From: "The REAL Mxyzptlk"
Subject: RE: [idm] This might be of interest...
quoted 5 lines I go back and forth on this, but yes...Huxley seems more the prophet than> 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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