He Was Interested in Religion, but He Was Also Interested in Hinduism.

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He emerged after the first world war as a kind of, inin the 19 tent is, as a very amusing satirist. He wanted to explore other worlds that he felt were underneath the invisible universe. The thing about huxey was, he always liked big ideas. And i think, again, just like the scientific eritance, this is a very important background if you want to look at his experiments withh with drugs.

Nicholas Murray is a freelance author and journalist based in Wales and London. Born in Liverpool, he is the author of several literary biographies including lives of Franz Kafka, Aldous Huxley, Bruce Chatwin, Andrew Marvell and Matthew Arnold, five collections of poems, and two novels. His biography of Matthew Arnold was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1997, and his biography of Aldous Huxley was shortlisted for the Marsh Biography Prize in 2003. His biography of Franz Kafka has been translated into nine languages.

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