Wilson was interested in eastern mysticism and meditation. He believed that we all have a unique reducing valve that shapes our perception of the world. The experience he had with his friend, cistover bu, helped him reach some of those visual experiences than psychedolis. But there's also an idea that huxley had this notion we just spoke about, how, you know, we're kind of headed in the wrong direction here as a society.
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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