Table of Contents

 Acknowledgements

 Introduction

 1Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

 2Science, Alternative Spirituality and Psychical Research

 Idealism, the New Physics and Perspectivism

 D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930), William Blake (1757–1827) and Life Worship

 H.G. Wells (1866–1946), the World State and Brave New World

 Science and Psychical Research

 3The Perennial Philosophy

 The Ancient Wisdom Tradition: From the Prisca Theologia to Traditionalism

 Neo-Vedanta: The Brahmo Samaj, Sri Ramakrishna (1836–1886) and Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902)

 Varieties of Perennialism: William James (1842–1910), Rudolf Otto (1869–1937), W.T. Stace (1886–1967)

 Steven Katz, Contextualism and Its Critics

 4Mysticism and Pacifism

 Henry Fitzgerald Heard (1889–1971)

 Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986)

 5Sex and Alternative Spirituality

 The Romantic Phase: From Denis Stone to Brian Foxe

 The Ascetic Phase: Eyeless in GazatoTime Must Have a Stop

 The Tantric Phase: Island

 6Huxley’s Legacy

 Human Potentialities

 Psychedelic Drugs and Spiritual Experience

 Huxley’s Influence on the New Age and Deep Ecology Movements

 Conclusion

 Bibliography

 Index

About the Author

Jake Poller, Ph.D. (2010), Queen Mary University of London, is the editor of Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 2019). His chapters and articles have appeared in The Occult Imagination in Britain (Routledge, 2018), Aries and Aldous Huxley Annual.