Tag Archives: Aldous Huxley

enlarging the mind

The phenomenal powers of LSD to intensify and change the mind. A good or an ill? Pharmaceuticals that change and maintain human personality at any desired level… Since earliest times people have felt the impulse to rise above the everyday … Continue reading

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cicero: first he looked at the purse

One for the money and later for the show. We glorify and exalt the spy; from Nathan Hale down to James Bond, yet they pose a danger to the open society…. …A World War II spy, Elyesa Buzna- better known … Continue reading

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cannabis: our reefer sadness

Life with a spliff more surreal, exciting, profound? Recapturing the moment before the soul came into the world when it was sky-high. Maybe cannabis and other psychotropics open doors as Aldous Huxley asserted or Carlos Castaneda, but its a high … Continue reading

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clash of civilizations: school’s out

Eyeless in Gaza; it came from John Milton’s “Samson Agonistes” and the key line is ” Eyeless in Gaza the mill with slaves.” And who are we or they exactly slaving for and the Samson complex to bear pressure on … Continue reading

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killing time club: edumacation

by Art Chantry: this is an advert for one of those horrible “TIME, INC.” book clubs from the 1960’s. i don’t know how long it was around (the oldest examples i have are from the mid 1960’s). it was one … Continue reading

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from strength to strength

C.S. Lewis. The Christian spaceman who put theology into outer space and planetary adventure… The third novel in C.S. Lewis’s space trilogy series , That Hideous Strength, is a buyoant satire on the overweening pretensions of technology and the social … Continue reading

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the new seekers

Aldous Huxley is to the negative or anti-utopia what Plato and Sir Thomas More combined are to the positive. We are apt to be less familiar with the Republic’s guardians and Utopia’s jeweled toys than we are with Brave New … Continue reading

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Utopia: stories of the days to come

Utopia is not exactly the same as the Messianic Kingdom where the wolf dwells with the lamb and the leopard lies down with the kid. Its peaceable, but only through divine intervention. The other Utopia, the secular one, is a … Continue reading

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The Eden-ites

The Garden of Eden. The first Utopia. Throughout time people have gotten impatient about waiting for the rapture; dabbled in nihilism to prod the redemption; in general, a complete dissatisfaction with the world as it is leading to fervent imaginings … Continue reading

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utopia: realms of Nowhere

Not satisfied. Not content with the world as it exists, people have always tried to imagine the world as it might become.Utopia has always been on the map of the imagination and every age, with some notable exceptions has created … Continue reading

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