According to Aldous Huxley, in order to apprehend the divine reality, one must choose to fulfill certain conditions: “ making themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit .” Huxley argues that very few people can achieve this state.

Later Huxley responded to Zaehner in an article published in 1961: " For most of those to whom the experiences have been vouchsafed, their value is self-evident.

Working in a laboratory just months before the outbreak of World War I, Huxley overheard fellow academics comment on a passing aircraft " it will not be long before those planes are flying over England ".

Ford and his co-workers in ecological genetics were at least as important ; and Cyril Darlington, the chromosome expert, was a notable source of facts and ideas. An analysis of the ' authorities cited ' index of Evolution the modern synthesis shows indirectly those whom Huxley regarded as the most important contributors to the synthesis up to 1941 ( the book was published in 1942, and references go up to 1941 ).

Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.

Describing the process, Huxley wrote that " Vision is not won by making an effort to get it: it comes to those who have learned to put their minds and eyes into a state of alert passivity, of dynamic relaxation.

The second is in part a sequential biography, and was written near the end of his life ; a significant dimension of its content is his very personal evaluation of the characters and contributions of Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Madame Ouspensky, John G. Bennett ( another direct disciple of Gurdjieff ), Gerald Heard, Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary, Stephen Gaskin, Alan Watts, and other figures serving as teachers of those engaged in spiritual quests.

This seated statue, good as it is, was soon surpassed by those of Dr Dale ( 1898, in the city museum, Birmingham ) and Professor Huxley ( 1900 ), but the colossal memorial statue of Queen Victoria ( 1901 ), for Manchester, was less successful.

Huxley demonstrated that the skull is built up of cartilaginous pieces ; Gegenbaur showed that in the lowest ( gristly ) fishes, where hints of the original vertebrae might be most expected, the skull is an unsegmented gristly brain-box, and that in higher forms, the vertebral nature of the skull cannot be maintained, since many of the bones, notably those along the top of the skull, arise in the skin.

:" Mr. Huxley quotes from the Chinese Taoist philosophers, from followers of Buddha and Mohammed, from the Brahmin scriptures and from Christian mystics ranging from St John of the Cross to William Law, giving preference to those whose writings, often illuminated by genius, are unfamiliar to the modern reader.

Several scientific clubs, such as the Philosophical Club and the Red Lion Club, were formed in the late 19th century, but these organisations lacked the scientific professionalism that serious scientists, including those members of the X Club such as Hooker and Huxley, sought.

Francis Galton, having caught the fad for Spiritualism, arranged a séance in January 1874 at Erasmus's house with those attending including Charles, Hensleigh Wedgwood and Thomas Huxley.

Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.

He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School.

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.

In 1999 he co-starred in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland as the villainous Huxley, who tries to steal Elmo's blanket.

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.

One of Huxley ’ s friends who met him on the day said that despite writing about wearing flannel trousers, he was actually wearing blue jeans.

Finally, Huxley maintains that the person who has this experience will be transformed for the better.

Soon after the publication of his book, Huxley wrote to Harold Raymond at Chatto and Windus that he thought it strange that when Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton wrote the praises of alcohol they were still considered good Christians, while anyone who suggested other routes to self-transcendence was accused of being a drug addict and perverter of mankind.

Human evolution became central to the debate and was strongly argued by Huxley who featured it in his popular " working-men's lectures ".

Huxley, a boy who left school at ten, became one of the most knowledgeable men in Britain.

* 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.

John Stuart Mill and Julian Huxley are just some of the historical luminaries who have written on the concept.

* Samuel Wilberforce ( 1805 – 1873 ), third oldest son of William Wilberforce, a bishop who debated the theory of evolution with Thomas Henry Huxley

Hexley's name was a mistake: it was originally supposed to be named after Thomas Henry Huxley, a 19th century English biologist who was a well-known champion of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution ( nicknamed " Darwin's bulldog ").

Bayley was educated at Eton, where he studied under G. W. Lyttelton, who also taught Aldous Huxley, J.

Huxley, who soon put them to good use, pioneering the greatly expanded use of laboratory work in biology teaching.

Shortly after beginning her studies there, she visited London with Vladimir, who spent time with his colleagues Thomas Huxley and Charles Darwin, while she was invited to attend George Eliot's Sunday salons.

* The Crows of Pearblossom authored by Aldous Huxley: A children's story using crows ( birds ) to tell a story about Huxley's admiration of a particular pharmacist and his wife ( not surnamed Crow ) who worked and lived in Palmdale, not Pearblossom.

In fact, Huxley took the place of his old tutor Geoffrey Smith, who had been killed in the battle of the Somme on the Western Front.

Huxley, who had twice visited the Soviet Union, was originally not anti-communist, but the ruthless adoption of Lysenkoism by Joseph Stalin ended his tolerant attitude.

In the 1950s Huxley played a role in bringing to the English-speaking public the work of the French Jesuit-palaeontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who he believed had been unfairly treated by the Catholic and Jesuit hierarchy.

* It was Huxley who coined the terms the new synthesis and evolutionary synthesis ; he also invented the term cline in 1938 to describe species whose members fall into a series of sub-species with continuous change in characters over a geographical area.

Ironically, it was Huxley who invented the terms clade and grades.

This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.

Two works by Mauss in particular proved to have enduring relevance: Essay on the Gift, a seminal analysis of exchange and reciprocity, and his Huxley lecture on the notion of the person, the first comparative study of notions of person and selfhood cross-culturally.

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.

In this state, Huxley explains he didn ’ t have an ‘ I ’, but instead a ‘ not-I ’.

Other evolutionary biologists have had similar thoughts to Huxley: G. Ledyard Stebbins and Bernhard Rensch, for example.

Towards the end of his life Huxley himself must have recognised how unpopular these views became after the end of World War II.

Oscar convinces the Grouch Policeman and all the Grouches of Grouchland that, even though Grouches hate cooperation, just for once, they have to take a stand against Huxley from stealing any more of their stuff, and taking light to this problem, the Grouch Policeman releases the Sesame Street residents and aid them to go to Huxley's house to fight for their trash.

Huxley wrote in 1870 that Australoids are usually dolichocephalic ; their hair is usually silky, black and wavy ; they usually have large, heavy jaws and prognathism ; their skin is the color of chocolate and the irises are dark brown or black.

" The circumstances of Father Grandier's trial and execution have attracted the attention of writers Alexandre Dumas, père and Aldous Huxley, as well as historian Jules Michelet and various scholars of European witchcraft.

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.

He was one of the few British Professors of Zoology in whose appointment Huxley did not have a hand.

Although many of Bates ' patients and followers of his methods have reported of successful results, ( most famously from author Aldous Huxley ), his methods have garnered much opposition from mainstream optometry.

In response to this, Huxley wrote " I often do use magnifying glasses where conditions of light are bad, and have never claimed to be able to read except under very good conditions.

Animals that form lasting pair bonds often have symmetrical displays that they make to each other: famous examples are the mutual presentation of reeds by Great Crested Grebes, studied by Julian Huxley, the triumph displays shown by many species of geese and penguins on their nest sites and the spectacular courtship displays by birds of paradise and manakins.

One of Forbes ' achievements was to have advised and helped the young Thomas Henry Huxley before, during and after the latter's voyage on HMS Rattlesnake.

Heard made arrangements to have Smith meet the legendary author Aldous Huxley.

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.