As Huxley believes that contemplation should also include action and charity, he concludes that the experience represents contemplation at its height, but not its fullness.

Zaehner concludes that Huxley ’ s apprehensions under mescaline are affected by his deep familiarity with Vedanta and Mahayana Buddhism.

" John Huxley of Anime Boredom concludes the series is " the super robot show as it was in your mind's eye, a perfect combination of the old without the disappointment of reality.

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

The book takes the form of Huxley ’ s recollection of a mescaline trip that took place over the course of an afternoon, and takes its title from William Blake's poem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

In the early 1950s, when Huxley wrote his book, mescaline was still regarded as a research chemical rather than a drug and was listed in the Parke-Davis catalogue with no controls.

In the epilogue to his novel The Devils of Loudon published earlier that year, Huxley had written that drugs were “ toxic short cuts to self-transcendence ” For the Canadian writer George Woodcock, Huxley had changed his opinion because mescaline was not addictive and appeared to be without unpleasant physical or mental side-effects, further he had found that hypnosis, autohypnosis and meditation had apparently failed to produce the results he wanted.

The mescaline was slow to take effect, but Osmond saw that after two and a half hours the drug was working and after three hours Huxley was responding well.

After a brief overview of research into mescaline, Huxley recounts that he was given 4 / 10 of a gram at 11: 00 am one day in May 1953.

In summary, Huxley writes that the ability to think straight is not reduced while under the influence of mescaline, visual impressions are intensified, and the human experimenter will see no reason for action because the experience is so fascinating.

Huxley feels that human affairs are somewhat irrelevant whilst on mescaline and attempts to shed light on this by reflecting on paintings featuring people.

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

" For Steven J. Novak, The Doors Of Perception ( and Heaven and Hell ) redefined taking mescaline ( and LSD, although Huxley had not taken it until after he had written both books ) as a mystical experience with possible psychotherapeutic benefits, where physicians had previously thought of the drug in terms of mimicking a psychotic episode, known as psychotomimetic.

In the field of religion, Huxley ’ s friend and spiritual mentor, the Vedantic monk Swami Prabhavananda, thought that mescaline was an illegitimate path to enlightenment, a " deadly heresy " as Christopher Isherwood put it.

The personality is dissipated into the world, for Huxley on mescaline and people in a manic state, which is similar to the experience of nature mystics.

* May 5 – Aldous Huxley first tries the psychedelic hallucinogen mescaline, inspiring his book The Doors of Perception.

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

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 ".

In the 1950s, inspired by a meeting with Aldous Huxley, he was involved in the early medical study of the effects of LSD and mescaline.

In 1953, Osmond gave English author Aldous Huxley a dose of mescaline.

His experiments with psychedelic drugs ( initially mescaline ) and his descriptions of them in his writings did much to spread awareness of psychedelic drugs to the general public and arguably helped to glamorize their recreational use, although Huxley himself treated them very seriously.

In May 1953 Osmond gave Huxley his first dose of mescaline, at the Huxley home.

Huxley uses the term antipodes to describe the " regions of the mind " that one can reach via meditation, vitamin deficiencies, self-flagellation, fasting, or ( most effectively, he says ) with the aide of certain chemical substances like LSD or mescaline.

In his earlier narrative The Doors of Perception ( 1954 ), Huxley recounted in detail his first experience of mescaline.

As a Humanist, Dr. Huxley interests himself in the possibilities of human development, and one thing we can say about this suggestion, which comes from a leading zoologist, is that, so far as he is concerned, the scientific outlook places no rigid limitation upon the idea of future human evolution.

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.

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.

That ability would seem to be at odds with early epiphenomenalism, which according to Huxley is the broad claim that consciousness is “ completely without any power … as the steam-whistle which accompanies the work of a locomotive engine is without influence upon its machinery ”.

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.

Nonetheless, Huxley maintains that even quietistic contemplation has an ethical value, because it is concerned with negative virtues and acts to channel the transcendent into the world.

Huxley speculates that schizophrenia is the inability to escape from this reality into the world of common sense and thus help would be essential.

Ideally, self-transcendence would be found in religion, but Huxley feels that it is unlikely that this will ever happen.

For the Scottish poet, Edwin Muir “ Mr. Huxley ’ s experiment is extraordinary, and is beautifully described ”.

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.

The Social Darwinists ' view is derived from Charles Darwin's interpretation of evolution by natural selection, which is explicitly competitive (" survival of the fittest "), Malthusian (" struggle for existence "), even gladiatorial (" red in tooth and claw "), and permeated by the Victorian laissez-faire ethos of Darwin and his disciples ( such as T. H. Huxley and Herbert Spencer ).

* January 30 – Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley, is first published.

* Thomas Henry Huxley discovers what he thinks is primordial matter and names it bathybius haecklii ( he admits his mistake in 1871 ).

Reflecting on his stated motivations, Woodcock wrote that Huxley had realised the ways to enlightenment were many, and prayer and meditation were techniques among others.

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 term clade was introduced in 1958 by Julian Huxley after having been coined by Lucien Cuénot in 1940, cladistic by Cain and Harrison in 1960, and cladist ( for an adherent of Hennig's school ) by Mayr in 1965.

The term was coined in 1958 by the biologist Julian Huxley.

The term was coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in April 1860, and was used to describe evolutionary concepts in general, including earlier concepts such as Spencerism.

Huxley wanted science to be secular, without religious interference, and his article in the April 1860 Westminster Review promoted scientific naturalism over natural theology, praising Darwin for " extending the domination of Science over regions of thought into which she has, as yet, hardly penetrated " and coining the term " Darwinism " as part of his efforts to secularise and professionalise science.

In 1869 Huxley coined the term ' agnostic ' to describe his own views on theology, a term whose use has continued to the present day ( see Thomas Henry Huxley and agnosticism ).

Huxley coined the term " phanerothyme ," from the Greek terms for " manifest " ( φανερός ) and " spirit " ( θυμός ).

* 1937 — In Genetics and the Origin of Species, Theodosius Dobzhansky applies the chromosome theory and population genetics to natural populations in the first mature work of neo-Darwinism, also called the modern synthesis, a term coined by Julian Huxley.

Julian Huxley invented the term, when he produced his book, Evolution: The Modern Synthesis ( 1942 ).

* 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.

In an 1870 address titled, " Spontaneous Generation ", Thomas Henry Huxley defined biogenesis as life originating from other life and coined the negative of the term, abiogenesis, which was the term that became dominant.

The term was popularized in more recent times by Aldous Huxley in his 1945 book: The Perennial Philosophy.

" Eutheria " was introduced by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1880, meant to be broader in definition than " Placentalia ", the term previously in use.

The term biogenesis was coined by Henry Charlton Bastian to mean the generation of a life form from nonliving materials, however, Thomas Henry Huxley chose the term abiogenesis and redefined biogenesis for life arising from preexisting life.

The term Sauropsida (" lizard faces ") has a long history, and hails back to Thomas Henry Huxley, and his opinion that birds had risen from the dinosaurs.

Thomas Henry Huxley originally coined the term ' agnostic ' to describe his own views on theology.

It was the preferred term of the evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley ( 1955 ).

Aldous Huxley used the term neurotheology for the first time in the utopian novel Island.

** Thomas Henry Huxley ( 1825 – 1895 ), British biologist, supporter of Charles Darwin and inventor of the term ' agnosticism '

The term " light of evolution "— or sub specie evolutionis — had been used earlier by biologist Julian Huxley.