21. Aldous Huxley - Wikipedia, Slobodna Enciklopedija - Википед Aldous Huxley se rodio 26. srpnja 1894. u Godalmingu u grofoviji Surrey. Otac mu je bio Leonard Huxely, najstariji sin poznatog biologa i darwinovog http://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley

Aldous Huxley From Wikipedia Skoči na - Скочи на: navigacija- навигација pretraga - претрага Image:Huxley.jpg Aldous Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley (Godalming, 26. srpnja Los Angeles 22. studenog engleski književnik. Djelovao je kao novinar, kazališni, likovni i glazbeni kritičar. Sedam godina boravio je u Italiji, a . putuje oko svijeta, te od . boravio je u Kaliforniji . Javio se misaonom lirikom s jakim pesimističkim tonovima. U prvom razdoblju svojeg stvaranja prosvjeduje protiv životne besmislenosti, a u drugom razdoblju sve se više javlja mistička aura i odaje se studiju istočnjačke i zapadnjačke mistike. Pod kraj života uživao je haluciongene i opisivao njihov učinak. Prvi put uzima meskalin 1953. Čak je na samrti zamolio da mu se da doza LSD-a. Svoja iskustva s halucinogenim drogama koja je pomno pratio tako što je bilježio doživljaje i snimao razgovore pod opijatima na diktafon objavljuje u knjizi Vrata percepcije (1954.) i u eseju Raj i Pakao Njegov djed je Thomas Henry Huxley jedan od prvih pristaša Darvinizma , odnosno teorije evolucije i autora epifenomenalizma svijesti.

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Aldous Huxley - somaweb.org The intellectual, satirical, spiritual, hypnotic, and philosophical world of Aldous Huxley. table of contents General Huxley Links Brave New World Links Biography Complete Works Comprehensive bibliography. Coterie comrades and affiliates Bio-Ethics and Reproductive Issues Want to be cloned? Additional Resources Find books; LA Times articles; other authors. Site Information contact info, citation info. Discussion Forum Post your thoughts and questions. Read or search over 1,000 messages on many topics. GENERAL HUXLEY LINKS: Island Web . Thoughts on Aldous Huxley's Island. Essay "Alone On An Island: A Review of Aldous Huxley's Island", by Michael R. Allen. 1997. Island summary Synopsis of Aldous Huxley's Island Here and Now at Themestream. By Robert Rickover. Short essay on temporal focus as relating to the Alexander Technique and Island. The Doors of Perception . The complete text online. The Door In The Wall . By Jay Stevens. About The Doors of Perception. At the Psychedelic Library. The Molecular Biology Of Paradise . Info on peyote and mescalin and psychoactive links. An Interview with Laura Huxley . June 8, 1995. An Interview with Laura Huxley by Bruce Eisner.

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The Literature Network Authors: 260 Books: 2,260 Forum Members: 41,657 Forum Posts: 465,479 Subscribe Teacher Accounts with student management and more. Home Authors Shakespeare Bible ... Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley Search all of Aldous Huxley Advanced Search Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) , English novelist and critic, best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World (1931). Besides novels he published travel books, histories, poems, plays, and essays on philosophy, arts, sociology, religion and morals. Aldous Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey on July 26, 1894, into a well-to-do upper-middle-class family. His father, Leonard Huxley, was a biographer, editor, and poet. He first studied at Eton College, Berkshire (1908-13). When Huxley was fourteen his mother died. At the age of 16 Huxley suffered an attack of keratitis punctata and became for a period of about 18 months totally blind. By using special glasses and one eye recovered sufficiently he was able to read and he also learned Braille. Despite a condition of near-blindness, Huxley continued his studies at Balliol College, Oxford (1913-15), receiving his B.A. in English in 1916. Unable to pursue his chosen career as a scientist - or fight in World War on the front - Huxley turned to writing. His first collection of poetry appeared in 1916 and two more volumes followed by 1920. Huxley's first novel

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Quotation Search by keyword or author: Home Weblog Quotes of the Day Motivational ... Read books online at our other site: The Literature Page Quotations by Author Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 14 of 14 total An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. Aldous Huxley At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas. Aldous Huxley Experience teaches only the teachable. Aldous Huxley - More quotations on: [ Teaching Experience If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military. Aldous Huxley Maybe this world is another planet's hell. Aldous Huxley Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

25. Aldous Huxley : The Man Who Gave Drug-driven Utopias A Bad Name aldous huxley 1894 1963. If we could sniff or swallow something that aldous huxley ( Brave New World ). What fun it would be if one didn t have to http://www.huxley.net/ah/index.html

ALDOUS HUXLEY "Maybe this world is another planet's hell." ALDOUS HUXLEY "If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution-then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise." ALDOUS HUXLEY "Two thousand pharmacologists and bio-chemists were subsidized. Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug. Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant. All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects. Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology. Stability was practically assured." ALDOUS HUXLEY ( Brave New World "What fun it would be if one didn't have to think about happiness!"

26. The Doors Of Perception By Aldous Huxley by aldous huxley. aldous huxley. It was in 1886 that the German pharmacologist, Louis Lewin, Video about aldous huxley and The Doors of Perception. http://mescaline.com/huxley.htm

The Doors of Perception Aldous Huxley It was in 1886 that the German pharmacologist, Louis Lewin, published the first systematic study of the cactus, to which his own name was subsequently given. Anhalonium lewinii was new to science. To primitive religion and the Indians of Mexico and the American Southwest it was a friend of immemorially long standing. Indeed, it was much more than a friend. In the words of one of the early Spanish visitors to the New World, "they eat a root which they call peyote, and which they venerate as though it were a deity." Why they should have venerated it as a deity became apparent when such eminent psychologists as Jaensch, Havelock Ellis and Weir Mitchell began their experiments with mescalin, the active principle of peyote. True, they stopped short at a point well this side of idolatry; but all concurred in assigning to mescalin a position among drugs of unique distinction. Administered in suitable doses, it changes the quality of consciousness more profoundly and yet is less toxic than any other substance in the pharmacologist's repertory. Mescalin research has been going on sporadically ever since the days of Lewin and Havelock Ellis. Chemists have not merely isolated the alkaloid; they have learned how to synthesize it, so that the supply no longer depends on the sparse and intermittent crop of a desert cactus. Alienists have dosed themselves with mescalin in the hope thereby of coming to a better, a first-hand, understanding of their patients' mental processes. Working unfortunately upon too few subjects within too narrow a range of circumstances, psychologists have observed and catalogued some of the drug's more striking effects. Neurologists and physiologists have found out something about the mechanism of its action upon the central nervous system. And at least one Professional philosopher has taken mescalin for the light it may throw on such ancient, unsolved riddles as the place of mind in nature and the relationship between brain and consciousness.

27. Thoughts On Aldous Huxley's Island Island was written in 1962 and is aldous huxley s last novel. His shared insights represent some (much, perhaps?) of what he learned about being human http://island.org/Huxley/

Thoughts on Aldous Huxley's Island [Excerpts reproduced with permission of Laura Huxley.] If you've been to these pages before, skip the little intro, and hop right into the good stuff. The table of links below are the same ones listed at the ends of the following paragraphs. While Island is a work of fiction, it is the vehicle Huxley used to communicate his ideas about how people in a good society would interact with each other and their environment. These web pages are not offering a literary critique of the novel, analyzing any symbolism, or even summarizing the novel. The plot is a wonderful story in its own right, and it's best to read the book, not a synopsis, to fully enjoy it. The goal here is to simply present Huxley's underlying ideas and philosophies upon which the novel is built. Just as many science-oriented movies start off with a child being taught something, or a news program, or some other educational device which is really for the benefit of the viewer, Huxley has his own "news reel" in Island (Note: Quotes are referenced by page number in the book I read. Since your edition might be a different size, I've also divided the page number by the total number in the book to get a fraction. That way, you can just multiply the fraction by however many pages are in your book to find the text.)

28. Aldous Huxley The English novelist and essayist aldous Leonard huxley, b. July 26, 1894, d. Nov. 22, 1963, a member of a distinguished scientific and literary family, http://www.levity.com/corduroy/huxley.htm

Aldous Huxley "But I like the inconveniences." "We don't," said the Controller. "We prefer to do things comfortably." "But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin." "In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy." "All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." "Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphillis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." There was a long silence. "I claim them all," said the Savage at last. Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. "You're welcome," he said. from Brave New World The English novelist and essayist Aldous Leonard Huxley , b. July 26, 1894, d. Nov. 22, 1963, a member of a distinguished scientific and literary family, intended to study medicine, but was prevented by an eye ailment that almost blinded him at the age of 16. He then turned to literature, publishing two volumes of poetry while still a student at Oxford. His reputation was firmly established by his first novel, Crome Yellow (1921), a witty satire on the intellectual pretensions of his time.

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CAHS / Contact Library Research "Human Potentialities" ... Links Island This design , by Joel Deshaye , is based on the above quotation. Huxley's image is used with permission from Laura Huxley. Updated in January, 2007.

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Fantastic Fiction Authors H Aldous Huxley Preferences google_ad_client = "pub-4149752303753296";google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/frames/banner.htm";google_ad_width = 468;google_ad_height = 60;google_ad_format = "468x60_as";google_ad_type = "text_image";google_ad_channel ="5061332721";google_color_border = "6699CC";google_color_bg = "003366";google_color_link = "FFFFFF";google_color_url = "AECCEB";google_color_text = "AECCEB"; Home Awards New Books Coming Soon ... Years Browse Authors A H O V ... U Aldous Huxley (Aldous Leonard Huxley) Search Authors Search Books About Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley was born on 26th July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early twenties, but it was his first novel, 'Crome Yellow' (1921), which established his literary reputation. This was swiftly followed by 'Antic Hay' (1923), 'Those Barren Leaves' (1925) and 'Point Counter Point' (1928) - bright, brilliant satires in which Huxley wittily but ruthlessly passed judgement on the shortcomings of contemporary society. For most of the 1920s Huxley lived in Italy and an account of his experiences there can be found in 'Along The Road' (1925). In the years leading up to the Second World War, Huxley's work took on a more sombre tone in response to the confusion of a society which he felt to be spinning dangerously out of control. The great novels of ideas, including his most famous work 'Brave New World' (published in 1932 this warned against the dehumanising aspects of scientific and material 'progress') and the pacifist novel 'Eyeless in Gaza' (1936) were accompanied by a series of wise and brilliant essays, collected in volume form under titles such as 'Music at Night' (1931) and 'Enda and Means' (1937).

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Path : culture characters Join at the Ally level and get a hand-blown glass MDMA molecule! Photographer Unknown Photographer Unknown Erowid Character Vaults Aldous Huxley July 26, 1894 - Nov 22, 1963 Summary Aldous Huxley was a novelist and essayist, born in Godalming, Surrey, England, the grandson of T.H. Huxley. He studied at Oxford, where he published two volumes of poetry. He lived mainly in Italy in the 1920s, (where he met and befriended D.H. Lawrence) and moved to California in 1937. His early writing included poetry, short stories, and literary journalism, but his reputation was made with his novels Crome Yellow, Antic Hay, and Brave New World. He was a philosopher and non-conformist who used writing as a vehicle for his ideas. His later writing became more mystical in character, culminating in Island , the story of an optimistic utopia. In May 1953, Huxley was introduced to mescaline by Humphry Osmond , an experience he described in his book The Doors of Perception. Two years later, in 1955, he was introduced to LSD by Al Hubbard . Huxley had a great interest in the process of death and dying as well as in the mental states achieved through psychedelic drugs. When his first wife Maria was dying of cancer in 1955, he used hypnotic techniques to talk her through the memory of ecstatic experiences she had earlier in life. Then in 1963, at his request, his second wife and partner

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Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... add a picture Author: Aldous Huxley Also known as: A. Huxley Aldous Huxley Aldoux Huxley Aldus Huxley ... Audous Huxley Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Books by Aldous Huxley combine/separate works Brave new world 11204 copies, 87 reviews 873 copies, 3 reviews Island 789 copies, 3 reviews 662 copies, 8 reviews Point counter point 569 copies, 3 reviews Brave new world revisited 568 copies, 2 reviews Crome yellow 343 copies, 8 reviews The perennial philosophy 330 copies, review The doors of perception 297 copies, 1 review Ape and essence 292 copies, 5 reviews Eyeless in Gaza 278 copies, 1 review Antic hay 252 copies, 1 review After many a summer dies the swan 249 copies, 1 review The devils of Loudun 246 copies, 3 reviews Time must have a stop 131 copies, 2 reviews see all 123 books Member ratings Average: 0.5 stars 1 stars 1.5 stars 2 stars 2.5 stars 3 stars 3.5 stars 4 stars 4.5 stars 5 stars Common Knowledge Share what you know.

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The Classical Fiction Writers: Click the letter and you will be brought to the beginning of the appropriate biography list. A B C D ... W X Y Z (Click on letter to go to index.) -A- Auchincloss, Louis Auchincloss was a practicing lawyer (New York City). He became a successful writer of fiction, including: Tales of Manhattan I Come as a Thief The Partners (1974), and The Winthrop Covenant (1976). He wrote non-fiction too, including: Life, Law and Letters , in which Auchincloss makes reference to Holmes, Cardozo, Jane Austen, Astor, Vanderbilt, Dreiser, Lytton Strachey, Saint-Simon, Thackeray (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979); and A Writer's Capital (University of Minnesota Press, 1974). Austen, Jane (Click on letter to go to index.) -B- Bennett, Arnold Blackmore, Richard Doddridge "His books are particularly notable for their secondary characters and for descriptions of England's West Country." ( Benet's .) His most notable work: Lorna Doone Borrow, George Henry Trained as a lawyer, Borrow had a working knowledge of at least twelve languages; he traveled and read widely. Borrow's novels were mostly biographical; his best two works were Lavengro (1851) and its sequel

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My Account Home Free Online Study Guides Best Editing Anywhere Getting you the grade since 1999. Study Guides Editing Services ... Help Search: Biography of Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) Aldous Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894 in Surrey, England, as the third son of Dr. Leonard Huxley and Julia Arnold. He is the grandson of T.H. Huxley. Educated at Eton, Aldous Huxley was forced to leave the school at the age of seventeen due to an affliction of the eyes. He was left partially blind for two or three years and therefore was unable to complete the rigorous scientific training he had undertaken. When his eyesight improved, Huxley went to Oxford where he received a degree in English literature. Huxley's career started in journalism and included music and artistic criticism as well as book reviews. He also began writing poems, essays, and historical pieces. However, his satirical novels were better received by the public than his other writings. His first book was a volume of poetry called The Burning Wheel. While working as an editor for House and Garden during the1920's, Huxley wrote many novels including Brave New World Huxley spent several years in Italy where he formed a friendship with D.H. Lawrence and even edited several of Lawrence's letters in 1933. In 1937 he moved to the United States. Huxley received the Award of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1959. He was living in California at the time of his death on November 22, 1963.

36. Aldous Huxley @Web English Teacher Lesson plans and teaching resources for Brave New World. http://www.webenglishteacher.com/huxley.html

from LaborLawTalk.com Word: Definition: English Math Teacher Labor Law ... Labor Law Center Employment law requires that employers post mandatory labor law posters . Our complete labor law poster combines the mandated state, federal and OSHA posters on one poster. Book Reports Children's Literature Drama ... Young Adult Literature Aldous Huxley Lesson plans for Brave New World Sponsored Link Brave New World E-Notes Lesson Plan A thorough unit plan, featuring activities, quizzes, tests, and more. Also includes the complete eNotes to the novel. Aldous Huxley An extensive collection of links: writing by Huxley, writing about Huxley, links related to Brave New World , and more. Brad's Advanced Composition This lesson covers the convention of commas in essential/nonessential elements. Click on the teacher sample to find writing about Brave New World Brave New World Text of the novel. Brave New World Questions for discussion and/or writing. Brave New World Aldous Huxley himself narrates this adaptation originally broadcast in 1956. Follow the links to audio versions, which require Real Player. While you may not be able to dedicate an hour of class time to listening to these 2 30-minute presentations, Huxley's introductions to the 2 segments are worth hearing. Brave New World Follow the "Off the Map" link to view modern backyard utopias. Then ask students to create a utopia of their own.

37. Aldous Huxley Writer Pride and Prejudice. aldous Leonard huxley was born on July 26, 1894, at Laleham in Godalming Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0404717/

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B RAVE N EW W ORLD by Aldous Huxley Chapter One A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY. The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north. Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory. Wintriness responded to wintriness. The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables. "And this," said the Director opening the door, "is the Fertilizing Room."

39. The Doors Of Perception aldous huxley. The Doors of Perception was first published in Great Britain by Chatto Windus Ltd 1954. ©Mrs. Laura huxley 1954 http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/doors.htm

The Psychedelic Library Homepage Books Menu Page The Doors of Perception Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception was first published in Great Britain by Note: The Doors of Perception The Doors of Perception for their library are advised to purchase it from their book supplier. If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. that the German pharmacologist, Louis Lewin, published the first systematic study of the cactus, to which his own name was subsequently given. Anhalonium lewinii was new to science. To primitive religion and the Indians of Mexico and the American Southwest it was a friend of immemorially long standing. Indeed, it was much more than a friend. In the words of one of the early Spanish visitors to the New World, "they eat a root which they call peyote, and which they venerate as though it were a deity." Why they should have venerated it as a deity became apparent when such eminent psychologists as Jaensch, Havelock Ellis and Weir Mitchell began their experiments with mescalin, the active principle of peyote. True, they stopped short at a point well this side of idolatry; but all concurred in assigning to mescalin a position among drugs of unique distinction. Administered in suitable doses, it changes the quality of consciousness more profoundly and yet is less toxic than any other substance in the pharmacologist's repertory. Mescalin research has been going on sporadically ever since the days of Lewin and Havelock Ellis. Chemists have not merely isolated the alkaloid; they have learned how to synthesize it, so that the supply no longer depends on the sparse and intermittent crop of a desert cactus. Alienists have dosed themselves with mescalin in the hope thereby of coming to a better, a first-hand, understanding of their patients' mental processes. Working unfortunately upon too few subjects within too narrow a range of circumstances, psychologists have observed and catalogued some of the drug's more striking effects. Neurologists and physiologists have found out something about the mechanism of its action upon the central nervous system. And at least one Professional philosopher has taken mescalin for the light it may throw on such ancient, unsolved riddles as the place of mind in nature and the relationship between brain and consciousness.

40. Aldous Huxley Quotes 119 quotes and quotations by aldous huxley. aldous huxley A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/aldous_huxley.html

Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! Home Quote Topics Quote Keywords ... Author Nationalities Authors: A B C D ... Z Web brainyquote.com Aldous Huxley Quotes Type: Novelist Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes Date of Birth: July 26 Date of Death: November 22 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Aldous Huxley Related Authors: E. M. Forster Samuel Richardson Charles Dickens Henry Fielding ... William Makepeace Thackeray A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. Aldous Huxley A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. Aldous Huxley A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. Aldous Huxley A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. Aldous Huxley A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

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