The Individual and History

Recorded Live - One Cassette The profound differences between laws governing the individual and those governing society call into question the extent to which an individual can actually experience the history that surrounds his or her life. (Titled "The Individual Life of Man" in 1959) This is the fifth in a series of five lectures Aldous Huxley gave in 1961 at M.I.T. The Complete Set of Five Lectures can be purchased as The M.I.T. Lectures. 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