Escaping Huxley’s Island: Psychedelics, Scientific Paganism and the Changing Images of Man

Originally published on UK Column

In Aldous Huxley’s final novel, The Island, the Ultimate Revolution and predictive programming guru presents a subtly different and more nuanced version of the original Soma culture depicted in his Brave New World. While Huxley’s earlier novel presented a culture in which a magical drug called “soma” was used to chemical…