Wow - what motivation... he typed the whole thing TWICE!!
:P
seeklektek wrote:
quoted 79 lines From: "The REAL Mxyzptlk"
> From: "The REAL Mxyzptlk"
> Subject: RE: [idm] This might be of interest...
>
> > I go back and forth on this, but yes...Huxley seems more the prophet than
> > Orwell - at least today.
> > And that's very topical on IDM-l.
> >
> > jeff
>
> Huxley went out in style:
>
> Laura Huxley gave Aldous on his deathbed, at his request, two injections of
> 100mg of LSD:
> A decision had been made. Suddenly he had accepted the fact of death; now,
> he had taken this moksha-medicine in which he believed. Once again he was
> doing what he had written in 'Island', and I had the feeling that he was
> interested and relieved and quiet.
>
> I began to talk to him, saying, 'Light and free you let go, darling; forward
> and up. You are going forward and up; you are going toward the light.
> Willingly and consciously you are going, willingly and consciously, and you
> are doing this beautifully; you are doing this so beautifully - you are
> going toward the light - you are going toward the light - you are going
> toward a greater love - you are going forward and up. It is so easy - it is
> so beautiful.' Once I asked him, 'Do you hear me?' He squeezed my hand; he
> was hearing me.
>
> The breathing became slower and slower, and there was absolutely not the
> slightest indication of contraction, of struggle. The ceasing of life was
> not a drama at all, but like a piece of music just finishing so gently in a
> sempre più piano, dolcemente ... and at five-twenty the breathing stoppped
>
> If the way Aldous died were known, it might awaken people to the awareness
> that not only this, but many other facts described in 'Island' are possible
> here and now. Aldous asking for the moksha-medicine while dying is not only
> a confirmation of his open-mindness and courage, but as such a last gesture
> of continuing importance. Is his way of dying to remain for his friends, and
> only for us, a relief and consulation, or should others also benefit from
> it? Aren't we all nobly born and entitled to noble dying?
>
> Adapted from 'This Timeless Moment' by Laura Archera Huxley.
>
> Laura Huxley gave Aldous on his deathbed, at his request, two injections of
> 100mg of LSD:
>
> A decision had been made. Suddenly he had accepted the fact of death; now,
> he had taken this moksha-medicine in which he believed. Once again he was
> doing what he had written in 'Island', and I had the feeling that he was
> interested and relieved and quiet.
>
> I began to talk to him, saying, 'Light and free you let go, darling; forward
> and up. You are going forward and up; you are going toward the light.
> Willingly and consciously you are going, willingly and consciously, and you
> are doing this beautifully; you are doing this so beautifully - you are
> going toward the light - you are going toward the light - you are going
> toward a greater love - you are going forward and up. It is so easy - it is
> so beautiful.' Once I asked him, 'Do you hear me?' He squeezed my hand; he
> was hearing me.
>
> The breathing became slower and slower, and there was absolutely not the
> slightest indication of contraction, of struggle. The ceasing of life was
> not a drama at all, but like a piece of music just finishing so gently in a
> sempre più piano, dolcemente ... and at five-twenty the breathing stoppped
>
> If the way Aldous died were known, it might awaken people to the awareness
> that not only this, but many other facts described in 'Island' are possible
> here and now. Aldous asking for the moksha-medicine while dying is not only
> a confirmation of his open-mindness and courage, but as such a last gesture
> of continuing importance. Is his way of dying to remain for his friends, and
> only for us, a relief and consulation, or should others also benefit from
> it? Aren't we all nobly born and entitled to noble dying?
>
> HTH
>
> .o0O}seeklektek{O0o.
>
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