it's pretty ironic how Huxley and Orwell had opposing views on what leads us to destruction, yet they were both simultaneously right about it.

Im not advocating for use of psychadelics for everyone but trying lsd has been for me a life changing experience. made me realize i was living life with my eyes wide shut.Thank you for another great video, love your content.

Did LSD last summer during a dark point in my life when I lost my motivation to life, it's not for everyone and it may even break certain people, but for my taking Acid made me have dark strips often and forced me to deal with my demons and made me realize what I want in life. Haven't been the same since, killed the existential dread you get when you're 12 so I finally got over my depression at the age of 17

Mushrooms and DXM were what took me from drunk, socially isolated human to being part of a tribe of friends who I love.

Aldous Huxley was one of the important influences on my development - he is what inspired a life-long love of learning in me, and has led me to now become a Neuroscience PhD student studying the mind, brain, and psychedelic drugs. I wouldn't have taken this route in life if it was not for his immensely inspiring life and way of being. He was way ahead of his time, with an insight into things that was both extraordinarily broad and deep, from the most mundane social dynamics of the British intelligentsia, to the most profound realizations of mystics and psychonauts. Really a towering figure in the 20th century. Thank for you this video.

Love this, would love to see one on Terence McKenna

I've done several psychedelics. Shrooms, Acid, and DMT. They all opened my eyes to how cruel I was to myself. I'd go into more detail, but... Well... I stopped smoking cigs altogether, and took a vow against future self mutilation. Even when I dissociated the last time, my main goal at the time when I wasn't really there was to feed my hungry belly. I've come very far. ^^

LSD on one's deathbed doesn't sound too bad actually

Broke: "Everything is 1984" Woke: "Everything is Brave New World"

His ideas feel extremely relevant in today's world, seems like he was way ahead of his time

substance use is as old as self-awareness. The only way to extend beyond the self is to be in a state at least somewhat removed from sobriety. It's a shame that psychedelics, the most useful medium through which one can introspect, are illegal.

Trips are different to highs because they take you places. These aren’t physical places but you explore neural pathways that are otherwise unacceptable this allows you to see the world in a different way, DNAs discovery is credited to LSD for instance

LSD worked miracles for my life and even got me into literature and philosophy. It made me generally more appreciative of life as well.

Surprised you didn't mention the fact that the book "the doors of perception" is where the doors got the name from 🤙

Aldous Huxley truly means a lot to me, despite having died before my father was even born. His book feel like genuine self-help books, in the same vain as how he perceived LSD, a mere tool that is up to the experiencer to decide. He has helped make so much sense of both the world, my surroundings and me on a frequency I feel like no person I know in real life matches, he resonates to me on this level never seen before. What I just do not understand is how Huxley (according to google trends) is becoming less and less popular, despite being ahead of even most people of our time. I really hope more people will find out about the man and read his works, because his genuity extends way beyond that of Brave New World: think about the books he mentioned here (Perennial philosophy, Island, Brave New World revisited) but also 'Ends and Means; and 'Heaven and Hell' (not to be confused with the 'between heaven & hell). There's just so much to learn from this guy, and if I had a single wish it would be seeing his reaction to the modern world and hearing his take on it. I think even he would be astonished at just how accurate his claims have really become, throughout reading the biggest works of his, I've only stumbled upon a single thing that didn't come out to be true, and it was so minor I don't even remember what it was.

New mic!, not even a minute in and sounds much clearer and bright, dont get rid of the acoustics tho, i dont want that cozy feeling of your videos going away.

Yo, keep on the good work. Also, I do think the word may end up in what was described in Brave new world. Especially when we are more and more tending to prefer the easy and happy way out.

You should make a video on the greatest philosopher of our time, Jaden Smith.

I read the book recently and I keep sharing this quote everywhere because it is so accurate to how the games industry works: "Nowadays the Controllers won’t approve of any new game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicated of existing games." I received Doors Of Perception as a book prize for creative writing when I was 18

This seems to me like one of the most important video essays on KZfaq today, taking us all back to the 10 min discussion of a Brave New World we had once in highschool English class, to the almost scarily accurate portrayal of our consumer culture in the modern world today and the warning flags that have been waved and we need to take notice of. This is serious in 2020, thank you.

I just started reading the Perennial Philosophy two nights ago, so this is perfect timing. Great video!

Just found this channel and I already love it

Imagine dying while dying holy shit what a mad lad

I always wanted to get familiar with Huxley's work and this video really inspired me today to pursue that. I love his perspective and insight on what really matters, takes people their whole lives to even understand some of it. Your videos are awesome and I love seeing whenever you upload ^u^

Easily my favorite philosophy KZfaqr 👍🏾, Your videos are consistently thought provoking.

Psychadelics are the best drug class. Absolutely changed my life and has changed many friends for the better.

Strange, I was peering at my vinyl cover of Sargent pepper hanging on the wall as you said those last words, I didn’t even know he was on it.

The school of life for less pretentious people

Huxley’s novel Island is hands down my favorite book

*THE* psychedelic philosopher. We just gonna forget about Terrence and Alan?

Fuck they need to make Brave new world into a film man I also think Huxley’s idea of the future definitely correlated more with our current society than Orwell’s- especially with the overstimulation of information driving us to egoism, and overstimulation of pleasure driving us to passivity and decadence. I can’t believe he’s so underrated in comparison to Orwell.

Psilocybin and LSD has reconnected me with old memories of things I used to do as a child. Not without my share of challenging trips though. I'm glad you made this video.

loving the more regular uploads also ima drop some lsd tomorrow.

Now this is what I have been waiting for.

Great video! Do Terrence McKenna next !!

The timing of this video couldn't be better, I just finished reading Brave New World and 1984! Really liked this video and very interesting that George Orwell was actually a student of Huxley!

Your new mic really makes it more understandable, good

Infant conditioning is scary schools need to focus more on learning, less mindless obedience.

I had no idea that he was almost blind. This strengthens my faith in the concept that greatness comes from suffering.

Thank you! Another great video Syphilis. 👍

Never wanted a proper trip, but acid has done wonders in my life, 6 micrograms at a time. For people who don't know, 100 is a typical dose

I love your channel so much. Your videos are the only videos I can watch all the way through without distraction. Thank you.

Sgt. Pepper’s also has represented Simon Rodia, the Italian steel worker who single handedly built The Watts Towers and has been compared to Gaudi. He built the towers on the property that his house sat on, and after completing the work gave the keys to his neighbor and disappeared. The City of Los Angeles eventually received the towers, and concerned they were a public risk attempted to tear them down. But they proved too strong to easily demolish. The towers are today in the middle of the Hood® of South Central LA. Since Rodia was single, he could be said to deserve to be on the album cover more than Huxley, who was married…

Love how much research has went into this.

I read the entirety of The Doors of Perception while sleep-deprived on the train, Heaven and Hell as well. It's a truly unique book, I haven't read anything like it before or since. One fascinating idea Huxley brings up in the book is what he calls 'the mind at large', comparing 'the mind at large' to a sort of foreign land accessible via psychedelics. It creates an interesting distinction between what the brain is capable of in general as opposed to its normal, survival oriented functioning. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in psychedelics, the nature of consciousness, and fans of art as well (he makes some interesting observations relating art and the perception of artists to the psychedelic potential of the brain)

Thank you for making this. I’ve not been very present lately and needed something to shake me loose.

I'd find aspects of Huxley's ideology somewhat reminiscent of Ted Kaczynski's views of modern industrial-technological society. A video on the unabomber would be pretty darn interesting imo.

Do one on Terence McKenna. I dare you.

lsd is good shit, just make sure that YOU'RE ready to do it, make sure you're comfortable and you'll have a sick time.

it seems like someone has been reading Pollan's book

Patriarchal therapeutic model? WHAT?

Great, as always. Appreciate your work in bite-sizing such spot on thinkers and concepts.

Keep up the great videos my dude

I think that both are right. We live in a duality. To think these where the first two books among all those that came along...I absolutleyly spoiled myself but I was unaware.

I feel like you could learn more from watching an hour of this guys videos than you could in years of phych

Brave New World sounds prettyyyy familiar to ancient Roman poet Juvenal’s “Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.” Definitely not a specifically new idea...

great video ily sisyphus

Currently integrating Huxley’s views into my essay, thank you for this video!!

Island is an amazing book. There is a great audio version on youtube. Very long but very much worth reading. Another of Huxley's greats is Ape and Essence

I was fortunate enough to study these two books in college in 1969. It changed the course of my life. I stopped watching tv most of the time, and I'll never have a 'puck' in my house to turn on my lights and to listen to my every word. It's the worst combination of both.

Thanks for the video just found the most Logical philosofer from my perception of the world.

Also immortalised in the Doctor Strange movie. The altered perceptions on reality discussed in that film capped with the late great Stan Lee sat on a bus reading The Doors Of Perception while sorcerers are altering reality around him. It was that Easter egg that brought me to him

Dude your videos make me feel like this guy in the best of ways

Your videos are always a treat, brother

Thank you for this succinct telling of one of my heroes lives, objective and entertaining

If you rearrange Huxley’s birth year from 1894 it becomes *1984*

great video fr edit: also love how he is immortalized on the cover

I'm so happy this channel exists haha subscribing

Huxley was also inspired by Kropotkin and Henry George. Maybe we could get videos on them in the future?

Absolutely love your stuff. Please keep going

daaaamn postman, that shit the best thing I read since twilight tbh

Well versed mate. Love your work, definitely keep it up! 👍

Amazing video! Truly appreciate all your content

My first name is Huxley and this video is wild. Great vid btw

I need to get around to reading Huxley's works. I myself used to be a psychonaut and thus find that I relate to fellow trippers fairly well. Tripping to find oneself is in my opinion the best way to use psychedelics. I will say though that different substances have different effects. On acid your brain suddenly thinks in ways you never thought possible and you have a nice light show. On shrooms it feels as if you transcend your body and the visuals are more aurora esque, I've also only experienced ego death on mushrooms. Though on retrospect lsd can have that transcendent feeling as well because I always knew it kicked in when I felt as if my brain was taking a back seat, I've also experienced seeing things in third person a bunch on lsd. So I suppose the major difference is lsd is more of a buzzing feeling while shrooms are a rooted feeling.

All around top bloke. In a way I'm glad he didn't get to live to see himself proven right.

Great video man!

I am starting The Doors of perception now and will eventually slide through Perennial philosophy and Brave new world

Lmao his last wish was LSD, very based

Utopia and Dystopia are 2 sides to one coin I would say the one difference is the choice to opt out if you dont have a choice to leave the system you exist in, it doesnt matter how good/wonderful it is to some or a majority or even everybody, its a Dystopia

The OG hippy

Can you create a Playlist with all your videos in one so I can binge on it without clicking each video

After I read Brave New World I was like I'm out. I don't want to waste my time trying to understand politics and philosophy I just want to live. I don't care what becomes of the world and the people in it. But I have nothing else to do so I'm here.

haha Im currently reading Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death", I recognized that orwell quote from it

Buddhism The psychology before psychological science!

Aldous Huxley couldnt have been more right about his worldview and concerns for the modern world bc it has come to fruition already

I just ordered a copy of The Doors of Perception, and this comes up in my feed. nice. ❤️👀✨ also I think you should make a video about Terence McKenna that would be really cool

Mans was so right, drown the reset on the sea of irrelevance

Fantastic channel! Keep up the great work :))

He foretold some things but he wasn't a prophet. He was an original thinker and a good writer.

Im really glad i ve subscribed to this channel

You make really good video essays man

I think I found the philosopher I’m going to study next

♥️♥️♥️ so grateful for u!

3 Important Figures of there respected Fields Die on the same day. Illuminati Confirmed. *X-Files Theme Plays*

He took lsd on his death bed somehow that makes dying not seem so bad dude went out in a way that he deemed fit thats quite admirable.

7:04 2x Come on baby light my fire~ Try to set the night on fire~ Yeahhhea~

The modern world is a combination of 1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451. We're smack dab in the middle. Also, it would be interesting to have a video on Murray Rothbard and his application of the praxeological method, or of Hans-Hermann Hoppe's ideas on argumentation ethics.

Great video sir!

Moral of the video: I like seizures and dancing on the floor