A Lecture by Aldous Huxley
Plus Selections from the Question/Answer Session that Followed

In Who Are We? Aldous Huxley explores the human “mindbody” from the empirical to the transcendent, beginning with the workings of human physiognomy, touching on the function of the brain, commenting on both the importance and limitations of language, and ultimately advising that we “uneclipse ourselves.”

 “It wasn’t Huxley’s wit alone, of course, that powered his talk.He was a master conversationalist generally. His imposing height, magnificent profile and sonorous voice all contributed, but it was the way he used words to shape ideas that accounted for the magic… I seldom left his presence without feeling recharged, as if some new corner of the world­ if not new vistas of being­ had opened before me.” — Huston Smith from Remembering Aldous Huxley, 
LA Times Book Review, November 20, 1988

In the course of his long association with the Vedanta Society of Southern California, Aldous Huxley was an important contributor to the Society’s literary heritage. Who Are We? and the informal question/answer session were recorded at the Society on a wire recorder and have been digitally transferred by Vedanta Archives and mastered by mondayMEDIA. While the audio quality of the Q&A session may be less than modern studio standard, the spirited exchange is not to be missed.

The entire Question/Answer session was split in two and appears on two CDs. Part is included at the conclusion of the CD  Knowledge and Understanding, and the other part on this CD.

. When Knowledge and Understanding was originally released, it was believed that the Q&A followed that lecture; but we've since discovered that the entire Q&A session was after "Who Are We?"