Aldous Leonard Huxley ( 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963 ) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.

Aldous Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist, and he was latterly interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism.

Aldous Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey, England, in 1894.

Aldous was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, the zoologist, agnostic and controversialist (" Darwin's Bulldog ").

Aldous had another brother, Noel Trevelyan Huxley ( 1891 – 1914 ), who committed suicide after a period of clinical depression.

Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.

Aldous Huxley wrote that Poe's writing " falls into vulgarity " by being " too poetical "— the equivalent of wearing a diamond ring on every finger.

Blair was briefly taught French by Aldous Huxley.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is often compared to Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ; both are powerful dystopian novels warning of a future world where the state machine exerts complete control over social life.

He often entertained literary figures like Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, Aldous Huxley, Ferenc Molnár, and close friend Somerset Maugham, as well.

* 1894 – Aldous Huxley, English author ( d. 1963 )

Zajdel paid a tribute to George Orwell's newspeak and to Aldous Huxley by naming one of the main characters Nikor Orley Huxwell.

Aldous Huxley dies several hours after the assassination.

* Aldous Huxley

In the early 1960s the use of LSD and other hallucinogens was advocated by proponents of the new " consciousness expansion ", such as Timothy Leary, Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley and Arthur Koestler, their writings profoundly influenced the thinking of the new generation of youth.

* Brave New World ( 1932 ) by Aldous Huxley

Bradbury claimed a wide variety of influences, and described discussions he might have with his favorite poets and writers Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, John Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, and Thomas Wolfe.

The Doors of Perception is a 1954 book by Aldous Huxley detailing his experiences when taking mescaline.

The psychiatrist had misgivings about giving the drug to Huxley, and wrote that " I did not relish the possibility, however remote, of being the man who drove Aldous Huxley mad ," but instead found him an ideal subject.

The book contained " 99 percent Aldous Huxley and only one half gram mescaline " according to Ronald Fisher.

* Island ( 1962 ) by Aldous Huxley follows the story of Will Farnaby, a cynical journalist, who shipwrecks on the fictional island of Pala and experiences their unique culture and traditions which create a utopian society.

She was given her middle name, Laura, because of her parents ' friendship with writer Aldous Huxley's wife, Laura Huxley.

Aldous Huxley had suggested to Humphrey Osmond in 1957 his own coinage phanerothymic ( Greek " phanero -" visible + Greek " thymic " spiritual, thus " visible spirituality ").

In 1998, he had a leading role as Mustapha Mond in the made-for-television production of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

He had a central role in Brave New World, a 1998 TV-movie version of Aldous Huxley's novel where he played a character reminiscent of Spock in his philosophical balancing of unpredictable human qualities with the need for control.

Later, discussing the works of Aldous Huxley, Eliade wrote that the British author's use of mescaline as a source of inspiration had something in common with his own experience, indicating 1945 as a date of reference and adding that it was " needless to explain why that is ".

Modern commentators on the case, such as the author Aldous Huxley, have argued that the accusations began after Grandier refused to become the spiritual director of the convent, unaware that the Mother Superior, Sister Jeanne of the Angels, had become obsessed with him, having seen him from afar and heard of his sexual exploits.

Their goal was to explore work in the humanities and sciences, in order to fully realize what Aldous Huxley had called the " human potentialities ".

She also had Aldous and Maria Huxley as houseguests, and encouraged Huxley to stay in California and continue to write there.

" Aldous Huxley is quoted as declaring that Radiguet had attained the literary control that others required a long career to reach.

Bynner and Hunt had numerous parties at their house, hosting many notable writers, actors, and artists, which guests included Ansel Adams, Willa Cather, Igor Stravinsky, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, Aldous Huxley, Clara Bow, Errol Flynn, Rita Hayworth, Christopher Isherwood, Carl Van Vechten, Martha Graham, Georgia O ' Keeffe and Thornton Wilder.

Cohen first took the drug on October 12, 1955 and expected to have an unpleasant trip, but was surprised when he experienced “ no confused, disoriented delirium .” He reported that the “ problems and strivings, the worries and frustrations of everyday life vanished ; in their place was a majestic, sunlit, heavenly inner quietude .” Cohen immediately began his own experiments with LSD with the help of Aldous Huxley whom he had met in 1955.

Aldous accepted a job offer from the Hudson's Bay Company ( HBC ) in 1882 and soon had seven survey parties working frantically to keep up with the demand for HBC farm lots.

Like Aldous Huxley he had taken mescalin, but Zaehner came to a different conclusion.

In 1962, using the Murphy property and capital that Dick had accumulated, along with assistance from Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley, Laura Huxley, Gerald Heard, Gregory Bateson and Frederic Spiegelberg ( with whom both had studied at Stanford ), Price and Murphy founded the Esalen Institute.

White had experimented with LSD at UCLA after hearing about it from Aldous Huxley and decided to work it into the script as well.

The ballet had its world premiere on 13 November 1975 at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne, with Marilyn Rowe ( Hanna ), John Meehan ( Danilo ), Lucette Aldous ( Valencienne ), Kelvin Coe ( Camille ), Colin Peasley ( Baron Mirko Zeta ) and Ray Powell ( Njegus ).

The World State in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Airstrip One in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four are both fictional examples of command economies, albeit with diametrically opposed aims: The former is a consumer economy designed to engender productivity while the latter is a shortage economy designed as an agent of totalitarian social control.

" Another science fiction project associated with Scott is an adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, with Leonardo DiCaprio potentially involved.

They shared the composer's taste for hard spirits – especially Aldous Huxley, with whom Stravinsky spoke in French ".

Aldous Huxley described his experience with mescaline in The Doors of Perception.

However, K. Čapek is comparable with Aldous Huxley and George Orwell as a speculative fiction writer, distinguishing his work from genre-specific hard science fiction.

He was on the editorial board, with Conrad Aiken, Eliot, Lewis and Aldous Huxley, of Chaman Lall's London literary quarterly Coterie published 1919 – 1921.

Marijuana use was associated with the subculture, and during the 1950s, Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception further influenced views on drugs.

He also became an active member of the London socialist movement, associating with other leftists at the 1917 Club in Gerrard Street, Soho, which was also frequented by such notables as Ramsay MacDonald, Aldous Huxley, H. G.

* In March 1938, Anita Loos contacted Aldous Huxley, then recently moved to Hollywood, saying she would put him in touch with MGM for a writing contract.

Eliade himself referenced the story and Aldous Huxley's experiments in the same section of his private notes, a matter which allowed Matei Călinescu to propose that Un om mare was a direct product of its author's experience with drugs.

Visually, these works relate to many concerns of the period: a perceived need for audience participation ( this relates them to the Happenings, for which the period is famous ), challenges to the notion of the mind-body duality which led some people to experiment with hallucinogenic drugs ( see Aldous Huxley's writings ); concerns with a tension between a scientific future which might be very beneficial or might lead to a nuclear war ; and fears about the loss of genuine individual experience in a Brave New World.

* The writer Aldous Huxley and his first wife Maria, with Mary Hutchinson a friend of Clive Bell.

F. Catherwood 1799-1854-Architect-Explorer of Two Worlds ( with introduction by Aldous Huxley )

* In the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ; the Nine Years War ends with the Economic Collapse just beginning.

* Some eye defects may naturally change for the better with age or in cycles ( ophthalmologist Stewart Duke-Elder suggested that this is what happened with Aldous Huxley ).