ALDOUS HUXLEY takes LSD on deathbed

[warriorsoul]

“On the morning of November 22nd, a Friday, it became clear the gap between living and dying was closing. Realizing that Aldous [Huxley] might not survive the day, Laura [Huxley's wife] sent a telegram to his son, Matthew, urging him to come at once. At ten in the morning, an almost inaudible Aldous asked for paper and scribbled “If I go” and then some directions about his will. It was his first admission that he might die …
Around noon he asked for a pad of paper and scribbled

LSD-try it
intermuscular
100mm

In a letter circulated to Aldous’s friends, Laura Huxley described what followed: ‘You know very well the uneasiness in the medical mind about this drug. But no ‘authority’, not even an army of authorities, could have stopped me then. I went into Aldous’s room with the vial of LSD and prepared a syringe. The doctor asked me if I wanted him to give the shot- maybe because he saw that my hands were trembling. His asking me that made me conscious of my hands, and I said, ‘No, I must do this.’
An hour later she gave Huxley a second 100mm. Then she began to talk, bending close to his ear, whispering, ‘light and free you let go, darling; forward and up. You are going forward and up; you are going toward the light. Willingly and consciously you are going, willingly and consciously, and you are doing this beautifully — you are going toward the light — you are going toward a greater love … You are going toward Maria’s [Huxley's first wife, who had died many years earlier] love with my love. You are going toward a greater love than you have ever known. You are going toward the best, the greatest love, and it is easy, it is so easy, and you are doing it so beautifully.’
All struggle ceased. The breathing became slower and slower and slower until, ‘like a piece of music just finishing so gently in sempre piu piano, dolcamente,’ at twenty past five in the afternoon, Aldous Huxley died.”
Laura Huxley in This Timeless Moment (1971) as quoted by Jay Stevens in “”Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream (1987)
from wiki


President J.F.Kennedy and C.S. Lewis died on the same day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BzvC2t_LeI&eurl=http://thedreamatists.wordpress.com/2007/08/06/aldous-huxley-takes-lsd-on-deathbed/&feature=player_embedded

[steeq]

That story is inspirational especially about how he was going to see his first wife. You could tell she really loved her husband.

[Ras Asad]

wow,
beautiful!

that gave me chills!

thanks!

[Fresh Brewed]

Originally Posted by Ras Asad

that gave me chills!

thanks!

Me to,

[roc]

The hair stood up on my arms as I read this...

[feralronin]

Doors of Perception is a must read. There are links to a free txt version of it in the archives somewhere, let me know if it needs reposting. Great book.

[mestophilies]

Originally Posted by Ras Asad

wow,
beautiful!

that gave me chills!

thanks!

Agreed! Thank you.

‘light and free you let go, darling; forward and up. You are going forward and up; you are going toward the light. Willingly and consciously you are going, willingly and consciously, and you are doing this beautifully — you are going toward the light — you are going toward a greater love …

This is the simalur to what I will want to hear on my death bed. Just . Thanks so much for this thread.

~*ONE LOVE*~

[lebrony]

Originally Posted by feralronin

Doors of Perception is a must read. There are links to a free txt version of it in the archives somewhere, let me know if it needs reposting. Great book.

i would love to read it! i'll try looking for it thanks for letting me know its there!

[catdaddy]

Quite interesting.

How much LSD is a mm? Only mm I know of is millimeters, a linear measurement. An injection of even 1 ml of pure LSD seems a bit high.... even for a dying man.

I find this confusing, and wonder about it...

[Irishlion]

Originally Posted by catdaddy

Quite interesting.

How much LSD is a mm? Only mm I know of is millimeters, a linear measurement. An injection of even 1 ml of pure LSD seems a bit high.... even for a dying man.

I find this confusing, and wonder about it...

Perhaps micro meters

[August West]

sometimes i feel like huxley was privy to knowledge about the way things work and, through his 'fiction', he was letting the 'plebes' in on secrets that are normally reserved for those who control...

[feralronin]

Originally Posted by lebrony

i would love to read it! i'll try looking for it thanks for letting me know its there!

Your request = In txt form but you can open it and change the font and colors to make it a much easier read.

BTW if you all are at all interested in this, Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson is along these same lines and was the most though provoking easy reading book I have ever read. Has little exercises at the end of each chapter that really help nail down what he is saying. I highly suggest it.

I have it in pdf, but it's 3 megs so I can't upload it here, unless I am just doing something wrong.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/7320577/eB...-of-Perception

[warriorsoul]

100 mm is a typo, in the video she clearly says micrograms.

[catdaddy]

Ok, I watched the video- hesitantly, as I certainly did not want to see another elderly person die- I've seen FAR too much of that in the last 20 years (nursing home ministry).

She did say micrograms. I'm sure there is more to the actual dosing than is revealed, as "drawing up" 100 mcg with a syringe would require some very accurate weighing, or a solution diluted to some degree to make a certain volume in a syringe equal a weight of liquid. The caption reading "pure LSD" is somewhat misleading- a carrier solution would be necessary to accurately measure such a small weight without extremely accurate lab scales, plus the volume that would remain in the needle, etc...

Unless you left some air as well- never good.

Which is all besides the point, I DO understand that.

What an interesting last wish.

As I understand it, a small amount of DMT is released into the blood stream at the point of death as a normal aspect of dying, as well.

Must have been quite a trip.

[lebrony]

thanks a lot feralronin! i didn't find it in the vaults. i'll get to reading this one and PM if i find time to read the other one!!!

[August West]

Originally Posted by catdaddy

As I understand it, a small amount of DMT is released into the blood stream at the point of death as a normal aspect of dying, as well.

I'm not sure this is a fact...do you have a source for this cat?

[dice]

That was a real good read.
Thanks a lot for posting that.

Ive also heard that about dmt.
Its released from our brains during
birth and death.
How people are always seeing family or
angles when there dieing really thats from dmt I guess.
Also Ive heard the same thing about when we are
first falling asleep and waking up those super visual dreams is from dmt.
I dont have any proof but I know ive seen it on the history channel
or Nat Geo something like that. They had a whole documentry.
Im gonna look around see if I can find something something.

[catdaddy]

Originally Posted by August West

I'm not sure this is a fact...do you have a source for this cat?

Afetr a BRIEF search, this is what I found- basically it is a THEORY put forth by Rick Strassman, author of "DMT- the Spirit Molecule".

He says it is unconfirmed due to ethical concerns.

Taken from this site....
http://hypography.com/forums/medical...d-death-2.html

First paragraph:
Dr. Rick Strassman, while conducting DMT research in the 1990s at the University of New Mexico, advanced the theory that a massive release of DMT from the pineal gland prior to death or near death was the cause of the near death experience (NDE) phenomenon. Several of his test subjects reported NDE-like audio or visual hallucinations. His explanation for this was the possible lack of panic involved in the clinical setting and possible dosage differences between those administered and those encountered in actual NDE cases.

last paragraph:
Ethical concerns do not allow for the testing of this hypothesis in humans, as the biological samples must come from the living human brain.

I'm sure there's more, but this likely to be the most definitive answer I could give, as RS is probably the premier authority on the subject.

[feralronin]

Alright so I wanted to make the book that changed the way I perceived this world available to all my fellow topians. Gonna make its own thread but thought I should post here.

Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson. Has to do with understanding how the mind works, psychedelics, etc. The most fascinating read I have ever had, and I don't like reading. The only book I have ever read more than once.

Check it out. Its a 3 meg file, so I had to link to an offsite location, and eventually this will die so if anyone knows of a way to up it here, please let me know.

Here ya go--- http://www.scribd.com/doc/2842/Rober...metheus-Rising

[EmmisonJ]

i read that story about a year ago, really beautiful story (referring to huxley's last moments)