I guess you must be right, again, RWP. I must be bizarrely stupid. That's why I included those links ... so someone could find the stuff you found, and expose the 'truth' about what Huxley really meant. I must just hunger for the ridicule. But you didn't say thank you for the slow pitch ... I agree, you must be tired.
By the way ... Huxley lost his Mom at the age of 14. Isn't funny how these famous leftists have so much in common? Kant could surely relate as you well know.
Oh yes, that wasn't all. His sister died the same month he lost his mom. Major bummer. And then, lo and behold, an older brother committed suicide - hanged himself after suffering a nervous breakdown a few years later. Julian himself suffered a breakdown and spent time in a nursing home ... during the exact same time. (All this while Dad is happily impregnanting a new wife ... funny, strange like).
Here is more from Answers.com:
In his later years: His ideas were foundational to the forming of the Human Potential Movement. He was also invited to speak at several prestigious American universities. At a speech given in 1961 at the California Medical School in San Francisco, Huxley warned:
"There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it."
Funny/strange again ... a really weird vegatarian wrote this - and Prozac American stoned on wide band porn moves blythly along....maybe he wasn't really 'predicting' but prophecying? There is a critical difference you know. One is respectable, the other is beloved ... if you are on his side of the fence for either.
One last tidbit: In 1938 Huxley befriended J. Krishnamurti, whose teachings he greatly admired. He became a Vedantist in the circle of Swami Prabhavananda, and he also introduced Christopher Isherwood to this circle. Not long after, Huxley wrote his book on widely held spiritual values and ideas, The Perennial Philosophy, which discussed teachings of the world's great mystics. (Are you seeing the pattern RWP?)
He started meditating and became a vegetarian. Thereafter, his works were strongly influenced by mysticism and his experiences with the hallucinogenic drug mescaline, to which he was introduced by the psychiatrist Humphry Osmond in 1953. Huxley's psychedelic drug experiences are described in the essays The Doors of Perception (the title deriving from some lines in a poem by William Blake) and Heaven and Hell. The title of the former became the inspiration for the naming of the rock band, The Doors. Some of his writings on psychedelics became frequent reading among early hippies."
Oh, yes, his Dad was a professional herbalist. And Wow ... I didn't know that about how the Doors got their name.
Ends and Means indeed...
I know of the link already. But I was already familiar with the Aldous Huxley distortion, and knew it was a distortion without having to search the web. Creationist fibs usually circulate through here at least 50 times before we've shamed all of you into giving them up, and then you just go find some more. But this particular fib was in my strike zone, you might say; when I was in college, I read pretty much everything Huxley ever wrote, from Crome Yellow to Island. Hey, the sixties got to Ireland about 10 years late :-)
You apparently have all of us figured out, as victims of broken homes (my parents would be amused to learn this, were they still around; they would have celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this year). And you have the advantage, of me at least. I don't understand you all at all. As PH once said, it's like whack-a-mole. You never learn, and you never change. Once 'Huxley was an atheist' is slapped down, we'll have 'Dawkins is a Marxist' or 'Genomics says chickens are closer to humans than monkeys' again.
And you wonder why we're so contemptuous and arrogant.