Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience by Huxley Aldous

Author:Huxley, Aldous [Huxley, Aldous]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 1999-03-31T21:00:00+00:00

TO DR. HUMPHRY OSMOND [SMITH 790]

3276 Deronda Drive,

Los Angeles 28, Cal.

16 February,1958

DEAR HUMPHRY,

… One of the things that should be read to a person under LSD is Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell, including the extraordinary “Memorable Fancies” that precede and follow the “Proverbs of Hell.” Read the thing through and see if you don’t agree. I’m sure that if this were put on a tape it would be found extremely enlightening by the subject. Incidentally, I found on one of the occasions I took LSD that listening to records of poetry or of religious utterances is valuable in many ways. There is first of all the same strange experience which one gets from listening to music—the sense that, though the tempo remains unaltered, the piece endures for ages. The poetry or the religious utterances take on this same quasi-eternal quality. Another interesting point—one seems to penetrate the inner significance of what is being read, the meaning for oneself, more completely than in ordinary circumstances. Thus, the cultured melancholy resignation of Matthew Arnold, which I ordinarily like and feel at home with, is felt under LSD to be far too negative—unrealistically so.

I have just had a letter from [Duncan] Blewett 2 suggesting a date in early May for a meeting. Alternately one in October. I don’t expect to be here in October, but shall almost certainly be here in May.

My love to the family.

Yours,

Aldous

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