Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience »

Michael Horowitz and Cynthia Palmer are the directors of the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library in San Francisco, the only library in the world exclusively devoted to the literature of mind-altering drugs. Michael Horowitz was Timothy Leary's archivist and is coauthor of The High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs. Palmer and Horowitz live in northern California.

Cynthia Palmer and Michael Horowitz are the directors of the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library in San Francisco, the only library in the world exclusively devoted to the literature of mind-altering drugs.

Moksha, a Sanskrit word meaning "liberation," is a collection of the prophetic and visionary writings of Aldous Huxley. Included are selections from his acclaimed novels Brave New World and Island, envisioning the use of psychedelics as a stabilizing influence, and pieces from The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, his famous works on consciousness expansion.

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Huxley was one of the first in the modern West to realize the potential value and spiritual implications of drugs. We are fortunate to have this experiential record of drug experiences.

Preface by Albert Hofmann
Introduction by Alexander Shulgin
Part I: Precognition
1: 1931 A Treatise on Drugs
2: 1931 Wantwed, a New Pleasure
3: 1932 Soma
4: 1936 Propaganda and Pharmacology
5: 1944 A Boundless Absence
6: 1952 Downward Transcendence
Part II: Psychedelic and Visionary Experience
7: 1953 Letters
8: 1953 May Morning in Hollywood
9: 1953 Letters
10: 1954 The Door of Perception
11: 1954 Letters
12: 1954 The Far Continents of the Mind
13: 1955 Mescaline and the "Other World"
14: 1955 Letters
15: 1955 Disregarded in the Darkness
16: 1955 Letters
17: 1956 Heaven and Hell
18: 1956 Brave New World Revisited
19: 1956 Letters
20: 1956 History of Tension
21: 1957 Letters
22: 1958 Chemical Persuasion
23: 1958 Letters
24: 1958 Drugs That Shape Men's Minds
25: 1959 Letters
26: 1959 The Final Revolution
27: 1960 Letters
28: 1960 The Art of Fiction
29: 1960 Mushroom for Lunch
30: 1960 Harvard Session Report
31: 1961 Letters
32: 1961 London Interview
33: 1961 Visionary Experience (Copenhagen)
34: 1961 Exploring the Borderlands of the Mind
35: 1962 Love and Work
36: 1962 Letters
37: Moksha
38: Letters
39: 1963 Culture and the Individual
40: 1963 O Nobly Born!
Appendixes
Source Notes
Index