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Nov 22, 2023 · On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. On the same day, two significant writers also died: C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley. That historic coincidence prompted Peter Kreeft...
Aldous Leonard Huxley (/ ˈ ɔː l d ə s / AWL-dəs; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. [1] [2] [3] [4] His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, [5] [6] including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.
Jul 10, 2023 · Alkaloids of the peyote and San Pedro Cactus were isolated in 1897, including mescaline, which was then synthesized in 1919. In Huxley’s novel The Devils of Loudun (1952), the epilogue states his distaste for drugs, which he perceived to be a cheating method to reach self-transcendence.
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Oct 11, 2024 · ‘I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.’. K.V. Turley, November 22, 2021. On Nov. 22, 1963, three award-winning writers died: one in Dallas, one in Los Angeles and the other at his home just outside Oxford, England. John F. Kennedy, Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis all died within hours of each other.
Mar 25, 2014 · Huxley argues that while the intuitive solution seems to be to enforce complete prohibition of mind-altering substances, this tends to backfire and “create more evils than it cures,” while also admonishing to the diametric opposite of this black-and-white approach, the “complete toleration and unrestricted availability” of drugs.
Jul 22, 2015 · Huxley admonishes against “the appalling dangers of idolatry” — a misguided attempt at communion with a greater truth that, in fact, renders us all the more separate: Idolatry is … the worship of a part — especially the self or projection of the self — as though it were the absolute totality.
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Nov 22, 1992 · The actual weaving of fiction “bored him.” But in his essays, that multifaceted intelligence that could juggle science and history, religion and art, psychology and politics shone with a luciferous...
