A friend died recently didn't know till just a few days ago DG died on December 8th 2009 he was 22 and had an older brother and a pretty damn cool mom we would hang out with, I grew up with them all. I may have not seen him in years because I haven't gone out and he has been away at College too. Although we didn't get along when he was younger many times but things changed as we aged. Came across this thought I would share it with you all. Something he wrote...................
Huxley's Perennial Philosophy
I am not a beacon that warns of danger, but a signal of land that is vast with resources.
In The Perennial Philosophy, St. John of the Cross says: "All that the imagination can imagine and the reason conceive and understand in this life is not, and cannot be, a proximate means of union with God" (Huxley 129).
Jalal-uddin Rumi in The Perennial Philosophy: "Men's minds perceive second causes,
But only prophets perceive the action of the First Cause" (Huxley 145).
These are a few quotes from Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy, an anthology of Eastern philosophy. The book was written in 1945 and I think that it really shows how wide Aldous Huxley's pen could range.
In his first book, Crome Yellow (1922), Huxley took a playful stab at early twentieth century aristocracy. On the contrary, Huxley describes what the Perennial Philosophy is, as both a book and a philosophy: "This book, I repeat, is an anthology of the Perennial Philosophy; but, though writing an anthology, it contains but few extracts from the writings of professionals men of letters and, though illustrating a philosophy, hardly anything from the professionals philosophers. The reason for this is very simple. The Perennial Philosophy is primarily concerned with the one, divine Reality substantial to the manifold world of things and lives and minds. But the nature of this one Reality is such that it cannot be directly and immediately apprehended except by those who have chosen to fulfil certain conditions, making themselves loving, pure in spirit"(viii). Huxley puts together a wonderful collection of Eastern thought in this book, while weaving in his own brilliance from time to time for an intelligent and clear elaboration on the topic.
Arguably, Huxley is often been called the grandfather of the counterculture. If he is indeed superceded by someone else, perhaps William S. Burroughs, I argue then that Huxley is undoubtly the grandfather of the intelligent hallucinogen movement. Huxley's The Doors of Perception (1954) was hugely important in solidifying many aspects of post-modern thought. If we compare the dates of the books, Perennial (1945) and Doors (1954), we see that Huxley was familiar with Eastern philosophy during World War II. I think that this helped him to use the war effectively as a psychological experiment to understand the change of the world-psyche. I've often considered World War II the time when modern thought was being contorted by the entire world's reaction to the war, resulting in the post-modern feeling of being swept under the rug into anonymity, resulting in the counter-culture of the 1960's.
I do not advocate unprepared dosing, however I find it unfortunate that the government has taken the potential of his LSD research and put it in a cage. I suggest watching Hofmann's Potion, a documentary about the founder of LSD, Albert Hofmann, and his very interesting attempt to utilize the potential of the drug called LSD.
Also some things said about him..............
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"It is an enormous loss to our department. He was a very promising, intelligent, dedicated young man," said Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies Linda Zionkowski, also DG's academic adviser. "He was not just competent in his work. He aimed to do his best and he succeeded."
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"He asked me once about Coleridge's notebooks, which is a really sophisticated curiosity for an undergraduate," said Matthew VanWinkle, an English professor, referring to the notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a poet who helped develop Romanticism in British literature. "DG seemed to really enjoy thinking, and he thought with humor and insight."
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"It's great to know he touched a lot of lives,". "He was an amazing guy with an amazing spirit, and he will be missed by very many people."
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"I am the Highest Power the leader of the pack"
Actiavte My Dream Sequence Machine
GOD of the hologram earth
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