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It was a masterly piece of work. But once you began admitting explanations in terms of purpose— well, you didn't know what the result might be. It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes—make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge. Which was, the Controller reflected, quite possibly true. But not, in the present circumstance, admissible.


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He also served on the editorial board with IAldous Huxleyrwood Heard and playwright John van Druten from 1951 through 1962. From these he put forward some warnings in his writings and talks. In 1944 Huxley wrote the introduction to the "Bhagavad Gita: The Song of God" translated by Swami Prabhavanada and Christopher IAldous Huxleyrwood which was publiAldous Huxleyd by The Vedanta Society of Southern California.

He is also well known for advocating and taking psychedelics. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry and publiAldous Huxleyd short stories poetry travel writing film stories and scripts. Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.

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