Word: huxleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uncle of the human race and prince of good livers!" The line appeared in London's Vanity Fair and described a beguiling American who counted among his friends Bismarck, the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), Thomas Huxley, President Garfield, the Emperor of Brazil, Tennyson, Thackeray and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
...Aldous Huxley, in his more badly philosophical article, conjectures that under LSD the "deeper self decides which kind of experience will be most advantageous...
Solomon's anthology covers two possible approaches to LSD. Timothy Leary, Alan Watts, and Aldous Huxley speak for visionary, mystical use of the drug. The medical contributors have made isolated experiments in the use of LSD in psychiatric therapy, both in a psychoanalytic framework and in group rehabilitation...
...experience. No less than five of the book's contributors call on William James' Varieties of Religious Experience for a precedent to LSD visions. One writer reports that most LSD subjects receive a "common vision of immortality." They, presumably, have seen through the mortality game. Although both Leary and Huxley insist that LSD is only a means of educating oneself for the normal conscious state, neither really explains why it wouldn't be nicer to spend all one's time under LSD. As an Indian student remarked recently, "Who wants to build railroads when you can have the fulfillment...
Married. George Pember Darwin, 36, researcher for a London electronics company, great-grandson of Evolutionist Charles Darwin; and Angela Huxley, 24, niece of the late Author Aldous and great-granddaughter of Biologist Thomas Huxley, foremost champion of Darwin's The Origin of Species; in an Anglican ceremony; in London...