Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

The "Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963" file

Single Item Record for the Date:
1958/November/27 

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Type:  TAL[c] - Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed) with holograph annotations.

To/From:  from Merton to "Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963"-->

# of pages:  2

Published in:  Hidden Ground of Love

First Lines:  "Twenty years, or nearly that many, have gone by since a very pleasant exchange of letters took place"

Contents:  Huxley's article “Drugs That Shape Men’s Minds” from the Saturday Evening Post / question of drug-induced mystical experience / aesthetic and natural vs. mystical and supernatural experiences / addiction / Zen and "use of a Koan to dispose one for Satori"

Language:  English

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Date added:  2004

Unique identifier:  Section A- "Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963:"    1958/November/27