Podcasts about Aldous Huxley

Fr. Robert McTeigue continues his "Novel Prophecies" series with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Revisited. Huxley warned that propaganda and technology could make people easier to control. Are we seeing some of that today, and if so, what can we do about it? Father finishes with Weekend Readiness to help prepare you for Sunday Mass.   Show Notes Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited The Inner Ring 76 Fallacies Propaganda Watch | The Corbett Report Daily Readings - Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time iCatholic Mobile The Station of the Cross Merchandise - Use Coupon Code 14STATIONS for 10% off | Catholic to the Max Read Fr. McTeigue's Written Works! "Let's Take A Closer Look" with Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. | Full Series Playlist Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

Pharmakeia — Show Notes: Fight Laugh Feast Documentary In this Fight Laugh Feast documentary, CrossPolitic traces a single Greek word — pharmakeia — from Homer's Odyssey through the book of Revelation to argue that the ancient world never separated medicine from sorcery, and that the modern West's attempt to draw that line may be its most consequential mistake. The film follows materialism's promise from the Big Bang to the therapy couch, tracks the ladder from prescription pharmaceuticals to ayahuasca retreats in Peru, and asks why the men who most loudly deny the existence of demons are increasingly found in dark rooms communing with named spirit entities. Along the way it draws on C.S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Peter Hitchens, and the testimony of a man who sat in fifteen ayahuasca ceremonies — and what finally set him free. The answer is not another ceremony. It is guilt, repentance, and the One who drank the cup fully awake so we wouldn't have to. Timestamps 0:24 — What is a woman? What is a human being? — and why getting the answer wrong collapses everything 1:04 — The materialist answer: evolved apes, accidental universe, cosmic soup — and why it can't hold 2:06 — Materialism as a religion — no God, no soul, just chemicals and atoms colliding 2:39 — The swept house: materialism cleared out demons and filled the room with diagnoses and serotonin levels 3:36 — Ayahuasca retreats, psilocybin therapy, and $7,000–$20,000 luxury ceremonies in Jamaica and Peru 4:00 — Pharmakeia — one Greek word from Homer to Revelation meaning both medicine and sorcery 4:40 — The ladder: prescription → marijuana → ecstasy → mushrooms → the dark room in Peru 7:52 — Huxley's 1962 Berkeley lecture: the controlling oligarchy will get people to love their servitude 8:43 — Peter Hitchens and the Uvalde shooter — the marijuana detail that disappeared from the New York Times 11:12 — Attacker Smoked Cannabis — the man with a laptop building the file the national press unpublished 12:08 — Orwell's jack boots vs. Huxley's chains — drugs and sex as the state's soft bribe 13:20 — Dominion Wealth Strategies — sponsor read 14:41 — CS Lewis: the materialist magician — science and magic as twins, one that worked better 16:39 — Lewis's nightmare: magic returning in a lab coat, using the language of forces and energies 17:31 — The swept house revisited — Jesus's words and the seven demons worse than the first 18:06 — Henry's Demons — marijuana at 11, madness at 14, and the father who named it correctly 20:26 — Pharmakeia in Homer, Exodus, Galatians, and Revelation — nations deceived by one word 22:38 — The seam we drew — medicine on one side, sorcery on the other, and the line beginning to blur 24:00 — PhDs communing with Mama Ayahuasca — named entities, published journals, and credit cards accepted 25:57 — Demons allowed in as aliens — keeping God out while keeping the master narrative intact 27:29 — Lewis in Screwtape: the greatest evil is conceived in carpeted offices by quiet men with smooth cheeks 28:51 — Deuteronomy 18 — the law against consulters with familiar spirits, and the modern retreat that crosses every line 29:38 — King Saul, the demonized boy, and Legion — the man in the tombs clothed and in his right mind 31:04 — 2020: churches closed, pot shops open, abortion clinics essential — and how few said no 33:03 — Nepho — morally alert: Peter's word before warning that the devil prowls looking for someone to devour 34:29 — Red Balloon Recruiter — sponsor read 35:09 — Thomas Szasz and therapy culture — the inversion of personal responsibility 36:13 — Trauma culture in the church — the failure of biblical counseling and the endless loop of buried pain 37:47 — The man who sat in fifteen ceremonies: what finally changed him was guilt 38:25 — You are not evolved slime — made in the image of God, body and soul, homesick and lost 39:34 — Circe's cup and Odysseus's men — forgetting home, waiting to be turned into pigs 40:09 — The trade runs backwards: when Jesus showed up, the demons went into the swine 40:32 — One more cup — Christ at Golgotha refusing the narcotic, drinking the wrath fully awake 42:02 — The cure: a renewed mind, a household, a book, the discovery that responsibility is the greatest pleasure 43:39 — The real hero's journey — available for free, already paid for by another Fight Laugh Feast 2026: Holy Wars Join us October 1–3 in Franklin, Tennessee at The Factory in Franklin for the Fight Laugh Feast Conference. This year's theme is Holy Wars — Just War, the Crusades, and the Christian Life. Featuring Doug Wilson, Joe Boot, George Grant, Jared Longshore, Joe Rigney, Ben Merkel, and the CrossPolitic crew. Early Bird pricing ends July 1st — nearly halfway sold out. Tickets: https://tickets.flfnetwork.com/holy-wars-conference This Episode's Sponsors Dominion Wealth Strategies How you handle your money is not a neutral act — it is not separate from your walk with Christ. Dominion Wealth Strategies helps families think biblically and act wisely about what God has entrusted to them: budgeting, saving, debt management, life insurance, estate planning, and multigenerational financial vision. Not about chasing wealth. About faithfulness. Schedule a complimentary consultation today. Website: reform.money Red Balloon Recruiter An engaged, aware employee can grow your company's performance by 5, 10, or even 25%. Red Balloon's personalized source-and-screen process connects you with top talent — people who show up sober, think in straight lines, and take responsibility before anyone asks. Revenue up, costs down. Website: redballoon.work About CrossPolitic CrossPolitic exists to put Jesus over Politics and reclaim the public square through bold, joyful, biblically grounded media. We confront the chaos discipling America and build the next generation of Christian media infrastructure. Our mission is simple: all of Christ for all of media for all of America. Mainstream media is collapsing. Eighty-seven percent of journalists identify as progressive, and even many conservative outlets prioritize profit over principle. Meanwhile, billions of hours of digital content are discipling the world every day. CrossPolitic stands in that gap, producing courageous, entertaining, truth-filled media for households, churches, and leaders across the nation. Become a CrossPolitic Club Member Support the mission and unlock exclusive content, behind-the-scenes shows, and theology series. https://pubtv.flfnetwork.com/menu/checkout Subscribe & Share! Every like, comment, and share helps push Christian media back into the algorithm where it belongs. Follow CrossPolitic YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CROSSPOLITIC X: https://x.com/CrossPolitic Facebook: https://facebook.com/crosspolitic Instagram: https://instagram.com/crosspolitic Join our Email List: https://crosspolitic.com/ Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NRBTV, DirecTV, Dish, and everywhere podcasts are found. #CrossPolitic #Pharmakeia #FightLaughFeast #Drugs #Ayahuasca #CSLewis #ChristianMedia #Materialism

Pharmakeia — Show Notes: Fight Laugh Feast Documentary In this Fight Laugh Feast documentary, CrossPolitic traces a single Greek word — pharmakeia — from Homer's Odyssey through the book of Revelation to argue that the ancient world never separated medicine from sorcery, and that the modern West's attempt to draw that line may be its most consequential mistake. The film follows materialism's promise from the Big Bang to the therapy couch, tracks the ladder from prescription pharmaceuticals to ayahuasca retreats in Peru, and asks why the men who most loudly deny the existence of demons are increasingly found in dark rooms communing with named spirit entities. Along the way it draws on C.S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Peter Hitchens, and the testimony of a man who sat in fifteen ayahuasca ceremonies — and what finally set him free. The answer is not another ceremony. It is guilt, repentance, and the One who drank the cup fully awake so we wouldn't have to. Timestamps 0:24 — What is a woman? What is a human being? — and why getting the answer wrong collapses everything 1:04 — The materialist answer: evolved apes, accidental universe, cosmic soup — and why it can't hold 2:06 — Materialism as a religion — no God, no soul, just chemicals and atoms colliding 2:39 — The swept house: materialism cleared out demons and filled the room with diagnoses and serotonin levels 3:36 — Ayahuasca retreats, psilocybin therapy, and $7,000–$20,000 luxury ceremonies in Jamaica and Peru 4:00 — Pharmakeia — one Greek word from Homer to Revelation meaning both medicine and sorcery 4:40 — The ladder: prescription → marijuana → ecstasy → mushrooms → the dark room in Peru 7:52 — Huxley's 1962 Berkeley lecture: the controlling oligarchy will get people to love their servitude 8:43 — Peter Hitchens and the Uvalde shooter — the marijuana detail that disappeared from the New York Times 11:12 — Attacker Smoked Cannabis — the man with a laptop building the file the national press unpublished 12:08 — Orwell's jack boots vs. Huxley's chains — drugs and sex as the state's soft bribe 13:20 — Dominion Wealth Strategies — sponsor read 14:41 — CS Lewis: the materialist magician — science and magic as twins, one that worked better 16:39 — Lewis's nightmare: magic returning in a lab coat, using the language of forces and energies 17:31 — The swept house revisited — Jesus's words and the seven demons worse than the first 18:06 — Henry's Demons — marijuana at 11, madness at 14, and the father who named it correctly 20:26 — Pharmakeia in Homer, Exodus, Galatians, and Revelation — nations deceived by one word 22:38 — The seam we drew — medicine on one side, sorcery on the other, and the line beginning to blur 24:00 — PhDs communing with Mama Ayahuasca — named entities, published journals, and credit cards accepted 25:57 — Demons allowed in as aliens — keeping God out while keeping the master narrative intact 27:29 — Lewis in Screwtape: the greatest evil is conceived in carpeted offices by quiet men with smooth cheeks 28:51 — Deuteronomy 18 — the law against consulters with familiar spirits, and the modern retreat that crosses every line 29:38 — King Saul, the demonized boy, and Legion — the man in the tombs clothed and in his right mind 31:04 — 2020: churches closed, pot shops open, abortion clinics essential — and how few said no 33:03 — Nepho — morally alert: Peter's word before warning that the devil prowls looking for someone to devour 34:29 — Red Balloon Recruiter — sponsor read 35:09 — Thomas Szasz and therapy culture — the inversion of personal responsibility 36:13 — Trauma culture in the church — the failure of biblical counseling and the endless loop of buried pain 37:47 — The man who sat in fifteen ceremonies: what finally changed him was guilt 38:25 — You are not evolved slime — made in the image of God, body and soul, homesick and lost 39:34 — Circe's cup and Odysseus's men — forgetting home, waiting to be turned into pigs 40:09 — The trade runs backwards: when Jesus showed up, the demons went into the swine 40:32 — One more cup — Christ at Golgotha refusing the narcotic, drinking the wrath fully awake 42:02 — The cure: a renewed mind, a household, a book, the discovery that responsibility is the greatest pleasure 43:39 — The real hero's journey — available for free, already paid for by another Fight Laugh Feast 2026: Holy Wars Join us October 1–3 in Franklin, Tennessee at The Factory in Franklin for the Fight Laugh Feast Conference. This year's theme is Holy Wars — Just War, the Crusades, and the Christian Life. Featuring Doug Wilson, Joe Boot, George Grant, Jared Longshore, Joe Rigney, Ben Merkel, and the CrossPolitic crew. Early Bird pricing ends July 1st — nearly halfway sold out. Tickets: https://tickets.flfnetwork.com/holy-wars-conference This Episode's Sponsors Dominion Wealth Strategies How you handle your money is not a neutral act — it is not separate from your walk with Christ. Dominion Wealth Strategies helps families think biblically and act wisely about what God has entrusted to them: budgeting, saving, debt management, life insurance, estate planning, and multigenerational financial vision. Not about chasing wealth. About faithfulness. Schedule a complimentary consultation today. Website: reform.money Red Balloon Recruiter An engaged, aware employee can grow your company's performance by 5, 10, or even 25%. Red Balloon's personalized source-and-screen process connects you with top talent — people who show up sober, think in straight lines, and take responsibility before anyone asks. Revenue up, costs down. Website: redballoon.work About CrossPolitic CrossPolitic exists to put Jesus over Politics and reclaim the public square through bold, joyful, biblically grounded media. We confront the chaos discipling America and build the next generation of Christian media infrastructure. Our mission is simple: all of Christ for all of media for all of America. Mainstream media is collapsing. Eighty-seven percent of journalists identify as progressive, and even many conservative outlets prioritize profit over principle. Meanwhile, billions of hours of digital content are discipling the world every day. CrossPolitic stands in that gap, producing courageous, entertaining, truth-filled media for households, churches, and leaders across the nation. Become a CrossPolitic Club Member Support the mission and unlock exclusive content, behind-the-scenes shows, and theology series. https://pubtv.flfnetwork.com/menu/checkout Subscribe & Share! Every like, comment, and share helps push Christian media back into the algorithm where it belongs. Follow CrossPolitic YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CROSSPOLITIC X: https://x.com/CrossPolitic Facebook: https://facebook.com/crosspolitic Instagram: https://instagram.com/crosspolitic Join our Email List: https://crosspolitic.com/ Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NRBTV, DirecTV, Dish, and everywhere podcasts are found. #CrossPolitic #Pharmakeia #FightLaughFeast #Drugs #Ayahuasca #CSLewis #ChristianMedia #Materialism

Speculative science fiction really is a genre of its own. Some people love it, others find it pointless, but you can't deny the mental gymnastics involved in imagining the future of our societies, especially when some of those predictions turn out to be right.  In that field, there are a few writers who stand out above the rest: George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and, perhaps most famously, Isaac Asimov. Who exactly was Isaac Asimov? Did he predict a future full of robots then? What about space?To listen to the last episodes, you can click here: ⁠What is future faking?⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Will the meat of the future be printed in 3D?⁠ ⁠Why do we see faces in inanimate objects?⁠ A Bababam Originals podcast written and realised by Joseph Chance. First Broadcast: 15/10/2025 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fr. Robert McTeigue continues his "Novel Prophecies" series with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, a novel about a society in which suffering has been largely eliminated at the cost of freedom, family, and individuality. What does Huxley's imagined world tell us about the things that people are willing to give up for an easier life? Father finishes with Weekend Readiness to help prepare you for Sunday Mass.   Show Notes Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited The Far Side - Sheep Cartoon How To Be a Nonconformist: 22 Irreverent Illustrated Steps to Counterculture Cred from 1968 Cheese Lovers Unite: The Benefits of Full-Fat Dairy Documented in Study Without Cholesterol Rise or Weight Gain Chesterton on Cheese Daily Readings - Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time iCatholic Mobile The Station of the Cross Merchandise - Use Coupon Code 14STATIONS for 10% off | Catholic to the Max Read Fr. McTeigue's Written Works! "Let's Take A Closer Look" with Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. | Full Series Playlist Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

Matt and Michael open with the paradox of getting your ass kicked and somehow feeling more alive because of it. Matt shares his realization that there is no "there" to arrive at. The car ride IS the destination. Flat tires, closed restaurants, broken grinders. That's not the interruption of life. That IS life. Then things get deep. They wrestle with Dawkins vs. Lennox on justice and whether the universe has a moral order. They explore why science itself presupposes God, why atheism requires its own kind of faith, and why Lennox's answer about morality is devastating. All men are created in the image of God, even the ones who don't believe in Him. The back half dives into inversion. How we try to make reality conform to us instead of conforming ourselves to reality. They tackle sex, polyamory, pornography, and C.S. Lewis's insight from The Abolition of Man. If you optimize for the purpose of a thing, you destroy the thing itself. Optimize for pleasure, and you end up in misery. Cheers y'all

Welcome to Light On Light Through episode 421, in which I interview Mitt Witten about his new novel 51%.  In all seriousness, I consider this cyberpunk novel in the same league as Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984. Relevant links: my written review of 51% get the novel here Cass Sunstein about Orwell's 1984  Rob Sawyer's novel Flashforward my novelette "The Chronology Protection Case"  

“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” Aldous Huxley 

"Entre la semiótica, la química de colegio y los símbolos del poder: una reflexión sobre cómo leemos la política y la cultura en Colombia."Alejandro Gaviria y Ricardo Silva Romero se le miden a un "primer semestre de semiología". A partir de sus viejos traumas con la trigonometría, las lecturas de Susan Sontag, Vladimir Nabokov y Aldous Huxley, analizan la obsesión por descifrar símbolos, metáforas y alegorías en el arte y en la vida cotidiana. ¿Qué nos dicen realmente la espada de Bolívar, el jaguar, el tigre o los palacios de gobierno sobre nuestra historia? En este episodio, conversan sobre el intento de los políticos por presentarse como figuras disruptivas, la manipulación de las narrativas patrias, la importancia de defender las instituciones y esa constante tensión entre la materia real y el mundo de los símbolos.

#Publi. Del reloj de sol egipcio al Reloj del Apocalipsis: un recorrido por cómo la humanidad ha soñado, temido y planificado su propio mañana a lo largo de la historia. ¿Siempre hemos mirado al futuro con el mismo pesimismo que hoy? En este episodio recorremos la historia de cómo hemos imaginado lo que está por venir: desde las sociedades antiguas que entendían el tiempo como un ciclo, pasando por la Ilustración y la Revolución Industrial, hasta la Guerra Fría y el auge de la ciencia ficción. Analizamos también por qué, en plena era de la inteligencia artificial, las distopías dominan nuestra cultura y qué papel juegan hoy potencias, empresas y movimientos como el afrofuturismo en la disputa por el relato del futuro. Hoy en "No es el fin del mundo" hablamos de ¿Cómo hemos imaginado el futuro? Libros y películas: LOST Dark Outer Wilds Only Lovers Left Alive La desaparición de los rituales - Byung-Chul Han Utopía - Tomás Moro El año 2000 - Edward Bellamy El sueño de Sultana - Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Of One Blood - Pauline Hopkins Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Erewhon - Samuel Butler La guerra de los mundos - H.G. Wells Dune - Frank Herbert Nosotros - Yevgueni Zamiatin Un mundo feliz - Aldous Huxley 1984 - George Orwell Retrotopía - Zygmunt Bauman Regreso al Futuro Parte II Black Panther The Last of Us Black Mirror Los Juegos del Hambre Divergente El Corredor del Laberinto Her Este episodio cuenta con el patrocinio de Moeve.

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7Sees is a researcher and host of “This Week on the Web” on Ickonic. He lays out the technocratic plan for enslavement that was gaining popularity during the early 1930s, in part due to the influence of Elon Musk's grandfather. The Technocracy movement was a century ahead of its time, as Aldous Huxley described in the 1932 classic Brave New World. His brother Julian headed the British Eugenics Society and founded the World Wildlife Fund and UNESCO. This new batch of technocrats were incubated at Stanford, Harvard, and In-Q-Tel, financed on Sand Hill Road, then groomed at Bilderberg, Aspen Institute, and the CFR. Their coordinated pivot to AI, and the companies involved in artificial intelligence, is terrifying.Guest: 7Sees | https://x.com/7SEES_---Macroaggressionswww.Macroaggressions.ioMerch StoreLink Tree Video ChannelsRumble | YouTube | BrighteonActivist PostNewsletter Sign UpAudiobooksHypocrazyThe Octopus of Global ControlSupport Our SponsorsReplace Your Mortgage: www.WipeOutYourMortgageNow.comGround Luxe Grounding MatsC60 Power | Promo Code: MACROChemical Free Body | Promo Code: MACROWise Wolf Gold & SilverLegalShield: www.DontGetPushedAround.comChristian Yordanov's Health ProgramThe Dollar VigilanteNesa's Hemp | Promo Code: MACROAugason Farms

Les références : Nice — Le Panoptique Le Panoptique, Jeremy Bentham (1791) Loi RIPOST : le Sénat prolonge et étend la vidéosurveillance algorithmique (Public Sénat) Londres — Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (1953) Chat Control : vérification d'âge et fin de l'anonymat (EDRi) Lisbonne — Ravage Ravage, René Barjavel (1943) Black-out en Espagne et au Portugal du 28 avril 2025 (Connaissance des Énergies) Menlo Park — Le Meilleur des mondes Le Meilleur des mondes, Aldous Huxley (1932) Algorithmic dopamine economies (The British Journal of Psychiatry) Denver — Minority Report Minority Report (Rapport minoritaire), Philip K. Dick (1956) Inside ICE's Expanding AI Surveillance Machine, Palantir et l'outil ELITE (Parriva) Idaho — La Servante écarlate La Servante écarlate, Margaret Atwood (1985) Surveillance numérique et criminalisation de l'avortement (National Partnership for Women & Families) Kenya — La Machine à explorer le temps La Machine à explorer le temps, H. G. Wells (1895) L'IA repose sur des travailleurs invisibles exploités dans les pays pauvres (RTS) Shanghai — Nous autres Nous autres, Ievgueni Zamiatine (1924) Reconnaissance biométrique : 30 propositions pour écarter la société de surveillance (Sénat) Paris — 1984 1984, George Orwell (1949) Contrôles d'identité : défendons-nous contre la reconnaissance faciale (La Quadrature du Net) Bruxelles — La Ferme des animaux La Ferme des animaux, George Orwell (1945) Chat Control : l'UE s'apprête à contourner son propre Parlement (Cryptoast)Vous pouvez mettre un commentaire pour l'épisode. Et même mettre une note sur 5 étoiles si vous le souhaitez. Il est important pour nous d'avoir vos retours car, contrairement par exemple à une conférence, nous n'avons pas un public en face de nous qui peut réagir. Pour mettre un commentaire ou une note, rendez-vous sur la page dédiée à l'épisode.Aidez-nous à mieux vous connaître et améliorer l'émission en répondant à notre questionnaire (en cinq minutes). Vos réponses à ce questionnaire sont très précieuses pour nous. De votre côté, ce questionnaire est une occasion de nous faire des retours. Pour connaître les nouvelles concernant l'émission (annonce des podcasts, des émissions à venir, ainsi que des bonus et des annonces en avant-première) inscrivez-vous à la lettre d'actus.

rWotD Episode 3335: Aldous Huxley Welcome to random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia's vast and varied content, one random article at a time.The random article for Sunday, 21 June 2026, is Aldous Huxley.Aldous Leonard Huxley ( AWL-dəs; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems.Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish novels (witty social-satirical novels and grimly serious ones), travel writing, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.Huxley was a pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism, as well as universalism, addressing these subjects in his works such as The Perennial Philosophy (1945), which illustrates commonalities between Western and Eastern mysticism, and The Doors of Perception (1954), which interprets his own psychedelic experience with mescaline. In his most famous novel, Brave New World (1932), and his final novel, Island (1962), he presented his visions of dystopia and utopia, respectively.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:24 UTC on Sunday, 21 June 2026.For the full current version of the article, see Aldous Huxley on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Bluesky at @wikioftheday.com.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm standard Brian.

Andrew For America returns with an awesome episode filled with crazy clips and phrases that have been publicly uttered by some of your favorite "mover and shaker" world planners, WEF members, etc. In this episode, Andrew plays clips from Klaus Schwab, Yuval Noah Harari, Peter Thiel and Alex Karp of Palantir, Larry Fink, Lindsey Graham, Kamala Harris, Richard Verner, and others that sound much crazier than some of the conspiracy theories you've ever heard of! Andrew also plays a clip about the history of "bread and circuses,” Frank Wright on “world government,” and a clip from Aldous Huxley discussing the themes from his book, "Brave New World."The song selections are the songs, "Broken Record" and "Better Than That Now" by the band Automatic 7.Visit allegedlyrecords.com and check out all of the amazing punk rock artists!Visit soundcloud.com/andrewforamerica1984 to check out Andrew's music!Like and Follow The Politics & Punk Rock Podcast PLAYLIST on Spotify!!!Check it out here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Y4rumioeqvHfaUgRnRxsy...politicsandpunkrockpodcast.comFollow Future Is Now Coalition on Instagram @FutureIsOrgwww.futureis.org

So viele Frauen optimieren ihren Kalender. Sie machen mehr Sport. Sie buchen noch einen Entspannungskurs. Und trotzdem bleibt dieses Gefühl: ausgelaugt, isoliert, irgendwie falsch verdrahtet. Hier ist was wirklich passiert: Dein Nervensystem baut Stress nicht über Leistung ab. Es baut ihn ab über Verbindung. Über echte, körperliche, menschliche Verbindung. Und die haben wir systematisch ersetzt – durch Convenience, durch Screens, durch KI, durch den Latte Macchiato, der sich anfühlt wie eine Umarmung. In dieser Folge erzähle ich dir darüber: ✦ Warum du "das Dorf" nicht findest & die Biologie dahinter ✦ Was Bequemlichkeit wirklich kostet ✦ Die eine Sache die ich als zyklisch lebende Frau im Juni ändern würde & was Mittsommer mit dir zu tun hat (Am 21. Juni ist der Höhepunkt der Sonnenenergie für dieses Jahr, verpass das nicht) ✦ Warum Frauen damals die Antennen & Wahrsagerinnen des Stammes waren

I hope this quote from Aldous Huxley helps you improve yourself to improve your life.   Join the FREE Facebook group for The Michael Brian Show at https://www.facebook.com/groups/themichaelbrianshow   Follow Mike on Facebook Instagram & X

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For the first in a new set of episodes about some of the great political fictions of the past hundred years David explores Aldous Huxley's much misunderstood dystopian masterpiece Brave New World (1932). How did Huxley imagine that a future society could be both horribly regimented and crazily libertarian? Why is it Pavlovian conditioning and not genetic engineering that builds the humans of the future? What makes the book eerily prophetic of 21st-century consumer culture? And where does Shakespeare fit in? Do scroll back in your feed for many more earlier episodes of The Great Political Fictions! Out tomorrow on PPF+: a bonus episode about the other great English-language dystopia of the last century – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Why does a book that is out of date and out of time still haunt everyone who reads it today? To get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening sign up to PPF+ now https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus You can find out everything you need to know about this podcast – who we are, what we do, plus merch, events and full lists of all episodes including PPF+ bonus episodes on our website https://www.ppfideas.com Next time in Great Political Fictions: The Golden Notebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

durée : 00:27:12 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda - En 1948 l'écrivain anglais Aldous Huxley accorde dans un français parfaitement maîtrisé un entretien à son beau-frère, le dramaturge Georges Neveux qui l'interroge sur ses dernières publications, proposant une réflexion sur le devenir du monde empreinte de mysticisme. - réalisation : Mathias Le Gargasson, Antoine Dhulster, Rafik Zénine, Vincent Abouchar, Emily Vallat, Hassane M'Béchour, INA Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

Episode 35 is a conversation with one of the psychedelic world's true elders: Adele Getty, author, philanthropist, and co-founder of Limina Foundation. Adele's life story weaves together decades of ceremony, community, and consciousness exploration. Adele traces her fascination with plant medicine all the way back to 1957, when, at age seven, she devoured a 15-page Life Magaze spread on Gordon Wasson and Maria Sabina that quietly shaped the entire arc of her life. After her first curated LSD experience in 1968, Adele made a personal commitment to take the medicine once a year and use it as a kind of annual self-audit,  a practice she has maintained for over five decades. Adele shares what it was like to marry Francis Huxley, Aldous Huxley's nephew, in 1986, including intimate stories of Nobel Prize winners, the Bloomsbury set, and how the relationship deepened her understanding of psychedelics as a tool for navigating life's most challenging passages, including the end of the marriage and the death of Francis. From Native American teachers like Sun Bear and Grandmother Evelyn Eaton, to Leo Zeff and Ralph Metzner, Adele reflects on how she wove together multiple lineages and offers a thoughtful take on cultural appropriation, encouraging people to find their own authentic ceremonial voice. Adele shares tender memories of the recently passed underground guide Ricci Coddington, including Ricci's dream about Leo Zeff in her final year. She also reflects on her role as a founding member of the Guild of Guides and her longtime advocacy for non-directive, space-holding approaches to psychedelic facilitation. Adele discusses the wildly successful Santa Fe event she produced, the Enchanted State,  that raised over $100,000 for New Mexico's emerging psilocybin landscape, and closes with a hopeful vision rooted in Limina Foundation's mission that psychedelics could serve as a rare unifying force across political divides, with a recent poll showing 70% of Americans, regardless of party, supporting access to these medicines for those who need them. Thank you for listening. Thank you for supporting the podcast and our psychedelic elders. And thank you for taking the time to click the five stars or the thumbs up so that others might stumble across it and benefit as well. I so appreciate it!   Adele Getty Bio: Adele Getty Elder, Wisdom Keeper, Psychedelic Educator Adele Getty is a pioneering voice in psychedelic education, known for decades of work exploring the sacred, cultural, and psychological dimensions of psychedelic healing. A founding member of the Guild of Guides, she has helped shape the field of assisted psychedelic work with deep integrity and cross-cultural wisdom. Her books, including A Sense of the Sacred and Goddess: Mother of Living Nature, explore ceremony, matrifocal history, and rites of passage. Widely respected as an elder and wisdom keeper, her recent keynote at the 2023 MAPS Conference received a standing ovation. Adele's work continues to guide a deeper, more grounded psychedelic future. Connect with Adele Find Adele and learn more about her work at liminafoundation.org. Videos from The Enchanted State conference will be available there soon. Donation Links GoFundMe for Jack Coddington For larger, tax-deductible donations ($1,000+) please contact Michael at LiminaFoundation.org Connect with Carla You can connect with us on Instagram @PsychedelicDivas, and be sure to join the email list at psychedelicdivas.com for updates, resources, and the Psychedelic Safety Guide Including What to Do When Things Go Wrong. Website: PsychedelicDivas.com Carla's Coaching: CarlaDetchon.com Instagram: @PsychedelicDivas YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@carladetchon Subscribe & Review: Support the sisterhood, by subscribing, rating, and reviewing Psychedelic Divas. Your support helps amplify these important conversations and grow our community.

Andrew Feldmar has been guiding people through psychedelic journeys for over 50 years. He trained directly with R.D. Laing in London, worked with Stanislav Grof at Esalen, practiced at Hollywood Hospital when LSD was still legal medicine, and took part in the first MAPS Canada MDMA research for PTSD. A Hungarian-born psychotherapist who fled the 1956 revolution alone at 16, he has spent a lifetime refusing to pathologize normal human suffering. With the President signing an executive order to fast track psychedelics through the FDA, this conversation could not be more timely. Andrew explains why medicalizing these medicines is a grotesque category mistake, what gets lost when ceremony and relationship are replaced by sterile hospital protocols, and why the source only opens up between people. His new book, Radical Adventure: An Inquiry into Psychedelic Psychotherapy (Karnac Books, 2025), is a quiet act of resistance against the venture capital takeover of sacred work. If we're going to talk about psychedelics in 2026, we need to talk to someone who knew what they were before the industry came for them.

The novelist, essayist, and short-story writer George Saunders—widely celebrated for his novel Lincoln in the Bardo (2017), which won the Man Booker Prize, and book of short stories Tenth of December (2013)—has made it his mission to “de-dullify” the world through his clear-eyed, empathic, often-puckish prose. There's an unwavering spirit of generosity embedded in the way Saunders tells stories and teaches his craft that ensures his readers and students alike stay along for the ride. Saunders's curiosity about the afterlife, a recurring motif in his writing, rises to the fore in his latest novel, Vigil, which follows a pair of ghostly figures as they visit the deathbed of a prideful, climate-change-denying Texas oil tycoon. On this episode, he shares how practicing meditation has shifted his approach to writing and his outlook on life, the underlying importance of humor in his work, and why to be a good storyteller is akin to being a good host.  Special thanks to our Season 13 presenting partner, Van Cleef & Arpels. Show notes: George Saunders [04:34] Vigil (2026) [04:34] Lincoln in the Bardo (2018) [19:18] Master and Man and Other Stories (1895) [19:18] Tolstoy [27:41] CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) [30:22] Esther Forbes [30:22] Johnny Tremain (1943) [35:03] John Steinbeck [35:03] The Grapes of Wrath (1939) [36:58] Kurt Vonnegut [36:58] Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) [42:13] Terry Eagleton [42:30] Mary Karr [42:43] Jack Handey [47:19] Jimi Hendrix [53:13] Aldous Huxley [56:11] Tobias Wolff [59:22] A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (2021)

Alan's Soap https://AlansSoaps.com/ToddHonor John's memory and the legacy he created for Ian and Alan with Alan's Artisan Soaps “John's Favorites” bundle.  Get one bar of each of his favorites for only $28.99. Bulwark Capital https://KnowYourRiskPodcast.comBe confident in your portfolio with Bulwark! Schedule your free Know Your Risk Portfolio review. Go to KnowYourRiskPodcast.com today. Renue Healthcare https://Renue.Healthcare/ToddYour journey to a better life starts at Renue Healthcare. Visit https://Renue.Healthcare/Todd Bonefrog https://BonefrogCoffee.com/ToddGet the new limited release, The Sisterhood, created to honor the extraordinary women behind the heroes. Use code TODD at checkout to receive 10% off your first purchase and 15% on subscriptions.LISTEN and SUBSCRIBE at:The Todd Herman Show - Podcast - Apple PodcastsThe Todd Herman Show | Podcast on SpotifyWATCH and SUBSCRIBE at: Todd Herman - The Todd Herman Show - YouTubeEpisode Links:Aldous Huxley's Letter to his former student, George OrwellAn advert in Denmark shows a White Danish couple hugging on the sofa An "expert" shows up out of nowhere and tells them not to date each other because it's basically "inbreeding" for whites to have babies with other whites He says they should have kids with non-Whites insteadAn advert in Germany promoting contraception teaches young white couples to have THREESOMES with MIGRANTSScandinavian Airlines released a despicable advert in which they claimed NOTHING was Scandinavian, they should be ashamed of their culture and they need mass immigration. This is treasonous level propagandaBREAKING: Shocking scenes as Enoch Burke denied justice and forced out of Appeal Hearing by prison officers. Enoch Burke's mother Martina Burke and brother Dr Isaac Burke were also removed by police. At the start of the Disciplinary Appeal Panel hearing, which is by law an “informal” hearing, Enoch Burke objected to the presence of a top Employment Barrister as well as a Solicitor from a major Dublin law firm.MASSIVE SCANDAL UNFOLDING IN @CabCoSchools. The school is allowing MALES to invade the girls' restrooms. Girls are reportedly terrified to go to the bathroom and are holding themselves in to avoid males in their private space. Students are begging the administration for help, and they're being ignored. The principal allegedly told the girls that they can go somewhere else if they're uncomfortable.Rev. Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft, who serves on the Clergy Advisory Board of Planned Parenthood, explains the bible is "problematic" for promoting white supremacy and capitalism, but is redeemable if viewed throught a 'womanist' lens.  "I am so sick of the patriarchy"A Christian pastor is arrested in the UK for "criticizing Islam" and LGBTQ lifestyles while preaching the Word of God. Pastor Steve Maile, a grandfather with no criminal record, was arrested in front of his family.  Please pray for him."We have 4.2% of the world's population. We take 13% of the pharmaceutical drugs! We spend 80% PERC ENT of the biotechnology research in our country, and we provide 75% of the profits to the pharmaceutical industry!"

What if the reason you feel like you never have enough time isn't actually a time problem at all?In this episode of Supra Insider, Marc Baselga and Ben Erez sit down with Molly Siemers, an executive coach for product leaders who spent over two decades building mission-driven products at companies like Kiva, Change.org, and Blurb before launching her coaching practice, Product Craft Works. Molly opens by naming what she's watching in real time: product leaders are running faster than ever, layoffs are everywhere, and the pressure to adopt AI on top of everything else is creating a new kind of cognitive overload. Coaching, she argues, has never been more necessary, not because people need tactics, but because most people are solving the wrong problem.They explore the difference between time and capacity, why the best senior leaders seem unflappable, and how personal capacity is something you build, not something you find by rearranging your calendar. Molly walks through the integral coaching methodology she trained in, the threshold practice she gives clients to start tapping into body and emotional intelligence, and the three-step framework she keeps returning to: notice, decide, act. The conversation then turns personal, with Marc and Ben reflecting on agency, identity, and what happens when you look around and realize you've built a job you hate, or, on the flip side, a life that actually works.If you're a product leader feeling overwhelmed and can't figure out why, someone navigating a career transition and struggling with identity, or a founder or operator who's curious whether coaching might actually be worth it, this episode is for you.All episodes of the podcast are also available on Spotify, Apple and YouTube.New to the pod? Subscribe below to get the next episode in your inbox

Jonathan Machnee did close to a decade inside the neurodiversity movement as a true believer. Then his military intelligence training kicked in. He started analyzing the battlefield, mapping the factions, writing the reports. He left the movement, but he didn't leave the work — he turned it into a Substack called Dispatches from the Autism Wars and a podcast called Christianity on the Spectrum.In this conversation, Jonathan joins NCSA Executive Director Jackie Kancir for a wide-angle, two-hour after action review of where the autism discourse has been, where it's gotten stuck, and what an honest path forward might require.We trace the inflection points from Jim Sinclair's 1993 "Don't Mourn for Us" speech through the importation of the social model of disability into autism advocacy. We unpack a Rawlsian framework for autism ethics — the veil of ignorance applied. We borrow from Bonhoeffer, Hannah Arendt, and Aldous Huxley. We name the linguistic tricks (jingle fallacies, Mott-and-Bailey arguments, manipulative underspecification) that have hollowed out the words we need most. We sit honestly inside the conversations the autism community has been told it's not allowed to have — about facilitated communication, about vaccines, about whether to split the spectrum diagnostically.Jackie shares her daughter's story: a sixteen-year diagnostic odyssey that ended at a SYNGAP1 genetic mutation. Jonathan shares why he no longer believes that one word — autism — can carry the weight we keep asking it to carry.They disagree, civilly, exactly once.Mentioned in this episode:Jim Sinclair, "Don't Mourn for Us" (1993)The social model of disabilityThe Lancet Commission on Profound AutismThe SPARK study and de novo genetic mutationsAmy Lutz, Chasing the Intact MindThe Autism Science Foundation Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the wheel of injusticeHannah Arendt on the loss of common languageJohn Rawls's veil of ignoranceAbout the guest: Jonathan Machnee is the writer of Dispatches from the Autism Wars on Substack and the host of Christianity on the Spectrum. He is a former U.S. Army military intelligence officer with a graduate background in counter-forensics, and a Level 1 autistic adult.About the host: Jackie Kancir is the Executive Director of the National Council on Severe Autism (NCSA), a national nonprofit advocating for individuals, families, and caregivers affected by severe forms of autism.Connect with NCSA: https://www.ncsautism.org

Sophia Ferrara returns to the secret HQ of TDO to chat about the pleasure-filled dystopia of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, while John freaks out about the novel's structure or lack thereof.

A nested novel that very pointedly bridges the litfic/specfic divide, David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas takes some big swings at tricky topics. Abigail Nussbaum returns to the podcast with some thoughts on how the novel has aged, and how it’s still relevant to genre thinking today. Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books. Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon! Guest: Abigail Nussbaum Title: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Host:Jake Casella Brookins Music byGiselle Gabrielle Garcia Artwork byRob Patterson Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough References: ARB’s Fundraiser!!! Track Changes Aliya Whiteley’s The Misheard World & Abigail’s review Nina Allen Alexis Hall's Hell's Heart Olivia Waite Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick Lincoln Michel's Metallic Realms Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire Hanya Yanagihara's The People in the Trees Readerville forum & Salon Magazine's “The Well” The Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan Jonathan Lethem's Girl in Landscape & Motherless Brooklyn Kate Atkinson's Case Histories Our episode on The Historian Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union New Wave, Cyberpunk, Mundane SF, The New Weird China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station The “New Adult” category of books Taylor Jenkins Reed Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin The Marvel Cinematic Universe Aragorn’s Tax Policy Jeremy Rosen’s Genre Bending Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, Russel Hoban’s Riddley Walker, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Sofia Samatar’s The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain Jean Baudrillard William Gibson The Stanford marshmallow experiment The Chatham Islands, Moriori & Māori peoples Charlie Jane Anders’ piece on Cloud Atlas The Velvet Underground joke (not many people listened, but everybody who did started a band) Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go Niall Harrison’s “In Search of Green Overshoots” The Coral Bones by E.J. Swift In Ascension by Martin MacInnes Gnomon by Nick Harkaway Abigail's Blog & Bluesky Tolkien Series: Roseanna Pendlebury & Ed Morland’s, Ranged Touch’s Shelved by Genre, Nick Hubble, Jared Pechaček, Weird Studies

从职场到英语学习，拉开差距的从来不是天赋，而是这件事今天给大家分享的这句名言，来自20世纪英国极具影响力的作家、思想家奥尔德斯·赫胥黎（Aldous Huxley，1894-1963），他出生于学术世家，祖父是著名生物学家、进化论支持者托马斯·赫胥黎，代表作《美丽新世界》与《1984》《我们》并称“反乌托邦三部曲”，对世界文学史和思想史影响深远，晚年还潜心研究东方哲学与神秘主义，一生经历丰富且充满思考。很多毕业生初入职场寻找工作时，常常会发现，多数岗位的首要要求便是具备相关工作经验，“经验” 对应的英文正是 experience。这也让不少大学生倍感困惑：刚刚走出校园，何来工作经验可言？其实稍加思考便不难理解，为何用人单位如此看重工作经验。从本质而言，经验并非简单的经历叠加，而是一个人面对问题时，如何认知、思考并最终解决问题的全过程。因此在面试中，面试官常常会询问候选人过往的经历、工作中遇到的挑战以及应对方式，其核心目的正是考察对方解决实际问题的能力。每个人在日常生活中都会经历形形色色的事情，但若选择回避问题、不去主动化解，即便经历再多，也无法真正拥有解决问题的勇气、方法与能力。赫胥黎的这句名言便蕴含着深刻的哲理：发生在我们身上的事情本身并不重要，重要的是我们如何面对这些经历、如何解决所遇到的问题，这才是真正意义上的 experience，也就是真正的经验。学习英语亦是如此。绝大多数人都有学习英语的经历，可最终的学习效果却千差万别。在学习过程中，难免会遭遇瓶颈、陷入迷茫，甚至感到进步停滞，此时以何种心态面对困难、以何种方法突破困境，便决定了最终的学习成果。为何有人能在英语学习中持续精进，而有人却半途而废、轻言放弃？究其根本，英语学习同样是对个人解决问题能力的考验。New Wordsexperience [ɪkˈspɪriəns]n. 经历；经验I have a good experience in learning English with this method.用这种方法学英语，我有很好的体验。happen [ˈhæpən]v. 发生；碰巧Something good will happen if you keep learning English every day.如果你每天坚持学英语，一定会有好事发生。do [duː]v. 做；处理；对待She knows how to do with the difficulties in her English study.她知道如何应对英语学习中的困难。Quote to learn for todayExperience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.——Aldous Huxley翻译经验并非发生在你身上的事，而是你如何对待发生在你身上的事。——奥尔德斯·赫胥黎28期爱趣英文开启限额招募，跟着卡卡老师彻底摆脱懒癌，全面系统提升！公众号：卡卡课堂 卡卡老师微信：kakayingyu002

Professor David Nutt exposes the dark secrets of MKUltra, Nazi-linked LSD origins,  and why governments hid the mind-expanding power of these drugs.  Go to https://andrewgoldheretics.com to get exclusive content and the bonus questions. SPONSORS: Organise your life: https://akiflow.pro/Heretics  Earn up to 4 per cent on gold, paid in gold: https://www.monetary-metals.com/heretics/  Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month at https://mintmobile.com/heretics  Professor David Nutt, the sacked government drugs advisor and leading psychopharmacologist, reveals shocking hidden truths about MKUltra on Heretics. From CIA mind control experiments with LSD to Nazi connections in its discovery, ancient Greek Eleusinian Mysteries fueled by psychedelics that birthed democracy, philosophy, and Western society, to modern brain scans showing psychedelics rewire minds for healing trauma. Nutt discusses the Stoned Ape theory, entity encounters, hyperscanning experiments, MKUltra's unethical horrors including non-consensual dosing and weaponization fears, Hitler's drug use powering WWII, and why psychedelics were banned for political reasons despite being safer than alcohol. Discover how these substances could revolutionize mental health, why they're among the least harmful drug, and the ongoing psychedelic renaissance in places like Oregon. Subscribe for more unfiltered conversations on forbidden knowledge, psychedelics, history, and anti-woke truths. What hidden MKUltra detail shocked you most? Comment below! #MKUltra #Psychedelics #DavidNutt Join the 30k heretics on my mailing list: https://andrewgoldheretics.com  Check out my new documentary channel: https://youtube.com/@andrewgoldinvestigates  Andrew on X: https://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok   Insta: https://www.instagram.com/andrewgold_ok Heretics YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@andrewgoldheretics Chapters:  0:00 Eleusinian Mysteries & Ancient Psychedelics 4:35 Psychedelics & the Birth of Democracy 10:55 Brain Hyperscanning & Mind Connection 13:10 Psychedelic Brain Scans & Long-Term Changes 20:22 Real vs Hallucination in Trips 28:26 L-S-D Discovery & CIA Acquisition 34:19 WWII Drugs: Amphetamines & Meth 40:30 Aldous Huxley & Psychedelic Insights 48:04 Cocaine Crash & Dopamine Hijack 51:23 Opiates, Heroin, Fentanyl Crisis 55:48 Better Drug Policies & Safer Alternatives 1:01:05 Cannabis Protects Against Alcohol Damage 1:03:00 A Heretic David Admires Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happens when science, imagination, and miles above the earth collide?In this episode, we sit down with Nicholas — creator of the Vitalerium Series, a science-fiction saga literally written at 36,000 feet. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, and trained through Northeastern University's Doctor of Physical Therapy Program, Nicholas followed a winding path through medical science, wound healing, burn treatment, and regenerative medicine—before answering the creative call he could no longer ignore.Spending years traveling the country to work alongside burn surgeons and survivors, Nicholas found inspiration in the quiet moments between destinations. Somewhere between takeoff and landing, the universe of Vitalerium was born. Drawing influence from science-fiction giants like Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Frank Herbert, and Isaac Asimov, he crafted a story where science meets morality, and humanity's future hangs in the balance.In this conversation, we explore:• How a career in medical science shaped his storytelling• Writing a novel in the skies—literally• The intersection of science fiction, ethics, and humanity• The expansive vision behind a seven-book series• Crafting the journey of protagonist Roman MatthewsIf you love thought-provoking science fiction, behind-the-scenes author stories, and conversations that explore morality through imagination, this episode is for you. Connect with our author—https://vitaleriumseries.com/

A well-known agnostic once made a striking admission: “I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning.”Later, Aldous Huxley identified one of those motives—sexual freedom. In other words, his rejection of the Christian worldview was not purely objective. The surprise was not his lack of objectivity, but his honesty about it. Unbelief is often shaped by motives people do not fully recognize. That's one reason Scripture gives us both clarity and hope when we encounter unbelief in the world.

Good morning. How do you feel about mind control? New research from a laboratory in Zurich suggests it may be possible to make people less selfish – by sending electrical currents through their brains. Forty-four volunteers were asked to divide money between themselves and an anonymous partner. Remarkably, when certain neural pathways at the front and back of the head were stimulated, participants gave more away. It sounds like science fiction. But other forms of bio-hacking are, of course, already common: weight-loss drugs, metabolic trackers, sleep technology. Medicines are routinely used to lift mood, sharpen attention, steady anxiety. So why not use science to make us kinder as well? That way, we might all become more beautiful people inside, as well as out. Just imagine it. Wellness centres offering holistic packages, body and soul: Botox top-ups in the morning, altruistic boosting in the afternoon. More seriously, researchers claim this new technology could be used for the treatment of certain brain disorders and prove invaluable for people who struggle with social behaviour. It could be just the nudge they need to become better citizens. It's a wholesome idea. Yet as I read the academic article on this impressive experiment in brain-hacking – forecasting gains in “cooperation, productivity, and cohesion” – I became increasingly uneasy. I was put in mind of Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel Brave New World, published almost a century ago, which describes a civilisation held together not by conscience but by chemistry and conditioning. A terrifying vision. Once virtue is treated as something that can be engineered, the line between encouragement and enforcement grows thin. A society might become more efficient, more compliant, even more outwardly generous, and still lose its soul. Huxley warns that people who allow themselves to be controlled may eventually come to “love their servitude”. Even if such dystopian fears never come to pass, the ambition to control our moral impulses through technology raises questions about the nature of morality. Christian thought has long distinguished between shaping behaviour from the outside and forming the person from within. Charity — what theologians call caritas — is not simply a matter of generous action. Intention matters too: affection that is freely given is what lends acts of generosity their meaning; without it, they risk becoming little more than reflexes. It's fascinating to learn that science can influence our moral behaviour, but it is fatal to confuse this fact with morality itself. The Christian vision insists that a person is more than a set of automatic responses. Morality only makes sense if it is chosen. As a society, we have already surrendered ourselves to our smartphones, our computers, and our digital habits; let's at least fight, while we can, to love one another freely.

“Pain was a fascinating horror” - Aldous Huxley

เรากำลังใช้ชีวิตอยู่บน “ภาพลวงตา” ที่เราสร้างขึ้นเองหรือเปล่า? สิ่งที่เราเรียกว่า "สติสัมปชัญญะ" แท้จริงแล้วอาจเป็นเพียงข้อมูลส่วนน้อยที่สมองกรองมาให้เพื่อแค่ให้เราเอาตัวรอดได้เท่านั้น . ใน Mission To The Moon EP นี้จะมาเจาะลึกปรัชญาของ Aldous Huxley ว่าด้วยการเปิดประตูการรับรู้สู่ความจริงระดับ “จักรวาล” ที่อยู่เหนือเงื่อนไขของกาลเวลาและสังคม เมื่อคุณเปลี่ยนโลกภายใน โลกภายนอกจะเปลี่ยนตามไปตลอดกาล . . #AldousHuxley #Philosophy  #จักรวาล #MissionToTheMoon #missiontothemoonpodcast

President Trump wants to  ‘nationalize the voting' in several states; The Washington Post under Jeff Bezos goes from ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness' to a shell of its former self; the Velshi Banned Book Club tackles the Aldous Huxley classic "Brave New World." To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology's Imaginary Futures, 1900–1935 by Jim Endersby In the early twentieth century, varied audiences took biology out of the hands of specialists and transformed it into mass culture, transforming our understanding of heredity in the process.In the early twentieth century communities made creative use of the new theories of heredity in circulation at the time, including the now largely forgotten mutation theory of Hugo de Vries. Science fiction writers, socialists, feminists, and utopians are among those who seized on the amazing possibilities of rapid and potentially controllable evolution. De Vries's highly respected scientific theory only briefly captured the attention of the scientific community, but its many fans appropriated it for their own wildly imaginative ends. Writers from H.G. Wells and Edith Wharton to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, J.B.S. Haldane, and Aldous Huxley created a new kind of imaginary future, which Jim Endersby calls the biotopia. It took the ambiguous possibilities of biology—utopian and dystopian—and reimagined them in ways that still influence the public's understanding of the life sciences. The Arrival of the Fittest recovers the fascinating, long-forgotten origins of ideas that have informed works of fiction from Brave New World to the X-Men movies, all while reflecting on the lessons—positive and negative—that this period might offer us. Jim Endersby is professor of the history of science at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Orchid: A Cultural History, Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science, and A Guinea Pig's History of Biology. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

This content was originally released on 12/16/20 Hey y'all, Well, something had to follow our beloved BBCPPAE, so it may as well be the 1940 Pride & Prejudice Laurence Olivier/Greer Garson-starring adaptation, a.k.a. the one with the snack sleeves. Listen on for our thoughts on leftover Gone With the Wind costumes, Aldous Huxley, and sexy sexy archery. Next week is the 2018 Hallmark "adaptation," Christmas At Pemberley Manor. It's not good!  Lots of love, Allison, Julie, and Janine

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Most parents know what goes into raising children: the time spent changing diapers in inopportune places; the hours of worrying—about what to feed them, how to educate them, how to protect them and keep them healthy; the countless hours devoted to dance classes, summer camps, pediatricians, and piano lessons—all investments meant to give them the best chance in life. Most of us would do anything to help our kids become the most successful and happiest versions of themselves. But what if we could start earlier? At the molecular level. What if we could ensure our babies were healthier, smarter, and stronger, before they even took their first breath? Right now, several biotech companies are doing just that. They offer embryo screening for couples undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF). These companies don't just score embryos for disease risk, which has become standard practice for anyone undergoing IVF—they go further. Nucleus Genomics promises “optimization” of traits like heart health and cancer resistance, as well as intelligence, longevity, body mass index, baldness, eye color, hair color, etc. It even suggests it may predict a predisposition to become an alcoholic. In the future, we may be able to more than just screen and select. We'll be able to make tweaks to our own embryos in order to “optimize” them. This isn't something out of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. It's the very real, and near, future. Some would argue it's already here. It all creates profound and critical questions. So we hosted a debate: Is it ethical to design our unborn children? And are we morally obligated to do so when the risks of abstaining include serious diseases? Or does designing babies cross a line? Is it wrong to play God and manipulate humanity's genetic heritage? Arguing that designing babies is not only an ethical choice, but indeed a moral imperative, are Jamie Metzl and Dr. Allyson Berent. Jamie is a technology and healthcare futurist, who was a member of the World Health Organization Expert Advisory Committee on Human Genome Editing. He's also written several best-selling books on this subject, including Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity. Allyson is a veterinarian who has become an incredible force for genetic research since her daughter, Quincy, was diagnosed with Angelman syndrome. She serves as chief science officer of the Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics and chief development officer at a biotechnology company, where she helps accelerate gene therapy programs for Angelman syndrome. Arguing that designing babies is unethical are O. Carter Snead and Dr. Lydia Dugdale. Carter is a bioethicist and law professor at Notre Dame. He served as general counsel to the President's Council on Bioethics under George W. Bush and as an appointed member of UNESCO's International Bioethics Committee. He is also an appointed member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, which advises the pope on bioethics. Lydia is a physician, medical ethicist, and professor of medicine at Columbia University, where she serves as director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. She is also Co-Director of Clinical Ethics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. It's a critical debate you won't want to miss.  The Free Press is honored to have partnered with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression to present this debate. Head to TheFire.org to learn more about this indispensable organization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He's been working in AI since the late 1970s, and started a pioneering machine learning hedge fund in the 1990s. Now he's a professor, a podcaster, a Substacker, a yoda -- and has just written a cracking book on the subject. Vasant Dhar joins Amit Varma in episode 432 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss the life and times of AI through the life and times of Vasant Dhar. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out: 1. Vasant Dhar on Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Scholar and NYU Stern. 2. Thinking With Machines: The Brave New World of AI -- Vasant Dhar. 3. Brave New World -- Vasant Dhar's podcast. 4. Vasant Dhar's Brave New World on Substack. 5. Brave New World — Episode 203 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vasant Dhar). 6. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley. 7. Death of a Salesman -- Arthur Miller. 8. Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace. 9. Anil Seth On The Science of Consciousness – Episode 94 of Brave New World. 10. How the Mind Works -- Steven Pinker. 11. Anthony Zador on How our Brains Work — Episode 35 of Brave New World. 12. The Naked Sun -- Isaac Asimov. 13. Human and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare — Episode 4 of Brave New World (w Eric Topol). 14. Daniel Kahneman on How Noise Hampers Judgement — Episode 21 of Brave New World. 15. The Nature of Intelligence — Episode 7 of Brave New World (w Yann LeCun). 16. Philip Tetlock on the Art of Forecasting — Episode 31 of Brave New World. 17. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction — Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner. 18. "When you control the mail..." -- Clip from Seinfeld. 19. The Future of Liberal Education — Episode 11 of Brave New World (w Michael S Roth). 20. The Surface Area of Serendipity -- Episode 39 of Everything is Everything. 21. When Should We Trust Machines? -- Vasant Dhar's TEDx talk from 2018. 22. From Strength to Strength -- Arthur Brooks. 23. The Innovator's Dilemma -- Clayton Christensen. 24. Raghu Sundaram on Building a Great University -- Episode 88 of Brave New World. 25. Power and Prediction -- Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb. 26. The Paperclip Maximiser. 27. The Wealth of Nations -- Adam Smith. 28. The Theory of Moral Sentiments -- Adam Smith. 29. Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister — Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay. 30. Aswath Damodaran on Investing — Episode 33 of Brave New World. 31. The Damodaran Bot. 32. Dmitry Rinberg on the Mysteries of Smell — Episode 62 of Brave New World. 33. Alex Wiltschko on the Sense of Smell — Episode 81 of Brave New World. 34. Sandeep Robert Datta on Smell and the Brain -- Episode 90 of Brave New World. 35. Alex Wiltschko on Digitizing Scent -- Episode 97 of Brave New World. 36. A Billion Wicked Thoughts -- Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam. 37. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness -- Anil Seth. 38. Noise -- Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein. 39. Thinking, Fast and Slow -- Daniel Kahneman. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader and FutureStack. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Amit Varma runs a course called Life Lessons, which aims to be a launchpad towards learning essential life skills all of you need. For more details, and to sign up, click here. Amit and Ajay Shah also bring out a weekly YouTube show, Everything is Everything. Have you watched it yet? You must! And have you read Amit's newsletter? Subscribe right away to The India Uncut Newsletter! It's free! Also check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. Episode art: 'The Mage' by Simahina.

Today on The Literary Life podcast, Angelina, Thomas, and Ella cover the final chapters of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. They begin the conversation considering the ending of the story and mistakes readers may make in thinking it is a despairing ending. Angelina asks the question "how does Huxley tell us to interpret the ending?" They also dig deeper into the rest of the last few chapters, including more instances of parody, religion and self-denial, and so much symbolism! Be sure to head over to our website at https://theliterary.life/304 to check out all the links and additional information in the show notes for today's episode. 

If AI destroys all human purpose, what will give our lives meaning when machines can do everything better than us? Josh Trent welcomes Tom Bilyeu to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 782, to uncover why AI is forcing humanity to confront who we really are, what gives life meaning when machines outpace us, and how reclaiming our biological and spiritual essence may be the only path forward.

This week on The Literary Life podcast, Angelina, Thomas, and Ella continue discussing Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. They begin engaging with the text today by talking more about satire and parody as elements in this story. While recapping the major plot points in these chapters, they go deeper into the character of John the Savage, the ways in which this story is like a distorted reflection of The Tempest and Othello, as well as so many other Shakespeare references. Come back again next week for our final episode in this series as we cover the final chapters of Brave New World! Don't forget to check out our show notes page for links to books mentioned, commonplace quotes, and today's poem! https://theliterary.life/303. 

Unlocked Patreon episode. Support Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon to get access to all the exclusive episodes. patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby and Patrick are joined by one of their favorite writers, Sarah Miller, to talk about her new essay in n+1. Entitled “Pirates of the Ayahuasca,” it's a first-person narrative, at once understated and devastating, hilarious and cutting, that sees Sarah, struggling with depression and grief, travel from wildfire-ravaged Northern California to the Peruvian Amazon for two weeks of psychedelic treatment under a prominent indigenous shaman. Sarah relates and reflects on her experience, her relationship with the shaman and his other clients, the business model of the “ayahuasca center,” and much more. Along the way, Sarah, Abby, and Patrick unpack broader narratives about therapy, ritual, and healing; the ways we metabolize feelings of guilt, sadness, and desires for change; the unavoidable context of capitalism, global inequality, and climate catastrophe; our expectations for psychedelics, our fantasies of transformative experiences, and what we can learn from plants. Sarah Miller's writing classes are ongoing, here is a description and contact information.Sarah Miller, “Pirates of the Ayahuasca”: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/essays/pirates-of-the-ayahuasca/Sarah Miller, “Heaven or High Water”: https://popula.com/2019/04/02/heaven-or-high-water/Sarah's Substack, The Real Sarah Miller: https://therealsarahmiller.substack.com/Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/357842/the-doors-of-perception-by-aldous-huxley/9780099458203Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin and Anna Shulgin, PiHKAL (Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved): A Chemical Love Story: https://psychedelics.berkeley.edu/resources/pihkal/Brian Pace and Neşe Devenot, “Right-Wing Psychedelia: Case Studies in Cultural Plasticity and Political Pluripotency”: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34975622/Neil Whitehead and Robin Wright, editors, In Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia: https://www.dukeupress.edu/in-darkness-and-secrecyHave you noticed that Freud is back? Got questions about psychoanalysis? Or maybe you've traversed the fantasy and lived to tell the tale? Leave us a voicemail! (646) 450-0847  A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now. New episodes on Saturdays. Follow us on social media:  Linktree: https://linktr.ee/OrdinaryUnhappiness Twitter: @UnhappinessPod Instagram: @OrdinaryUnhappiness Patreon: patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness Theme song: Formal Chicken - Gnossienne No. 1 https://open.spotify.com/album/2MIIYnbyLqriV3vrpUTxxO Provided by Fruits Music

Welcome back to The Literary Life podcast and our series on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Angelina Stanford, Thomas Banks, and Ella Hornstra open the conversation by sharing their commonplace quotes, then jump into the book discussion with some connections between Huxley and Lewis Carroll and how Brave New World is like Alice in Wonderland. Angelina also teaches about the medieval conception of the tripartite soul and how it relates to this story, as well as making some distinctions between literary satire and parody. They talk about more of the pictures of Freudian principles as illustrated in this society, as well as the way in which the characters live like machines. Ella goes into a little introductory information on Shakespeare's The Tempest and its connections to Brave New World to keep in mind as we continue reading. Don't forget to check out this coming year's annual Literary Life Online Conference, happening January 23-30, 2026, "The Letter Killeth, but the Spirit Quickeneth: Reading Like a Human". Our speakers will be Dr. Jason Baxter, Jenn Rogers, Dr. Anne Phillips, and, of course, Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks. Also, we are excited to announce the upcoming spring course with Dr. Michael Drout, Viking and Old Norse Culture. Learn more and register at HouseofHumaneLetters.com. To view the full show notes for this episode, including book links, quotes and more, please visit https://theliterary.life/302. 

Welcome back to The Literary Life podcast with Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks! They are joined by Ella Hornstra for the beginning of a new series on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Thomas and Ella kick off the book discussion with a little biographical background on Huxley and dispel the myth that he belonged to the Bloomsbury Group. Angelina gives some literary history of the period in which Huxley wrote, as well as some thoughts on satire as a response to an age of overwhelming optimism. She also highlights the literary and cultural influences that Huxley satirizes in this novel, including Wells, Ford, and Freud. Visit the HouseofHumaneLetters.com to sign up for all the upcoming and past mini-classes and webinars taught by Angelina, Thomas, and their colleagues! Don't forget to check out this coming year's annual Literary Life Online Conference, happening January 23-30, 2026, "The Letter Killeth, but the Spirit Quickeneth: Reading Like a Human". Our speakers will be Dr. Jason Baxter, Jenn Rogers, Dr. Anne Phillips, and, of course, Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks. To view the full show notes for this episode, including commonplace quotes and today's poem, please visit https://theliterary.life/301. 

On this Independence Day, Michael Savage shares a poetic judgment on the state of America. He then leads a nostalgic discussion about an America that he remembers and mourns. He draws on his own memories of growing up in New York City and reflects on societal changes he has witnessed in his lifetime. Then, Savage introduces listeners to a 1958 interview with author Aldous Huxley by Mike Wallace. Savage connects Huxley's predictions about technology, propaganda, and drugs to modern-day America. Learn what Huxley wrote about the rise of technology, psycho-active drug use, and why people would willingly accept their loss of freedoms.