Thread by @JimmyFalunGong

would you like to hear more about how the perfidious British promoted the New Age movement?

always gotta start off w/ Ian Fleming

the aforementioned George Viereck, who wrote the first psychic vampire novel, and maybe invented gay pulp

Robert Ludlum, who wrote the Bourne series

John le Carré, of course

Graham Greene

Orwell and Burgess looking rough

Aldous Huxley, who's grandfather was Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley, Darwin's bulldog, who was in the X Club with Matthew Arnold, Herbert Spencer, and Joseph Hooker

Thomas Henry Huxley debated Samuel Wilberforce about evolution; Samuel Wilberforce was the son of William Wilberforce, the politician who fought against slavery

a discussion of Brave New World

Huxley and Isherwood in Hollywood - extremely overpaid screenwriters, but why?

why, indeed

Huxley's book, the Perennial Philosophy

Swami Prabhavananda w/ Huxley and Isherwood

Huxley was also friends with Jiddu Krishnamurti and Rosalind Rajagopal

also, Huxley was involved in the creation of the Happy Valley School, now Besant Hill School of Happy Valley, in Ojai, California. Besant being Annie Besant, one of the key theosophists after Madame Blavatsky

Huxley gave lectures on "Human Potentialities" both at the UCSF Medical Center and at the Esalen Institute. These lectures were fundamental to the beginning of the Human Potential Movement

would it surprise you that Huxley's account of his history with drug use is, uh, contradicted by other sources?

everybody wants to hear about Albert Hofmann discovering LSD, nobody wants to look at who owns Sandoz Laboratories

what do Alan Watts and Gregory Bateson have in common?

what do Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert aka Ram Dass have in common?

interesting pose on this photo - looks like horns huh

what do the merry pranksters and the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic have in common?

what did Huxley and Crowley do together in Berlin in the 1930s?

it's a fun episode, check it out on patreon lol