La filosofia perenne

Dear Aldous Huxley, I know that you where pronounced dead a long time ago, but because of this book, you are a living presence in my life today. Thank you, Bryon.

I was talking to a friend about how much I hated the baggage I felt I had inherited from my loosely Christian upbringing. Some kind of female guilt about sex. Why I couldn't bear going to any more political events because I kept seeing this oppressive good v's evil narrative. So, for example if I we Leggi tutto

I first read this book when I was on a Huxley kick when I was a teenager. Brave New World inspired me to read everything I could get my hands on by him. Needless to say, The Doors of Perception was more my speed then than The Perennial Philosophy. I recently read Mike Scott's autobiography, Adventure Leggi tutto

I picked this book up almost two decades ago coming off a run Robert Anton Wilson and a deep interest in Eastern Philosophies, particularly Taoism. I had never finished the book at the time as the real life of a young adult took sway. Coming back almost 20 years later this book still holds it's allu Leggi tutto

The Perennial: that which is everlasting and continually recurring. This book is the result of Huxley's deep study on the writing of the mystics from the great traditions of the east to the enlightened Christians of the west. An anthology of mystical writing. ... in all expositions of the Perennia

ألدوس هكسلي الكاتب الانجليزي الشهير في كتابه المهم بيناقش ماهية الديانة الأزلية أو الفكرة المشتركة بين كل الأديان وكل الفلسفات الدينية وهي الماهية الصوفية، بينهيه باقتباس من الغزالي بيتكلم فيه عن ان في كل عصر بينشط فيه التيار الفلسفي (رمز العقلانية في البحث الميتافيزيقي)، بينشط أيضا التيار الصوفي، ا Leggi tutto