Knowledge and Understanding is a 1955 recording of Aldous Huxley giving a lecture at the Vedanta Society of Southern California's Hollywood temple.Listing in Allmusic.com The lecture was originally recorded on a wire recorder and digitally transferred to CD.Details of recording Huxley was a student of Swami Prabhavananda,Details of Huxley's and Isherwood's association with Swami PrabhavanandaAldous Huxley - Huxley's bio who founded the Society. Along with Christopher Isherwood and other notable disciplesDetails of Huxley's and Isherwood's association with Swami Prabhavananda of the Swami, Huxley would occasionally give lectures at the society's temples in Hollywood and Santa Barbara.Details of Huxley's association with Swami Prabhavananda and details of the recording
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,Details of Huxley's and Isherwood's association with Swami Prabhavananda 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,Aldous Huxley - Huxley's bio 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.
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