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LOCAL COLOR: HIGH TIMES OF ALDOUS HUXLEY
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Photo from the past: (From left to right) Aldous Huxley, Krishnamurti, Mr. and Mrs. Igor Stravinsky, Maria Huxley, Radha at a picnic in Wrightwood, California 1949.

The Stravinsky's were routine visitors to the Huxley home in Wrightwood. Jiddu Krishnamurti was a well-known writer and speaker on fundamental philosophical and spiritual subjects. At the age of 34, he publicly renounced the fame and messiah status he had gained from being proclaimed the new incarnation of the Maitreya Buddha by the Theosophical Society, and spent the rest of his life publishing regularly and holding public talks worldwide. And, of course, visiting in Wrightwood once in awhile.

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« Reply #3 on: Dec 11, 07, 11:48:19 PM »
Is that a pic from the local museum? Amazing how much noteriety has be involved in Wrightwood. That is the same Igor that composed the Rite of Spring, made so popular by Disney on their Fantasia film. You should submit the photo and information to Wikipedia. They do not mention Wrightwood, only that he lived in Los Angeles. They do mention that he was close friends with Adlous Huxley, and that they spoke French together.

Thank you for the posting. Brave New World has always been one of my favorite books and was truely life-changing for me in realizing the relitivity of life.

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« Reply #4 on: Dec 12, 07, 08:04:20 AM »
Thank you for the information about our home.  Janet and I moved into the house during the "Charmon fire" and wondered what we had done!  We have loved every moment of our time in Wrightwood and have vowed to be a asset to our community not a detraction. Over the years we have had several people stop and ask if the house was once Aldous Huxley's home, and some have actually argued with us when we verified it was.  I have often wondered if they were in some way related to him...  The nicest visits have been with former owners and others that knew some of the former owners and shared their knowledge and memories of our home.

We truly believe the real history of our home are the people that loved Wrightwood and contributed to the community in so many ways.

We have been collecting information and stories of our home to pass on someday.  Thank you for this article and the information you have shared with the community.  Feel free to stop in for a visit anytime you see the garage door open.

Carl & Janet Smith

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« Reply #5 on: Dec 12, 07, 12:57:29 PM »
How awesome!  Can't wait to become a resident of this wonderful community.   I love all of the history.
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« Reply #6 on: Dec 16, 07, 08:39:19 AM »
Dec 16, 12:50 AM EST

Author wife of Aldous Huxley dies at 96

By ROBERT JABLON
Associated Press Writer




LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Laura Archera Huxley, the widow of "Brave New World" author Aldous Huxley, who worked to preserve his legacy for nearly half a century after his death while authoring her own books, has died. She was 96.

Huxley died of cancer Thursday night at her Hollywood Hills home, said Karen Pfeiffer, her legal ward, who helps direct Huxley's nonprofit foundation, Children: Our Ultimate Investment.

"She said she was ready (to go) and she was happy about the life she'd lived. She felt complete," Pfeiffer said.

During the seven years of her marriage and for the decades after Aldous Huxley died of cancer in 1963, Huxley explored the vistas of psychotherapy, New Age spirituality, consciousness-raising and natural health regimens.

She and her husband experimented with LSD, Huxley wrote in her memoirs, and well into her 90s she was doing yoga and other exercises.

"She never watched TV without being on the treadmill," Pfeiffer said.

Childless herself, Huxley created her foundation in the 1970s, dedicating it to "the nurturing of the possible human."

The foundation has conducted school seminars in the U.S. and Britain for at-risk teenagers on issues such as anger management and pregnancy prevention.

"Our mission is that every child is loved, respected and prepared for before conception," according to its mission statement.

Born in Turin, Italy, in 1911, Huxley was a violin prodigy who performed at Carnegie Hall as a teenager in the 1940s. She later became a film editor, meeting Huxley and his wife, Maria, in 1948 while trying to interest him in writing a film she wanted to make. The movie never happened, but she became friends with the Huxleys. After Maria died in 1955, Huxley proposed, and they were married the next year.

After Aldous Huxley died, she devoted herself to preserving his writings and legacy.

"It was tremendously important to her," Pfeiffer said.

Huxley wrote several books herself, including a 1963 best-selling self-help guide, "You Are Not the Target," and a memoir of her life with Huxley called "This Timeless Moment."

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« Reply #7 on: May 03, 18, 07:08:14 AM »
Jim Morrison was so impressed with Huxley's "Doors of Perception" that he named his rock group "The Doors"!  Also, during the early '60s, I was invited to the season opening of the Hollywood Bowl.  It was Stravinsky conducting his Firebird Suite....

 

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