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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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Dr. Sydney Cohen, LSD history, Timothy Leary, William James
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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
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
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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alan E. Cober, Aldous Huxley, alexy brodovitch, American illustration 1960's, antonio frasconi, art chantry, Dylan Thomas, Jacob Landau, James McMullen, James Thurber, Joseph Low, leo & diane dillon, Louis di Valentin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel West, Paul Hogarth, ronald searle, seymour chwast, Thomas Jefferson, Thrift Store Collectibles, Time Inc. book clubs, Time-Life magazine, tomi ungerer, TRP books
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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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis, Christopher Hitchens, G.K. Chesterton, George Orwell, j.r.r. tolkein, Jan van Eyck, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, Joy Davidman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, William Blake
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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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Andrew Potter, c.m. kornbluth, Frederick Pohl, George Orwell, Herbert Marcuse, joseph heath, Karl Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Noam Chomsky, Paul Goodman, Ray Bradbury, Sir Thomas More, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor Adorno, William Tenn
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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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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Aldous Huxley Brave New World, alexander korda, George Orwell, H.G. Wells Men Like Gods, h.g. wells the time machine, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orson Welles, Orson Welles Mercury Theater, Orson Welles War of the Worlds
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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
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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, Diogenes, Diogens and Plato, George Orwell, Hans Holbein, Hieronymous Bosch, Jan Bruegel the elder, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Peter Paul Rubens, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Plato Republic, Raphael School of Athens, Sir Thomas More
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