18-07-2010, 03:19 PM
I've noticed the same discrepancy of opinion regarding Aldous Huxley, Austin Kelley. I think I understand how people can view him as some sinister figure behind mind-control research, but having read some of his novels over the years, some essays and longer non-fiction, my opinion is he was a sincere spiritual seeker and scientific inquirer. Being more or less part of the Anglo-American aristocracy of his time, in practice if not in fact, he moved within circles that do seem suspect.
There's another thing I read about his death. He and his wife had a pact that if there were an afterlife, he would seek to provide a sign to her that he had arrived in that afterlife. Some odd coincidence or series of coincidences made her believe he did in fact contact her, I can't remember the details but it had something to do with one of his books.
There's another thing I read about his death. He and his wife had a pact that if there were an afterlife, he would seek to provide a sign to her that he had arrived in that afterlife. Some odd coincidence or series of coincidences made her believe he did in fact contact her, I can't remember the details but it had something to do with one of his books.