The Human Situation Author:Aldous Huxley Recorded Live - Sixteen Cassettes This is 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 or each of the 16 lectures can be purchased individually. Huxley stated of this lecture se... more »ries, that "it is an impossibly large project but worth undertaking, even inadequately, as an antidote to academic specialization and fragmentation." The range of scholarship, understanding, and vision revealed in these talks is remarkable. Huxley illuminates, with extraordinary clarity, not only the problems but also the potentialities of the modern world. These lectures were adapted into a book of the same name edited by Piero Ferruci. 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« less