The vision of Aldous Huxley

Lsd-assisted Psychotherapyand the Human Encounter with Death

Aldous Huxley wrote these words after being with his first wife as she died of cancer in 1955. During her final hours, he employed a hypnotic technique to remind her of spontaneous peak experiences she had known during her life, thereby seeking to guide her toward similar states of consciousness as the death process occurred. In his novel Island, he describes a similar scene during the death of...

Aldous Huxley in the Age of Global Literary Studies

Brave New World

Written in 1931 and published the following year, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a dystopian—or anti-utopian—novel. In it, the author questions the values of 1931 London, using satire and irony to portray a futuristic world in which many of the contemporary trends in British and American society have been taken to extremes. Though he was already a best-selling author, Huxley achieved intern...

MADNESS, BADNESS, SADNESS: ALDOUS HUXLEY AND THE SHIFTING SHADOW OF PSYCHOANALYSIS by ADAM

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Looking backward: Thirty years of research in the anthropology of consciousness

My aim in this paper is to consider developments in the anthropology of consciousness from a long-term perspective. It may therefore be helpful to look back some thirty years and consider the state of affairs at that time. Of course, there wasn't anything called the "Anthropology of Consciousness." Psychologists had long ago given the whole notion of consciousness a bad name and put its study b...