Aldous Huxley interview w/ Mike Wallace. Nothing is new under the sun.

**SageTree** · 10-26-2009, 11:25 AM

Huxley is a person I enjoy reading a lot. Today I looked up some vids on him and found this interview pretty good.

It's amazing how haunting some of the things he talks about are, or how we see them coming to fruition now.

Dude's awesome. If you haven't read something by him, I'd recommend it.

YouTube - Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace (1 of 3)

YouTube - Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace (2 of 3)

YouTube - Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace (3 of 3)

Grieves · 10-26-2009, 12:17 PM

will check out later, i loved brave new world...

Ego Tripping · 10-26-2009, 12:38 PM

Great post man. Very clear that indeed, nothing new under the sun. If you made the audio sound better, it could have been recorded yesterday.

Yet, here we are still...not globally enslaved yet. I can't help but feel that the world as a whole has been and is actually conspiring for peace and freedom more than it is for war and enslavement.

Getting better all the time.

**SageTree** · 10-26-2009, 12:38 PM

Some of my personal favs of his are Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell And his collection of essay call Huxley and God, his words are really amazing in all these works. And also have reached Text status in my thinking.

**SageTree** · 10-26-2009, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Ego Tripping

Yet, here we are still...not globally enslaved yet. I can't help but feel that the world as a whole has been and is actually conspiring for peace and freedom more than it is for war and enslavement.

I feel we are all somewhat slaves to something to greater and lesser degrees, in as much as we have to accept rules or consequences in life. But that doesn't have to be viewed as slavery, in the most traditional picture.

I think at the core of all life is a concern to be happy and have safety, so I agree, and add, we inherently are predisposed to that conspiracy.

I believe we see the world how we see ourselves, best/worst selves. I have seen extreme joy in the dire places, and that our will to accept and blend what happens in our life profoundly effects the 'happening to me' vs. 'experiencing things that happen'.

So with that in mind, no pun, we can face things as they are, while working to improve the way we see 'are' and making 'are' more real in our daily lives. You can smile deeply in the face of adversity and still see goodness becoming. For if you are changed by it, them at least one good thing has been born of it. And that is "getting better all the time"

**SageTree** · 12-07-2010, 10:57 AM

bump

**SageTree** · 05-16-2011, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Grieves

will check out later, i loved brave new world...

running around tonight and bumping some old posts...
you've mentioned the book several times recently so I thought it'd be 'on topic' to bump this to you.

Cerpin Taxt · 05-16-2011, 02:29 PM

YouTube - Huxley's LSD Death Trip

zerodown · 05-18-2011, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Grieves

will check out later, i loved brave new world...

The picture you posted on another topic comparing 1984 to brave new world made me want to read brave new world(had never heard of it), and will definitely do some research on Aldous Huxley. Very interesting. Thanks sage as well for the vids.

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Originally Posted by Sage

It's amazing how haunting some of the things he talks about are, or how we see them coming to fruition now.

Thats the exact feeling I had when I was talking about the protocols of zion, written in 1897(19th century), its amazing how its postulates have come to fruition as time has passed, one would simply need to compare it against 20th century history to be amazed.

**SageTree** · 05-18-2011, 12:20 PM

In joy Brother

**SageTree** · 05-18-2011, 03:04 PM

Roach, I assume you figure you 'antagonizing' because you're going down the list of things he brings up point by point and giving your commentary of how they are not true, in regard to me saying 'It's amazing how haunting some of the things he talks about are, or how we see them coming to fruition now'?

I didn't mean to imply he was telling the future....

Obviously things like 'misuse of tv' could be more widely looked at as 'misuse of media' since the internet wasn't around.

I only meant that there were many similarities on some points and that some of the same issues then are seemingly pretty much many of the same concerns we have today.... like the USSR and Islam, having to have a big bad enemy....

Again, my point wasn't 'he was right or told the future'..... rather all I'm saying is 'dang... shit never changes'... and I like the way he talks about it.

That is why I chose 'nothing new under the sun' as a sub-title, Captain Literal.

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Ego Tripping Are you in? Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 13,468 Thanks: 229 Thanked 665 Times in 443 Posts	Great post man. Very clear that indeed, nothing new under the sun. If you made the audio sound better, it could have been recorded yesterday. Yet, here we are still...not globally enslaved yet. I can't help but feel that the world as a whole has been and is actually conspiring for peace and freedom more than it is for war and enslavement. Getting better all the time. __________________ God appears, and God is light, To those poor souls who dwell in night; But does a human form display To those who dwell in realms of day.

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SageTree ~Kalyāṇa-mitrā~ Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: In Love Posts: 23,414 Blog Entries: 26 Thanks: 13,070 Thanked 6,767 Times in 4,664 Posts	Some of my personal favs of his are Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell And his collection of essay call Huxley and God, his words are really amazing in all these works. And also have reached Text status in my thinking. __________________ "What's oppressive is letting your life be confined by old definitions of what everything is." -Zen Meister my_scatterheart YaHooka is.... Cannabis lovers from around the world pulling up a comfy chair, picking up a vaporizer, a bong, a brownie, a pipe, or a joint, getting high, stoned, buzzed or healthy. Uniting our minds in conversation...While Portraying a Positive Image of marijuana and marijuana users to the world. Treat your fellow YaHookans with kindness,respect and tolerance.

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SageTree ~Kalyāṇa-mitrā~ Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: In Love Posts: 23,414 Blog Entries: 26 Thanks: 13,070 Thanked 6,767 Times in 4,664 Posts	In joy Brother __________________ "What's oppressive is letting your life be confined by old definitions of what everything is." -Zen Meister my_scatterheart YaHooka is.... Cannabis lovers from around the world pulling up a comfy chair, picking up a vaporizer, a bong, a brownie, a pipe, or a joint, getting high, stoned, buzzed or healthy. Uniting our minds in conversation...While Portraying a Positive Image of marijuana and marijuana users to the world. Treat your fellow YaHookans with kindness,respect and tolerance.

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SageTree ~Kalyāṇa-mitrā~ Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: In Love Posts: 23,414 Blog Entries: 26 Thanks: 13,070 Thanked 6,767 Times in 4,664 Posts	Roach, I assume you figure you 'antagonizing' because you're going down the list of things he brings up point by point and giving your commentary of how they are not true, in regard to me saying 'It's amazing how haunting some of the things he talks about are, or how we see them coming to fruition now'? I didn't mean to imply he was telling the future.... Obviously things like 'misuse of tv' could be more widely looked at as 'misuse of media' since the internet wasn't around. I only meant that there were many similarities on some points and that some of the same issues then are seemingly pretty much many of the same concerns we have today.... like the USSR and Islam, having to have a big bad enemy.... Again, my point wasn't 'he was right or told the future'..... rather all I'm saying is 'dang... shit never changes'... and I like the way he talks about it. That is why I chose 'nothing new under the sun' as a sub-title, Captain Literal. __________________ "What's oppressive is letting your life be confined by old definitions of what everything is." -Zen Meister my_scatterheart YaHooka is.... Cannabis lovers from around the world pulling up a comfy chair, picking up a vaporizer, a bong, a brownie, a pipe, or a joint, getting high, stoned, buzzed or healthy. Uniting our minds in conversation...While Portraying a Positive Image of marijuana and marijuana users to the world. Treat your fellow YaHookans with kindness,respect and tolerance.

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