phone to me and she said:…

…all this curiosity, all this edge work led me because I fancied myself also developing as a novelist to read all of Albus Huxley. Well as you know, it moves from a spectrum of these polite novels of English Society, like after well, chrome yellow and…

…geometric patterns, shifting lights, but in less synergized by another drug. The classic psychedelic experience that started it all with Huxley and those people was, I believe, 200 micrograms of LSD and 30 milligrams of mescaline, and I would believe that…

…hardware store. And so then I began to ask questions and I quickly discovered it was a mistake. So I went back to Huxley and read more carefully, saw that he was working from the early days of pavlok Ellis Weir Mitchell, Fitzhugh Ludlow. It turned out…

…in here his whole cosmology, his whole worldview, his structure of his life just came to him, including the fact that he had been reading Huxley and he'd been starting to read. This man read so much by the time he was 15 he'd done his 10 000 hours in…

…there's a connection down into the molecular level. This will be our last one this morning. Language transcendence. Huxley, Jung and others often mention liberating and enlightening epiphanies as beyond language and iconic imagery you yourself mentioned…