Island.org is an online community inspired by the ideas of Aldous Huxley.
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Island Web: Creating a New Culture as Inspired by the Ideas of Aldous Huxley
Description
In a place far from the influence of Western Industrial Politics that the new forms of consciousness and the lifestyles that this consciousness suggests could have a chance of developing without repression and give to the world a chance at creating what Aldous Huxley would call a "sensible culture."
A quarter century ago, Bruce Eisner, Peter Stafford and Lynn Francis produced LSD a Generation Later -- LSD Discoverer Albert Hofmann's first public account of the discovery of LSD. The catalyst of the Sixties Alternative Culture, the conference held at the University of California in October of 1977 was the first event focusing on psychedelics since 1967. The turbulence and hysteria of the Sixties had made it almost impossible for scientific meetings to be held on the subject. It brought together many of the scientific researchers and counterculture figures for the first time. These included Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, Ralph Metzner, Albert Hofmann, John Lilly, Oscar Janiger, Allen Ginsberg and many others. A radio broadcast of the event can be found here.
Bruce Eisner decided to take some mushrooms. During this experience, which was influenced by two books he had just finished, Island by Aldous Huxley and Intelligence Agents by Timothy Leary -- he had a vision of a life-long project to create a psychedelic sanctuary in the South Pacific. It was far from the influence of Western Industrial Politics, he feels, that the new forms of consciousness and the lifestyles that this consciousness suggests could have a chance of developing without repression and give to the world a chance at creating what Adous Huxley would call a "sensible culture." Later, Laura Huxley asked to present Bruce's question: "Brave New World or Island: Which Way Shall We Go?" at the 100th Centennial of Aldous Huxley's Birth. She assigned Richard Alpert known as Ram Dass the topic which he obviously took quite seriously as spent three and one half hours on this theme and a transcript can be found here.
Contact
- Island Group
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- Santa Cruz CA
- United States 95060
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- +1.40845909
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