Latent Human Possibilities

Recorded Live - One Cassette Using the illustration that we use only 10% of our brains, Huxley points out that we have the potential to get much more out of ourselves without changing biologically. He discusses how we can actualize our potential in an age that lacks spontaneity, inspiration and virtuosity - "where the field of choice is infinite." This is the fifth in a series of 16 lectures Aldous Huxley gave in 1959, as the first visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The Complete Set of Sixteen Lectures can be purchased as The Human Situation. Note: The inherent difficulities of live recordings and the age of some of the recordings can cause variations in the sound quality. ALDOUS HUXLEY (1894-1963 British-born novelist, poet, essayist, philosopher and mystic, Huxley was fascinated by the wilder margins of psychology, medicine, the occult, drugs and religion. He was a man of exceptional vision and foresight, and his breadth of learning was astounding. He wrote over 50 books, including such classics as "The Doors of Perception", "Island", and "Brave New World". "Huxley was a scientist and artist in one, standing for all we most need in a fragmented world where each of us carries a distorting splinter out of some great, shattered, universal mirror. He made it his mission to restore these fragments" - Yehudi Menuhin