Aldous Huxley Biography

Aldous Leonard Huxley was a well-known writer, essayist and screenwriter. He wrote his fist novel at the age of 17, the novel was never published though. His first published novel “Crome Yellow” was a satirical work on social issues. Besides editing the magazine “Oxford Poetry”, he also wrote short stories, poetry and created scripts for some Hollywood films. But he could not achieve success in Hollywood. In his later life, parapsychology and philosophical mysticism dominated most of his writings. When he was introduced to meditation, vegetarianism and Vedanta, he became an active member of Vedanta Society of Southern California for a long period. His book “The Doors of Perception” mirrors his experience of psychedelic drug. After the publication of this book, some disagreement occurred between him and Swami Prabhavananda, the head of the Vedanta Society regarding his experience of LSD drug. Still Huxley remained involved in the activities of the society by contributing articles for its journal and delivering lectures at the temple. He represented his personal experience of improvement of his poor eyesight with the help of Bates Method in the book “The Art of Seeing”. He loved to mention himself as an agnostic, though he had an interest in spirituality and mysticism.