It's been a very long time since I fell so profoundly in love with a book, and it's a delicious, delightful, very spiritual experience. Some of the side characters are caricatured, the dialogues are often witty and the hero has a self-acerbic humor. It will take me two or three more reads—at least—to grok it in fullness, but it already feels as if some of the thoughts were for me, some of me.

Although the book is strongly didactic I was surprised to find myself moved - not to the edge of my seat, the philosophy of the book teaches us not to be slaves to such transitory passions, but moved all the same. The Palanese also circumspectly incorporated the use of " moksha medicine", a fictional entheogen taken ceremonially in rites of passage for mystical and cosmological insight. One night, when the Rani urgently sends a letter to Farnaby to meet with her, he decides to finally take a stand against the exploitation of the island by Aldehyde and Dipa, and so he ignores her letter, instead going to visit the quickly-fading Lakshmi who, surrounded by her family, finally dies. I was spellbound and nodded my head in agreement as speech after speech flowed implausibly from the mouths of the Palanese, from spirited young girls to spry old men. The recommended dosage of 400 mg, however, is in the dosage range of mescaline as opposed to psilocybin.

The exploration of the inner life through mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs was to dominate his work for the rest of his life. There was someone very famous who wanted to do it but I had the impression that it would just be 'sex on the island'. The Palanese people are well aware that they will likely be invaded soon by Colonel Dipa's forces from Rendang, though they are resigned to pacifism. Will Farnaby, periodista, luego de sobrevivir a un naufragio consigue arribar, malherido, a la isla de Pala. In Pala, every person has their biological parents and then several more, including their children and so on.

What would be the character of a liberty-loving society dedicated to the proposition that its members ought to be helped, as far as possible, to realise their desirable potentialities? You'll see a lot of criticism of "Island" based on the fact that many believe it to not be a "novel" at all.

Aldous said that Los Angeles is like Venice was in the 15th century, when there was everything from the Orient coming in. Fantastic operations - but when it comes to teaching people the way of going through life without having to be chopped up, absolutely nothing.

The story is actually a succession of philosophical, political, spiritual, scientific, and psychological discussions (or narratives) that describe how their perfect society works. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap. So a caressing room is very quiet with a rocking chair where a mother can leave the baby with a senior. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.In private, Murugan reveals to Farnaby that he is in fact the Rani's son and will be assuming control over Pala in a few days as its new Raja. Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. There isn't a whole lot of plot and what slim plot line there is seems mainly to exist as a broad enclosure or framework for Huxley's philosophical ideas.