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...Church, 46 tribes in the West and Canada, cut off and dry the cactus tops, then eat the "buttons" in nightlong ceremonies to the accompaniment of sacred fire and chanting. A derivative called mescaline, subject of experiment by psychiatric researchers and mystical dabblers, including Aldous (The Doors of Perception) Huxley, produces in devotees a vivid immediacy of experience that the Indians consider far superior to the liturgy the paleface missionaries have to offer...
...Golden (1) 2. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (2) 3. Wedemeyer Reports! (3) 4. The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery ( 4 ) 5. Beloved Infidel, Graham and Frank (5) 6. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (9) 7. The Proud Possessors, Saarinen 8. On My Own, Roosevelt 9. Brave New World Revisited, Huxley (8) 10. Chicago: A Pictorial History, Kogan and Wendt...
...Brave New World Revisited, Huxley...
Your review was well submitted. The only trouble with Huxley's preaching is: those he preaches of do not read his books, but those who do read them either do not agree with him or will not act if they do agree...
Brave New World Revisited, by Aldous Huxley. Fact has caught up with his 1932 horror fiction, argues Huxley, and he, for one, is reappalled...