Knowledge and Understanding
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Knowledge and Understanding is a 1955 recording of Aldous Huxley giving a lecture at the Vedanta Society of Southern California's Hollywood temple[1]. The lecture was originally recorded on a wire recorder and digitally transferred to CD[2]. Huxley was a student of Swami Prabhavananda[3][4], who founded the Society. Along with Christopher Isherwood and other notable disciples[5] of the Swami, Huxley would occasionally give lectures at the society's temples in Hollywood and Santa Barbarab[6][7].
In the lecture, Huxley goes into some depth about the difference between knowledge and understanding and the practical need for both. Included in the CD is a recording of a question and answer session between Huxley and the audience held after the lecture. The lecture was given just a year after the publication of Huxley's book, The Doors of Perception[8], and he discusses the significance of the drug experience.
In 1956 an article with the same title based on the lecture was published in Vedanta and the West[9], the bi-monthly magazine produced by the Vedanta Society of Southern California.
The recording was licensed by mondayMEDIA from Vedanta Press and released on the GemsTone label.
References
- ^ Listing in Allmusic.com
- ^ Details of recording
- ^ Details of Huxley's and Isherwood's association with Swami Prabhavananda
- ^ Aldous Huxley - Huxley's bio
- ^ Details of Huxley's and Isherwood's association with Swami Prabhavananda
- ^ Lectures at Hollywood and Santa Barbara
- ^ Details of Huxley's association with Swami Prabhavananda and details of the recording
- ^ Details of Huxley's and Isherwood's association with Swami Prabhavananda
- ^ Aldous Huxley - Huxley's bio