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Selected writings from the author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception on the role of psychedelics in society.

Includes letters and lectures by Huxley never published elsewhere.

In May 1953 Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescaline. The mystical and transcendent experience that followed set him off on an exploration that was to produce a revolutionary body of work about the inner reaches of the human mind. Huxley was decades ahead of his time in his anticipation of the dangers modern culture was creating through explosive population increase, headlong technological advance, and militant nationalism, and he saw psychedelics as the greatest means at our disposal to "remind adults that the real world is very different from the misshapen universe they have created for themselves by means of their culture-conditioned prejudices." Much of Huxley's writings following his 1953 mescaline experiment can be seen as his attempt to reveal the power of these substances to awaken a sense of the sacred in people living in a technological society hostile to mystical revelations.

Moksha, a Sanskrit word meaning "liberation," is a collection of the prophetic and visionary writings of Aldous Huxley. It includes selections from his acclaimed novels Brave New World and Island, both of which envision societies centered around the use of psychedelics as stabilizing forces, as well as pieces from The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, his famous works on consciousness expansion.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #258833 in Books
• Published on: 1999-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Rhea A. White, Exceptional Human Experience Network
Huxley was one of the first in the modern West to realize the potential value and spiritual implications of drugs. We are fortunate to have this experiential record of drug experiences.

Publisher's Weekly
A controversial, mind-expanding book that confirms Huxley's position. . .as the father of the modern drug movement.

Andrew Weil, author of High Times
This book collects all of [Huxley's] words on the subject and is a valuable addition to the psychedelic literature.

Customer Reviews

AN INFORMATIVE AND POIGNANT READ
This volume brings together selections from Huxley’s Brave New World, Doors Of Perception, Heaven And Hell and Island, as well as magazine articles, letters, lectures and scientific papers. It also includes writings by Timothy Leary, Laura Huxley and Dr. Humphry Osmond. Leary’s interesting account of a 1960 meeting with Huxley at Cambridge is titled Mushrooms For Lunch, whilst the same year’s Harvard Sessions is a report of a psylocybin session where Huxley took part in a group experiment. Other very thought provoking chapters include Dr. Humphry Osmond’s May Morning In Hollywood and Huxley’s own Disregarded In The Darkness, Doors, Mescalin, Heaven And Hell and Brave New World Revisited. But the highlights of the book are Laura Huxley’s 1962 account of her husband in a psychedelic state and especially her moving account of his illness and death, titled Nobly Born. The appendix is titled Instruments For Use During A Psychedelic Experience and the book concludes with an index. This is a brilliant collection of this refined author’s best work and an insightful investigation into the use of entheogenic substances for the expansion of consciousness. I also recommend Huston Smith’s Cleansing The Doors Of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogentic Plants and Chemicals, William James’ Varieties Of Religious Experience the title Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness by Ralph Abraham, Terence McKenna and Rupert Sheldrake.

A book of one of Englands most thoughtful gentlemen.
Aldous Huxley suffered poor vision and his dream of becoming a sciencetist, Doctor was shatered. So he became a Poet and Author. He was always interested in Medicine and belived that Psychadelics were the way forward. This book is a monument to his lifes work, and shows his thoughts and also some of his creative genius. If you have had problems with drugs you will find this worth reading.