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Aldous Huxley and Alternative Spirituality

by Jake Poller

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  • 21st century
  • Language: English

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Aldous Huxley and Alternative Spirituality offers an incisive analysis of the full range of Huxley's spiritual interests, spanning both mysticism (neo-Vedanta, Taoism, Mahayana and Zen Buddhism) and Western esotericism (mesmerism, spiritualism, the paranormal). Jake Poller examines how Huxley's shifting spiritual convictions influenced his fiction, such as his depiction of the body and sex, and reveals how Huxley's use of psychedelic substances affected his spiritual convictions, resulting in a Tantric turn in his work. Poller demonstrates how Huxley's vision of a new alternative spirituality in Island, in which the Palanese select their beliefs from different religious traditions, anticipates the New Age spiritual supermarket and traces the profound influence of Huxley's ideas on the spiritual seekers of the twentieth century and beyond.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics, Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis, and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

    Retained metadata contains “Spiritualism” in the description and “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Spiritualism”· in description
    • “Spiritualism”· in subject
  • Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “mesmerism”. Retained metadata contains “Mesmerism” in the description.

    • “mesmerism”· via OpenAlex
    • “Mesmerism”· in description
  • Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics

    Retained metadata contains “Mysticism” in the description and “Mysticism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Mysticism”· in description
    • “Mysticism”· in subject

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2019-08-12—English—Unknown

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