Aldous Huxley

Posted on May 1st, 2009 by quietlaughter in DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.  ~Aldous Huxley

Re: Indie Rock

Posted on Mar 18th, 2009 by David in Integral Archipelago

Bruce, "The News from Your Bed" is a great song! I will look into their other songs. Another of my favorite 80s, 90s indie bands was The Feelies, named after a pleasure device movie goers... More »

Re: Inspirational? You tell me!

Posted on Nov 22nd, 2008 by Andrew in God Pod or Life, the Universe and Everything

"Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something." - Aldous Leonard Huxley

Re: Enquiry into Truth: Self is real, changeless

Posted on Sep 20th, 2008 by Alluvja in Living Metaphysics

Dearest Jeannie, I love the passion in your questions and to me that is the same as loving You, even if that You is still there as these questions will have long since gone. That is... More »

Re: Hello everybody! It's Me...or should that be "It is I"?

Posted on Sep 15th, 2008 by Sandra in DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop

Just lovely to see you here finally, Nishtha! Big yes to everything Andrea says regarding plot. You also might like to read the thread Tom started in the Craft Room board on how to make... More »

Re: How to Make a Story

Posted on Sep 7th, 2008 by Sandra in DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop

I'm enjoying this thread. big yes to Frances re writing your mouse story, Tom. In the meantime I've a couple of things I wanted to share, one I'll do now, which is about plot, the... More »

Re: Being Offended (A rant)

Posted on Jul 29th, 2008 by Sandra in DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop

Michael - your question as to what this 'piece is'. Well, I'd call it a kind of journalism -- perhaps 'essay'. Aldous Huxley says of the essay: "Like the novel, the essay is a literary... More »

Re: Albert Hofmann 1906-2008

Posted on Apr 30th, 2008 by adastra in The Integral Pod

from St. Albert and the LSD Revelation Revolution by Alex Grey In my portrait of Dr. Hofmann, the eye of transcendental spirit in the upper left hand corner of the painting releases spiralic streams of... More »

Introduction

Posted on Apr 23rd, 2008 by Negoba in God Pod or Life, the Universe and Everything

Hello to fellow Gaia members. I'm yet another seeker, like so many others here. I have been seeking for truth for a very long time, certainly since childhood. I am the midst of another little... More »

Makes me want to Psi - Io links

Posted on Apr 12th, 2008 by ionamiller in Psi

ZERO POINTERS for the spiritually inclined http://spiritualphysics.50megs.com An anthology of Iona Miller's writing on spiritual physics and biophysics and what they mean for our worldview of self, others, nature and cosmos. Empty Awareness * Microphysics... More »

The Intuitive Edge

Posted on Apr 28th, 2009 by Flowerchild

(Jeremy Tarcher, Publisher) by Zahid Hossain (Editor's note: For many years--this book was first published in 1983--was THE book on intuition, providing a comprehensive coverage of what had been written about the topic, either by... More »

brave new world

Posted on Mar 24th, 2009 by Warren

" All things considered i looks as though Utopia were far closer to us than anyone, only fifteen years ago, could have imagined.  Then, I projected it six hundred years into the future.  Today it... More »

How the Brain "creates" God

Posted on Sep 1st, 2008 by Deepak

Excerpts from the article The Emerging Science of Neurotheology Iona Miller, Asklepia Foundation, 2003 ... In his 1962 utopian novel, Island, Aldous Huxley coined the term neurotheology to describe the territory where human “wetware” interfaces... More »

Quantum Tarot - XII The Hanged Man (The Uncertainty Principle)

Posted on Aug 14th, 2008 by Kay Stopforth

This card from my deck, the Quantum Tarot , illustrated by Chris Butler , to be published by Kunati in September 2008. The development of the uncertainty principle in the late 1920’s was a key moment... More »

The Long Shadow of America

Posted on Jul 13th, 2008 by buddhacious

If you don't recognize someone, ask me to tell you who they are.

Fictional Worlds and Fictional Drugs

Posted on Jun 30th, 2008 by Marmalade

I was thinking about the relationship of drugs, emotions, and society.  I was thinking of several different fictional futures that give different takes on this. The most classic example is Aldous Huxley's Brave New World .  The... More »

more quotes that I want to remember

Posted on May 28th, 2008 by Jamie

"Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills--against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence.  Yet many of the world's great movements, of... More »

Albert Hoffman's legacy shall live on in the brains of many!

Posted on May 1st, 2008 by Marmalade

Albert Hoffman, the Sandoz chemist who invented LSD, died the other day at the ripe old age of 102(1906-2008).  Its interesting that he outlived Timothy Leary the guru of LSD and outlived Terrence McKenna who had taken on the... More »

The Manifesto of Spiritual Anarchism

Posted on Apr 2nd, 2008 by Morten Tolboll

  With the industrial modernization Man has cultivated a mind, which can solve almost any technological problem, a so-called instrumental reason. But apparently human problems have never been solved. People are on the contrary about... More »

Painting While Dancing, Part 3

Posted on Mar 28th, 2008 by Michael

Painting @ Trilogy Lounge, 2008 03 06 Sometimes I feel like grabbing someone and pleading with them to please remind me what I'm doing, pretending to be a painter.  It's a term I can only... More »

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.

Quoting that which was spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have been if I had given him an engine worked by steam, with a methylated spirit lamp to heat the boiler; more enchanted, perhaps for the engine would have got broken, and, remaining always itself, would in any case have lost its charm, while the rudiments of algebra continued to grow and blossom in his mind with an unfailing luxuriance. Every day he made the discovery of something which seemed to him exquisitely beautiful; the new toy was inexhaustible in its potentialities.

Beauty for some provides escape, Who gain a happiness in eyeing The gorgeous buttocks of the ape Or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

The proper study of mankind is books.

A bad book is as much labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat, when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife. No man has ever dared to proclaim his illicit amours so frankly as this same tom caterwauling on the tiles.

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of church going.

Noisy Passengers

"My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed.... More »