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Author Poller, Jake

Title Aldous Huxley and Alternative Spirituality / Jake Poller
Published Boston : BRILL, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (366 pages)
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Contents Intro; Aldous Huxley and Alternative Spirituality; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Aldous Huxley (1894-1963); 2 Science, Alternative Spirituality and Psychical Research; Idealism, the New Physics and Perspectivism; D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), William Blake (1757-1827) and Life Worship; H.G. Wells (1866-1946), the World State and Brave New World; Science and Psychical Research; 3 The Perennial Philosophy; The Ancient Wisdom Tradition: From the Prisca Theologia to Traditionalism; Neo-Vedanta: The Brahmo Samaj, Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886) and Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)
Varieties of Perennialism: William James (1842-1910), Rudolf Otto (1869-1937), W.T. Stace (1886-1967)Steven Katz, Contextualism and Its Critics; 4 Mysticism and Pacifism; Henry Fitzgerald Heard (1889-1971); Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986); 5 Sex and Alternative Spirituality; The Romantic Phase: from Denis Stone to Brian Foxe; The Ascetic Phase: Eyeless in Gaza to Time Must Have a Stop; The Tantric Phase: Island; 6 Huxley's Legacy; Human Potentialities; Psychedelic Drugs and Spiritual Experience; Huxley's Influence on the New Age and Deep Ecology Movements; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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Subject Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.
SUBJECT Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 fast
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ISBN 9789004406902
9004406905