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Aldous Huxley sitting and petting his cat (Pinterest)
Aldous Huxley was an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family. His best-known work is Brave New World, which he wrote about Dystopia where babies are born in laboratories. He had cats and left some remarkable quotes about them. Let’s see his spiritual interpretation of the world and cats!
Aldous Huxley
Huxley completed his first (unpublished) novel at the age of 17 and began writing seriously in his early 20s, establishing himself as a successful writer and social satirist. His first published novels were social satires.
Get your copy on Amazon: Brave New WorldBrave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls.
Siamese Cat

Siamese cat yawning (The Cat Site.com)
Huxley was very fond of a Siamese Cat, which he allowed to climb on to his shoulder while he was writing.
Aldous Huxley Quotes About Cats
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Human Psychology and Cats

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The Doors of Perception
Huxley was interested in expanding one’s perception. He was introduced to Vedanta (Upanishad-centered philosophy), meditation, and vegetarianism through ahimsa, which is the principle of nonviolence toward all living things.
In 1938, Huxley befriended Indian speaker and writer Jiddu Krishnamurti, whose teachings he greatly admired. He also became a Vedantist in the circle of Hindu Philosopher Swami Prabhavananda.
Not long after, Huxley wrote his book on widely held spiritual values and ideas, The Perennial Philosophy, which discussed the teachings of renowned mystics of the world. In this book, he was drawing on a diverse array of faiths, including Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christian mysticism, and Islam.
He examines the spiritual beliefs of various religious traditions and explains how they are united by a common human yearning to experience the divine.
Huxley affirmed a sensibility that insists there are realities beyond the generally accepted five senses
and that there is genuine meaning for humans beyond both sensual satisfaction and sentimentalities.
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Get your copy on Amazon: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and HellAldous Huxley, in these two complete classic books, reveals the mind’s remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. This new edition also features an additional essay, “Drugs That Shape Men’s Minds,” which is now included for the first time.
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One Thing You Can Change

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In 1960, he wrote the Utopian novel Island, which is based on mystical philosophy with extensive knowledge on various attainments. Some call it as a perfect mixture of eastern and western wisdom.
Get your copy on Amazon: IslandThe final novel from Aldous Huxley, Island is a provocative counterpoint to his worldwide classic Brave New World, in which a flourishing, ideal society located on a remote Pacific island attracts the envy of the outside world.
Overall, he showed readers a different path than most social norms of these days. Any growing mind would appreciate it. So this is his ideal form of society. How we envision our society now?
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Reference
Aldous Huxley (Wikipedia)
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