Jeffrey J. Kripal, professor and chair of religious studies at Rice University, gives a delightful little treatment of Aldous Huxley in the December, 12th 2008 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education. More interestingly, he states that “a kind of Huxley renaissance is under way” in response to the current political and religious climate.

What do neural Buddhists, individualist spiritualities, cultural wars over science and religion and creationism and evolution, a nature-hating technology, the violence of extreme religious belief, and potentially omniscient government surveillance all have in common? They were all core elements in the life and work of the literary prophet Aldous Huxley (1894-1963).

I think that we could all do with a little more Huxley in our lives.

Link to Brave New Worldview in The Chronicle.

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