Aldous Huxley Island

Aldous Huxley
Island

September 30 2016

I just reread Aldous Huxley’s Island and I want to encourage you to get yourself a copy as soon as you can (or to read the PDF below). This book isn’t a novel but rather a manifesto. The final work of Huxley is a sociological blueprint, a manual for living, loving and dying. His legacy so to speak, leaving us his vision of paradise within reach. It’s a powerful inspiration to live a life devoted to strive for ones highest potential as a human being.

Listen to this three-hour-long lecture:
Alan Watts discusses Island

Download the PDF here.
Or buy the book on amazon

The more I learn about Aldous Huxley’s life the more he enchants me.
This BBC documentary from 1993 is a good start:
Aldous Huxley: Darkness and Light

Thoughts
09.09.2011

These are the insights of one night in september 2011. It’s straight from the heart as I felt it back then. I think it’s worth sharing.

Zone Patcher
Psychoactive fractal art

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Hofmann’s Potion
The history of LSD

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Yudy Sauw
Insect Eyes

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Kirlian Photography
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Ayahuasca Manifesto
The Spirit and its Planetary Mission

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Taylor Camp
Paradise Lost

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Charles Fréger
Europe’s Wild Men

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Islamic architecture
Kaleidoscopes of adoration

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Paul Wunderlich
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Terence McKenna
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The Abramović Method
& Institute

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Vaka Valo
Dream Diaries

Schematic illustrations scanned from instruction manuals turned into unsettling nightmares. He achieves a dreamlike other-worldliness only reached by few artists.

Ernst Fuchs
Architectura caelestis

Ernst Fuchs was one of the most influential masters of the visionary arts movement.

Roger Dean
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Arthur Schopenhauer
On Death and Life as Dying

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death – the only certainty that life holds…

Jeremy Narby
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