Aldous Huxley

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Feb, 2020

Aldous Huxley: Brave New World

Mike Wallace interviews English writer Aldous Huxley in 1958. In the interview, Huxley’s best-selling novel Brave New World is discussed.

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Zen and the Psychology of Transformation

Man cannot live fully until he has considered the great questions of life. The approach of psychology and psychotherapy is based on "statistical normality," or the behaviour of the greatest number. In an effort to conform, we focus on our problems rather than our possibilities. Oriental thought, and Zen thought in particular, seeks to activate the true potential of men and women, to transform our lives, and thereby enable us to shed our problems and suffering.

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Aldous Leonard Huxley was a British writer. Huxley became famous mainly for novels and numerous essays. However, he also published short stories, poems, travelogues and wrote screenplays. His best-known work is the dystopian novel Brave New World, published in 1932. Huxley was repeatedly called an universal scholar and is considered one of the most outstanding intellectuals of his time.

The novel "Brave New World" revolves around a dystopian society that is not controlled by fear, but made docile by happiness. The motto of this society is that everyone should be happy at all times. The social system of the "Brave New World" is essentially based on the ability to reproduce people artificially and to adapt them physically and psychologically to their future function in the state.

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The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World Revisited

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley: Brave New World

Zen and the Psychology of Transformation

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

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