Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics & the Visionary Experience pdf

奥尔德斯·伦纳德·赫胥黎（1894 年 7 月 26 日 - 1963 年 11 月 22 日）是英国作家和哲学家。
他写了近 50 本书，包括小说和非小说作品，以及范围广泛的散文、叙事和诗歌。
他出生于赫胥黎家族，毕业于牛津大学贝利奥尔学院，获得英国文学学士学位。在他职业生涯的早期，他发表了短篇小说和诗歌，并编辑了文学杂志《牛津诗歌》，之后继续发表游记、讽刺和剧本。他在美国度过了他生命的后半部分，从 1937 年起一直住在洛杉矶，直到去世。
在他生命的尽头，赫胥黎被广泛认为是他那个时代最重要的知识分子之一。
他曾九次获得诺贝尔文学奖提名，1962年被英国皇家文学学会选为文学伴侣。
赫胥黎是一个和平主义者。
他对哲学神秘主义和普遍主义产生了兴趣，并通过作品来解决这些主题，例如《常年哲学》（1945），它说明了西方和东方神秘主义之间的共同点，以及《感知之门》（1954），它解释了他自己的迷幻经历与麦斯卡林。在他最著名的小说《美丽新世界》（1932）和他的最后一部小说《岛屿》（1962）中，他分别展示了他对反乌托邦和乌托邦的看法。
赫胥黎在 17 岁时完成了他的第一部（未出版）小说，并在 20 岁出头时开始认真写作，成为一名成功的作家和社会讽刺作家。他最早出版的小说是社会讽刺小说，铬黄 (1921)，滑稽干草 (1923)，The Barren Leaves (1925) 和 点对点 (1928)。美丽新世界（1932）是他的第五部小说和第一部反乌托邦作品。
在 1920 年代，他还是名利场和英国时尚杂志的撰稿人。

Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics & the Visionary Experience pdf 奥尔德斯·赫胥黎

Selected writings from the author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception on the role of psychedelics in society. Includes letters and lectures by Huxley never published elsewhere. In May 1953 Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescaline. The mystical and transcendent experience that followed set him off on an exploration that was to produce a revolutionary body of work about the inner reaches of the human mind. Huxley was decades ahead of his time in his anticipation of the dangers modern culture was creating through explosive population increase, headlong technological advance, and militant nationalism, and he saw psychedelics as the greatest means at our disposal to "remind adults that the real world is very different from the misshapen universe they have created for themselves by means of their culture-conditioned prejudices." Much of Huxley's writings following his 1953 mescaline experiment can be seen as his attempt to reveal the power of these substances to awaken a sense of the sacred in people living in a technological society hostile to mystical revelations. Moksha, a Sanskrit word meaning "liberation," is a collection of the prophetic and visionary writings of Aldous Huxley. It includes selections from his acclaimed novels Brave New World and Island, both of which envision societies centered around the use of psychedelics as stabilizing forces, as well as pieces from The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, his famous works on consciousness expansion.