…system, is a man named Alex Hutchley. How about a round of applause? There are many books that are written about Huxley. He's a real mysterious laid-back magician of the mid-20th century. But in several history books, including one recently, Stormy Heaven,…

…history books, including one recently, Stormy Heaven, by J. Stevens, have you read that book? Yeah. He repeats the myth that Huxley Alice Huxley came over here, wanted over here, maybe they sent him over here with an assignment to do something about…

…there kind of guiding us. There's one amusing digression here. The first time I had a really long discussion with you, Elvis Huxley was on election day in 1980, the night that Kennedy defeated Nixon. And we went out to dinner with another English…

…system, which is the digital binomial language of off, on, yin, yang, zero, one, which is considered the software computer language. Huxley used to say, in his Magnificent Metaphor, that book, Yours of Perception, the book, Heaven and Hell, he said, well,…

…were not mood drugs. They were not addictive drugs. They were not tranquilizing drugs. They were something different. Huxley and Osmond came up with the word psychedelic, which means mind-opening. And again, mind-opening, psychedelic drugs. Mind-opening. You…

…It was the fifties kids that grew up with Mouseketeers and they knew about churning on. I mean, with all due respect to Huxley and Professor Richard Alpert, Baba Ram Dass, you know, we were going out saying churn on, tune in, was, uh, uh, with all…

…first major burst of publicity, is that what you're trying to focus on? Was that the first? Well, there were steps all the way. Huxley was one of the first. After we were fired from Harvard that fall, Every major magazine came out with a... There was a…

…And script by William Burroughs, script by Gibson, script by me. And we're going to tell you a little script from Huxley, too. They said they were quite ready for that. They needed more compact disks, interactive software. So then we switched, and…

…what's been happening to them and to see its many possibilities. Now, obviously, How to use this becomes a major issue and Aulus Huxley particularly tried to get hold of funds to do this and unfortunately we failed. This led him to say that he would…

…Pasadena. And script by William Burroughs, script by Gibson, script by me. And we're going to tell you a little script from Huxley, too. They said they were quite ready for that. They needed more compact disk interactive software. So then we switched, and…

…of a dumb idea in some ways, but the number one dumb thing is not to plan your death. That's, and to just go, boom. Huxley, of course, had been studying dying, and it wasn't the last minute. Oh, my God, what will I do now I'm dying? Bring me the…

…21st century would be the century of the brain. I give credit to the great explorers of Magellan and Columbus and Huxley. Remember, Alice Huxley used the metaphors of discovering and going across to the Antipodes and like Australians finding things and…

…much. I really, I'm one of a group of, you know, test pilots. And for 30 years, I have been exploring the brain, as Huxley and Marshall McLuhan urged us to do way back in the late 50s. I've also been working with computers for eight years. I don't…

…tribes united that day in contrast. The prankster's wild fun and Millbrook's soulful meditation. We were influenced by European philosophy. Albus Huxley and Gerald Hurd. Wow, we were odd. Alan Watts. On and on. And no, but we were wall-to-wall gurus. So it…

…it happened, it always happens, if you're ready, if you're ready, the teacher will come. A great hero. So I called him down to Huxley. He was kind of timid. And I explained what we were doing. And I can't imitate his accent. But he said, let me get…

…him. He said, you have to explore consciousness? I said, yes, sir. He said, what's your address? I'll be there in five minutes. And Huxley came, and the first thing he said was, get out of this clinic, you might have to go through this in a clinic, or…

…get at the same raw level of reality. And the classic description of this process, for most Americans today, was provided by Huxley during his church messaman experience when he looked at the chair. and spoke about the is-ness of the chair. Everything was…

…developed and painters began getting burnt umber and that sort of thing that they started paying much attention to the color spectrum. Huxley writes at great length about colors in his book Heaven and Hell. Do you know that? No, I don't. The next section…