By Aldous Huxley
Chosen writings from the writer of Brave New World and The doorways of Perception at the function of psychedelics in society.
• contains letters and lectures by means of Huxley by no means released elsewhere.
In could 1953 Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescaline. the paranormal and transcendent adventure that set him off on an exploration that used to be to supply a innovative physique of labor concerning the internal reaches of the human brain. Huxley was once a long time prior to his time in his anticipation of the hazards smooth tradition was once developing via explosive inhabitants raise, headlong technological boost, and militant nationalism, and he observed psychedelics because the maximum capability at our disposal to "remind adults that the genuine global is particularly diverse from the misshapen universe they've got created for themselves by way of their culture-conditioned prejudices." a lot of Huxley's writings following his 1953 mescaline test may be obvious as his try and show the ability of those elements to evoke a feeling of the sacred in humans dwelling in a technological society adverse to mystical revelations.
Moksha, a Sanskrit observe which means "liberation," is a suite of the prophetic and visionary writings of Aldous Huxley. It comprises decisions from his acclaimed novels Brave New World and Island, either one of which envision societies based round the use of psychedelics as stabilizing forces, in addition to items from The doorways of Perception and Heaven and Hell, his well-known works on recognition enlargement.
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And then as the light increased, hunger again for profounder satisfactions, for a bliss more intense. Bliss and hunger, hunger and bliss. And through everlengthening durations the light kept brightening from beauty into beauty. And the joy of knowing, the joy of being known, increased with every increment of that embracing and interpenetrating beauty. Brighter, brighter, through succeeding durations, that expanded at last into an eternity of joy. An eternity of radiant knowledge, of bliss unchanging in its ultimate intensity.
For this book was a kind of encyclopedia of drugs. Opium and its modern derivatives, morphia and heroin; cocaine and the Mexican peyotl; the hashish of India and the near East; the agaric of Siberia; the kawa of Polynesia; the betel of the East Indies; the now universal alcohol; the ether, the chloral, the veronal of the contemporary West—not one was omitted. By the time I had reached the last page, I knew something about the history, the geographical distribution, the mode of preparation and the physiological and psychological effects of all the delicious poisons, by means of which men have constructed, in the midst of an unfriendly world, their brief and precarious paradises.
Ololiuqui is the Aztec denomination for the seeds of certain morning glory species. 1 mg of LSD. There are the profound consciousness-altering psychic effects of peyotl, teonanacatl, and ololiuqui which made the Indians of the Latin American countries so respectful and awestruck of these drugs, causing these people to place a taboo on them. Only a ritually clean person, one prepared by a period of prayer and fasting, had the right and qualification to ingest these drugs and then only in such a purified body as their divine nature could develop, whereas the impure felt themselves going insane or mortally stricken.