Posted on 11/22/2019 9:55:16 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Do you remember what you were doing the day Aldous Huxley died? Or C.S. Lewis? You don’t think so? Well, the odds are that if you were old enough to be laying down memories at the time, you do. Because it was also the day President Kennedy was assassinated.
There’s no evidence that Huxley read Lewis, or that Kennedy read either—though his wife Jackie would certainly have read some of their books—but Lewis knew enough of Huxley to mention him in a letter of 1952 as an author of a future dystopia alongside H.G. Wells and George Orwell. The mental worlds inhabited by Kennedy, Lewis and Huxley—an Englishman translated permanently to West Coast America from 1938—were as mutually remote as their social worlds. Yet each devoted his energies to matters of universal concern, and together they form a curious triptych on the mortal condition...
The distinctions between the three men’s worldviews inspired a 1982 fiction, Between Heaven and Hell by Boston College philosophy professor Peter Kreeft...
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On this date 47 years ago, I took the oath and joined the USAF.
“The one I would have liked to meet the most was CS Lewis.”
Me? Huxley, no doubt about it. Very interesting fellow. Back in the 1970s I read a bunch of his books. One of the best on the subject of witchcraft/possession was his book “Devils of Loudon.” He also wrote the provocative “Doors of Perception” and “Heaven and Hell.”
Aldous Huxley was the writer of “Brave New World”. I can assure you that from reading that book, Aldous certainly did not believe in any kind of judgement after this life.
Try his later stuff.
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